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Bitcoin
The first decentralized cryptocurrency, created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Launched in Ja...
Ethereum
Created by Vitalik Buterin and launched in 2015. Introduced smart contracts, programmable agreements...
Cowrie Shell
Cowrie shells were used as currency across Africa, Asia, and Oceania for thousands of years. The mon...
Salt Money
Salt was used as currency across many cultures. Roman soldiers received a salt ration called salariu...
Bitcoin Detail
See Bitcoin entry. The total supply is capped at 21 million coins. New bitcoins are created by minin...
Ethereum Detail
See Ethereum entry. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum has no hard supply cap but issues at a controlled rate....
Tether
The first major stablecoin, pegged to the US dollar. Each USDT is supposedly backed by dollar reserv...
USD Coin
A stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, issued by Circle. USDC is considered more transparent than Tet...
Binance Coin
Originally an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, BNB migrated to its own blockchain, the Binance Smart Chain....
Solana
A high performance blockchain processing up to 65,000 transactions per second theoretically. Solana ...
Cardano
Founded by Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of Ethereum. Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer...
XRP
Created by Ripple Labs for fast, low cost international payments. XRP can settle transactions in 3 t...
Polkadot
Founded by Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum. Polkadot enables different blockchains to interoper...
Dogecoin
Created as a joke by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, based on the Doge internet meme featuring a Sh...
Shiba Inu
A meme token inspired by Dogecoin, featuring the same Shiba Inu breed. SHIB launched on Ethereum as ...
Litecoin
Created by Charlie Lee, a former Google engineer. Often called the silver to Bitcoins gold. Litecoin...
Monero
The leading privacy focused cryptocurrency. Monero uses ring signatures, stealth addresses, and conf...
Chainlink
The leading decentralized oracle network, connecting smart contracts with real world data. Chainlink...
Avalanche
A high performance blockchain platform using a novel consensus mechanism called Avalanche consensus....
Polygon
A Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Originally called Matic Network. Polygon uses sidechains an...
Toncoin
The native token of The Open Network, originally developed by Telegram. The US SEC forced Telegram t...
Cosmos
The internet of blockchains. Cosmos enables different blockchains to communicate through the Inter B...
Aptos
A Layer 1 blockchain developed by former Meta engineers who worked on the abandoned Diem project. Ap...