
Nano Cap Gems™ have officially released their Gem Board for 2019 and let me tell you, it includes some sleeping giants! Today we will be going over the board with a brief description of each project and getting into what characteristics we look for when searching for Nano Cap Gems.
For a more in depth description of each project, please refer to the YouTube video breakdown here:
(Before we begin, let me remind you that this is not financial advice and the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies involve a multitude of risks. Please be responsible.)
What is a Nano Cap Gem?
Why Nano Cap? The lower end of traditional stocks are categorized as small cap, micro cap and nano cap, with nano cap being the smallest. To me, a Nano Cap Gem will include the following characteristics:
Low market cap — the lower the better, this leaves room for more upside growth. Large cap coins were once small caps, our goal is to find projects that have a high chance of becoming large caps in their future.
Non-token — we don’t believe in tokens. Tokens may have their popularity, but for finding that perfect low cap gem, we will only be considering coins that have their own chain. Token = Fiat!
Listed on CMC — there are many new and obscure projects coming into the space all the time. To limit our risk we will only be looking at coins that are already listed on Coinmarketcap.
Non-ICO/Low or No Premine — We will not be looking at any ICO coins or coins with heavy premine, escrow, gray area, etc. If there was a premine, it should be stated clearly in the Bitcointalk what the amount was and what it is intended to be used for. Bonus points for No Premine! No Premine = Super Gem!
Chart history/Price Action — we will only be looking at coins that have clean chart history and patterns. Some positive indicators include healthy volume, previous spikes and current reliable exchanges.
Community Activity/Social Media — This can range from telegram, discord, bitcointalk, youtube, instagram, twitter, reddit, etc. How the community interacts with each other and how the core team and admins communicate with everyone. This is a big factor.
Remember that these are just same basic guidelines as there are many variables and there are always exceptions! We are trying to pick coins with the highest probability of price increases going forward.
November 2019 Gem Board
Denarius ($D)

Denarius has been out since 2017 and has continued to progress through bull and bear markets including a rebrand to $D from $DNR in late 2018. This hybrid coin can currently be mined, staked or ran as a MN. MN will be stopped soon and will transition to POS as supply slowly approaches it’s max of 10 million (roughly 1/2 of Bitcoin supply). You can catch the super solid community on discord, feel free to drop by and leave them a message.
Bitcoin Incognito ($XBI)

I first heard of Bitcoin Incognito sometime in 2018 but didn’t look too much into the project. I re-came across the project as I was looking for gems for 2020 and liked what I saw. XBI has a nice blend of community, development, and social media interactions that I like at current prices. I was very impressed by their strength with the many comments they left on my November Gem Youtube video. Check them out on Telegram or Discord and see what you think.
Euno ($EUNO)

I first heard of EUNO sometime late last year but like others, I didn’t look too much into it. When I came across them a second time I was very impressed by their telegram group, lots of activity and well managed. The coin has continued to make progress throughout the bear market is primed for a big 2020. Having done a 20x in late last year and just finishing cooling off, the future looks good. One interesting use case they are trying to implement is the use of NFC technology for payments.
Photon ($PHO)

I first came across Photon in 2017 on cryptopia and was intrigued. Created in 2014, Photon is a BlakeStream coin that is merge mined with five other BlakeStream coins. This is the only case of merge mining that I have come across and would consider it very unique. It’s use case is micro payments in the gaming industry and Photon has never had an ICO or Premine! This is huge! Looking at the chart history they did roughly a 500x in December of 2017 and when this happens once there are high chances of it happening again. One downside is that there are current periods of illiquidity but as markets pick up liquidity should increase naturally. Check them out on telegram and discord and for purchase at the Patagonian based C-Patex exchange.
Italo ($XTA)

Italo. The Gem of Gems. No ICO, no premine, low emission, low supply, a super charged daemon. This is the first CryptoNote coin that I have looked into but the more I learn the more I am intrigued. Started in the heart of a bear market, Italo has continued to make network updates and is currently on its 12th. Listed on two decent exchanges, the one thing that stands out to me is it’s market cap. At the time of writing this it’s market cap is 40,000 which is the lowest on my list. For Italo’s next fork they will transition to the RandomX algorithm in an attempt to eliminate ASICs making it a more fair mining environment. Marketing has just began and the team is preparing to continue marketing push and development heading into Q1 2020. If you have skills and time and are interested in joining the team please send a message in telegram or discord.
Wrap Up
Hope you enjoyed the November Gem Board breakdown. I plan to revisit the board monthly/quarterly with the next revision coming sometime in Q1 2020. If you know of a project that should be included in the next board feel free to reach out to me and tell me about it. You can contact me at any of the links below!
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