Sifchain ICO analysisSifchain is an omni-chain solution for DEXes - Sifchain promises to build cross-chain transactions for 20-25 of the top blockchains such as Bitcoin, BinanceChain, Polkadot, and EOS. It also expects to simplify the process of blockchain integration, lowering the barrier of cost and development for the open-source community.

At the moment most of the declared features and resources are not available and the Betanet is supposed to be launched on the first day of the public token sale.

The team personalities are not available on the website which is not a good sign. We asked the team about that and they explained that they "try to keep it focused on the team as opposed to individual members", but that doesn't really explain an unorthodox decision to keep the team anonymous during the fundraising stage.

Sifchain lists TRG Capital, Bitscale capital, AU21 capital, and NGC Ventures in its Partners and Investors section. We contacted most of these funds and they confirmed their investment in the project.

Tokensale:

The token sale registration starts on January 11 and lasts until January 24 - the team anticipates that the KYC process can take a few days (non-US participants only and other restrictions). The token sale goes from January 25 until February 2.

The token sale will be executed through a fork of balancer smart contract that will ensure a maximum supply of 70 mln Rowan tokens (7% of total supply). The public token sale participants will receive wrapped eRowan tokens on the Ethereum network that will be 1:1 convertible for native Rowan tokens which will be used for staking on the Sifchain network for validating transactions and receiving validators reward. Rowans will also be used for staking in liquidity pools in exchange for the fees for liquidity provision.

The final token supply is set at 1 bin tokens which are distributed between private and seed investors (32%), reserved for the ecosystem (26.5%) and the team (34%).

Hype rating: low

Risk rating: medium

Total: medium

Conclusion: Sifchain is a project with a promising idea and a strong set of investors but an anonymous team and confusing sales terms.

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Cudos ICO analysis

CUDOS is a cloud computing platform working through a layer 2 oracle network, governed by smart contracts

Tokensale:

- The Whitepaper states that the Hardcap is $3 mln whereas official Tokensale terms show a hard cap of $6 mln.
- Total tokes for sale are 555 mln on private sale and 166 mln on public sale, which is only 7% of total tokens to be issued.
- Public sale tokens will be available on the 1st day of TGE through a primary listing.

Pro:

- The team is already running the network of 140k+ users that is being developed since 2017.
- The project has partnered with AMD which is a good sign of the quality of the product and team qualification.
- The team includes experienced engineers and advisors that also adds up to the success probability.

Contra:

- Cloud computing is not an industry that delivered the best results for blockchain investors recently
- Unclear hard cap terms

Conclusion:

As we have already stated in our previous reviews the main risk for such projects is the market size for cloud computing - there is still no evidence that there is enough demand for it which is a big challenge for the project. Still, we believe that the team is capable of building the necessary network and find the best market fit for the product long-term.

The hard cap is normal for the current market state (even though there is confusion about the final number) and according to the token sale terms, most of the tokens (distributed during the private sale, among the team and advisors) will be locked at the TGE. That is favorable for the short term price of the token.

As a result, we consider this project to be moderately interesting short-term and risky long-term. Potential investors should take into consideration that there will be no traditional public sale, but a direct primary listing which means a higher chance of volatility and price discovery period immediately after the TGE.

Hype rating: medium

Risk rating: medium

Total: medium

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Findora is developing a proprietary blockchain that is aimed to provide privacy combined with transparency and scalability. A significant part of Findora's effort addressed the enterprise market.

https://icorating.com/ico/findora/

The token sale starts on 28 December with numerous vesting/price options and up to $92,4 min Cap.

Hype score: high
Risk score: high
Total: risky

Pro:1. Polychain Capital as a lead investor in a private round
2. Solid group of executives and scientists on the board of contributors
3. The project's testnet is publicly available

Contra:1. Cap is not clear, but our estimation based on the Findora website exceeds $92,4 mln, which looks overwhelming for the current ICO market.
2. No real original blockchain code on Github. GitHub last updated in August 2020
3. Numerous mistakes on the website and PR faults
4. Very little public confirmation of the project progress
5. Weak token sale terms and team support for such a large-cap
6. Significant FUD surrounding the project with little explanation from the company. The information in official sources is constantly changing
7. Multiple members of the team left the project and publicly denied any association with it. At least one team member was deleted from the website only after his public denying his association
8. There is very little information publicly available about Lily Chao, who was presented as Findora's founder and chairperson but now is described as General Contributor.
9. The list of partners included many names that were subsequently deleted, such as Stanford University
10. The current official Twitter channel denounces @FindoraOrg as a fake one, even though it was created 1,5 years earlier and is followed by several prominent industry participants
11. Questioning those red flags in Findora's Telegram group will immediately get you banned

Conclusion: unless the project clarifies all the misunderstandings and deals with the FUD surrounding the token sale, we consider it too risky to invest.

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The Graph ICO Analysis https://icorating.com/ico/the-graph/ The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. The company has already developed and launched hosted protocol and is in the process of testing decentralized version. The tokensale…

**The Graph ICO Analysis

https://icorating.com/ico/the-graph/**
The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. The company has already developed and launched hosted protocol and is in the process of testing decentralized version.

The tokensale will continue for 3 days in three phases, 1 day long each. First for community contributors, 2nd - for all registered participants with individual caps, 3rd - for all participants with no caps. If the project sells out during the second day, the 3rd day will be cancelled so it is quite risky to wait until day 3. The first day sale starts on October 22. The REGISTRATION CLOSES ON October 15 at 12-00 PDT.
The team states that this ICO is intended only for long-term protocol supporters and is not meant for the short-term investors.

Hype score: moderate
Risk score: high
Total: stable

Pro: The Graph current hosted protocol is used by numerous projects including Uniswap and Synthetix. So the company have already succeeded in delivering a working and demanded product which is noticeably growing. Current tokensale is intended on attracting the public supporters who will be playing important roles in the decentralized protocol functioning.
The company is backed by a big number of prominent invest funds which is commonly a good sign.
The team has launched Testnet and succeeded in attracting hundreds of supporters playing validators and curators roles.

Contra: Total Cap is set on $12 mln which increases risks for short-term investors based on the performance of recent ICOs.

The project have experienced outages due to hight demand.

Conclusion: the project is worth investing long term but should be considered risky short term.

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The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. The company has already developed and launched hosted protocol and is in the process of testing decentralized version.   The tokensale will continue for 3 days in three phases, 1 day long…

Akash Network
https://icorating.com/ico/akash-network/

Akash is a decentralized cloud computing marketplace.

We’ve seen a number of cloud computing marketplaces some of which succeeded in delivering working products but none of which finally met the investors expectations. We expect the team to have taken this experience into consideration and probably be more successful.

Hype score: Moderate

Risk score: High

Toltal score: Risky+

Pro: Akash will be holding IEO on Bitmax which recently succeeded in raising capital for several projects (xDai, Serum). The analysis of the dynamics of these projects current token prices shows positive short term trends which allows us to expect the same results for Akash. We also consider the small cap of $640 000 on the IEO to be a good indicator of a potential upside for investors.

Contra: Failure to deliver the mainnet in 2018 as was planned according to the old Whitepaper in 2018. Given that Akash Network is an infrastructural platform, the long-term demand for the platform may raise the token price, although similar projects show poor long-term results.

As a result of our analysis we evaluate the project as having good potential in short-term and risky long-term.
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Radix
https://icorating.com/ico/radix-rdx/

Radix is a high-throughput protocol for building decentralized applications, tokens and coins.

Hype score: very high
Risk score: high

Pro: stong investors and high hype, useful product for the DeFi market
Contra: risky token unlock model, needs very high cap for unlocking all the investors’ tolens.

We studied the available data and docs and despite the risk of the possible long token unlock periods and very high market cap ambitions we evaluate the project as having good potential.

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