Feel free to add to the list.
After a lot of research, I figured I would make a list of projects that actually solves some of the key problems we see in our daily lives. There are thousands of crypto projects out there among all the meme coins, scam coins, and dead projects that deserve to get some spotlight.
BitcoinThe KING of crypto. First mover, store of value.
Ethereum Smart contracts and a huge network of projects build on top of it.
ChainlinkDecentralized Oracle Network.
Basic Attention Token Removes the middleman between advertisers and publishers
DIVI Project"Crypto Made Easy" - Eases the entry barrier to cryptocurrencies, making it as simple to use as possible. (I.E: Send money straight from your bank account to the DIVI wallet).
Monero Privacy, plain and simple.
These are just a few... Feel free to add your own!
EWT - Distributed Green Energy
Green energy assets like solar panels, batteries, wind turbines pose a problem for energy companies. They're decentralized. So how are the likes of Shell, Eneco, Tepco etc.. going to make money if their assets are distributed. Blockchain to the rescue. Energy Web Chain is basically a faster Ethereum (PoA EVM) with built in tools purpose built for the energy sector. They have energy exchange for selling / buying green energy certificates. Flex toolkits for grid balancing. Gaurantees of origin etc... Not to mention because it's EVM it's open to any dapp the energy eco system wants to deliver. CiveQ is building something similar to Efforce on it. Share&Charge is building certifiable green charging stations on it. There's going to be peer to peer trading. Green blockchains etc... list goes on. Not to mention it was purpose built by a foundation of energy companies. Check out their comunity site at
https://energyweb.live for a quick look at their partners and projects. It's insane.
D4RK - Privacy For Everything
They're working toward building privacy services on the DOT ecosystem. Not just private transactions... privacy services. The implication is bigger then what we know now as privacy chains. So what does this mean?? Well the low hanging fruit they're working now is private storefronts and ipfs clusters. BUT because they're going to be on DOT and it's interoperable... it doesn't end there. What about private data marketplace for OCEAN so you could sell you data for profit without divulging your info. Private self sovereing id so you can authenticate for a service (they gaurentee your registered) but they don't have to know your name or your habits. Say at a local gym for example. Privacy can be at mass scale in a way that is still bound to rules. Say you don't know who I am but scanning my card proves I'm 21 and legal citizen - so you let me into the pub. No name, address, height, gender... nada. This is a huge opportunity D4RK and obviously private transactions are still a thing
OCEAN - New Data Asset Class
They're creating a new assets class - data marketplaces. Their compute to data functionality means you can run computations on data sets without ever having access to the raw datasets. Who cares?? well for one, auto manufacturers. Specifically Daimler (Mercedes) was the first. Why? Consider the amount of data needed for AI. Tesla currently has the data advantage in the self driving car space because they have all the time on the road. But what if auto firms could share their raw data without ever having to give up proprietary information or algorithms. That's what OCEAN can let you do
Those are my top three. EWT because green energy macro trend. D4RK because nobody sees it coming and it can eventually privatize all of your daily transactions. OCEAN because data is the new oil.
last one would be a decentralized identification chain to help unbanked and undocumented. something like SOV but personally not a big fan.