I recently made a post about some mainstream company dapps that are already live on the public Ethereum chain.

There are also a lot of very exciting dapps that I find extremely essential to the Ethereum ecosystem that appear to be going live in Q1 of 2018. Here is the list I have and a quick summary of each:

• Augur has said their contracts are sent for audit and the UI is being wired up. - Augur is a decentralized prediction market built on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows you to forecast events and be rewarded for predicting them correctly.

• Digix is freezing code for DigixCore 2.0 contracts on Dec 8. - Digix provides a transparent, auditable, and secure protocol that leverages the full potential of Ethereum's peer-to-peer decentralized consensus system and IPFS permanent document storage to facilitate the creation of transferable crypto assets on the blockchain.

• Maker Dai is launching in December - Dai is a cryptocurrency that automatically reacts to emergent market conditions in order to stabilize its value against the major world currencies. Dai is created by the Dai Stablecoin System, a decentralized platform that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.

• Ethfinex - is under works and should be launching in the first half of 2018. Ethfinex is a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum by Bitfinex.

• Micro Raiden is expected by end of year - a payment channel framework for frequent, fast and free ERC20 token based micropayments between two parties.

Updates from comments

• Melon is expected to launch in February of 2018. Melon can be thought of as a system of tools that enables participants to set up, manage and invest in digital assets and have management strategies that exist within a customisable, predefined ruleset.

• FunFair is planning to release v0.1 of their slot machine game on the Ethereum mainnet in Q1 of 2018.

• Kyber Networks is expected to launch their mainnet pilot in February of 2018. KyberNetwork is a new system which allows the exchange and conversion of digital assets.

• Request Network says they will launch in Q4 2017. Request Network A decentralized network built on top of Ethereum, which allows anyone, anywhere to request a payment.

Already live missed in previous post

• Tokit by SingularDTV has already launched on mainnet and allows artists and creators to tokenize themselves or their projects.

• Etheroll is a dice rolling game already live on the mainnet.

I'm sure I've missed some so please comment and I'll update the post.