Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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The cryptocurrency market is explosive which currently serves 735 currencies.

This article aims to list only the most relevant cryptocurrencies. To be listed here, a currency must have one of the following qualities:

  • At one point had significant notoriety.
  • A market cap of 1 billion US dollars.
  • Highly decentralized (anonymous).
  • First to introduce an innovative protocol.
  • Been an infamous fraud.

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References

Launched Cryptocurrency Symbol Distribution Market cap, rounded Unit cap Status Anonymity Significant notoriety
2009-01-03 Bitcoin BTC SHA256d $36 billion 20,999,999.9769 Active Low First blockchain
2010-10-21 Bitcoin Testnet 1 TNBTC SHA256d None 20,999,999.9769 Abandoned Low First altcoin[1]
2011-01-02 Tonal Bitcoin TBC See Bitcoin See Bitcoin 7,750,54.00 Active Low First on-chain alternative
2011-03-01 Ripple XRP Ripple $8.2 billion 28,989,252,282 Active Low XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
2011-04-18 Namecoin NMC SHA256d - merged mined with Bitcoin $23 million 20,999,999.9769 (like Bitcoin) Active Low First alternative chain, bitDNS
2011-10-07 Litecoin LTC scrypt $1.2 billion 83,999,949.9076 Active Low
2012-04-12 Bitcoin Testnet 3 TNBTC SHA256d None 20,999,999.9769 Active Low Current Bitcoin testnet
2012-07-04 Bytecoin BCN CryptoNight $414 million 184.46 billion Active Low Introduced CryptoNote.
2012-08-19 Peercoin PPC Central authoriy[2] $36 million Unlimited Active Low
2013-07-07 Primecoin XPM Cunningham $7 million Unlimited Active Low Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
2013-09-29 Nxt NXT Consensus through obscurity[3] $52 million 999,997,096 Active Low
2013-12-06 Dogecoin DOGE scrypt $278 million Unlimited Active Low Was joke, became huge
2014-01-18 Dash DASH X11 $914 million 19 million (estimate) Active Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm.
2014-04-18 Monero XMR CryptoNight $584 million ~18,400,000 then <1% inflation Active Medium
2015-03-31 NEM XEM Proof-of-importance $1.7 billion 9 billion Active Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
2015-08-07 Ethereum ETH ? $21 billion ? Active Low
2016-02-01 PIVX PIVX Quark $84 million Unlimited Active Medium Introduced the Quark algorithm.
2016-07-24 Ethereum Classic ETC ? $1.6 billion ? Active Low
2016-09-28 Zcoin XZC $17 million 21,000,000 (like Bitcoin) Active High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocoin protocol which also makes it the first useful Zero-knowledge proof based anonymous cryptocurrency. First that implements Merkle Tree Proof of Work (MTP).
2016-10-28 Zcash ZEC Zerocash $338 million 21,000,000 (like Bitcoin) Active High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
2016-11-10 Zclassic ZCL Zerocash $5 million See Zcash Active High First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
2017-02-05 Komodo KMD Zerocash $54 million ? Active High
Launched Cryptocurrency Symbol Distribution Market cap, rounded Unit cap Status Anonymity Significant notoriety