| 2014 |
Active |
Auroracoin |
AUR |
Baldur Odinsson
(pseudonym) |
Scrypt |
POW |
Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland. |
| 2009 |
Active |
Bitcoin |
BTC |
Satoshi Nakamoto |
SHA-256d |
POW |
First decentralized ledger currency. |
| 2014 |
Active |
BlackCoin |
BC, BLK |
Rat4 (pseudonym) |
Scrypt |
Proof-of-stake (POS) |
BlackCoin secures its network through a process called minting. |
| 2014 |
Inactive |
Coinye |
KOI, COYE |
|
Scrypt |
POW |
Used American hip hop artist Kanye Westas its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit. |
| 2014 |
Active |
Dash |
DASH |
Evan Duffield &
Kyle Hagan |
X11 |
POW & POS |
Adds privacy to transactions through a decentralized coin-mixing system called Darksend. |
| 2013 |
Active |
Dogecoin |
DOGE |
Jackson Palmer
& Billy Markus |
Scrypt |
POW |
Based on an internet meme. |
| 2014 |
Active |
DigitalNote |
XDN |
XDN-dev team, dNote |
CryptoNight |
POW |
DigitalNote (XDN) is a new private cryptocurrency with an instant untraceable crypto messages and first blockchain banking implementation, use CryptoNote protocol. |
| 2015 |
Active |
Ethereum |
ETH |
Vitalik Buterin |
Dagger Hashimoto |
POW |
Turing complete smart contracts. |
| 2011 |
Active |
Litecoin |
LTC |
Charles Lee |
Scrypt |
POW |
First successful scrypt cryptocurrency. |
| 2013 |
Active |
Mastercoin |
MSC |
J. R. Willett |
SHA-256d |
N/A |
Mastercoin is both digital currency andcommunications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain. |
| 2014 |
Active |
MazaCoin |
MZC |
BTC Oyate Initiative |
SHA-256d |
POW |
The underlying software for MazaCoin is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin. |
| 2014 |
Active |
Monero |
XMR |
Monero Core Team |
CryptoNight |
POW |
Monero (XMR) is a new privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol. |
| 2011 |
Active |
Namecoin |
NMC |
Vincent Durham |
SHA-256d |
POW |
Also acts as an alternative, decentralizedDNS. |
| 2013 |
Active |
Nxt |
NXT |
BCNext
(pseudonym) |
SHA-256d |
POS |
Nxt is specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol. |
| 2012 |
Active |
Peercoin |
PPC |
Sunny King
(pseudonym) |
SHA-256d |
POW & POS |
First to use POW and POS functions. |
| 2013 |
Active |
Emercoin |
EMC |
EvgenijM86 |
SHA-256 |
POW & POS |
Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other. |
| 2014 |
Active |
PotCoin |
POT |
|
Scrypt |
POW |
Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry |
| 2013 |
Active |
Primecoin |
XPM |
Sunny King
(pseudonym) |
1CC/2CC/TWN |
POW |
Primecoin uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work, which can lead to useful byproducts. |
| 2013 |
Active |
Ripple |
XRP |
Chris Larsen &
Jed McCaleb |
ECDSA |
«Consensus» |
Based on peer to peer debt transfer. The term Ripple can refer to both the digital currency or the payment network. |
| 2014 |
Active |
Titcoin |
TIT |
Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen |
SHA-256d |
POW |
First cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award. |
| Proposed to be developed asMoneta |
Inactive |
Zerocoin |
|
Matthew Green, Ian Miers and Christina Garman |
|
|
Proposed bitcoin extension to add true cryptographic anonymity |
