Subscribe to my DTube channel and earn cryptocurrency rewards for your best comments at: https://d.tube/#!/c/marketingmonk and https://steemit.com/@marketingmonk Click on a video and then click 'subscribe'. We’ll run through the list of 5 plus 2 bonus projects right after I tell you that today’s episode is brought you to by… Vaultoro https://www.vaultoro.com/?a=100678 Which is the one of a kind online exchange where you trade between physical Gold and Bitcoin. Their Gold reserves can be audited online at any time and your Gold reserves are protected if the company where ever to fail. Sign up for a free account today and I’ll earn a bit of commission, which is money I’ll use to help fund the ongoing production of The Cryptoverse. ---------- http://securrency.com/ I would call this an exchange but that is too narrow a definition. They claim to be able to let you tokenise traditional assets and then trade them within one day using their LiquidityEngine product. You can convert your real world assets into Securrencies which can then be traded virtually. They recognise that, for the time being, there is still huge value in traditional financial assets so their job is to create a regulatory compliant bridge in the middle so their customers get the best of both worlds. A Securrency is a blend of the word security and currency. It’s part currency, part bond, part exchange traded fund share. https://deedcoinhq.com/ This one is just for the US at the moment as far as I can tell and operates in 50 states. Their value proposition is to reduce the fees associated with selling real estate by 80%. They do this by having just 1 representative in each state and using the Deedcoin as the currency to pay their fees. This allows the seller to keep 99% of the sale price because Deedcoin only has enough agents to serve the market and no more, so the system can run on less revenue. https://utopi.io/ This is a project that aims to increase transparency for charitable donations. When I donate to a charitable cause, I’m giving the money with the expectation that the money is going to help the cause. There have been many instances over the years where only a fraction of the money donated ends up being spent helping the cause. The rest of it intentionally or unintentionally gets lost on the operating costs of the charity organisation itself. That could just be poor cost management, or it could be big salaries. Either way Utopi aims to use blockchain technology so that is a permanent record of when the funds came in and then where they went. When we know we are being watched, we voluntarily choose to engage in good behavior. https://neo.org/ Yes NEO the cryptocurrency and smart contract platform. NEO may end up being the only cryptocurrency to survive in China over the long term because they have set out with the clear intention of being a fully compliant blockchain. NEO also allows developers to write smart contracts in Java and C# programming languages, which I know from personal experience to be very easy to work with. I know I’m known as a massive EOS fan, but EOS is primarily going to use the C++ programming language for smart contracts which is much more complex and much less forgiving. I personally hold NEO because it is a cashflowing coin. The NEO you hold in your wallet generates GAS tokens that fuel transactions and have tradeable value in their own right. https://www.agrello.org/ Agrello aims to allow you to build smart contracts that are legally binding, then use AI to keep track of your rights and obligations. An AI counselor as Agrello call it. Their other aim is to allow these contracts to be written in natural language so that no legal or programming skills are required to create them. That will truly provide equal access to legal protections on a level I have never seen before. I’m thinking about every small business being able to have iron clad agreements with their customers and suppliers. So that’s the list. Today’s episode was based on an article from BTC Manager.com so shout out to them again. They helped me out with a tip off yesterday if you remember. I would donate them some crypto but I don’t see an address anywhere on their site. Anyway they list a total of 10 companies to keep on your radar however I have gone through them all and created my own shortlist, only keeping the ones that I personally found interesting. If you would like to see the full list please check out the original article https://btcmanager.com/20-crypto-companies-need-radar-year/ If I had to add 2 of my own picks from outside this list I would choose SALT and Populous because they are doing exactly the right thing. They are taking traditional, well establish financial services and making them cheaper, better and faster using blockchain technology. The fact that they are not trying to do anything really fancy is what leads me to believe they are solid projects.