Filtering the World of ICOs through Token Bubbles
How interactive bubble charts provide an efficient way of browsing through the crowded space of Initial Coin Offerings on Token Bubbles.
Once you get into the habit of tracking new ICOs, whether you’re a newcomer trying to make heads or tails of the entire space or an experienced trader/investor just looking to find out more details about a project’s worthiness, it’s not long before you realise that filtering becomes your best friend.
There are a lot of ICO listing platforms out there, displaying the ICOs neatly in their ascribed columns and filtered by Upcoming, Ongoing or Ended. But sometimes, this isn’t enough. We as humans, put things into their own little boxes to filter what we need and to have a better visual understanding of what we are looking for. In the case of Tokenbubbles.com these boxes are presented as circles, or rather batches of circles.
The TokenBubbles filter view has three distinct types and two added dimensions. The added dimensions are color and size which just provide that extra depth of information comprehension that the users always look for.
The 3 batches of filters on the platform are:
- Regular filters
- Personal filters
- Additional filters
Regarding regular filters and the options they provide we can choose from the following:
- All fields
- Recently added (tracking ICOs entered on the platform from the last 24h back to the last two weeks)
- ICO Start (being the start of the current phase of the ICO)
- ICO End (being the end of the current phase of the ICO
- Jurisdiction (the country in which the ICO is registered)
- Rating (TokenBubbles rating based on an algorithm that takes into account the number of votes, the review score and overall activity on the site that relates to this ICO)
- Type (a number of options are given and the list keeps growing given the innovative technology that blockchain provides — a user can pick between: ERC20, ERC721, ERC223, NEM platform tokens and others)
- Function (by token function we mean the actual application of the token)
- Industry (here too there is a compendium of industries where the Blockchain is present: from the Arts/Music to Identity to Insurance and Medicine)
- Engagement (this filter separates the most and least “talked” about ICOs on the platform)
- Phase (Ongoing, Upcoming shortly — within a month, Upcoming and Ended)
- Service (if an ICO or any aspect of it is delivered by a Service company, this too can be recorded; an overview of the services provided by the companies can be seen on the Service Companies page
- Votes (the number of votes received on TokenBubbles)
Personal preferences are taken from the user’s dashboard choices. It returns the favorites and followed ICOs chosen previously by the user. As you can see, there is a Favorite, Followed and Others category so if a user spots an interesting “bubble” from the ‘Others’ category, she/he can just click on it directly and engage by favoring or following them.
Additional filters give the filtering process an increased drill into the ICOs that interest the user the most. The additional filters that can be chosen are:
Phases, Jurisdiction, Type, Function and Industry. They coincide with the Regular filters in their descriptions.
Now let’s have a look at how to perform a search based on the offered filters. If a user is new to the crypto space but wants to view exactly what she/he is interested in, say they’re a finance specialist and believe that the ICO finance and investment industries have the brightest future in the blockchain use space, they would start with that. Then, they would probably search for ongoing ICOs to see which ones are the latest. They can also filter by Jurisdiction because just maybe they’ll find a local ICO who they would rather invest in. The limits are not endless but once they find one or two that look promising they’ll definitely want to keep track and follow them and their project results via their Dashboard.
The filtering path in Token Bubbles would look like this:
Getting updates on changes to the ICOs a user is interested in is easy because they can choose the frequency that suits them best. They can opt between instant, daily and weekly notifications.
And that’s the best recipe for finding the latest relevant ICOs.
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