Cryptocurrency

21 entries

Bitcoin

CryptocurrencyDigital2009

The first decentralized cryptocurrency, created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Launched in Ja...

Ethereum

CryptocurrencyDigital2015

Created by Vitalik Buterin and launched in 2015. Introduced smart contracts, programmable agreements...

Bitcoin Detail

CryptocurrencyDigital2009

See Bitcoin entry. The total supply is capped at 21 million coins. New bitcoins are created by minin...

Ethereum Detail

CryptocurrencyDigital2015

See Ethereum entry. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum has no hard supply cap but issues at a controlled rate....

Tether

CryptocurrencyDigital2014

The first major stablecoin, pegged to the US dollar. Each USDT is supposedly backed by dollar reserv...

USD Coin

CryptocurrencyDigital2018

A stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, issued by Circle. USDC is considered more transparent than Tet...

Binance Coin

CryptocurrencyDigital2017

Originally an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, BNB migrated to its own blockchain, the Binance Smart Chain....

Solana

CryptocurrencyDigital2020

A high performance blockchain processing up to 65,000 transactions per second theoretically. Solana ...

Cardano

CryptocurrencyDigital2017

Founded by Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of Ethereum. Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer...

XRP

CryptocurrencyDigital2012

Created by Ripple Labs for fast, low cost international payments. XRP can settle transactions in 3 t...

Polkadot

CryptocurrencyDigital2020

Founded by Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum. Polkadot enables different blockchains to interoper...

Dogecoin

CryptocurrencyDigital2013

Created as a joke by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, based on the Doge internet meme featuring a Sh...

Shiba Inu

CryptocurrencyDigital2020

A meme token inspired by Dogecoin, featuring the same Shiba Inu breed. SHIB launched on Ethereum as ...

Litecoin

CryptocurrencyDigital2011

Created by Charlie Lee, a former Google engineer. Often called the silver to Bitcoins gold. Litecoin...

Monero

CryptocurrencyDigital2014

The leading privacy focused cryptocurrency. Monero uses ring signatures, stealth addresses, and conf...

Chainlink

CryptocurrencyDigital2017

The leading decentralized oracle network, connecting smart contracts with real world data. Chainlink...

Avalanche

CryptocurrencyDigital2020

A high performance blockchain platform using a novel consensus mechanism called Avalanche consensus....

Polygon

CryptocurrencyDigital2017

A Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Originally called Matic Network. Polygon uses sidechains an...

Toncoin

CryptocurrencyDigital2018

The native token of The Open Network, originally developed by Telegram. The US SEC forced Telegram t...

Cosmos

CryptocurrencyDigital2019

The internet of blockchains. Cosmos enables different blockchains to communicate through the Inter B...

Aptos

CryptocurrencyDigital2022

A Layer 1 blockchain developed by former Meta engineers who worked on the abandoned Diem project. Ap...