Index Performance
Index performance was roughly 22%, with the dominating Entertainment sector gaining 42% relative to the Index. Other sectors, e.g. Internet of Things (IoT) and Platform are also the monthly winners. The losing sector is Store of Value (SoV), with an underperformance of 19% relative to Index. In May 2020, the Index saw a trading bandwidth of approx. 30%.
SoV (Store of Value)
DCR (Decred) is a hybrid proof-of-work and proof of stake cryptocurrency. The project funds its own developments from a decentralised treasury. The genesis block launched in February 2016, with a maximum supply of 21 million native tokens.
File Storage
BT (BitTorrent) is a TRON token for native use in the BTT application. Its investor is the TRON Foundation in Beijing, China. The private sale launched in January 2018, and the public sale started in January 2019. Overall supply is capped at 990 billion TRC-10 tokens.
Entertainment
THETA had a mainnet 2.0 launch, which was the reason behind the massive rally.
Payment
OMG (OMG Network) is a new rebranding name (called OmiseGO in the past). OMG is a Layer 2 scaling protocol for Ethereum. Its proof of concept started in January 2018, with several additional steps on their roadmap. OMG is based (and organised) out of Singapore with a global investor base.
IoT (Internet of Things)
NANO is a decentralised next-generation digital currency focussed on addressing the inefficiencies in existing cryptocurrencies. The genesis block was created in October 2015, with an outstanding supply of 133,248,289 native tokens. NANO is run out of the US (California) by the NANO Foundation. Its investors are based in China, Singapore, and the United States. Over 5% of the capped supply is in the hands of the founders and the project, and the remaining tokens have been distributed via AirDrops and Rewards.
Exchange
LRC (Loopring) is an open protocol for building high-performance decentralised order book exchanges on Ethereum. LRC released Version 1 in December 2017. There have been more than three releases so far, the last of which was deployed in December 2019. In general, the LRC tokens (ERC-20) are used for protocol pool staking. Any user can stake for a minimum of 90 days in order to receive the proportional share of the fee. Overall supply is capped at 1.4 billion with a deflationary emission type.
Interoperability
ATOM (Cosmos) is an interoperable blockchain protocol facilitating the transfer of data between existing chains. The framework features a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus algorithm, which was developed by Tendermint to secure the protocol. It is a native token with a proof of stake consensus algorithm. The organisation is located in the US and Switzerland.