- Maker/DAI is a sort-of-stable coin. [4] DAI is supposed to be stable with respect to dollars, but is backed by Etherium and the right to dilute Maker coins. So Maker holders are subordinate creditors. Unclear how that will hold up in a downturn. Interesting, though.
- Filecoin has been going way up lately, with institutional backing. That's interesting and needs further attention. It's a scheme for trading disk storage capacity.
- Chainlink has gone way up. Although the system for actually storing files is only in beta, and hasn't been priced yet.
- Cardano - way up at the ICO, then way down for three years, now back up to slightly above the ICO peak. This is a proof of stake system.
- Etherium - big peak in 2017, crashed to about 15% of peak, now back up.
All true but what matters to ICO investors is their buying price. For Ethereum for example, the ICO price was between 30 cents and 60 cents, depending on when they bought. At the bottom of the post-2017 bear market it was $82, and at this moment it's $2098.
The only way Ethereum ICO investors could have lost money is if they bought over 43 cents, and sold when it dipped down to that point several months after launch.
Let's look at topcoinlist.com. Not the current version, but the one of three years ago.[1] See how the top 5 from early 2018 came out.
- Tripbit - Down to near zero.[2]
- Developeo - No longer listed. "Website not active" as of 2020.[3]
- Proof of Toss - "Coin is inactive"[4]
- BitRewards - Still traded, sort of.[5] Issued at US$0.003, now at US$0.0002, with a daily trading volume of about US$1.
- CoolCousin - "Coin is inactive" [6]
FAIL.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180403121628/https://topicolis...
[2] https://ih.advfn.com/crypto/TripBit-TBT
[3] https://icomarks.com/ico/developeo
[4] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/proof-of-toss
[5] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitrewards/
[6] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cool-cousin