List of cryptocurrencies

This list is incomplete

Release	Status	Currency	Symbol	Founder	Hash algorithm	Cryptocurrency blockchain (PoS, PoW, or other)	Notes
2009	Active	Bitcoin	BTC,XBT	Satoshi Nakamoto	SHA-256d	PoW	The first decentralized ledger currency. Cryptocurrency with the most famous, popular, notable and highest market capitalization.
2011	Active	Litecoin	LTC	Charles Lee	Scrypt	PoW	The first cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm.
2011	Active	Namecoin	NMC	Vincent Durham	SHA-256d	PoW	Also acts as an alternative, decentralizedDNS.
2011	Active	SwiftCoin	STC	D	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.
2012	Active	Peercoin	PPC	Sunny King (pseudonym)	SHA-256d	PoW & PoS	The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions.
2013	Active	Dogecoin	DOGE, XDG	Jackson Palmer & Billy Markus	Scrypt	PoW	Based on aninternet meme.
2013	Active	Emercoin	EMC	EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman	SHA-256	PoW & PoS	Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralizedDNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other.
2013	Active	Gridcoin	GRC	Rob Hälford	Scrypt	Decentralized PoS	The first cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
2013	Active	Omni	MSC	J. R. Willett	SHA-256d	N/A	Omni is bothdigital currencyandcommunications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain.
2013	Active	Primecoin	XPM	Sunny King (pseudonym)	1CC/2CC/TWN	POW	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	XRP	Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb	ECDSA	"Consensus"	Designed forpeer to peerdebt transfer. Not based on bitcoin.
2014	Active	Auroracoin	AUR	Baldur Odinsson (pseudonym)	Scrypt	PoW	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	PoW	Used American hip hop artistKanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit.
2014	Active	Dash	DASH	Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan	X11	PoW & Proof of Service	A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions,decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions.
2014	Active	DigitalNote	XDN	XDN-dev team, dNote	CryptoNight	PoW	A private cryptocurrency with an instant untraceable crypto messages and first blockchain banking implementation, use CryptoNote protocol.
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	PoW	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 usingEigenTrust++ reputation system.
2015	Active	Tether	USDT	Jan Ludovicus van der Velde	Omnicore	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.
2014	Active	Nxt	NXT	BCNext (pseudonym)	SHA-256d	PoS	Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol.
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	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.
2014	Active	Titcoin	TIT	Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen	SHA-256d	PoW	The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.
2014	Active	Vertcoin	VTC	Bushido	Lyra2RE	PoW	Next-gen ASIC resistance and first to implement stealth adresses.
2015	Active	Ethereum	ETH	Vitalik Buterin	Ethash	PoW	SupportsTuring-completesmart contracts.
2015	Active	Ethereum Classic	ETC		Ethash	PoW	An alternative version of Ethereum whose blockchain does not include the DAO Hard-fork. SupportsTuring-completesmart contracts.
2015	Active	IOTA	IOT, MIOTA	David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener and Dr. Serguei Popov	SHA-3	Directed acyclic graph	The first cryptocurrency using theTangle, a next generationblockchain, as distributed ledger technology.
2015	Active	SixEleven	SIL	fflo (pseudonym)	SHA-256d	PoW	Also acts as an alternative, decentralizedDNS.
2016	Active	Decred	DCR		Blake-256	PoW/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 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.
2017	Active	Bitcoin Cash	BCH, BCC		SHA-256d	PoW	Hard fork from Bitcoin, Increased Block size from 1mb to 8mb
2017	Active	Ubiq	UBQ	Julian Yap	Ethash	PoW	SupportsTuring-completesmart contracts; air-gapped fork of Ethereum

Source: wikipedia.org

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