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As we are flying through the Q2 of 2018, I wanted to quickly share with you about some projects, which could have a quite nice surge in the upcoming days. After all, if you buy into some of that stuff then be aware that you are responsible for that decision and if the results are not as expected then we can blame only ourselves. So please make your own research.

My Top picks for Q2 2018:

These projects do not have a particular order, but when investing then it makes sense to diversify your investments to reduce the risk of losing your money. Name: **DecentBet (DBET)** Website: https://www.decent.bet Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/decent-bet/ (0,10$) https://image.ibb.co/k4FWjH/DBET.png **DecentBet** is a decentralized online casino platform with sports betting feature, which provides an opportunity for token holders to lock in **DBET** tokens to be part of the company's profits and earn passive income. **Platform** launch is going to be on the **1st May**. Will be having expansion of the team with people who have a big influence. Rumors are pointing out that one person could be **Phil Hellmuth** who is one of the best poker players in the world. Source: https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth/status/976743517207740417 You can find more related pictures from his **Twitter** page. Name: **Matrix AI Network (MAN)** Website: https://www.matrixchain.io Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/matrix-ai-network (0.85$) https://image.ibb.co/jfEGjH/MAN.jpg **Matrix AI Network** is quite new in the space and very unique as they are leveraging **Artificial Intelligence** to create intelligent blockchain platform to be faster and more efficient with improved security by using natural languages for smart contracts. If you start digging the team then you can find that they are high-level individuals with a great background. And they have already pulled off one big partnership with **One Belt One Road** (OBOR), which is a **multi-trillion** dollar project. What is **One Belt One Road** (OBOR)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ Source: https://medium.com/@matrixainetwork/review-of-matrix-global-community-meetup-in-singapore-6dd17176449f **The good thing** about this project is that this has not been listed on bigger exchanges yet, but this will happen sooner or later and then it could see a bigger surge. Name: **Fusion (FSN)** Website: https://fusion.org Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/fusion (5.10$) https://smartereum.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Fusion-ICO-Blockchain-Opening-an-exciting-new-Era-of-Cryptofinance-for-the-Internet-of-Values.jpg **Fusion** is a public blockchain devoting itself to creating an inclusive crypto financial ecosystem by building a value transfer infrastructure of various tokens. **The biggest reason** why I am so excited about this project is the team. And if you go to their website, you can see these people have been involved with companies like **IBM, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Linux, Barclays investment bank, Bank of America**, as well people from more of an academic background. **By the end of Q2 2018**, we can expect the **Fusion** main net to go live, with a target to have more than **$10 Billion USD** valued tokens/cryptocurrencies/digital assets running on **Fusion**. And by the end of Q3, they are targeting to have more than **100 billion USD** valued tokens/cryptocurrencies/digital assets running on their platform and more than **1 billion USD** valued financial activities using smart contracts. Name: **High Performance Blockchain (HPB)** Website: http://www.gxn.io Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/high-performance-blockchain/ (3.55$) https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*246LmYcmKTttK-O59wOaKw.png **High Performance Blockchain** is a new combination of hardware and software blockchain architecture which includes a chip accelerator engine with a target to reach one million transactions per second. **This** is a project with a great team and **NEO** is backing it up and the main net is planned to go live in Q2. As well there seems to be a partnership with **UnionPay**. This is what is pointed out on their whitepaper: After listening to the design concept of HPB, **China's largest financial data company UnionPay Smart** has established a partnership with HPB. As a part of UnionPay, UnionPay Smart is specialized in big data innovation business and currently **handles 80% of China's banking transaction data**, with an annual turnover of **80 trillion Yuan**. With the common goal of technological practice and exploration of big financial data and high-performance blockchains, HPB is currently collaborating with **UnionPay** on the authorization, certification, and traceability of big data. The tentative launch time for this project is **Q3 2018**. Source: http://www.gxn.io/files/hpb_white_paper_en.pdf Masternodes coming :) Name: **Bottos (BTO)** Website: https://www.bottos.org Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bottos (0.135$) https://www.xbrick.io/imgs/bottos2.jpg **Bottos** is an open-source public blockchain designed to build a decentralized **Artificial Intelligence ecosystem** where the first application by **Bottos** will be the marketplace to train AI data models. **Other AI-oriented projects** in progress with outside developers include model marketplaces, data storage-sharing networks, and computer power-sharing networks. Additionally, a data validation service will be offered, as well as a rating system for AI companies and data providers. **A public beta of a blockchain-based data marketplace** is already released and the main net is aimed to be live at the end of May. Bottos expects that its open marketplace will reduce the cost of data, perhaps by **50 percent** in some cases. Not only will data be more accessible via **Bottos**, it will also be more secure. As a result of that, they expect to attract significant interest from AI projects that require massive amounts of data, including speech recognition, semantic identification, computer vision, and robots, as well as applications for IoT. **The Bottos team** has a significant experience in the AI space, as well in the blockchain space. For example one of the founders is ex **NEO chief marketing officer**, which is a really successful project out there. As well there is evidence that the size of the community in **China** is well above **100 000 members** and one of the early investors includes the **DraperDragon Innovation Fund** (Tim Draper). In addition to that **Bottos** has actually passed the **Hovey test** and has an early partnership with **ARM** and **HPB**. Source: https://medium.com/bottos/draper-dragon-digital-fund-invests-in-bottos-298ee295a72e Masternodes coming :) Name: **VeChain (VEN)** Website: https://www.vechain.org Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vechain (3.95$) https://image.ibb.co/fsFWjH/VEN.png **VeChain** aims to connect blockchain technology to the real world by providing a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model as well as advanced IoT integration, which provides businesses operating across a range of sectors with blockchain-based solutions for their day-to-day operational issues. They are well on their way to helping businesses achieve improved processing and product control by digitizing the assets. **As well VeChain** has many **VCs** backing it up and is famous for having many partnerships with **big names** including the national partnership to build a **smart city** in **China**. Source: https://cdn.vechain.com/vechain_national_government_partnership_guian_release.pdf Masternodes coming :) Name: **Internet Node Token (INT)** Website: https://intchain.io Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/internet-node-token (0.36$) https://image.ibb.co/m867rx/INT.png As we know **Internet of Things** (IoT) and **Artificial Intelligence** (AI) industry is also something to keep your eye on besides **blockchain**, as they are all growing side by side while also perfecting each other. **Internet Node Token** will provide series of decentralized **IoT** applications and industrial ecology with a reliable data source, transmission and storage security, confidential and untrusted infrastructure and shapes a new business model focused on devices. There has not been very much communication from the team, but if we start looking into them, then some of them have already taken part in **successful** IT projects. **Partners** on their webpage are **IBM, Huawei**. Although it’s hard to find any information on the web that would confirm these partnerships. They have mentioned before that they will announce their partnerships with accomplishments. And there are rumors that soon something is going to be released :) In addition, if we talk about **IoT** projects, I would definitely keep an eye on **IoT Chain** (ITC) and **CPChain** (CPC), but these are the projects I would go more likely in **Q3** . Name: **Banyan Network (BBN)** Website: https://www.banyanbbt.org Current price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/banyan-network (0.10$) https://image.ibb.co/hApABx/BBN.jpg **Banyan Network** is a big data network based on blockchain technology. It is also the world’s first distributed ecosystem of data economies raised and built by team experts in the field of data analytics. **Banyan Network** covers data collection, cleansing, integration, and applications of a complete business chain. Their goal is to focus on blockchain enabled trusted data connection, third-party data integration and governance, data applications and open market development, building a positive interactive value-linked network of data benefits by establishing standards, providing channels, and issuing tokens. **The project is quite fresh** and will be built on **High Performance Blockchain** (HPB) with the first applications coming out soon and once again if we look at the team, then we have very nice people with great background from **UnionPay Smart, Alibaba, Loopring** and many more. As well there could be also baking something with the **UnionPay Smart**. Quoting the CEO of **Banyan Network** : “We do have a very strong connection with **UnionPay Smart** since it was co-founded by **Kelvin**. **UnionPay Smart** and many other super data sources are among our close partners, however, in the contract with such partners, it’s clearly indicated not to use their brand name such as **UnionPay** or **UnionPay Smart** in any shape or way as all these large companies do not like to be in the PR under the dark without their formal marketing department’s approval. Thus, we don’t want to actively market this kind of partnership.” Source: https://medium.com/@FYIcryptoz/interview-with-banyan-network-ceo-david-zhou-483c0c9a045f I hope this has brought you some value, as we are in this exciting shift where blockchain and technology is challenging existing organizations and business models. I hope we all can have some nice benefit of it. 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