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Revision as of 18:36, 6 June 2017

The cryptocurrency market is explosive which currently serves 735 currencies.

This article aims to list only the most relevant cryptocurrencies. To be listed here, a currency must

  • currently be sold on cryptocurrency exchanges in general

and meet one of the following qualities:

  1. A market cap of 1 billion US dollars.
  2. Medium or highly decentralized (anonymous).
  3. Been the first to introduce an innovative protocol.

References

Launched Cryptocurrency Symbol Market cap, rounded Anonymity Introduced an innovative protocol
2009-01-03 Bitcoin BTC $36 billion Low First blockchain
2011-03-01 Ripple XRP $8.2 billion Low XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
2011-04-18 Namecoin NMC $23 million Low First alternative chain, bitDNS. merged mined with Bitcoin.
2011-10-07 Litecoin LTC $1.2 billion Low
2012-07-04 Bytecoin BCN $414 million Low Introduced CryptoNote.
2013-07-07 Primecoin XPM $7 million Low Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
2014-01-18 Dash DASH $914 million Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm.
2014-04-18 Monero XMR $584 million Medium
2015-03-31 NEM XEM $1.7 billion Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
2015-08-07 Ethereum ETH $21 billion Low
2016-02-01 PIVX PIVX $84 million Medium Introduced the Quark algorithm.
2016-07-24 Ethereum Classic ETC $1.6 billion Low Fastest growing cryptocurrency on the market ever.
2016-09-28 Zcoin XZC $17 million High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocoin protocol which also makes it the first useful Zero-knowledge proof based anonymous cryptocurrency. First that implements Merkle Tree Proof of Work (MTP).
2016-10-28 Zcash ZEC $338 million High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
2016-11-10 Zclassic ZCL $5 million High First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
2017-02-05 Komodo KMD $54 million High