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.

These coins are currently ordered according to launch date.

Coin	Ticker	Launched	Protocol	Distribution	Market cap	Unit cap	Status	Notes
Bitcoin	BTC	3 Jan 2009	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$6.34 billion	20,999,999.9769	Active	First blockchain
Tonal Bitcoin	TBC	2 Jan 2011	SHA256d			7,750,54.00	Active	First on-chain alternative
Ripple	XRP	1 Mar 2011	Ripple	Central	$139 million	28,989,252,282	Active
Namecoin	NMC	18 Apr 2011	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$9.83 million	20,999,999.9769	Broken	First alternative chain, bitDNS
Tenebrix	TBX	25 Sep 2011	scrypt	Central, Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	None	10,499,999.9769	Dead	First scrypt coin
Litecoin	LTC	7 Oct 2011	scrypt	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$154 million	83,999,949.9076	Active	TBX clone
Bytecoin	BCN	4 Jul 2012	CryptoNight	Proof-of-work (random, smooth)	$2.73 million	184.46 billion	Active	First CryptoNote coin
Peercoin	PPC	19 Aug 2012	SHA256d	Proof-of-work/stake	$15.5 million	Unlimited	Active
Freicoin	FRC	21 Dec 2012	SHA256d	Proof-of-work	$84 thousand	?	Active	First demurrage cryptocurrency
Feathercoin	FTC	16 Apr 2013	scrypt	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$1.15 million	?	Active	LTC hardfork
Primecoin	XPM	7 Jul 2013	Cunningham	Proof-of-work	$1.2 million	?	Active	First "useful proof-of-work" altcoin
BitSharesX	BTSX	29 Sep 2013	BitSharesX	?	$66.5 million	1,999,992,536	Active
Nxt	NXT	29 Sep 2013	Nxt	Central	$29.0 million	999,997,096	Active
Dogecoin	DOGE	6 Dec 2013	scrypt	Proof-of-work (random)	$12.7 million	Unlimited	Active	Was joke, became huge
Darkcoin	DRK	19 Jan 2014	Combo11	Proof-of-work (fixed, curve)	$12.5 million	18.4 million (estimate)	Active
HunterCoin	HUC	1 Feb 2014	SHA256d and/or scrypt	Game rewards, Proof-of-work	$47 thousand	42,000,000	Active	First blockchain-based game
Monero	XMR	18 Apr 2014	CryptoNight	Proof-of-work (random, smooth)	$6.27 million	18,446,744,073,709,551,615	Active
MaidSafeCoin	MAID	22 Apr 2014	Mastercoin	Central	$8.54 million	452,552,412	Active

See Also

• List of alternative chains