Bitcoin (BTC) is the world’s first decentralized digital currency. It was created by a pseudonym person or persons named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 and has since grown to become the world’s most popular cryptocurrency based on market capitalization.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was created on August 1st 2017 as a hard fork of Bitcoin. Although technically very similar to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash uses a larger 32MB block size which allows each block to hold more transactions, allowing more and cheaper transactions.

EOS is a blockchain technology developed by Dan Larimer. In April 2017, EOS was introduced by means of a year-long ICO that raised more than $200 million. EOS is inspired by Ethereum and is intend on improving upon governance, scaling and transaction costs. EOS is in direct competition with Ethereum for smart contracts and decentralized apps (dapps).

Cardano is a blockchain developed by the company IOHK. The team is led by former Ethereum veteran Charles Hoskinson and strives to be the next generation blockchain project. Cardano aims to become a fully fledged smartcontract platform with a library of protocols that developers can use to build decentralized apps.

Dash was launched in January 2014 as Xcoin and was later called Darkcoin. It was a fork of the Bitcoin protocol and re-branded in March 2015 to Dash, a combination of Digital and Cash. Dash has added some advanced features, such as the ability to send direct or private transactions dubbed InstantSend and PrivateSend.

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is a payment system and a distributed computer platform that uses a token known as classical ether. Ethereum Classic was born when Ethereum hard-forked after a massive ether theft from the DAO, a decentralized organization, which was hacked in 2016. The original chain had enough users and miner support to be able to continue.

Ontology was founded in 2017 by the Chinese company Onchain. With Ontology, it will be easy for companies to use the blockchain technology and smart contract systems without additional knowledge. They continually develop modules based on different kinds of distributed scenario’s. Ontology focuses on a solid trust ecosystem that focuses on privacy protection, data regulation and data management.

Algorand is a blockchain project with the aim of creating a transparent system in which everyone can achieve success through decentralized projects and applications. The Algorand Foundation provides serious support to developers in launching and developing applications on the network. The main feature of this project is the open source blockchain. Algorand’s consensus mechanism promotes the performance, security and openness of a decentralized network. Algorand competes with well-known financial institutions and payment systems.

Basic Attention Token (BAT) is an open-source decentralized advertisement exchange platform. Build by a co-founder of Mozilla it allows advertisers to pay BAT to website publishers for the attention of users. The BAT ecosystem includes Brave, an open-source, privacy-centered internet browser designed to block trackers and malware. It leverages blockchain technology to anonymously track user attention securely and rewards publishers accordingly. On April 24, 2019, Brave implemented BAT Ads, a program that pays users with BAT for viewing advertisements as compensation for their attention.

Synthetix is a derivative liquidity protocol on Ethereum that allows the issuance and trading of synthetic assets. Each synthetic asset (or Synth) is an ERC20 token that tracks the price of an external asset. Within Synthetix there is a wide variety of Synths, including fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, commodities, etc.