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| 2009

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| Bitcoin

| BTC,{{cite news | last=Dixon | first=Lance | title=Building Bitcoin use in South Florida and beyond | date=December 24, 2013 | work=Miami Herald | url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/23/3835016/building-bitcoin-use-in-south.html#storylink=cpy | accessdate=January 24, 2014 }}{{cite news | last=Spaven | first=Emily | title=Bitcoin price could reach $98,500, say Wall Street analysts | work=CoinDesk | date=December 3, 2013 | url=http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-reach-98500-say-wall-street-analysts/ | accessdate=January 24, 2014 }} XBT, ₿

| Satoshi NakamotoIt is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, nor whether it represents one person or a group.

| SHA-256d{{ cite journal | title=Bitcoin and the age of bespoke silicon | last=Taylor | first=Michael Bedford | journal=Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems | date=2013 | isbn=978-1-4799-1400-5 | publisher=IEEE Press | location=Piscataway, NJ | url=http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/mbtaylor/papers/bitcoin_taylor_cases_2013.pdf | accessdate=January 14, 2014 }}{{ Cite magazine | last=Steadman | first=Ian | title=Wary of Bitcoin? A guide to some other crypto currencies | url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/7/alternative-cryptocurrencies-guide/viewall | date=May 7, 2013 | magazine=Wired UK | publisher=Condé Nast UK }}

| sorttest{{ Cite journal | last=Hobson | first=Dominic | title=What is Bitcoin? | journal=XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery | volume=20 | issue=1 | year=2013 | pages=40–44 | doi=10.1145/2510124 }}

| The first decentralized ledger currency. Cryptocurrency with the most famous, popular, notable and highest market capitalization.

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| Litecoin

| LTC

| Charlie Lee

| Scrypt

| sorttest

| The first cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm.

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| Namecoin

| NMC

| Vincent Durham{{cite web|url=https://github.com/vinced/namecoin |title=vinced/namecoin: Vince's tree – see namecoin/namecoin for main integration tree |publisher=GitHub |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}{{cite news | url=https://prezi.com/snbcoa3ajwck/namecoin/ | work=Prezi | title=Namecoin – a distributed name system based on Bitcoin | first=Levin | last=Keller | date=March 19, 2011 }}

| SHA-256d

| sorttest

| Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS.

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| SwiftCoin

| STC

| Daniel Bruno

| SHA-256

| sorttest

| First digital coin with theoretical value based on the work required to produce electricity. First block chain to support currency creation by interest paid on debt. Solidus Bond proto smart-contract. One of the first digital coins patented in the US. First block chain to support encrypted mail with attachments.

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| Bytecoin

| BCN

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| CryptoNote

|sorttest

| First cryptocurrency based on the CryptoNote algorithm. Focused on user privacy through impassive and anonymous transactions

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| Peercoin

| PPC

| Sunny King
(pseudonym)

| SHA-256d{{ cite news | last=Bradbury | first=Danny | date=November 7, 2013 | title=Third largest crypto currency peercoin moves into spotlight with Vault of Satoshi deal | url=http://www.coindesk.com/peercoin-vault-of-satoshi-deal/ | work=CoinDesk | accessdate=January 14, 2014 }}

| sorttest & PoS

| The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions.

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| Dogecoin

| DOGE, XDG

| Jackson Palmer
& Billy Markus[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3091219 A History of Dogecoin.] Dogecoin Analysis Report. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Accessed December 28, 2017.

| Scrypt{{cite web |title=Intro – Dogecoin # Technical specifications |url=http://www.dogeco.in/wiki/index.php/Intro#Technical_specifications|website=Dogeco.in |accessdate=December 14, 2013}}

| sorttest

| Based on an internet meme.

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| Emercoin

| EMC

| EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman

| SHA-256

| sorttest & PoS

| Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other.

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| Feathercoin

| FTC, ₣

| Peter Bushnell, Brasenose College of Oxford University

|NeoScrypt

| {{N/a}}

| Approx. 60 seconds block time

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| Gridcoin

| GRC

| Rob Hälford {{cite web|url=https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/1331-new-coin-launch-announcement-grc-gridcoin/ |title=New Coin Launch Announcement - GRC - GridCoin - GRIDCOIN GRC - Cryptocurrencytalk.com |website=Cryptocointalk.com |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| Scrypt

| Decentralized PoS

| The first cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing{{cite web|last1=Halford|first1=Rob|title=Gridcoin: Crypto-Currency using Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Grid as a Proof Of Work|url=http://www.gridcoin.us/images/gridcoin-white-paper.pdf|accessdate=April 11, 2016}}{{cite web|title=GridCoin: Using the Blockchain for Good|url=http://cointelegraph.com/news/gridcoin_using_the_blockchain_for_good|website=CoinTelegraph|accessdate=April 9, 2016}}

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| Omni

| MSC

| J. R. Willett {{cite news|last=Buterin|first=Vitalik|title=Mastercoin: A Second-Generation Protocol on the Bitcoin Blockchain|url=http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7961/mastercoin-a-second-generation-protocol-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain/|accessdate=January 9, 2014|newspaper=Bitcoin Magazine|date=November 4, 2013}}

| SHA-256d{{cite web |title=Mastercoin Spec |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC/spec |accessdate=April 2, 2014}}

| {{N/a}}

| Omni is both digital currency and communications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain.

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| Primecoin

| XPM

| Sunny King
(pseudonym){{ cite news | last=Boase | first=Richard | title=Litecoin spikes to $200m market capitalization in five hours | work=CoinDesk | date=November 20, 2013 | url=http://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-spikes-200m-market-capitalization/ | accessdate=January 14, 2014 }}

| 1CC/2CC/TWN{{cite web |title=FAQ · primecoin/primecoin Wiki · GitHub |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin/wiki/FAQ |accessdate=January 20, 2014}}

| sorttest

| Uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work, which can lead to useful byproducts.

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| Ripple{{cite web|last=Chayka|first=Kyle|title=What Comes After Bitcoin?|url=http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/what-comes-after-bitcoin-future-of-cryptocurrency-61660/|publisher=Pacific Standard|date=July 2, 2013|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}{{ cite news | title=Ripple's Big Move: Mining Crypto currency with a Purpose | date=December 4, 2013 | last=Vega | first=Danny | work=Seattlepi.com | publisher=Hearst Seattle Media, LLC, a division of The Hearst Corporation | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/heavy/article/Ripple-s-Big-Move-Mining-Cryptocurrency-with-a-5079697.php }}{{ cite news | last=Brown | first=Ariella | title=10 things you need to know about Ripple | date=May 17, 2013 | work=CoinDesk | url=http://www.coindesk.com/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-ripple/ | accessdate=January 15, 2014 }}

| XRP

| Chris Larsen &
Jed McCaleb{{cite news | last=Simonite | first=Tom | title=Big-name investors back effort to build a better Bitcoin | date=April 11, 2013 | work=MIT Technology Review | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513606/big-name-investors-back-effort-to-build-a-better-bitcoin/ | accessdate=January 14, 2014 }}

| ECDSA{{cite web |title=How it works – Ripple Wiki |url=https://ripple.com/wiki/How_it_works |accessdate=January 20, 2014}}

| "Consensus"

| Designed for peer to peer debt transfer. Not based on bitcoin.

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| Nxt

| NXT

| BCNext
(pseudonym)

| SHA-256d{{cite web|title=NXT Whitepaper|url=https://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Whitepaper:Nxt#The_Forging_Algorithm|website=NxtWiki – Whitepaper|accessdate=December 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203012031/http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Whitepaper:Nxt#The_Forging_Algorithm|archivedate=February 3, 2015}}

| PoS

| Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol.

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| Auroracoin

| AUR

| Baldur Odinsson
(pseudonym){{cite news | title=Auroracoin already third-biggest cryptocoin–and it's not even out yet | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/05/auroracoin-already-second-biggest-virtual-currency-and-its-not-even-out-yet/ | first=Michael J. | last=Casey | work=The Wall Street Journal | date=March 5, 2014 }}

| Scrypt

| sorttest

| Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland.

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| BlackCoin

| BC

| Rat4 (pseudonym)

| Scrypt

| PoS

| Secures its network through a process called minting.

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| Burstcoin

| BURST

| Burstcoin Community

| SHA-256d

| Proof of Capacity

| First Proof of Capacity coin, First Smart Contract, First Atomic Cross Chain Transfer.

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| Coinye

| KOI, COYE

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| Scrypt

| sorttest

| Used American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit.

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| Dash

| DASH

| Evan Duffield &
Kyle Hagan{{cite news | url=http://www.tomsguide.com/us/darkcoin-faq,news-18828.html | title=What is Dash? An FAQ | first=Jill | last=Scharr | date=May 28, 2014 | work=Tom's Guide }}

| X11

| sorttest & Proof of ServiceVia Masternodes containing 1000 DASH held as collateral for "Proof of Service". Through an automated voting mechanism, one Masternode is selected per block and receives 45% of mining rewards.

| A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions.

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| NEO

| NEO

| Da Hongfei & Erik Zhang

| SHA-256 & RIPEMD160

| dBFT

| Chinese based cryptocurrency (formerly ANT Shares which produce ANT Coins) name change August 2017 to NEO and GAs, these enable the development of digital assets and smart contracts.

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| MazaCoin

| MZC

| BTC Oyate Initiative

| SHA-256d

| sorttest

| The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin.

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| Monero

| XMR

| Monero Core Team

| CryptoNight{{cite web|url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNight |title=CryptoNight – Bitcoin Wiki |website=En.bitcoin.it |date=June 19, 2014 |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| sorttest

| Privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol with improvements for scalability and decentralization.

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| NEM

| XEM

| UtopianFuture (pseudonym)

| SHA3-512

| POI

| The first hybrid public/private blockchain solution built from scratch, and first to use the Proof of Importance algorithm using EigenTrust++ reputation system.

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| Tether

| USDT

| Jan Ludovicus van der Velde{{cite web|title= Mystery Shrouds Tether |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-shrouds-tether-and-its-links-to-biggest-bitcoin-exchange|website=Bloomberg|accessdate=December 27, 2017}}

| Omnicore {{cite web|title="Tether White Paper"|url=https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TetherWhitePaper.pdf|website=Tether|accessdate=December 27, 2017}}

| PoW

| Tether is backed by the USD so that one tether is exactly equal to $1USD. It is commonly used to convert other cryptocurrencies to USD. {{cite web|title="What is Tether"|url=https://tether.to/|website=tether|accessdate= December 27, 2017}}

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| PotCoin

| POT

| Potcoin core dev team

| Scrypt

| PoS

| Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry

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| Synereo AMP

| AMP

| Dor Konforty & Greg MeredithMeredith, Greg. [https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/12/synereo-a-brief-history/ "A Brief History of Synereo"]. Synereo Blog. Retrieved October 13, 2016.

| PoS

| PoS

| Trying to create a world computer, Synereo’s 2.0 tech stack incorporates all faculties needed to support decentralized computation without central servers.[https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/synereo-and-nfx-guild-launch-strategic-partnership-to-build-a-decentralized-internet-1475242687 "Synereo and NFX Guild Launch Strategic Partnership to Build a Decentralized Internet"]. Bitcoin Magazine. Retrieved November 13, 2016.

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| Titcoin

| TIT

| Edward Mansfield & Richard AllenMercier Voyer, Stephanie. [https://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/titcoin-is-a-brand-new-cryptocurrency-for-porn-purchases "Titcoin Is a Brand New Cryptocurrency for Porn Purchases"]. Vice Magazine. Retrieved June 18, 2014.

| SHA-256d

| sorttest

| The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.[http://www.payoutmag.com/index.php/press-releases/802-titcoin-receives-two-web-a-tech-xbiz-nominations "Titcoin Receives Two Web & Tech XBIZ Nominations"]. Payout Magazine. Retrieved November 18, 2014.

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| Verge

| XVG

| Sunerok

| Scrypt, x17, groestl, blake2s, and lyra2rev2

| sorttest

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| Stellar

| XLM

| Jed McCaleb

| Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) {{cite web|url=https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf | title= Stellar.org White Papers |website=Stellar.org }}

| Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) {{cite web|url=https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf | title= Stellar.org White Papers |website=Stellar.org }}

| Open-source, decentralized global financial network. The usage is for remittances, micropayments, services for the underbanked, mobile money/branches and professional setups.

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| Vertcoin

| VTC

| Bushido

| Lyra2RE{{ cite journal | date=November 29, 2014 | title=Lyra2RE – A new PoW algorithm for an ASIC-free future | url=https://vertcoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Vertcoin_Lyra2RE_Paper_11292014.pdf }}

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| Next-gen ASIC resistance and first to implement stealth addresses.

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| Ether or "Ethereum"

| ETH

| Vitalik Buterin{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/01/ethereum/ |title=Out in the Open: Teenage Hacker Transforms Web Into One Giant Bitcoin Network |website=Wired.com |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| Ethash{{cite web|author= |url=https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethash |title=Ethash |website=Github.com |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| PoW

| Supports Turing-complete smart contracts.

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| Ethereum Classic

| ETC

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| Ethash

| PoW

| An alternative version of Ethereum{{cite web|author= |url=https://github.com/ethereumclassic/README/blob/master/README.md |title=README/README.md at master |website=Github.com |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}} whose blockchain does not include the DAO Hard-fork.{{Cite news|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/grayscale-launches-ethereum-classic-investment-trust-2017-04-26|title=Exclusive: Grayscale launches digital-currency fund backed by Silver Lake's co-founder Hutchins|last=Adinolfi|first=Joseph|work=MarketWatch|access-date=April 27, 2017|language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rejecting-today-s-hard-fork-the-ethereum-classic-project-continues-on-the-original-chain-here-s-why-1469038808/|title=Rejecting Today's Hard Fork, the Ethereum Classic Project Continues on the Original Chain: Here's Why|last=Wirdum|first=Aaron van|website=Bitcoin Magazine|access-date=April 27, 2017}} Supports Turing-complete smart contracts.

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| IOTA

| IOT, MIOTA{{cite web|url=https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/ |title=IOTA (MIOTA) price, charts, market cap, and other metrics |website=CoinMarketCap.com |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener and Dr. Serguei Popov

| SHA-3

| Directed acyclic graph

| The first cryptocurrency using the Tangle, a next generation blockchain, as distributed ledger technology.

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|Sia

|SC

|David Vorick, Luke Champine

|BLAKE (hash function)

|PoW

|Currency for the Sia Distributed Storage Network

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| SixEleven

| SIL

| fflo (pseudonym){{cite web|author= |url=https://github.com/fflo/sixeleven |title=fflo/sixeleven: SixEleven tree – official website |publisher=GitHub |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}

| SHA-256d

| PoW

| Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS.

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| Decred

| DCR

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| Blake-256

| sorttest/PoS Hybrid

| Built in governance and hybrid PoW/PoS.

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| Waves Platform

| WAVES

| Sasha Ivanov

| PoS

| PoS

| Open blockchain platform, featuring token creation, distributed exchange and fast high volume transactions designed for ease of use[https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/04/03/the-birth-of-a-blockchain-from-ripples-to-making-crypto-waves/#1659e97a418b "The Birth Of A Blockchain: From Ripples To Making 'Crypto' Waves"]. Forbes. Retrieved October 20, 2017. and mass adoption.

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| Lisk

| LSK

| Max Kordek

| DPoS

| DPoS

| Lisk is a dapp creation platform in Javascript. Lisk uses a Delegated-Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism.

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| Zcash

| ZEC

| Zooko Wilcox

| Equihash

| PoW

| The first open, permissionless financial system employing zero-knowledge security.

| {{yes|Active}}

| Zclassic

| ZCL

| Rhett Creighton

| Equihash

| PoW

| A fork of Zcash with no premine/founder's reward.

| {{no|Inactive}}

| BitConnect

| BCC

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| Komodo

| KMD

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| dPoW

| Uses delayed proof of work (dPoW) blockchain security.https://komodoplatform.com/en/technology/whitepaper/2018-01-18-Komodo-White-Paper-Full.pdf

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| Bitcoin Cash

| BCH{{cite web|title=Bitcoin Cash Markets and Dillema|url=https://cryptocoincharts.info/topic/bitcoin-cash|website=CryptoCoinCharts|accessdate=September 14, 2017}}

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| SHA-256d

| PoW

| Hard fork from Bitcoin, Increased Block size from 1mb to 8mb

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| Ubiq

| UBQ

| Julian Yap{{cite web|title=jyap808 (Julian Y)|url=https://github.com/jyap808|website=Github|accessdate=June 17, 2017}}

| Ethash

| PoW

| Supports Turing-complete smart contracts; air-gapped fork of Ethereum

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| EOS (coin)

| EOS

| Dan Larimer

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| Sirin Labs

| SRN

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| Electroneum

| ETN

| Richard Ells

| CryptoNight{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@tnc.kukupalad/electroneum-the-worlds-first-common-cryptocurrency-511b2eab4858|title=Electroneum — The World's First Common Cryptocurrency|last=Bacolor|first=Johnfel|date=2017-09-22|website=Medium|access-date=2018-01-19}}

| PoW

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| TRON

| TRX

| Justin Sun

| SHA-256

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| Cardano

| ADA

| Charles Hoskinson & Jeremy Wood

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| {{no|Inactive}}

| KodakCoin

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| Kodak and WENN Digital

| Ethash{{cite web | url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/kodak-ceo-blockchain-significant-though-not-a-doubling-in-stock-price-1515544067 | title=Kodak CEO: Blockchain Significant, Though Not a Doubling in Stock Price | publisher=Barrons | date=January 9, 2018 | accessdate=January 11, 2018 | last=Ray | first=Tiernan}}

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| KodakCoin is a "photographer-centric" blockchain cryptocurrency used for payments for licensing photographs.

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| Petro

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| Venezuela Government

| onixCoin{{cite web | url=https://www.onixcoin.com/static/descarga/white-paper-onix-En.pdf | title=Onix's white paper | publisher=www.onixcoin.com | date=January 13, 2018 | accessdate=January 13, 2018 }}

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| First cryptocurrency backed by Venezuela's reserves of oil.