List of Crypto
Currencies
After the creation of bitcoin, the number of cryptocurrencies available over the internet is growing.
This is a list of notable cryptocurrencies.
Release |
Currency |
Symbol |
Founder(s) |
Hash
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Programming
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Cryptocurrency Blockchain |
Additional
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| 2009 | Bitcoin | BTC,XBT, ₿ | Satoshi Nakamoto |
SHA-256d | C++ | PoW | The first and most widely used decentralized ledger currency, with the highest market capitalization. |
| 2011 | Litecoin | LTC, Ł | Charlie Lee | Scrypt | C++ | PoW | One of the first cryptocurrencies to use scrypt as a hashing algorithm. |
| 2011 | Namecoin | NMC | Vincent Durham | SHA-256d | C++ | PoW | Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS. |
| 2012 | Peercoin | PPC | Sunny King | SHA-256d | C++ | PoW & PoS | The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions. |
| (pseudonym) | |||||||
| 2013 | Dogecoin | DOGE, XDG, Ð | Jackson Palmer | Scrypt | C++ | PoW | Based on the Doge internet meme. |
| & Billy Markus | |||||||
| 2013 | Gridcoin | GRC | Rob Hälford | Scrypt | C++ | Decentralized PoS | Linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing |
| 2013 | Primecoin | XPM | Sunny King | 1CC/2CC/TWN | TypeScript, C++ | PoW | Uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work. |
| (pseudonym) | |||||||
| 2013 | Ripple | XRP | Chris Larsen & | ECDSA | C++ | “Consensus” | Designed for peer to peer debt transfer. Not based on bitcoin. |
| Jed McCaleb | |||||||
| 2013 | Nxt | NXT | BCNext | SHA-256d | Java | PoS | Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol. |
| (pseudonym) | |||||||
| 2014 | Auroracoin | AUR | Baldur Odinsson | Scrypt | C++ | PoW | Created as an alternative currency for Iceland, intended to replace the Icelandic króna. |
| (pseudonym) | |||||||
| 2014 | Dash | DASH | Evan Duffield & | X11 | C++ | PoW & Proof of Service | A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. |
| Kyle Hagan | |||||||
| 2014 | NEO | NEO | Da Hongfei & Erik Zhang | SHA-256 & RIPEMD160 | C# | dBFT | China based cryptocurrency, formerly ANT Shares and ANT Coins. The names were changed in 2017 to NEO and GAS. |
| 2014 | MazaCoin | MZC | BTC Oyate Initiative | SHA-256d | C++ | PoW | The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin. |
| 2014 | Monero | XMR | Monero Core Team | CryptoNight | C++ | PoW | Privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol with improvements for scalability and decentralization. |
| 2014 | Titcoin | TIT | Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen | SHA-256d | TypeScript, C++ | PoW | The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award. |
| 2014 | Verge | XVG | Sunerok | Scrypt, x17, groestl, blake2s, and lyra2rev2 | C, C++ | PoW | Features anonymous transactions using Tor. |
| 2014 | Stellar | XLM | Jed McCaleb | Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) | C, C++ | Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) | Open-source, decentralized global financial network. |
| 2014 | Vertcoin | VTC | David Muller | Lyra2RE | C++ | PoW | Aims to be ASIC resistant. |
| 2015 | Ethereum | ETH, Ξ | Vitalik Buterin | Ethash | C++, Go | PoW | Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. |
| 2015 | Ethereum Classic | ETC | EtcHash/Thanos | PoW | An alternative version of Ethereum whose blockchain does not include the DAO hard fork. Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. | ||
| 2015 | Nano | Nano | Colin LeMahieu | Blake2 | C++ | Open Representative Voting | Decentralized, feeless, open-source, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. First to use a Block Lattice structure. |
| 2015 | Tether | USDT | Jan Ludovicus van der Velde | Omnicore | PoW | Tether claims to be backed by USD at a 1 to 1 ratio. The company has been unable to produce promised audits. | |
| 2016 | Zcash | ZEC | Zooko Wilcox | Equihash | C++ | PoW | The first open, permissionless financial system employing zero-knowledge security. |
| 2017 | Bitcoin Cash | BCH | SHA-256d | PoW | Hard fork from bitcoin, increased maximum block size from 1MB to 8MB (as of 2018, 32MB) | ||
| 2017 | EOS.IO | EOS | Dan Larimer | WebAssembly, Rust, C, C++ | delegated PoS | Feeless Smart contract platform for decentralized applications and decentralized autonomous corporations with a block time of 500 ms. | |
| 2017 | Cardano | ADA, ₳ | Charles Hoskinson | Ouroboros, PoS Algorithm | Haskell | PoS | A proof-of-stake blockchain platform: developed through evidence-based methods and peer-reviewed research. |