ICO MarketWeekly Review

August 31, 2018

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Welcome to ICO Market Weekly Review. This report aims to be your guide to the ICO market and the blockchain community and is based on the data that we carefully gather at ICObench.

Increasing popularity of initial coin offering as the means of funding a startup brought particular attention to the ICO market and made the blockchain community grow drastically. In this situation, it is crucial not only for the investors but also for the media and research agencies to have a trustful and complete source of information about the ICO market.

With over 4,200 projects and 62,000 professional profiles in enterprise and blockchain published on the platform, we can ensure a clear outlook of the market and its community.

We have processed and organised a huge amount of data for this report to show you the ICO market and its community’s widely differing sides —specifically ICO market size for a variety of industries, projects trending this week and countries leading in “crypto”.

We hope that the data in the report will be useful to you and your audience. We are happy to have you with us and are looking forward to your feedback on what other information you would like to see in the ICO Market Weekly Review.

ICObench Team

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Table of content

1. ICO Market Overview 4

1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently 4

1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in July 2018 5

1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date 6

1.4. Top countries on the ICO market 7

1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs 8

2. Trending ICOs 9

2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs 9

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 08.27-09.02.2018

3. ICO market size

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.30.2018-08.27.2018 10

3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months 11

3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months 12-13

4. ICO market performance 14

4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months 14

4.2. ICO performance rate by industry 15-16

5. Blockchain community 18

5.1. Top 10 People of blockchain 18

5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts 19

5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies 20

6. ICO Market Insider 21

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1. ICO Market Overview

As a rating platform, we pay more attention to best ranking ICOs. Our evaluation systemis based on a combination of the ICO profile rating based on our own algorithmthat uses more than 20 different criteria and the ratings provided by the independentexperts. On the other hand, it is highly important how much a project raised during itsICO and how the number and the value of the ratings could affect the number of fundsraised. In this section, we try to build a picture of this interrelationship.

1.1. Top 5 ICOs completed recently

# ICO Funds raised

1 London Football Exchange $71,320,000 24%

2 4NEW $42,100,000 14%

3 Synco $30,000,000 10%

4 Grapevine $26,799,000 9%

5 Usechain $23,524,200 8%

By the amount of funds raised By rating

# ICO Rating

1 SKYFchain 4.6

2 TimeBox 4.6

3 GENEXI 4.6

4 Gabro 4.6

5 TraXion 4.5

* compared to the previous week

# ICO Rating Funds raised

1 Grapevine 4.4 $26,799,000

2 Datareum 4.4 $5,144,571

3 ENDO Protocol 4.4 $5,000,000

4 Incodium 4.4 $4,000,000

5 Usechain 4.3 $23,524,200

By rating and amount of funds raised

# ICO #Ratings

1 SKYFchain 60

2 TimeBox 32

3 TraXion 31

4 GCOX 28

5 Codex 25

By the number of ratings

Subtotal: 5 $193,743,200 -0.65% *

Total: 32 $302,110,032 -53.21% *

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1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in July 2018

# ICO Funds raised

1 Cryptosolartech $68,280,620

2 Online $50,000,000

3 Liquidity.Network $26,029,981

4 Essentia $25,500,000

5 TravelBlock $25,200,000

By the amount of funds raised

# ICO Rating

1 FTEC 4.7

2 Nauticus 4.6

3 Xriba 4.6

4 mCoin 4.6

5 VRT 4.5

By rating

# ICO Rating Funds raised

1 FTEC 4.7 $995,000

2 Nauticus 4.6 $16,916,000

3 Xriba 4.6 $12,600,000

4 Elysian 4.5 $7,000,000

5 VRT 4.5 $2,402,311

By rating and amount of funds raised

# ICO #Ratings

1 Etheal 59

2 Open Source University 40

3 Wemark 33

4 ZeroState 33

5 TV-TWO 32

By the number of ratings

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1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date

# ICO name Raised

1 EOS $4,197,956,135

2 Telegram Open Network $1,700,000,000

3 TaTaTu $575,000,000

4 Dragon $320,000,000

5 HDAC $258,000,000

By the amount of funds raised

# ICO name Rating

1 Truegame 4.8

2 Squeezer 4.7

3 Friendz 4.7

4 FTEC 4.7

5 Karatgold Coin 4.7

By rating

By both rating and amount of funds raised

# ICO name #Ratings

1 Sharpay 102

2 Truegame 90

3 WePower 81

4 Friendz 63

5 MoneyToken 60

By the number of ratings

# ICO name Rating Funds raised

1 Truegame 4.8 $3,426,445

2 Karatgold Coin 4.7 $100,000,000

3 Friendz 4.7 $27,525,000

4 Squeezer 4.7 $15,000,000

5 FTEC 4.7 $995,000

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Russia

Cyprus

Singapore

Estonia

Switzerland

UK

Slovenia

USA

1.4. Top countries on the ICO market

Countries & PlatformsThe ICO market has its leaders presented not only as projects but also as countries and the platforms the project teams build

their ICOs on. The map above shows the countries those became leaders in the following criteria: the number of ICOs, the num-

ber of ICOs per 1 million people, and the total sum of funds raised by the projects from the country.

As you can see, Ethereum has become a market standard. At the same time, today many projects base their products on Waves

platform and other runners-up.

528 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$6,973,515,027#by raised funds

331 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$1,065,451,521#by raised funds

272 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$2,293,096,200#by raised funds

$1,554,901,337#by raised funds

23.2 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

382 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

$1,693,306,380 #by raised funds

65.0 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

19.2 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

33.1 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs per 1 million people

213 ICOs#by the number of ICOs

155.8 ICOs per 1M people#by the number of ICOs

per 1 million people

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1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs

# Platform ICOs Diff.*Avg.

rating

ICOs

RaisedRaised Total Avg.raised

1 Ethereum 3449 84.37% 2.47% 3.1 972 $16,537,038,327 $17,013,414

2 Non defined 377 9.22% 1.34% 2.2 97 $1,539,442,254 $15,870,539

3 Waves 106 2.59% 0.95% 2.6 29 $127,208,174 $4,386,489

4 Stellar 47 1.15% 6.82% 3.4 9 $243,441,832 $27,049,092

5 NEO 28 0.68% 3.70% 3.3 9 $98,963,153 $10,995,906

6 NEM 19 0.46% 5.56% 3.3 5 $63,659,533 $12,731,907

7 Scrypt 16 0.39% - 2.3 5 $20,797,758 $4,159,552

8 EOS 15 0.37% - 3.9 1 $5,000,000 $5,000,000

9 Separate blockchain 12 0.29% - 3.0 8 $48,981,062 $6,122,633

10 Bitcoin 10 0.24% - 2.3 1 $63,173 $63,173

11 Ethereum and Waves 9 0.22% - 2.3 2 $4,061,725 $2,030,863

Subotal: 4088

Total: 4290

$18,688,656,991

* compared to the previous week

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2. Trending ICOs

The ICO market is changing every day, crowning the projects those succeed to reach the per-fect combination of team, vision, and product as well as the hype around them and leaving the losers behind. In this section, we provide this week’s leaders of the market according to their mark and the number of ratings on our platform.

# ICO name Rating

1 CryptoRevolution 4.9

2 OPP Open WiFi 4.7

3 EON Protocol 4.7

4 IGT 4.7

5 Blockscart 4.6

By raiting

# ICO name Rating

1 Cryptics 41

2 INTRO 36

3 Cryptassist 33

4 Iagon 33

5 TraXion 31

By number of ratings

By rating

# ICO name #Ratings

1 Cryptics 41

2 GigTricks 35

3 LAToken 20

4 TrustLogics 16

5 Bailsman 16

# ICO name Rating

1 World Bit Bank 5.0

2 Centive 4.9

3 Sidera 4.7

4 Neironix 4.6

5 NextPakk 4.5

By the number of ratings

2.1. Top 5 ongoing ICOs

2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week 08.27.2018-09.02.2018

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3. ICO market size

In this section, we wanted to give you the big picture of the size of the market, split into two major categories: market size per month and week and the market size per industry.

Week #ICOs Funds raised Avg.funds raised/ICO

Aug 20th, 2018 - Aug 26th, 2018 10* $45,354,123* $4,535,412*

Aug 13th, 2018 - Aug 19th, 2018 22* $89,730,065* $4,078,639*

Aug 6th, 2018 - Aug 12th, 2018 10 $76,728,507 $7,672,851

Jul 30th, 2018 - Aug 5th, 2018 30 $209,248,235 $6,974,941

3.1. ICO market size per week 07.30.2018-08.27.2018

* this data will be updated

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3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months

Month #ICOs Funds raised Avg.Funds raised

August 2018 31* $302,110,032* $9,740,646*

July 2018 85 $670,211,244 $7,884,838

June 2018 98 $1,507,466,836 $15,382,315

May 2018 126 $1,071,855,244 $8,506,788

April 2018 107 $1,059,069,548 $9,897,846

March 2018 116 $1,735,377,226 $14,960,149

February 2018 104 $1,547,828,927 $14,882,970

January 2018 71 $1,350,598,190 $19,022,510

December 2017 89 $1,626,953,231 $18,280,373

November 2017 65 $749,225,976 $11,526,553

October 2017 69 $913,172,460 $13,234,383

September 2017 52 $865,810,120 $16,650,195

* this data will be updated

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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Platform 1,753 $10,072,220,980 $5,745,705

Cryptocurrency 1,191 $11,476,249,464 $9,635,810

Business services 744 $3,092,176,386 $4,156,151

Investment 571 $2,400,433,205 $4,203,911

Smart Contract 498 $1,269,096,419 $2,548,386

Software 493 $2,201,094,355 $4,464,694

Internet 391 $1,771,259,186 $4,530,075

Infrastructure 353 $3,135,142,158 $8,881,423

Entertainment 333 $1,260,042,311 $3,783,911

Artificial Intelligence 327 $694,001,440 $2,122,329

Banking 321 $2,663,517,804 $8,297,563

Big Data 297 $775,036,913 $2,609,552

Communication 265 $1,143,533,298 $4,315,220

Other 214 $485,639,103 $2,269,342

Media 208 $1,333,384,691 $6,410,503

Retail 189 $660,958,500 $3,497,135

Health 153 $449,721,118 $2,939,354

Education 129 $197,760,325 $1,533,026

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3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months

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Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised

Real estate 124 $346,143,458 $2,791,480

Tourism 97 $151,388,902 $1,560,710

Sports 96 $305,339,236 $3,180,617

Energy 95 $435,645,309 $4,585,740

Manufacturing 93 $235,850,504 $2,536,027

Virtual Reality 87 $203,798,716 $2,342,514

Casino & Gambling 84 $601,612,342 $7,162,052

Electronics 64 $313,218,844 $4,894,044

Legal 62 $141,969,715 $2,289,834

Charity 53 $75,428,345 $1,423,176

Art 48 $86,510,399 $1,802,300

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4. ICO market performanceThere are two factors of financial success for any ICO: reaching their hard cap during the initial coin offering and having a big ROI (return on investment) after it. In this section, we show the market’s situation by the performance rate and ROI for the past 12 months and for all industries represented on our platform.

% reached HC

% reached SC

* this data will be updated

4.1. ICO performance rate for the past 12 months

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2017 2018

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4.2. ICO performance rate by industry

This graph is showing the percentage of the ICOs that reached soft and hard cap in the past 12 months by industry.

% reached soft cap

industries

% reached hard cap

Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

1. Platform $10,072,220,980 1753 36.05% 33.31%

2. Cryptocurrency $11,476,249,464 1191 37.28% 35.01%

3. Business services $3,092,176,386 744 38.17% 34.81%

4. Investment $2,400,433,205 571 39.40% 36.60%

5. Smart Contract $1,269,096,419 498 25.50% 25.30%

6. Software $2,201,094,355 493 37.93% 34.69%

7. Internet $1,771,259,186 391 35.55% 31.97%

8. Infrastructure $3,135,142,158 353 30.88% 29.75%

9. Entertainment $1,260,042,311 333 38.14% 32.43%

10. Artificial Intelligence $694,001,440 327 22.32% 22.32%

11. Banking $2,663,517,804 321 42.99% 38.32%

12. Big Data $775,036,913 297 26.60% 25.93%

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Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC

13. Communication $1,143,533,298 265 34.34% 32.45%

14. Other $485,639,103 214 24.77% 23.83%

15. Media $1,333,384,691 208 34.62% 32.69%

16. Retail $660,958,500 189 28.04% 25.93%

17. Health $449,721,118 153 24.18% 23.53%

18. Education $197,760,325 129 20.16% 20.16%

19. Real estate $346,143,458 124 37.10% 35.48%

20. Tourism $151,388,902 97 34.02% 32.99%

21. Sports $305,339,236 96 40.63% 37.50%

22. Energy $435,645,309 95 29.47% 29.47%

23. Manufacturing $235,850,504 93 18.28% 18.28%

24. Virtual Reality $203,798,716 87 19.54% 18.39%

25. Casino & Gambling $601,612,342 84 50.00% 44.05%

26. Electronics $313,218,844 64 26.56% 26.56%

27. Legal $141,969,715 62 27.42% 27.42%

28. Charity $75,428,345 53 18.87% 18.87%

29. Art $86,510,399 48 25.00% 20.83%

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5. Blockchain community

#1

#4 #7

#8

#6#5

#9 #10

#2 #3Simon Cocking Ian Scarffe Nikolay Shkilev

250.4ISS85

ICOs

241.2ISS73

ICOs

197.9ISS55

ICOs

Vladimir Nikitin Hung Chih (Jason Hung)

Jeremy Khoo

Ismail MalikNaviin Kapoor

Anders LarssonAmarpreet Singh

173.7ISS

138.8ISS

123.3ISS

150.3ISS

118.6ISS

173.1ISS

120.6ISS

40ICOs

49ICOs

30 ICOs

40ICOs

32ICOs

52ICOs

34ICOs

5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain

* ISS: ICO Success Score is a combined evaluation of all ICOs a person is taking a part in. The more successful the ICOs

are and the more of them there is the higher the ISS would be.

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#3#2#1Hung Chih (Jason Hung) Igor Karavaev Luca Cotta

390 286 89/100

114 114 83/100

493 247 84/100

149 113 84/100

477 165 88/100 232 92 88/100

232 149 89/100 595 201 90/100 374 130 90/100

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Rating

Rating

Rating Rating

Rating Rating Rating

Reviews

Reviews

Reviews

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Reviews Reviews Reviews

Weight

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#5#4

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#6Nathan ChristianDouglas Lyons

Tran Van Tinh

Mofassair Hossain

Tyler Sanford

Nikolay Shkilev

5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts

147 122 82/100 Rating Reviews Weight

#10

Paul Mears

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Agency ISS #ICOs

#1 MarketAcross 250.2 54

#2 Coinzilla 248.6 92

#3 AmaZix 236.7 81

#4 Barracuda Club 229.0 62

#5 PRD Media Group 165.0 85

#6 ICO-TOP 163.6 48

#7 Bountyhive 161.2 50

#8 TokenSuite 159.6 62

#9 ICO Vortex 139.7 53

#10 Tge.company 137.2 53

5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies

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6. ICO Market Insider

We have asked our top experts to comment on the market trends and give their forecast for the upcoming week.

Rick Tapia

Blockchain Advisor andConsultant

Jeremy Khoo

Group CEOBlockchain Entrepreneur

VeChain ICO Partner Fund Partner

Exchange FounderSingaporet

The current ICO market is rapidly evolving in my opinion. The space has become very competitive and overly saturated with a slew of new ICO projects coming into the fold on a daily basis. On the other hand, many projects that were launched in the past year or longer are starting to wither away as more regulatory compliant and more fundamentally sound projects emerge in their place. Of course, present cryptocurrency market conditions are also playing a role as many new projects struggle to find their footing and projects that were completed in late 2017 and early 2018 succumb to selling pressure to protect the value of the funds they raised.With that said, I believe that security tokens offerings are the next phase of the space as it grows and matures. I see a seismic shift as STO protocols and exchanges continue to emerge to handle this aspect of the tokenized offering space. I believe that this is the future outlook for the cryptocurrency and tokenized offering space as the need for investor safeguards and worldwide regulatory compliance continues to grow. In addition, there are many benefits to STOТs for investors and organizations that may not be fully realized by the space yet. Time will tell but I believe the emergence of STOТs will be the future of the tokenized offering space.

The ICO market has been undergoing a shift from public sales to private sales for some time. This is of course no surprise, given the bearish secondary market conditions, but is also a sign of a maturing industry. Waning public support aside, СsmartТ private funds see a point of maximum opportunity now that market prices have retraced up to 90% from all time highs this year.What is equally interesting is the increased deployment in traditional instruments of convertible loans, buy-back agreements and equity into token sales. All these point to a heavy VC presence that has already entered and is fast setting up shop in the crypto markets.Philosophically, the key tenet of decentralisation in blockchain and consequently ICOs is nullified by institutional funds taking up large chunks. The tradeoff is the stability and predictability that they can bring to the markets.Using a brief historical and current reference of the ICO markets, it is uncannily similar to the progress of young commodity markets. This can point to a bright future of tremendous potential and opportunity, and one just needs to reference other markets to chart where we will go. Indexes anyone?

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Vitaliy Tsigulev

COO Waves LabCEO Digital Finance

The blockchain industry is the fastest growing IT market. Meanwhile, this entails a high speed of changes in approaches and rules guiding this market. To achieve success in the ICO market, it is important to understand in detail not how this industry has been operating last year, but how it operates right now. ICO is an amazing environment, where best practices change every 3-4 months. The most important change in recent months is that now the success of the ICO project can only be ensured by the involvement of professional venture funds. Public crowdsale has taken the back seat and can only be used to add up to the community growth. But major investments are brought in to projects by venture funds operating in this market. A trend which is inherent in many other developed IT industries – the winner takes all – is also gaining momentum. If you take a look at the amount raised in 2018, those figures are greater compared to amount in 2017, but in terms of projects that have raised these investments there will be many giants like Telegram and EOS, as well as some other ICOs which are being held by professional teams with vast experience in launching major IT projects and in cooperation with venture funds, and that is the key factor in the current market. These projects raise most of the money, leaving almost nothing to a huge number of start-ups trying to enter this market. If we talk about the future, I see the regulated Private Sales based on Security Tokens as one of the most promising fields. Security Tokens may become a compromise that will allow using the advantages of the blockchain technology while properly protecting investors. If this happens, soon we will witness the “Next big thing” in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

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