These are my favorite long-term cryptocurrency underdogs, in order of market cap.
#1 ANTSHARES ANS / NEO
They have already solved the scaling problems that Bitcoin and Ethereum have, Turing Complete, strong alliance in China and China is most of crypto and should not be underestimated. The first (serious) Crypto of China. They are up against Ethereum, but with the alliance in China and the tech, and the relatively low market cap I think they have a strong chance at great success in the long term. The rebranding should also help later as it did for Dash.
#2 NUMERAIRE NMR
This is still new so an early favorite, but I really love this project. They are up against all the Hedge Funds, and they literally want the scientists to “manage all the money in the world.” The data results are very strong, I fully understand the system, and I think the odds of NMR going up massively in value is worth the risk. Some scientists are great at the predictive models and I do believe they will buy NMR and stake it to make fortunes in the future, if nothing else, this is a very exciting experiment and the potential is too great for me to miss out on it.
#3 MONACOIN MONA
Seemingly just a silly project, this is one of the main cryptocurrencies of Japan and the first crypto of Japan. BTC/MONA ATMs are all over Japan, it is used as a currency. Lightning Network is being tested. Low Market cap and a strong community. I do not see this as some global currency, but the potential of it becoming huge in Japan is there. Halving is coming up shortly, a new Electrum lightweight wallet is being built and Lightning Network will handle scaling just fine.
#4 EXPANSE EXP
This is the project I am working on personally. We do not have the blockchain bloat problem of some projects, TX scalability is still something we need to solve, even though it is not an issue for us yet we plan on being a top project in the long run. We do have some of the most experienced Blockchain devs and we are also working on early concepts for a new way to scale Blockchain while remaining proof of work. We have lots of news coming, and we are the first stable Ethereum fork and by far the cheapest.
