How...

do we find those 100x or greater returns? If you’re like many people and are looking for those 100x or larger returns, I strongly recommend that you look at these 2 steps I’m about to tell you. I have this checklist:

Can you explain...

what this protocol actually does in one sentence. It is important to understand what you’re investing in. So lets try to describe some of the biggest protocols in one sentence.
Ethereum - is a net of computers that make a new type of apps possible.
Bitcoin - is money without borders.

We have to understand what the ICO has that solves a real problem and secondly when a competition comes in can it still be the best gainer of value.

Is the protocol you’re investing in interesting or important

For something to be truly valuable it can’t just be interesting. It can’t be a small market that noone cares about. The bigger the market the better. You want a market which is unserved. Do a google search - how valuable is that market?
Look for the biggest markets that have the fewest competitors.

3 ICO’s with a clear path and importance

1) Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO

With the number of users Telegram currently has, it is possibly the biggest ICO of 2018.

With one sentence we can say that it wants to create a platform of its own to rival Ethereum for hosting a new wave of decentralized services. With access to 200 mln Telegram users, the developers of the project hope to reach a massive audience with what they are calling the Telegram Open Network (TON). By using Telegram’s massive user base, the developers hope to reach the critical mass required for mass adoption in its services. The payment system will use TON’s very own cryptocurrency, called Grams. Users will be able to use Grams to pay for content and services that will be provided by Telegram and other decentralized services.

2) Vice - BIG market, very unserved

Vice.org announced its new platform built on the Steem blockchain, an online adult media hub which will allow users to be paid for viewing porn.

The new #SMT will allow both content creators and viewers to earn thanks to the core Steem blockchain technology behind it. Backed by a vast amount of partners from the adult entertainment industry, the Vice team stand a good chance to not only revolutionize the whole sector by cutting out the middleman and rewarding content producers directly, without being reliant on advertising like most platforms.

https://vicetoken.com/

3) Sether - Social marketing

Use SETHER to target customers, create loyalty, deploy marketing campaigns, segment your audience and study customer behaviour on all social networks. Sether opens up the blockchain to marketers everywhere, using a previously unavailable tool - Smart Contracts. They bring transparency, thus trustworthiness, but are isolated from social networks. Sether brings social networks data, intelligently analyzed, into the smart contracts. Integrating smart contracts into your marketing strategy offers your business an amazingly efficient and transparent crowd-powered advertising engine, providing your clients with a new way to interact with your brand, while cutting supervising and monitoring costs at the same time.

Sether was also one of John McAfee’s pick in the end of last year. You may not have the warmest of feelings towards this guy as he is alleged to be just a ’shillmeister’ but it may be something to look into.

https://www.sether.io/

Conclusion:

Telegram - Huge userbase ALREADY
Vice - You do not have to pay, you get paid to watch adult movies. 100 Billion dollar market, based on STEEM blockchain
Sether - Blockchain's first intelligent social marketing platform

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