Release | Status | Currency | Symbol | Founder | Hash algorithm | Cryptocurrency blockchain (PoS, PoW, or other) |
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2009 | Active | Bitcoin | BTC,[1][2] XBT, ₿ | Satoshi Nakamoto[nt 1] | SHA-256d[3][4] | sorttest[4][5] | The first decentralized ledger currency. Cryptocurrency with the most famous, popular, notable and highest market capitalization. |
2011 | Active | Litecoin | LTC | Charlie Lee | Scrypt | sorttest | The first cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm. |
2011 | Active | Namecoin | NMC | Vincent Durham[6][7] | SHA-256d | sorttest | Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS. |
2011 | Active | SwiftCoin | STC | Daniel Bruno | SHA-256 | sorttest | First digital coin with theoretical value based on the work required to produce electricity. First block chain to support currency creation by interest paid on debt. Solidus Bond proto smart-contract. One of the first digital coins patented in the US. First block chain to support encrypted mail with attachments. |
2012 | Active | Bytecoin | BCN | CryptoNote | sorttest | First cryptocurrency based on the CryptoNote algorithm. Focused on user privacy through impassive and anonymous transactions | |
2012 | Active | Peercoin | PPC | Sunny King (pseudonym)[8] |
SHA-256d[9] | sorttest & PoS | The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions. |
2013 | Active | Dogecoin | DOGE, XDG | Jackson Palmer & Billy Markus[10] |
Scrypt[11] | sorttest | Based on an internet meme. |
2013 | Active | Emercoin | EMC | EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman | SHA-256 | sorttest & PoS | Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other. |
2013[12] | Active | Feathercoin | FTC, ₣ | Peter Bushnell, Brasenose College of Oxford University | NeoScrypt | — | Approx. 60 seconds block time |
2013[13][14] | Active | Gridcoin | GRC | Rob Hälford [15] | Scrypt | Decentralized PoS | The first cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing[16][17] |
2013 | Active | Omni | MSC | J. R. Willett [18] | SHA-256d[19] | — | Omni is both digital currency and communications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain. |
2013 | Active | Primecoin | XPM | Sunny King (pseudonym)[8] |
1CC/2CC/TWN[20] | sorttest[20] | Uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work, which can lead to useful byproducts. |
2013 | Active | Ripple[21][22][23] | XRP[23] | Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb[24] |
ECDSA[25] | "Consensus" | Designed for peer to peer debt transfer. Not based on bitcoin. |
2013 | Active | Nxt | NXT | BCNext (pseudonym) |
SHA-256d[26] | PoS | Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol. |
2014 | Active | Auroracoin | AUR | Baldur Odinsson (pseudonym)[27] |
Scrypt | sorttest | Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland. |
2014 | Active | BlackCoin | BC | Rat4 (pseudonym) | Scrypt | PoS | Secures its network through a process called minting. |
2014 | Active | Burstcoin | BURST | Burstcoin Community | SHA-256d | Proof of Capacity | First Proof of Capacity coin, First Smart Contract, First Atomic Cross Chain Transfer. |
2014 | Inactive | Coinye | KOI, COYE | Scrypt | sorttest | Used American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit. | |
2014 | Active | Dash | DASH | Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan[28] |
X11 | sorttest & Proof of Service[nt 2] | A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. |
2014 | Active | NEO | NEO | Da Hongfei & Erik Zhang | SHA-256 & RIPEMD160 | dBFT | Chinese based cryptocurrency (formerly ANT Shares which produce ANT Coins) name change August 2017 to NEO and GAs, these enable the development of digital assets and smart contracts. |
2014 | Active | MazaCoin | MZC | BTC Oyate Initiative | SHA-256d | sorttest | The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin. |
2014 | Active | Monero | XMR | Monero Core Team | CryptoNight[29] | sorttest | Privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol with improvements for scalability and decentralization. |
2014 | Active | NEM | XEM | UtopianFuture (pseudonym) | SHA3-512 | POI | The first hybrid public/private blockchain solution built from scratch, and first to use the Proof of Importance algorithm using EigenTrust++ reputation system. |
2015 | Active | Tether | USDT | Jan Ludovicus van der Velde[30] | Omnicore [31] | PoW | Tether is backed by the USD so that one tether is exactly equal to $1USD. It is commonly used to convert other cryptocurrencies to USD. [32] |
2014 | Active | PotCoin | POT | Potcoin core dev team | Scrypt | PoS | Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry |
2014 | Active | Synereo AMP | AMP | Dor Konforty & Greg Meredith[33] | PoS | PoS | Trying to create a world computer, Synereo’s 2.0 tech stack incorporates all faculties needed to support decentralized computation without central servers.[34] |
2014 | Active | Titcoin | TIT | Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen[35] | SHA-256d | sorttest | The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.[36] |
2014 | Active | Verge | XVG | Sunerok | Scrypt, x17, groestl, blake2s, and lyra2rev2 | sorttest | |
2014 | Active | Stellar | XLM | Jed McCaleb | Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) [37] | Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) [38] | Open-source, decentralized global financial network. The usage is for remittances, micropayments, services for the underbanked, mobile money/branches and professional setups. |
2014 | Active | Vertcoin | VTC | Bushido | Lyra2RE[39] | Next-gen ASIC resistance and first to implement stealth addresses. | |
2015 | Active | Ether or "Ethereum" | ETH | Vitalik Buterin[40] | Ethash[41] | PoW | Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. |
2015 | Active | Ethereum Classic | ETC | Ethash[41] | PoW | An alternative version of Ethereum[42] whose blockchain does not include the DAO Hard-fork.[43][44] Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. | |
2015 | Active | IOTA | IOT, MIOTA[45] | David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener and Dr. Serguei Popov | SHA-3 | Directed acyclic graph | The first cryptocurrency using the Tangle, a next generation blockchain, as distributed ledger technology. |
2015 | Active | Sia | SC | David Vorick, Luke Champine | BLAKE (hash function) | PoW | Currency for the Sia Distributed Storage Network |
2015 | Active | SixEleven | SIL | fflo (pseudonym)[46] | SHA-256d | PoW | Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS. |
2016 | Active | Decred | DCR | Blake-256 | sorttest/PoS Hybrid | Built in governance and hybrid PoW/PoS. | |
2016 | Active | Waves Platform | WAVES | Sasha Ivanov | PoS | PoS | Open blockchain platform, featuring token creation, distributed exchange and fast high volume transactions designed for ease of use[47] and mass adoption. |
2016 | Active | Lisk | LSK | Max Kordek | DPoS | DPoS | Lisk is a dapp creation platform in Javascript. Lisk uses a Delegated-Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism. |
2016 | Active | Zcash | ZEC | Zooko Wilcox | Equihash | PoW | The first open, permissionless financial system employing zero-knowledge security. |
2016 | Active | Zclassic | ZCL | Rhett Creighton | Equihash | PoW | A fork of Zcash with no premine/founder's reward. |
2017 | Inactive | BitConnect | BCC | ||||
2017 | Active | Komodo | KMD | dPoW | Uses delayed proof of work (dPoW) blockchain security.[48] | ||
2017 | Active | Bitcoin Cash | BCH[49] | SHA-256d | PoW | Hard fork from Bitcoin, Increased Block size from 1mb to 8mb | |
2017 | Active | Ubiq | UBQ | Julian Yap[50] | Ethash[41] | PoW | Supports Turing-complete smart contracts; air-gapped fork of Ethereum |
2017 | Active | EOS (coin) | EOS | Dan Larimer | |||
2017 | Active | Sirin Labs | SRN | ||||
2017 | Active | Electroneum | ETN | Richard Ells | CryptoNight[51] | PoW | |
2017 | Active | TRON | TRX | Justin Sun | SHA-256 | ||
2018 | Active | Cardano | ADA | Charles Hoskinson & Jeremy Wood | |||
2018 | Inactive | KodakCoin | Kodak and WENN Digital | Ethash[52] | KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs. | ||
2018 | Active | Petro | Venezuela Government | onixCoin[53] | First cryptocurrency backed by Venezuela's reserves of oil. |
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