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List of cryptocurrencies

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This is a list of cryptocurrencies. The number of cryptocurrencies available over the internet as of 11 July 2017 was over 900 and growing. A new cryptocurrency can be created at any time. By market capitalization, Bitcoin is currently (2017-08-19) the largest blockchain network, followed by Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple and Litecoin.[1]

Release Status Currency Symbol Founder Hash algorithm Timestamping
(POS, POW, or other) 		Notes
2014 Active Auroracoin AUR Baldur Odinsson
(pseudonym)[2] 		Scrypt POW Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland.
2009 Active Bitcoin BTC,[3][4] XBT Satoshi Nakamoto[nt 1] SHA-256d[5][6] POW[6][7] The first decentralized ledger currency. Cryptocurrency with the most famous, popular, notable and highest market capitalization.
2017 Active Bitcoin Cash BCH[8] SHA-256d POW Hard fork from Bitcoin
2017 Active BitConnect BCC Scrypt[9] PoW & PoS[10] The community driven decentralized cryptocurrency that allow people to store and invest their wealth in a non-government controlled currency, and even earn a substantial interest. Alleged to be a ponzi scheme of the high-yield investment program type.[11] Reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and City of London for investigation. [12]
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 POW Used American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit.
2014 Active Dash DASH Evan Duffield &
Kyle Hagan[13] 		X11 POW & Proof of Service[nt 2] A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions.
2013 Active Dogecoin DOGE, XDG Jackson Palmer
& Billy Markus[14] 		Scrypt[15] POW Based on an internet meme.
2014 Active DigitalNote XDN XDN-dev team, dNote CryptoNight[16] POW A private cryptocurrency with an instant untraceable crypto messages and first blockchain banking implementation, use CryptoNote protocol.
2013 Active Emercoin EMC EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman SHA-256 POW & POS Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other.
2015 Active Ethereum ETH Vitalik Buterin[17] Ethash[18] POW Supports Turing-complete smart contracts.
2015 Active Ethereum Classic ETC Ethash[18] POW An alternative version of Ethereum[19] whose blockchain does not include the DAO Hard-fork.[20][21] Supports Turing-complete smart contracts.
2013[22][23] Active Gridcoin GRC Rob Hälford [24] Scrypt Decentralized POS The first cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing[25][26]
2015 Active IOTA IOT, MIOTA[27] ... SHA-3 ... The first cryptocurrency using the Tangle, a next generation blockchain, as distributed ledger technology.
2011 Active Litecoin LTC Charles Lee Scrypt POW The first cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm.
2014 Active MazaCoin MZC BTC Oyate Initiative SHA-256d POW The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin.
2014 Active Monero XMR Monero Core Team CryptoNight[16] POW Privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol with improvements for scalability and decentralization.
2011 Active Namecoin NMC Vincent Durham[28][29] SHA-256d POW Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS.
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.
2014 Active Nxt NXT BCNext
(pseudonym) 		SHA-256d[30] POS Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol.
2013 Active Omni MSC J. R. Willett [31] SHA-256d[32] — Omni is both digital currency and communications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain.
2012[6] Active Peercoin PPC Sunny King
(pseudonym)[33] 		SHA-256d[34] POW & POS The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions.
2014 Active PotCoin POT Scrypt POW Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry
2013 Active Primecoin XPM Sunny King
(pseudonym)[33] 		1CC/2CC/TWN[35] POW[35] 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[36][37][38] XRP[38] Chris Larsen &
Jed McCaleb[39] 		ECDSA[40] "Consensus" Designed for peer to peer debt transfer. Not based on bitcoin.
2015 Active SixEleven SIL fflo (pseudonym)[41] SHA-256d POW Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS.
2011 Active SwiftCoin STC Daniel Bruno[42] SHA-256 POW 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.
2014 Active Synereo AMP AMP Dor Konforty & Greg Meredith[43] 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.[44]
2014 Active Titcoin TIT Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen[45] SHA-256d POW The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.[46]
2017 Active Ubiq UBQ Julian Yap[47] Ethash[18] POW Supports Turing-complete smart contracts; air-gapped fork of Ethereum
2014 Active Vertcoin VTC Bushido Lyra2rev2 POW Next-gen ASIC resistance and first to implement stealth adresses.
2016 Active Zcash ZEC Zooko Wilcox Equihash POW The first open, permissionless financial system employing zero-knowledge security.
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[48] and mass adoption.


Notes

  1. ^ It is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, nor whether it represents one person or a group.
  2. ^ Via Masternodes containing 1000 DASH held as collateral for "Proof of Service". Through an automated voting mechanism, one Masternode is selected per block and receives 45% of mining rewards.

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