Top 30 Bundle

Ethereum (ETH) is an open-source distributed blockchain that has smart contract functionality. It operates as a decentralized virtual machine which can run decentralized applications (dapps) and be used to transfer ether between different nodes. The Ethereum blockchain was the first smart contract platform and is still the largest to date.

Ripple (XRP) is designed for facilitating real-time global payments. Released in 2012, it uses the open source Ripple Transaction Protocol and is a significantly cheaper and more efficient settlement option for financial institutions all around the world.

Litecoin (LTC) was created in October 2011 and is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies after BTC. LTC is based on the Bitcoin protocol, and shares much of the code, but distinguishes itself by shorter block times of about 2.5 minutes. This allows LTC transactions to be processed 4x faster.

Binance Coin (BNB) is the cryptocurrency of the Binance platform. The currency has its own blockchain and is evolving towards multiple applications, like discounts, IEO’ s and payments in shops. Binance intends to burn (destroy) BNB coins every quarter on the basis of the trading volume on this exchange, until 50% of the total BNB offering (100 million BNB) has been burned.

Monero (XMR) is the world’s most well-known anonymous digital currency. Security, privacy and non-traceability are its main features. Although there are many other cryptocurrencies that claim to be anonymous, Monero has remained the most popular and the largest in market capitalization.

Stellar Lumens (XLM) is a cryptoplatform designed to enable fast and secure value transfer at low cost. It is intended for both individuals and companies such as banks. Stellar can handle exchanges between fiat-based currencies and between cryptocurrencies and aims to be an open financial system to give all people access to low-cost financial services.

Tron is a blockchain-based decentralized protocol that aims to build a worldwide free content entertainment system while utilizing blockchain and distributed storage technology. The protocol allows users to publish, store and control data, while the decentralized system manages subscriptions, distribution and publication of all content.

Chainlink (LINK) is a decentralized oracle service that provides smart contracts in any blockchain with accurate data from the real world. It uses reputation and aggregation to gather data from selected oracles and find the most accurate data feeds.

NEO is a Chinese cryptocurrency developed by Onchain, and originally known as AntShares before it was re-branded to NEO in 2017. It is often described as the Chinese Ethereum because NEO works in a similar way, allowing smart-contracts to be delivered through the blockchain. NEO’s smart contracts and dapps can be written and compiled in C# and Java.

IOTA is a cryptocurrency token that is named after the Internet of Things, the internet-enabled network of smart devices that is set to grow exponentially in the coming decades. IOTA launched via an ICO in 2015, and is designed to facilitate an infinite amount of machine-to-machine transactions.

Cosmos (ATOM) is building an internet of blockchains which is ground breaking in the field of Inter-Blockchain communication via the Cosmos network. Chain-transcending data could connect all existing blockchains and especially smart contracts to each other.

NEM (XEM) or the New Economy Movement, was launched in March 2015. It utilizes a dual-layer blockchain technology and was written in Java. NEM differs from BTC in a number of key areas. For example, it has extremely fast block times of 1 minute and an encrypted P2P messaging system. It is a completely new codebase with similarities to NXT.

Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency whose anonymity is its most important characteristic. It uses blockchain technology that keeps the most important elements of each transaction private, such as the identity of the sender, recipient and amount sent. Users have the ability to determine how much privacy they want to assign to each Zcash-transaction they create.

Decred (DCR) is a cryptocurrency whose name is a portmanteau of “decentralized credit”. It’s a currency which forked from Bitcoin in February 2016 and uses a hybrid proof of work and proof of stake consensus system. It features on-chain user-activated consensus voting and a public proposal platform and smart contracts.

VeChain (VET) is an enterprise-focused dApp and ICO platform with its own token that connects blockchain technology with real-world supply chain data and enables confirmation of authenticity of luxury products.

Bitcoin Gold is another split of the Bitcoin’s blockchain in a hard fork on October 24, 2017. Bitcoin Gold changed the proof-of-work hashing algorithm from SHA256 to Equihash-BTG to resist specialised mining computers (ASIC) and democratise the Bitcoin Gold mining.

OmiseGO (OMG) is a token-based digital currency backed by the Plasma decentralized exchange and a digital wallet provided by Omise. It’s designed to facilitate payments for goods and services on the web to and to enable the cross-border transfer of assets.

Lisk (LSK) was founded early 2016 as a blockchain application platform and supporting cryptocurrency. Lisk focuses on user experience and develop support with a JavaScript SDK (software development kit) to easily build blockchain applications. It is an open-source blockchain project with a delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus model where democratically elected delegates secure the network.

Waves aims to simplify the trading of digital assets and digitized commodities from the real world. Waves has a completely new codebase and is able to create new transaction types with plug-ins that do not require an update to the core software.