Coin Profile: Ethereum Classic
Ethereum Classic – A cryptocurrency which is: “Decentralized. Immutable. Unstoppable.”
Coin Profile: MakerDAO’s Dai Stablecoin
“Transparent and sustainable finance” The Maker platform offers two tokens, namely Makercoin (MKR) and the Dai (DAI). Dai acts as the project’s stablecoin while Makercoin helps to maintain control over Maker. The MakerDAO stablecoin MakerDAO has a focus on producing and maintaining DAI. As DAI is a stablecoin, it needs to retain the 1:1 peg […]
Coin Profile: NEO
NEO – A cryptocurrency based on “an open network for smart economy”.
Coin Profile: Dash (DASH)
A revolutionary digital money system. Coin Market Cap Rank: 13 Current Market Cap: $1,290,220,983 Website: https://www.dash.org Dash was named after the synonym for cryptocurrency – ‘digital cash’. Dash, therefore, refers to themselves as a “revolutionary digital money system” that provides digital cash which users can “spend anywhere”. Dash was originally known as ‘XCoin’. It […]
Coin Profile: TRON (Tronix or TRX)
“one of the largest blockchain-based operating systems in the world” Coin Market Cap Rank: 11 Current Market Cap: $1,627,787,987 Website: https://tron.network TRON only launched last year but has gained plenty of attention from its ambitiously minded founder, Justin Sun. Justin Sun was named one of the Forbes 30 under 30-years for Asia in 2015 […]
Coin Profile: IOTA (IOT)
A permissionless distributed ledger for a new economy. Coin Market Cap Rank: 11 Current Market Cap: $1,587,847,694 Website: https://www.iota.org Every person with a connection is consistently creating a large number of data when using apps, websites or other internet-connected services. This data is often made private using a cryptographically secure SSL certificate. “Our vision […]
Coin Profile: Monero (XMR)
A decentralised, cryptographically secure and private digital currency. Coin Market Cap Rank: 10 Current Market Cap: $1,863,493,851 Website: https://getmonero.org Many cryptocurrencies have launched in recent years. However, it’s not often that we come across a cryptocurrency with a focus on privacy and censorship-resistant transactions. In fact, Monero (XMR) is the first altcoin cryptocurrency to […]
Coin Profile: Cardano (ADA)
A decentralized, open blockchain and cryptocurrency project. Coin Market Cap Rank: 10 Current Market Cap: $1,788,254,769 Website: https://www.cardano.org If there is an alternative cryptocurrency (altcoin) more interesting than Ethereum, it’s Cardano – otherwise known as ‘ADA’ on the coin market cap. Respectively, Cardano ADA was founded by Ethereum co-founder, Charles Hoskinson; along with Jeremy […]
Coin Profile: Tether (USDT)
Fiat currencies on the Bitcoin blockchain Coin Market Cap Rank: 8 Current Market Cap: $2,759,243,451 Website: https://tether.to Many cryptocurrencies refer to themselves as the gold of cryptocurrency or as backed by fiat currencies. These cryptocurrencies are known as ‘stablecoins’. Stablecoins cryptocurrencies that are tethered to stable assets such as fiat currencies or gold. Many […]
Coin Profile: Ark (ARK)
An all-in-one blockchain solution. Coin Market Cap Rank: 74 Current Market Cap: $89,938,055 Website: https://ark.io While distributed ledger technology has made a major impact on decentralising platforms, it is believed to be a bit “too decentralised”. Currently, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are unable to make direct transactions between each other as they operate […]
