Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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The cryptocurrency market is explosive which currently serves 735 currencies. This article aims to list only the most relevant cryptocurrencies. Data in this article are gathered from cryptocompare.com.

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.
Cryptocurrency Symbol Launched Market cap, rounded Anonymity Introduced an innovative protocol
Bitcoin BTC 2009-01-03 $36 billion Low First blockchain
Bytecoin BCN 2012-07-04 $414 million Low Introduced CryptoNote.
Dash DASH 2014-01-18 $914 million Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm.
Ethereum ETH 2015-08-07 $21 billion Low
Ethereum Classic ETC 2016-07-24 $1.6 billion Low Fastest growing cryptocurrency on the market ever.
Komodo KMD 2017-02-05 $54 million High
Litecoin LTC 2011-10-07 $1.2 billion Low
Monero XMR 2014-04-18 $584 million Medium
Namecoin NMC 2011-04-18 $23 million Low First alternative chain, bitDNS. merged mined with Bitcoin.
NEM XEM 2015-03-31 $1.7 billion Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
PIVX PIVX 2016-02-01 $84 million Medium Introduced the Quark algorithm.
Primecoin XPM 2013-07-07 $7 million Low Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
Ripple XRP 2011-03-01 $8.2 billion Low XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
Zcash ZEC 2016-10-28 $338 million High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
Zclassic ZCL 2016-11-10 $5 million High First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
Zcoin XZC 2016-09-28 $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).
Cryptocurrency Max supply Algorithm Proof Type
Bitcoin 21,000,000.0 SHA256 PoW
Bytecoin 184,467,440,735.0 CryptoNight PoW
Dash ? ? ?
Ethereum Not Applicable Ethash PoW
Ethereum Classic - Ethash PoW
Komodo 200,000,000.0 Equihash dPoW/PoW
Litecoin 84,000,000.0 Scrypt PoW
Monero Not Applicable CryptoNight PoW
Namecoin 21,000,000.0 SHA256 PoW
NEM 8,999,999,999.0 ? PoI
PIVX - Quark PoW/PoS
Primecoin 3,299,976.0 Multiple PoW
Ripple 38,305,873,865.0 -
Zcash 21,000,000.0 Equihash PoW
Zclassic 21,000,000.0 Equihash PoW
Zcoin 21,000,000.0 Lyra2RE PoW