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Revision as of 19:25, 6 June 2017

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

  • currently be sold on cryptocurrency exchanges in general

and meet one of the following qualities:

  1. A market cap of 1 billion US dollars.
  2. Medium or highly decentralized (anonymous).
  3. Been the first to introduce an innovative protocol.

General

Technology

Launched Cryptocurrency Symbol Market cap, rounded Anonymity Introduced an innovative protocol
2009-01-03 Bitcoin.png Bitcoin BTC $36 billion Low First blockchain
2011-03-01 Ripple.png Ripple XRP $8.2 billion Low XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
2011-04-18 Namecoin.png Namecoin NMC $23 million Low First alternative chain, bitDNS. merged mined with Bitcoin.
2011-10-07 Litecoin.png Litecoin LTC $1.2 billion Low
2012-07-04 Bytecoin-16x16.png Bytecoin BCN $414 million Low Introduced CryptoNote.
2013-07-07 Primecoin.png Primecoin XPM $7 million Low Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
2014-01-18 Dash.png Dash DASH $914 million Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm.
2014-04-18 Monero.png Monero XMR $584 million Medium
2015-03-31 NEM-16x16.png NEM XEM $1.7 billion Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
2015-08-07 Ethereum.png Ethereum ETH $21 billion Low
2016-02-01 PIVX-16x16.png PIVX PIVX $84 million Medium Introduced the Quark algorithm.
2016-07-24 Ethereum Classic-32x32.png Ethereum Classic ETC $1.6 billion Low Fastest growing cryptocurrency on the market ever.
2016-09-28 Zcoin-800x800.png Zcoin XZC $17 million 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-16x16.png Zcash ZEC $338 million High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
2016-11-10 Zclassic-32x32.png Zclassic ZCL $5 million High First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
2017-02-05 Komodo.png Komodo KMD $54 million High

References

Cryptocurrency Algorithm Proof Type
Bitcoin.png Bitcoin
Ripple.png Ripple
Namecoin.png Namecoin
Litecoin.png Litecoin
Bytecoin-16x16.png Bytecoin
Primecoin.png Primecoin
Dash.png Dash
Monero.png Monero
NEM-16x16.png NEM
Ethereum.png Ethereum
PIVX-16x16.png PIVX
Ethereum Classic-32x32.png Ethereum Classic
Zcoin-800x800.png Zcoin
Zcash-16x16.png Zcash
Zclassic-32x32.png Zclassic
Komodo.png Komodo