[tim333]

There have been hundreds of ICOs and some of them are actually trying to make an interesting product. I'm guessing this one is above average though the return has been unspecatcular. It says 1.08x on the website in USD terms.

Zil is an example of one building something with a real purpose and non trivial technology - a sharded blockchain that should be able to scale indefinitely which is up 20x in USD. Built by university researchers rather than obvious scammers https://icodrops.com/zilliqa/

There are some interesting things out there amongst the silliness.

[christianbryant]

Zilliqa is pretty cool, actually. I read the whitepaper and found the pieces on Zilliqa consensus and incentivizing miners based on their sharding architecture that "allows the mining network to process transactions in parallel and reach high throughput" very interesting. A great example of tech that presents solid algorithms or functions that do real work, or that could set the stage for new future work, within the context of cryptocurrency.