Hello, Crypto steemers and welcome to daily altcoins and market review.

While watching NFL playoffs came up with some insights which i want to share with you all.

So let's begin.

First and foremost there is a lot of FUD in the crypto space which should not be taken into consideration. From my point of view is just mind games to buy weak-hands positions in market by whales before wallstreet bonuses takes a place. Was looking into yearly market trends and saw this last year all market also took dip at the same time and it look like this

'Get ready for an explosion'
The traditional start of the year is a time when Wall Street traders can exert influence with their bonus payments, as many traders gamble with their extra income.

Mid-January bonuses likely clocked in at approximately $138,000, as can be deduced from calculations of the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Two decades ago, The New York Times wrote about about car salesmen in New York who significantly benefited from bonuses on Wall Street.

"They are young, aggressive people who are able to make decisions spontaneously," the newspaper quoted a car salesman saying at the time. "They come to see what's in inventory, and when they receive their bonus checks — bingo."

In 2018, the crypto market could get a boost from Wall Street bonuses.

"Young people have been watching from sidelines putting in a few thousand here, a few hundred there," Demirors told Business Insider Deutschland. "Bonus season and tax rebates means cash a plenty to put into crypto." from Business Insider.

Also adding up that by the end of January South Korean Banks opening crypto trading again. We possible could see new run for the 1 trillion marketcap.

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Now about Altcoins and ICO's !!!

Let's start with APEX ICO running on NEO platform. Prediction (Marketcap at 460 million $ by the 2 quater)

APEX is a blockchain-powered data and interactions exchange that passes value and data ownership back to the consumer, as well as increasing efficiency, data quality, and customer loyalty for the enterprise.

Problem:

Consumer data is collected daily by 3rd party data providers and sold to companies for research and marketing purposes. Your consent to collect, use and sell your data is often obtained when you agree with the complicated Terms and Conditions documents before you make use of a platform.

Enterprises that purchase consumer data from 3rd parties often run into data quality issues, and don’t know if this data has been obtained legally.

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will roll out on May 25, 2018 globally, which will introduce stricter regulation regarding the collection, use and sale of your personal data by enterprises. The GDPR will give citizens back control of their own.

Solution:

APEX, a B2C platform that will allow consumers to sell their data to marketers, satisfying both ends of the transaction in this very niche market. Consumers interact with the Consumer Client App, where they have full control of their data and who can use it. Consumers decide with which brands they wish to share their data and what kind of data will be shared. The consumers are rewarded with CPX and which they can use to purchase rewards or sell on the open market. The APEX platform is a disruptive technology that will cut out middlemen like Acxiom, which is a 3rd party data provider that never shares profits with consumers and will be fairly impacted by the new GDPR regulation. APEX also provides consumers and enterprises new channels to directly interact with each other. These channels will save enterprises billions of advertising dollars annually as they can directly engage with their target audience.

Enterprises connect through the APEX platform via the Enterprise Client App named NEXUS. This is an already existing and working platform with more than 250 enterprise clients. NEXUS enables brands to manage target customer scope, data acquisition scope, cost management, rewards engagements. Enterprises are then able to analyse and activate the data collected by using features such as real time advanced analytics and productized machine learning and AI models. NEXUS is built on top of Azure (Microsoft) and AWS (Amazon) cloud computing services to process the massive data at scale

To grow the ecosystem, APEX will provide partners and brands a SDK that consumers can use to connect with the APEX platform via the partner's or brand's platform. The NEXUS API will allow enterprises to connect to the APEX platform with their own application or platform.

Blockchain Technology:

The consent by consumers to use their data and their CPX tokens as reward for sharing their data will be automatically logged and executed by smart contracts on the NEO blockchain without any middle men. By using blockchain technology the APEX platform also ensures that it will adhere to the upcoming GDPR as all consents of consumers are logged in smart contracts on the blockchain. NEO's efficient dBFT consensus mechanism and its built-in identity features will be useful for the long-term development of APEX.

The Company:

The company behind APEX is Chinapex which is an existing data technology and AI company headquartered in Shanghai with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley. Chinapex has served more than 200 enterprise clients such as Standard Chartered, BMW, Hilton, Chevrolet and Casio. The core team comprises of high capable members who have worked for large corporates like Microsoft and Alibaba. The company was also selected for Microsoft Accelerator Shanghai as one of 15 out of 1000 companies.

Partnerships:

APEX has a received a large number of free Azure credits (worth $500,000 USD) from Microsoft/Microsoft Azure to deploy their off-chain solution on their cloud. APEX also has a cross-selling and marketing partnership with Azure's Business Development and Marketing teams. Azure's team receives commissions on customer acquisition for APEX.

APEX has a similar partnership with AWS China (Amazon). AWS provides APEX with brands from retail, automotive and financial services and in exchange APEX will deploy a part of its system on AWS.

Alibaba Cloud has an agreement with APEX which works in a similar fashion. In addition, they provide APEX access to their platform named 'Databank', which gives APEX access to 500 million unique ecommerce user data. APEX can use this data for data enrichment and verification.

APEX has a commercial partnership with Oracle Marketing Cloud China where they share and cross-sell brand customers. Joint customers are for example Maserati and Ferrari. The NEXUS platform of APEX has an API integration with Oracle Marketing Cloud's Eloqua such that brands can effectively use data acquired from APEX on the Oracle cloud.

Baidu and APEX have an API partnership for search and display advertising as of Q3 2017. It enables NEXUS and APEX enterprise users to interact with consumers on the APEX Network on all search and display channels of Baidu. Baidu has the largest search engine market share in China (76.05% as of April 2017).

Tencent is an API partner which gives APEX access to Tencent's QQ display media assets, WeChat, and Tencent's display network outside of QQ and WeChat. QQ and WeChat are instant messaging platforms with 850 million and 963 million monthly active user accounts respectively (Q2 2017).

Lastly, data collaboration partnerships were announced with Red Pulse (Financial Information) and Bongmi (Healthtech).

Whitelist starts tomorrow, if you'r interested don't miss it.

Next -> VeChain -> Prediction (Marketcap around 13bn$ by 3 quater)

This one is my favorite altcoin for a long time. So today we all woke up to some amazing news that VeChain has signed an exclusive deal with China’s national tobacco government body. Surely news of this magnitude would moon any coin and yet VEN remains fairly stable at $6.00 - $7.00 while the market is on a downturn.

Well there is a very good reason for this and that’s all great news for VeChain HODLers. VeChain is positioning itself as next gen Ethereum, using a hybrid proof of stake solution. In order for this to take shape the VeChain network must be comprised of a large number of Master nodes which will create the stability, consensus, hack-resistance and serve as the heart and brains of the network. So how is all this related to the price? Well this is where it gets real interesting.

The VeChain marketing teams has a pretty difficult job on their hands. On one side they must announce to the world that VeChain is about to create a new economic system that will produce a residual income. On the other side allow enough individuals to jump in so they can have mass adoption of master nodes which will create the magic of consensus.

Let me explain, the current price of VEN is amazingly undervalues at $6.00 and so many of us are trying to accumulate at least 10,000 VEN to be able to reach the first level of Master node (10000 VEN needed). From recents calculations Thor (Gas) will have a ROI of at least 20-25% and that’s something everyone wants, to be able to run a PC at home and have it produce for you high ROI, isn’t that the ultimate dream? (i.e.: mining for large rewards with a low end CPU). Now imagine if the price jumped to $100 today, how many people could afford to spend $1,000,000.00 for first level Master node? Well not many. Going back to VeChain marketing, on one hand they have to convey to the world the master plan and share the amazing partnerships to create HOLDers, people who truly believe in proof of stake, in VeChain and are willing to put their life savings on the lines for years to come to create residual income. At the same time they must keep the price low (via Whales) so they can produce as many HOLDers as possible and make the future VeChain network resilient and fast.

Proof of work is the ultimate peer to peer blockchain as it allows super fast transactions (think centralized Visa) but at the same time be governed by everyone and owned by no one. (we all saw what happened with Crypto Kitties on the Ethereum network, simply not scalable… yet) So what should you take from all this?

VeChain is not just another Crypto company, they will revolutionize blockchain technology and global economics through enterprise adoption in the years to come.

Some of you are evaluating tokens by current market cap or price (not fundamental). Well with VeChain the entire formula is flipped on its head. VeChain is keeping the price down to create true HODLers and in so build a free, open blockchain that will revolutionize our lives in the years to come. One of the side benefits of investing in VeChain as that IMHO it will be crash proof to any bubbles in the crypto market (again by positioning itself as a long investment).

I do fully expect that VeChain will have initially a slower steady growth due to price manipulation (well if you can call x10 in a year)

I'm always bullish on this market and wishing you the same. Always open for any questions