Topic: T&C 20 Index: The new standard for tracking value in the altcoin sector. (Read 1933 times)

Alt 20 Index up back to approaching all time high from June! Altcoins are pumping again hard!!!!

Latest article in Cointelegraph that compares different public crypto indexes...T&C 20 Index included with 65.1% gain over 3 months!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/best-ways-to-maximize-profits-while-bitcoin-price-marches-upward

T&C 20 in the news comparing trading indexes in crypto: https://themerkle.com/trading-cryptocurrency-how-do-you-match-up/

Latest T&C 20 press release: http://bitcoinist.com/tc-20-index-tracking-altcoins/

Dates of upcoming altcoin announcements. Dash, Factom, Maidsafe, Sia, Waves and more.
January 7th, 2017 - James

As altcoins begin to see astronomic growth over the next few weeks, it will be important to be aware of altcoins with major technological releases and/or updates in the imminent future. Below are some of the major announcements in altcoins scheduled for Q1 2017.

January or February 2017: Waves DEX and Fiat Gateways in the lite wallet. This will allow instant trading of Waves Community Tokens and other assets in the lite wallet, with unparalleled speed and simplicity compared to NXT, Bitshares, Counterparty and other versions of decentralized exchanges. Fiat gateways will allow easy purchase of Waves, WCTs and other assets with fiat transfer in the lite wallet. This overcomes the burden of buying bitcoin, transferring it to another exchange in order to trade for another altcoin prior to sending said altcoin to your private wallet.

February 5th, 2017: Dash releases Version 12.1 "Sentinel Release" of its core software. This is the biggest Dash update in over a year, which will be the core version of the software prior to the release of Dash's much anticipated Evolution in early 2018.

January or February 2017: MaidSafeCoin will likely release further public tests of its Vaults in their decentralized internet. The last public test of the Vaults took place over 3 months ago in October 2016. As this project has been ongoing in the development of a decentralized internet for over 10 years, even seemingly tedious development updates tend to drive price increases.

January and February 2017: Factom announced the release of Federation (M2) on December 20th, 2016, and began rolling out the new platform on December 31st, which is still currently underway. Federation (M2) has been under development for over a year, and is the second major release of the Factom software. Features will include a more robust network, transaction times in seconds instead of minutes, support for multiple blockchains including bitcoin and ethereum, and new tools in its development suite/public test net. Foundation light and Exodus wallets will then be released afterwards in February 2017.

January 2017: Minebox will be released, which will be an external hard drive that can farm Siacoin while storing users' files both locally and on the Sia network. This could increase the reliability of storing data on the Sia network.

January or February 2017: Stratis will likely release their full nodes (nStratis) and Stratis cloud at or prior to one of the Blockchain conferences in Q1 2017. Some dates to keep in mind are January 23rd and 24th, which is the Blockchain Expo in London, and February 9th, which is the Blockchain Event in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The Stratis team is attending both conferences. It is possible that announcements of Stratis full nodes and/or Stratis Cloud will occur around or on these dates.

March to May 2017: Syscoin will release their Blockmarket, which will function as a decentralized version of eBay with payment in bitcoin, syscoin or ZCash for better anonymity. Although they say the release will occur in Q1 2017, I expect delays possibly into Q2 2017 for a project of this undertaking.

I agree, we are currently in the process of updating the site. Thanks for the critique!

Great, thanks! We'd be happy to talk with any journalists, crypto commentary, etc. regarding our Index. We are from the USA btw.

altcoin many developing although one of them there is not good for the future

Cool idea, thanks for this, will definitely be looking at this as you said the altcoin world can be crazy.

Interesting idea, well done!

I'd advise to format somehow different the article titles, it looks close to "wall of text" under the chart.
But overall I like it. I bookmarked it.

I send my colleague a hint/message to study your project, perhaps he wants to write a news article about your website.

P.s. from which country are you guys?

Great to read STRATIS will be added to this project, looks like a solid platform/idea.

Take a look at I/OCoin $IOC also.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=695855.3980
Would make an excellent choice. Big year for IOC in 2017, last year it gained x10, set to do the same in 2017.

I got into alts during june 2016 and like you stated in your blog, I lost nearly half of my total investments across 12 alt coins. 

What tools, books, sites do you recommend for any new long-term trader?  Especially one with no experience trading/investing in stocks and other financial instruments.   How does one use your index?


Having a coin tied to an alt index is extremely needed in crypto.  Do you all have a roadmap or estimation of launch?

hmm, sounds interesting, the altcoin scene has picked up some serious steam so why not do something S&P 500 style for it? sounds cool man
btw tho, as no actual ANN of an altcoin has been offered here, this thread is probably best suited for "Altcoin SERVICE ANNouncments" section
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=197.0

Best of luck, will be watching for sure!

This just iconomi for alts?

Interesting to see the basket of alts showing $ gains, when on the other hand, many portfolios feel battered by Bitcoin, the last few months. Makes you wonder how we actually price these alts, really. 

The site is good on the eye, BTW. Will have a closer look, later.

The T&C Alt 20 is a digital currency index and blog that tracks growth in the alternative currency market, aka altcoins, using similar methodology as the S&P 500^Ⓡ. In the near future, we expect to partner with other digital currency funds in the release of a T&C 20 altcoin that will be correlated with the T&C Alt 20 Index. This T&C 20 Index coin will then be purchased and traded as an investment in the overall altcoin sector, similar to buying shares in an S&P 500^Ⓡ index fund.

At the time of this announcement on January 2nd, 2017, the T&C 20 Index is at 190.89, up 91% from its creation on April 3rd, 2016, with an initial value of 100.00. For updated charts of the index, please visit www.altindex.io.



The T&C 20 Index is based on market capitalization, and is calculated using the same methodology as the S&P 500^Ⓡ. The altcoins included in the T&C 20 were chosen to track value of the overall altcoin sector. The selected altcoins are leading development and/or application in data storage, anonymity, social media platform, and token economy. Altcoins currently included in the T&C 20 Index are Monero, Dash, Steem, MaidSafeCoin, NEM, Waves, DigixDAO, Factom, Stellar Lumens, Lisk, Bitshares, Emercoin, Storjcoin X, NXT, Counterparty, SiaCoin, Synereo.

Weekly, the T&C 20 team meets and reviews the top 50 altcoins according to coinmarketcap.com for possible inclusion in the index. Alternatively, any altcoins in the T&C 20 that fail to meet the minimum criteria below for an extended period of time are removed from the index.

• Market capitalization over $1,000,000

• In existence and publicly traded for over 3 consecutive months

• Daily trading volumes over $5,000 on most days

• Viable currency with active development and/or token utilization

Any changes to the index are announced 1 week in advance on the homepage of www.altindex.io. The last alteration to the index was made on July 3rd, 2016 with the addition of Waves. Of note, Bitcoin and Ethereum are not included in the T&C 20, as they are large currencies which are not reflective of the altcoin sector.

Calculation is in real time with the index updated every 5 minutes with market data obtained by accessing the coinmarketcap.com API. Calculation currency is USD.



The T&C 20 team consists of four professionals with backgrounds in finance, trading, computer science, engineering and medicine. Our creation of T&C 20 is to provide both an updated index that tracks value in the altcoin sector, as well as provide updated analysis, research and news on cryptocurrency developments from an investor’s view.

While trading our personal portfolios, we often found it difficult to determine if the altcoin sector was functioning as a zero-sum game or if “new money” (i.e. fiat, bitcoin, ethereum) was entering. We discovered that this knowledge is critical in making trading decisions. The T&C 20 Index provides this information. Since its inception in early 2016, I have used the T&C 20 Index as an analytic tool in my personal fund, the “Icarus Fund”, and have successfully traded with increasingly greater profits. It is our hope that you may find it as useful as we did.