Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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

and meet one of the following qualities:

General

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).