Some links:
https://blocknet.co/https://medium.com/@cblackbeard/blocknet-the-internet-of-blockchains-d3bce974a8echttps://crypto-bridge.org/2019/01/22/blocknet-the-internet-of-blockchains/I love to speculate, since a small amount of money can yield tons of ROI long term. A project I've been looking at for a long time now is Blocknet.
Blocknet - The Internet Of Blockchains
Blocknet is one of those projects, that didn't take off (yet) due to a very technical product, most people have a hard time understanding. They was the first project to develop a truly functional DEX solution, a DEX which is being improved with newbie friendly UI fixes. Blocknet aims to be a decentralized trading platform, where anyone can trade their coins, without risking their funds on a centralized exhange (Exchange hacks, exit scams, phishing attacks, frozen assets, and more).
Their masternode network is a little different than what you typically see in a masternode project, they consist of: Xbridge, Xrouter, and
XBridge is a decentralized exchange protocol with the ability to perform non-custodial, trustless, and decentralized exchange between any digital assets that is supported by the Blocknet Protocol. XBridge allows any application to perform decentralized exchange, opening the door to an ecosystem of decentralized trading services. Service Nodes are used to verify that the UTXOs in the trades are valid and relay the order book. For these services, Service Nodes receive 100% of trade fees.
XRouter is a decentralized interoperability protocol with an SPV client backend supported by Service Nodes that allows users to validate transactions and ensure transactions are in a block. These calls are supported by default if XRouter is enabled with no additional settings. For example, if you have a fully synced Bitcoin node with txindex on, you can use XRouter to sell transaction information on Bitcoin's blockchain. So if a user doesn't want to download the full chain, but needs to know information about a transaction, they could query your XRouter node and you can charge them a fee to do so.
You have the option to offer these services for free or to charge a fee for each call. Fees can be set to be specific for each individual call.
XCloud is a decentralized microservice cloud network that allows you to monetize any microservice, blockchain, API, or cloud tech on your own hardware, in many cases without having to write any code. Some examples of these services are blockchain-based calls such as one that returns a list of Syscoin marketplace listings, third party data calls such as one that provides access to CMC's API, or a custom call for a service you create yourself. You have the option to offer these services for free or to charge a fee for each call. Fees can be specified individually for each call.
Blocknet recently dipped below $1 (with a top at $50+ in the bull market) so a service node is actually getting affordable at these prices, since you need 5000 BLOCK to run a service node.
I could easily see BLOCK above $100/coin one day, due to it's extremely scarse coin supply (6 mio. circulating supply). That' more than a 100X which is pretty decent.