Comparison of cryptocurrencies

This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies.

To be listed here, a currency must have one of the following qualities:

• The currency must have a market cap of one million US dollars.
• The currency must be the first to introduce an innovative protocol.
• The currency must have at one point had significant notoriety.
• The currency must have been an infamous fraud.

Coin	Symbol	Launched	Consensus tool	Distribution	Market cap	Unit cap	Status	Anonymous	Notable comments
Anoncoin	ANC	2 Jun 2013	Zerocoin	Zero-knowledge proofs	$0.8 million	4,200,000	Developed	Yes	Introduced support of I2P and Tor.
Bitcoin	BTC	3 Jan 2009	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$36 billion	20,999,999.9769	Active	No	First blockchain
Bitcoin Testnet 1	TNBTC	21 Oct 2010	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	None	20,999,999.9769	Abandoned	No	First altcoin
Bitcoin Testnet 3	TNBTC	12 Apr 2012	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	None	20,999,999.9769	Active	No	Current Bitcoin testnet
BitShares	BTS	?	?	?	$158.9 million	?	Active	No
Bytecoin	BCN	4 Jul 2012	CryptoNight	Proof-of-work (random, smooth)	$414 million	184.46 billion	Active	Yes	Introduced CryptoNote.
Cloakcoin	CLOAK	?	ENIGMA	Peer-to-peer	$4.7 million	?	Active	Yes
Dash	DASH	18 Jan 2014	X11	Proof-of-work (fixed, curve)	$914 million	19 million (estimate)	Active	Yes
Dogecoin	DOGE	6 Dec 2013	scrypt	Proof-of-work (random)	$278 million	Unlimited	Active	No	Was joke, became huge
Feathercoin	FTC	16 Apr 2013	scrypt	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$5.2 million	?	Active	No	LTC hardfork
Freicoin	FRC	21 Dec 2012	SHA256d	Proof-of-work	$0.084 million	?	Active	No	First demurrage cryptocurrency
HunterCoin	HUC	1 Feb 2014	SHA256d and/or scrypt	Game rewards, Proof-of-work	$2 million	42,000,000	Active	No	First blockchain-based game
Litecoin	LTC	7 Oct 2011	scrypt	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$1.2 billion	83,999,949.9076	Active	No	TBX clone
MaidSafeCoin	MAID	22 Apr 2014	Bitcoin	Central	$166 million	452,552,412	Active	No
Monero	XMR	18 Apr 2014	CryptoNight	Proof-of-work (random, smooth)	$584 million	~18,400,000 then <1% inflation	Active	Yes
Namecoin	NMC	18 Apr 2011	SHA256d - merged mined with Bitcoin	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$23 million	20,999,999.9769	Active	No	First alternative chain, bitDNS
NEM	XEM	31 Mar 2015	Proof-of-importance	Peer-to-peer	$1.7 billion	9 billion	Active	Yes	Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
Nxt	NXT	29 Sep 2013	Consensus through obscurity	Central	$51.6 million	999,997,096	Active	No
Peercoin	PPC	19 Aug 2012	Central authoriy	Proof-of-work/stake	$35.6 million	Unlimited	Active	No
PIVX	PIVX	1 Feb 2016	Quark	proof-of-stake 3.0	$83.9 million	?	Active	Yes	It was first launched under the name of Darknet (DNET) on February 1st 2016.
Primecoin	XPM	7 Jul 2013	Cunningham	Proof-of-work	$7.2 million	Unlimited	Active	No	First "useful proof-of-work" altcoin
Ripple	XRP	1 Mar 2011	Ripple	Central	$8.2 billion	28,989,252,282	Active	No
Tonal Bitcoin	TBC	2 Jan 2011	See Bitcoin	See Bitcoin	See Bitcoin	7,750,54.00	Active	No	First on-chain alternative
Zcash	ZEC	28 Oct 2016	Zerocash	Zero-knowledge proofs, Proof-of-work (Equihash), with a portion of each block subsidy distributed to founders for the first four years.	$338 million	21,000,000	Active	Yes
Zclassic	ZCL	?	See Zcash	See Zcash	$5 million	?	Active	Yes	First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
Zcoin	XZC	28 Sep 2016	Zerocoin	Zero-knowledge proofs	$16.9 million	?	Active	Yes	The first useful Zero-knowledge proof based anonymous cryptocurrency.

See Also

• List of alternative chains