Coin guides
218 researched guides, each built from the project's own site and documentation. Rank is by market capitalisation from our frozen top-250 snapshot.
When Bitcoin appeared, the obvious criticisms wrote themselves: it processed a handful of transactions a second, it made every participant store the same ledger, and it spent electricity on purpose. Seventeen years la…
Ethereum's important idea was not simply adding more features to a blockchain. It was making the feature set open-ended. Instead of defining every permitted transaction in advance, Ethereum gave developers a shared ex…
USDT is designed to give blockchain users a unit denominated in US dollars while letting them transfer that unit through public networks. Its distinctive feature is not a new consensus algorithm. Tether issues tokens…
The XRP Ledger answers that question with a consensus process built around validators comparing proposed transaction sets until their views converge. XRP is the ledger's native asset: it pays the small transaction cos…
Solana's central engineering idea is Proof of History: a sequential record that lets participants verify that time passed and events occurred in a particular order. The network combines that clock with stake-weighted…
BNB began life on Ethereum as a simple utility token, one whose only documented job was to make trading fees cheaper on a single exchange. Today the same ticker denominates gas on BNB Smart Chain, backs a validator st…
Dogecoin began with a visual joke, but its staying power came from choices that made participation feel ordinary: quick blocks, abundant units, small-value tipping and language that did not demand financial expertise.…
USDC is an ERC-20 token issued by Circle that represents a claim on dollar-denominated reserves held away from Ethereum. The token contract records balances and enforces transfers, while the backing, minting authority…
Cardano began with an unusually academic wager: a public blockchain could benefit from the same sequence used in cryptography research—define the assumptions, publish the mechanism, invite review, and then turn the re…
Most smart-contract chains charge every transaction a fee that rises and falls with demand for block space. TRON instead gives every account a small daily allowance and lets anyone convert TRX into ongoing capacity ah…
Classical Byzantine fault tolerant systems reach agreement by having participants communicate broadly, which becomes expensive as the validator set grows. Avalanche's consensus protocols instead have each validator re…
Hyperliquid began with a trading-infrastructure constraint: a public order book must order, match and finalize frequent actions without sending core execution to a private server. Its answer was a purpose-built Layer…
Most blockchains pick a fixed number of validators and a single chain of blocks, then try to squeeze more throughput out of that shape. TON starts from the opposite direction: assume the workload can grow without boun…
SHIB began as an ERC-20 token deployed on Ethereum, a straightforward standard that gives it transfers, balances and supply tracking identical in form to thousands of other tokens on the same network. What sets its ec…
Most blockchains store state as a single ledger of account balances or a shared key-value map, updated one transaction at a time in a strict global order. Sui instead treats its entire state as a collection of discret…
Polkadot approaches blockchain scaling as a coordination problem rather than a race to fit every application into one machine. Its relay chain provides consensus and pooled security, while specialised chains supply th…
WBTC is an ERC-20 token designed to represent bitcoin held in custody, so that Ethereum smart contracts can reference bitcoin's value without bitcoin's own network processing the transaction. The token was introduced…
Stellar was built around a specific problem: moving value between different currencies and institutions cheaply, including ones that never fully trust each other. Its consensus mechanism lets each participant choose w…
Hedera did not start from a mining community or a validator lottery. It started from a whitepaper describing hashgraph, a consensus algorithm built on gossip and virtual voting, and from a founding council of named en…
Litecoin did not try to replace Bitcoin's basic transaction model with a new philosophy. It changed a small number of parameters to explore a practical question: could the same peer-to-peer design confirm everyday tra…
RAIN is the governance and utility token of rain.one, a prediction-markets protocol deployed on Arbitrum whose stated design lets anyone create and trade custom markets that are resolved with the help of integrated AI…
UNUS SED LEO began with a private sale by iFinex, the parent of the Bitfinex exchange, in May 2019. Its whitepaper paired exchange utility with a mechanism for iFinex to buy tokens back and destroy them. Everything di…
Bitcoin Cash forked from the Bitcoin network in 2017 around a single, specific engineering decision: increase the block-size limit so more transactions fit on-chain per block, keeping ordinary payments cheap and direc…
Splitting a blockchain's workload across multiple parallel shards sounds simple until a transaction needs to touch two shards at once, or until a node has to decide how much of the network's history it can realistical…
Physical cash has a property so ordinary that nobody lists it as a feature: when you hand it over, the transaction leaves no public record of who paid whom or how much. Monero's starting point was that digital money s…
When Meta wound down its Diem stablecoin project in early 2022, the Move programming language it had commissioned did not disappear with it. Two of Diem's engineering leads founded Aptos Labs and used Move, along with…
Blockchains are dependable partly because they are closed worlds: each node receives the same transaction data and computes the same result. That strength becomes a limitation when a contract needs an exchange rate, w…
Canton Coin (CC) is the native utility token of the Global Synchronizer, the decentralized coordination layer of the Canton Network built by Digital Asset. It is worth being precise from the outset: Canton Coin (CC) i…
ARB is the governance token of the ArbitrumDAO, not the fuel used to execute ordinary transactions on Arbitrum One. That separation is useful: applications can retain Ethereum-compatible fees while token holders vote…
Dai is created by the Maker Protocol, now documented within the Sky ecosystem, when users lock approved collateral in smart-contract vaults and generate debt against it. That makes Dai different from a token issued on…
ICP is the native asset of the Internet Computer, but applications on the network do not meter every user action directly in ICP. Developers convert ICP into cycles, a separate computational unit that canisters consum…
USD1 carries the World Liberty Financial brand, while official documentation assigns issuance, custody, minting and redemption to BitGo. The token is designed to track the US dollar through reserves of cash, governmen…
USDe, issued by Ethena Labs, calls itself a synthetic dollar rather than a stablecoin backed by cash and treasuries. Its value is meant to hold near one dollar through a trading position, not a bank deposit: the proto…
In 2016, the Ethereum network faced a decision after a smart contract exploit moved a large amount of ETH: adopt a coordinated protocol change that reassigned those funds, or continue enforcing the ledger exactly as i…
M is the native asset of MemeCore Mainnet, an EVM-compatible layer-one network built around what its documentation calls Proof of Meme. M pays transaction fees, can be delegated or staked around validator selection, p…
ATOM is the native asset of the Cosmos Hub, one sovereign chain in an ecosystem connected by the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. Cosmos does not ask every application to share one execution environment. It gi…
Optimism is built around a division of labour. OP Mainnet executes transactions in its own environment, compresses them into batches and publishes the data to Ethereum, while Ethereum supplies the ordering and finalit…
Proof-of-work networks face a timing problem: when blocks arrive faster than information can cross the network, honest miners increasingly build at the same time. A conventional longest-chain design eventually keeps o…
Bitcoin is deliberately conservative: its scripting language is limited and protocol changes are slow. Stacks takes those constraints as fixed and builds a separate layer with its own blocks, its own contract language…
Many networks treat finality as probability: a transaction becomes safer as more blocks pile on top. Algorand was designed around a different target. Its protocol, based on research by Silvio Micali and colleagues, us…
Anyone can promise to store a file. The hard part is proving, again and again, that the file is still there without downloading it each time. Filecoin is built around that problem. Storage providers seal client data i…
Businesses that want to put supply-chain records or product data on a public ledger need predictable costs. If every transaction has to be paid in a coin whose price moves sharply, budgeting becomes guesswork. VeChain…
Gold is simple to understand and awkward to hold: bars need vaults, insurance and paperwork, and most gold products insert layers between the owner and the metal. Tether Gold takes the same approach as other tokenized…
Many networks pay for work that is easy to measure, such as bytes stored or compute cycles delivered. Bittensor aims at a harder category: work whose value is judged, like the quality of a model's answer or a predicti…
Most stablecoins face the same two tasks: prove that every token is backed, and let people use the token on the networks where they already are. Global Dollar takes a direct approach to both. It is issued by Paxos Dig…
Developers often face a choice between two ecosystems. Ethereum has the largest base of smart-contract tools, wallets and code, while the Cosmos SDK offers a modular way to build independent chains with fast finality…
The Ethereum Virtual Machine is the most widely used smart-contract environment, but the classic design processes transactions one after another. That keeps things simple and makes throughput hard to raise. Sei's answ…
Ethereum layer-2 networks all try to make transactions cheaper while leaning on Ethereum for security. The main differences are in how they publish transaction data, how they prove the results are correct, and who dec…
Owning gold usually means a trade-off. Physical bars are real and simple to understand, but they are costly to store, insure and move. Gold funds and certificates are easier to hold, but they put more layers between t…
Every proof-of-stake network has to balance two forces. New tokens reward the validators and stakers who secure the chain, while fees and demand decide how much value flows back to holders. Injective makes that balanc…
Uniswap replaces the traditional order book with pools of tokens governed by transparent formulas. Traders interact with smart contracts rather than a matching engine, liquidity providers supply the inventory, and arb…
Many crypto tokens mix several roles at once: a voting right, a claim on fees, a means of payment. World Liberty Financial takes a narrower approach with WLFI. Its official documents describe governance as the token's…
Exchange tokens are often shaped by the company behind them: supply can be adjusted, and value depends heavily on the platform's own decisions. In 2025 OKX changed OKB in a way that ties it more closely to a public ne…
Decentralized exchanges face a basic tension. Traders want the speed and discretion of a professional venue, while a public blockchain shows every order to everyone. Aster describes itself as a privacy-focused decentr…
A dollar stablecoin has to earn trust in two places at once. Off the chain, people need confidence that every token is backed and can be redeemed. On the chain, they need a token that works smoothly with wallets, exch…
Tokenized real-world assets try to join two worlds. Traditional instruments such as Treasury bills come with investor rules and regulated managers. Blockchains offer open transfer and round-the-clock settlement. Ondo…
There are several ways to build a dollar stablecoin. Some hold bank deposits and Treasuries. Others lock up more crypto than the stablecoins they issue, so that a fall in collateral value can be absorbed before it rea…
Starting a DAO usually means writing and auditing a lot of custom code for proposals, voting, treasuries and upgrades. DeXe offers that as shared infrastructure: a set of contracts any community can deploy to create a…
Most proof-of-work coins reward whoever runs the most powerful machines, which puts participation out of reach for most people. Pi Network set out to do the opposite: let ordinary users join from a phone, with securit…
MakerDAO built one of the longest-running decentralized stablecoins, DAI, governed by holders of MKR. Sky is the next stage of that system: a new stablecoin, USDS, a new governance token, SKY, and fixed conversion rou…
Most crypto projects publish roadmaps, teams and long lists of features. PEPE does almost the opposite. Its official site describes a stealth launch with no presale, a single fixed supply, zero taxes on transfers, bur…
Moving value between blockchains usually means trusting a bridge that issues a wrapped copy of the original coin. THORChain takes a different route. It runs its own blockchain whose validators jointly control vaults o…
Many networks use one coin for everything: paying fees, securing the chain and voting. Theta separates those jobs. THETA has a fixed supply and is staked by the nodes that secure the chain, while TFUEL pays for transa…
A blockchain does several things at once: it orders transactions, executes them and publishes the data so anyone can check the result. Celestia separates out that last job. Rollups can run their own execution and post…
Many exchanges issue their own token to reward active users. BGB goes a step further by serving both a trading platform and a self-custody wallet. Bitget has also cut its supply sharply and set out a burn schedule tie…
Aave lets people lend and borrow crypto through smart contracts rather than through a bank. The rules of that system, from which assets are listed to how risk is managed, are set by holders of the AAVE token. AAVE als…
Most dollar stablecoins are minted against bank deposits and short-term government debt. United Stables' U adds another option: institutions can mint it using established stablecoins as well as dollars. It launched na…
Flow is a proof-of-stake layer-1 blockchain that was built for games, applications and digital assets. Its native coin, FLOW, pays every transaction fee, reserves on-chain storage, and rewards the nodes that secure th…
KuCoin Token (KCS) is the native coin of the KuCoin ecosystem. On the exchange it unlocks tiered benefits for holders who stake it; on the KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) it pays for gas; and a monthly buyback-and-burn i…
Bitway is building what it calls DeTradFi: onchain vaults with transparent accounting, connected to strategies that follow traditional risk and custody standards. BTW is the utility and governance token that ties its…
Render (RENDER) is the token of the Render Network, a distributed GPU rendering marketplace built around OTOY's rendering software. Creators burn RENDER to buy work credits, GPU operators receive newly emitted RENDER…
Morpho is an onchain lending protocol built from simple markets that each pair one collateral asset with one loan asset. Vaults and curators sit on top to route deposits across those markets, and the MORPHO token give…
BSV Blockchain describes itself as Bitcoin's original design: an electronic cash system built to handle global transaction volumes without artificial constraints. Its approach is to keep the protocol stable, let block…
Tezos begins from an unusually practical observation: a useful protocol will need to evolve, so the method for changing it deserves the same engineering attention as blocks and transactions. Its answer is a self-amend…
EGLD is the native cryptocurrency of MultiversX, a network built around sharding and a purpose-built virtual machine called SpaceVM. EGLD pays for transactions, secures the network through validator staking, and sits…
XDC Network is an open-source, EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain built for enterprise-friendly use cases such as trade finance and payments. It is secured by masternodes, offers subnets for private deployments, and co…
World — the project behind WLD — describes itself as the real human network: a standard of trust online built around World ID, an anonymous proof-of-human system. The ecosystem includes the World App, the Orb verifica…
Polygon's PoS chain launched with MATIC as its gas and staking token and grew into one of the most used Ethereum-adjacent networks. In 2024 the network replaced MATIC with POL, a token built to do the same jobs while…
Every transparent blockchain asks the same trade: to prove a transaction is legitimate, it publishes the sender, receiver and amount for anyone to read. Zcash was built to break that link between verifiability and dis…
Stable is a payments-focused layer-1 blockchain where USDT0 — a cross-chain form of Tether's USDT — is the native gas token. Payments settle in seconds at sub-cent cost, and the chain is fully EVM-compatible. The STAB…
Quant builds infrastructure for programmable money, aimed mainly at banks, financial institutions and capital markets. Its products connect traditional financial systems with blockchain networks so that payments and s…
Neo is a smart-contract platform that calls its vision the smart economy. Its signature design is a dual-token model: NEO carries governance rights and is indivisible, while GAS pays for using the network. Around that…
JUST describes itself as a builder of DeFi protocols on TRON, aiming to offer all-in-one financial services to its users. Its best-known product is JustLend DAO, a lending market where users supply and borrow TRON ass…
ENA is the governance token of Ethena, the protocol behind the USDe synthetic dollar. ENA holders steer the parameters of the system — what backs USDe, which strategies the protocol may use, and who sits on its Risk C…
Humanity Protocol is a decentralized identity network built around a simple promise: verify anything, store nothing. Its system uses zero-knowledge proofs so a person can prove facts about themselves — age, income, id…
GateToken (GT) is the native asset of GateChain, a public blockchain whose documentation centres on one theme: keeping assets safe even after something goes wrong. GateChain introduces account types and transaction ru…
Venice is an AI platform built around privacy: it states that user prompts are not stored or used for training. VVV is its token, launched on the Base network, and its documented purpose is unusual — staking VVV grant…
Flare describes itself as the blockchain for data: a full-stack layer 1 designed for data-intensive use cases. Instead of treating price feeds and cross-chain verification as add-ons, Flare enshrines them in the proto…
IOTA describes itself as a decentralized blockchain infrastructure to build and secure our digital world. Today's IOTA Mainnet is a layer 1 built around the Move smart-contract language and an object-centric design, w…
Most privacy coins stop at private payments. Beldex took the CryptoNote privacy model it inherited from Monero and tried to build a set of everyday applications around it: encrypted chat, a network layer for masking I…
Jupiter is the best-known swap aggregator on Solana: instead of being one exchange, it searches across many decentralised exchanges and routes each trade through the combination that returns the most tokens. JUP is it…
pump.fun is a token launchpad on Solana built around a simple promise: anyone can create a token that is instantly tradable, with no presale and no team allocation. Its mechanism — a bonding curve that prices tokens b…
Mina Protocol is built around a striking claim: its entire blockchain stays about 22 kilobytes — the size of a few tweets — no matter how much history it accumulates. It achieves this with recursive zero-knowledge pro…
The ticker FET is older than the current wave of AI chatbots. It began as the token of Fetch.ai, a project built around autonomous software agents, and it is now presented as the token of the Artificial Superintellige…
Nexo describes itself as a wealth platform for digital assets: users can buy over a hundred assets, earn interest through flexible and fixed-term savings, borrow against their holdings and swap assets in-app. The NEXO…
A dollar stablecoin is only as useful as the confidence people have that each token is backed. TrueUSD's distinctive approach was to publish reserve attestations far more often than most issuers, and to connect mintin…
Kava is a layer 1 blockchain built on a co-chain architecture: it runs a Cosmos SDK chain and an Ethereum-compatible chain side by side, connected so that assets and developers can move between the two ecosystems. KAV…
BONK is a community token on Solana that describes itself as bridging internet culture and modern finance. Its official site lists an ecosystem spanning DeFi integrations, a BONK-linked exchange-traded product on the…
TRUMP is a meme token issued on Solana and TRON, presented by its official site as the only official Trump meme. The site publishes the contract addresses, the supply schedule and an explicit disclaimer that the token…
Virtuals Protocol describes itself as a society of AI agents with identity, capital, jobs, markets and governance. Its platform lets people create, co-own and transact with AI agents, and VIRTUAL is the token that und…
edgeX is a decentralised trading platform for perpetual futures and spot markets that aims to combine self-custody with the execution quality traders associate with large centralised venues. EDGE is the native asset a…
PancakeSwap is a decentralised exchange that lets people trade tokens straight from their own wallet across many blockchains. CAKE is its native token, used for staking, governance and rewards, and its supply is manag…
Terra Classic is the original Terra blockchain, a proof-of-stake network built with the Cosmos SDK. LUNC is its native staking and fee token. Since its founding company began winding down, the chain has continued unde…
EURC is a euro-backed stablecoin issued by Circle, the company behind USDC. Each token is designed to be redeemable one-for-one for euro, with reserves held at regulated financial institutions in the European Economic…
Dash forked from Bitcoin's codebase in 2014 and added a second layer of network participants above the miners: masternodes, servers that stake collateral to perform services ordinary nodes do not. That second tier is…
Aerodrome is a decentralised exchange on Base built on the vote-escrow model pioneered by Solidly. AERO is its token; holders lock it to receive veAERO voting power, then vote every week on which liquidity pools recei…
Oasis Network is a layer 1 blockchain designed to be scalable and privacy-first. It separates consensus from execution and supports confidential computing, so applications can process encrypted data. ROSE is the nativ…
LayerZero is an omnichain messaging protocol: an open, permissionless framework for moving information between blockchains. Rather than one fixed set of signers, each application chooses its own verifiers. ZRO is the…
Chiliz Chain describes itself as the sports blockchain: an EVM-compatible network built for clubs, brands and developers creating fan experiences. It is best known for Fan Tokens, offered through the Socios.com app. C…
Kite describes itself as the payments layer for the agent economy. It combines an agent interface, a control system called Kite Agent Passport and its own blockchain, Kite Chain, which its site says is live on mainnet…
SUN.io describes itself as the leading DeFi protocol on Tron, offering swaps, staking, earning, liquidity mining and governance. Its documentation covers SunSwap in several versions, the SunCurve stablecoin exchange,…
ether.fi is an Ethereum staking and restaking protocol whose documentation covers staking, liquid products, a cash card, borrowing and governance. Its distinguishing design point is that stakers keep control of their…
Zilliqa is a public blockchain that now describes its focus as mediation before settlement: checking whether two parties are permitted to transact before anything settles, on any chain or settlement rail. Its technica…
Celo is an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain focused on payments, stablecoins and decentralised finance. Its official site describes it as programmable rails for global finance and a widely adopted chain for stablecoin paym…
Immutable presents itself as a growth platform for games, combining player-acquisition tools with a blockchain stack for in-game assets. IMX is the token tied to that stack. This profile sticks to what Immutable's own…
Traders usually have to choose between the speed of a centralized exchange and the transparency of an on-chain one. Lighter's pitch is that it does not have to be a choice: it matches orders off the main chain at high…
Curve is a decentralised exchange focused on stable-value trading, with a lending product and a vote-escrowed governance token, CRV. This profile is built from Curve's own documentation hub and marks anything not stat…
Pyth Network is a market-data oracle: it collects prices from trading firms, exchanges and other data publishers, aggregates them, and delivers them to applications on many blockchains. Its official site positions it…
Most discussions about blockchain speed focus on software: consensus rules, block sizes, execution engines. DoubleZero looks one layer lower, at the cables. Its argument is that validators and trading systems are held…
Zebec Network is a payments company building real-time payroll, crypto cards and payment streaming, with ZBCN as its governance and utility token. This profile is built from Zebec's own site and its MiCA white paper,…
Kaia is an EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain that positions itself as a foundation for stablecoin settlement and onchain finance across Asia. This profile is built from Kaia's own site and documentation, with everythi…
Most online platforms treat automated accounts as a problem to block. Audiera starts from the opposite idea: bots and AI agents are already here, so give them names, roles, wallets and rules, and let them earn next to…
BitTorrent Token (BTT) is a TRC-20 utility token tied to the BitTorrent ecosystem, best known for paying uploaders for faster download speeds in BitTorrent Speed. This profile is built from BitTorrent's own token page…
SPX6900 (SPX) is a meme coin whose official website consists of one tagline: the meme coin out to flip the stock market. This profile reports that official source faithfully and marks everything else — utility, roadma…
Unibase describes itself as a decentralized memory layer for AI agents. It offers long-term memory that carries across sessions and platforms, on-chain identity for agents, and a way for agents to pay for services by…
Gnosis is a long-running Ethereum ecosystem project whose products include Gnosis Chain, an EVM-compatible network secured by GNO staking. This profile is built from Gnosis's own site and the Gnosis Chain documentatio…
Qtum is a blockchain that combines Bitcoin's UTXO transaction model with Ethereum-style smart contracts through a layer it calls the Account Abstraction Layer. This profile is built from Qtum's own site and technology…
The Graph is a blockchain data protocol whose products let developers index, query and stream on-chain data across dozens of networks without running their own data servers. This profile is built from The Graph's own…
Velvet is an on-chain trading ecosystem combining AI tooling, social intelligence and multi-chain execution, spanning a trading app, an AI framework, on-chain vaults and white-label infrastructure. This profile is bui…
Conflux is a layer-1 blockchain built around a Tree-Graph ledger structure that processes blocks in parallel, with a dual-space design spanning its original Core Space and an EVM-compatible eSpace. This profile is bui…
Monad is a proof-of-stake Layer 1 with full Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode compatibility and its own consensus and execution design. MON is the network's native currency. This profile explains how it works using Mo…
Jasmy Incorporated is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2016 that provides IoT platforms and solutions, led by former Sony executives, and associated with the JASMY token. This profile is built from Jasmy's own corpora…
Lido is a liquid staking protocol whose stETH token represents staked Ether, governed by the Lido DAO through the LDO token. This profile is built from Lido's own site and documentation, with everything else marked un…
Telcoin is a financial-services project combining a mobile wallet, multi-currency stablecoins (Digital Cash) and low-cost remittances, governed by the Swiss-based Telcoin Association with TEL as the native token. This…
FLOKI is the utility token of the Floki ecosystem, which spans the Valhalla NFT game, FlokiFi DeFi products, a trading bot, an education platform and the TokenFi tokenization platform. This profile is built from Floki…
In October 2025, TRON's NFT marketplace APENFT relaunched as AINFT, pairing a new white paper with a working product: an AI trading-agent benchmark, a multi-model chat and API service, and TronLink-based Web3 login. T…
Jito is a family of Solana infrastructure products — the JitoSOL liquid staking token, the BAM block-building framework, TipRouter and restaking — governed by holders of the JTO token through the Jito DAO and a Cayman…
ENS is the naming layer of the Ethereum ecosystem: it maps human-readable names like a name ending in .eth to addresses, and it works across chains, apps and wallets. Its official site describes it as the open naming…
BUILDon calls itself the BNB Smart Chain mascot of building, with a mission to make USD1 — the dollar stablecoin linked to World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — a liquid, usable on-chain asset. It has launched a cross-chai…
Ravencoin is a peer-to-peer blockchain built from a fork of Bitcoin's code, with features added specifically for issuing and transferring tokens. Its official site describes a chain where anyone can create a named, li…
Decred began as a forum post. In April 2013 a Bitcointalk user called tacotime sketched a coin named Memcoin2 with an unusual idea: miners would still build blocks, but coin holders would get to vote on whether those…
Starknet is a validity rollup (ZK-rollup) that runs on top of Ethereum, batching transactions off-chain and proving them with STARK cryptography. STRK is its native token, used for staking as the network transitions t…
Falcon Finance calls itself universal collateralization infrastructure, which is a mouthful for a simple ambition: let people deposit Bitcoin, Ether, altcoins, stablecoins or even tokenized gold, mint a dollar-like to…
Pendle is a permissionless yield-trading protocol that wraps yield-bearing tokens, splits them into principal tokens (PT) and yield tokens (YT), and lets both be traded on its own AMM. PENDLE is the protocol's token,…
Akash Network is a decentralised cloud marketplace: developers describe the computing they need, independent providers bid to supply it, and payment streams through on-chain escrow. AKT secures the network through sta…
Sia is a peer-to-peer cloud storage network with no central provider: files are encrypted on the user's device, split into shards and spread across independent hosts. Siacoin (SC) is the network's currency — hosts ear…
Axie Infinity is a universe of collectible creatures called Axies, built around a player-owned economy where in-game assets are tokens players control. AXS (Axie Infinity Shards) is its ERC-20 governance and staking t…
Nexus is building a perpetual futures exchange — a central-limit order book for BTC, ETH and SOL perpetuals, margined in a planned stablecoin called USDX — on an EVM-compatible blockchain of its own. NEX is that block…
AKEDO describes itself as a multi-agent AI framework that turns natural-language prompts into playable games in around two minutes, running on BNB Chain. Its $AKE token pays for creation, powers staking and fee-sharin…
Kusama is a permissionless blockchain that runs an earlier release of Polkadot's code with real economic value, acting as a proving ground for runtime upgrades, on-chain governance and parachains. KSM is its native to…
The Sandbox is a user-generated virtual world where creators build games and experiences with free tools, players explore them, and owners hold virtual LAND and other items as NFTs. SAND is its native currency, used f…
SYRUP sounds playful, but its story begins in the decidedly sober world of institutional loans. Maple was founded in 2019 by former bankers and credit professionals who believed smart contracts could make private cred…
Raydium is a suite of on-chain trading programs on Solana: automated market makers, concentrated liquidity pools, farms, a token launchpad and perpetual futures. Its documentation describes six on-chain programs, each…
TWT has an unusual starting point: it did not fund the wallet that carries its name. Trust Wallet says the token arrived in 2020 without fundraising and reached early supporters through an airdrop. Five years later, t…
ETHGas starts from an unusually concrete frustration: Ethereum may settle valuable transactions, but users still wait for blocks and guess what inclusion will cost. Since November 2024, the project says it has been tu…
OriginTrail's current language is full of AI agents, shared memory and knowledge graphs, but its instincts were formed in warehouses rather than chat windows. The founders spent years confronting a mundane problem: co…
apyUSD is Apyx's yield-bearing companion to apxUSD, an ERC-4626 vault token whose balance never changes while its exchange rate against apxUSD rises as dividend income from the protocol's preferred-share collateral co…
apxUSD describes itself as a Dividend-Backed Dollar: a synthetic, overcollateralized stable asset whose reserve is a basket of variable-rate preferred shares from companies such as Strategy, rather than cash or treasu…
Pieverse approaches crypto from the chat window. Its Purr-Fect Claw product places an AI agent inside familiar messaging apps, then gives that agent a wallet, an identity and a catalogue of skills. PIEVERSE belongs to…
Compound is one of the oldest money markets in DeFi: you supply crypto, it earns interest, and borrowers pay that interest against collateral. The COMP token is what decides how that machine is tuned. The interesting…
Basic Attention Token was born out of an argument with the modern web. The man making it was Brendan Eich, who had already created JavaScript and co-founded Mozilla and Firefox. His new company, Brave, built a browser…
EigenCloud calls itself the verifiable cloud for the agentic era. It offers building blocks for trustworthy computing, AI answers and data, all secured by stake on EigenLayer, where people stake ETH and EIGEN. This pr…
For most of its life, Onyxcoin was an ERC-20 token, a governance asset living on someone else's chain. Today it pays for gas on Onyx Mainnet, an independent network with its own validators, and the documentation goes…
Decentraland is a virtual world in which land, wearables and other items are blockchain assets owned by their holders, and the world's direction is set by a DAO. MANA is the world's currency token, used in its marketp…
DigiByte is one of the old guard. It launched in January 2014, when most of today's networks did not exist, and it has spent the years since collecting technical ideas that bigger chains later talked about. Its most d…
Most blockchains started as general-purpose computers and picked up stablecoins along the way. Plasma turns that around. Its documentation opens with a history lesson: banks were built around branches, card networks a…
MX is MEXC's exchange token, built on Ethereum in 2018 with an initial and maximum supply of 1 billion. In 2021 the community approved a buyback-and-burn programme aimed at shrinking circulation to under 100 million,…
Waves is a community-based stack of decentralized open-source technologies for building scalable, user-friendly applications. It has its own blockchain, its own programming language (Ride), and an ecosystem of exchang…
Harmony's documentation opens with a mission statement rather than a spec sheet: "to scale trust and create a radically fair economy." Behind it is one of the earliest production attempts at a fully sharded proof-of-s…
Lisk is a cost-efficient, fast and scalable Layer 2 network built on Optimism's OP Stack and secured by Ethereum. It is part of Optimism's Superchain initiative, and its documentation still maintains a section for the…
Story is a purpose-built layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for intellectual property. Creators register IP as on-chain IP Assets, attach usage terms, and let smart contracts handle licensing, royalties and disp…
Most of the internet is rented. Pages live on servers someone pays for every month, and when the bill stops, the page disappears. Arweave was built around a stubborn opposite idea: pay one time, and your data stays. I…
Convex Finance is a protocol that lets liquidity providers on Curve, Frax and f(x) Protocol earn boosted rewards without locking tokens individually. Users deposit LP tokens into Convex, the protocol applies its colle…
DeepBook is a fully on-chain order book for DeFi, built on the Sui blockchain. It positions itself as the shared liquidity layer for the whole Sui ecosystem: one order book that every app can plug into. DEEP is the to…
Centrifuge describes itself as infrastructure for onchain asset management: the rails that let asset managers, fintechs and DeFi protocols launch tokenized funds. It is one of the earliest tokenization platforms and n…
Gala is the ecosystem around GalaChain, a blockchain whose official gateway, GalaConnect, lets users bridge, send, wrap and manage tokens across GalaChain, Ethereum, Solana and TON. The ecosystem includes a decentrali…
Most crypto exchanges are companies with servers. dYdX set out to be something else: a trading venue where the matching engine, the website and the data pipes are all open source, and where the company that wrote the…
Genius Terminal calls itself the first private and final onchain terminal — a trading environment for spot, perpetuals, pre-launch tokens and yield from one balance. GENIUS is the project's token, first distributed th…
ApeChain is a dedicated blockchain built to power the ApeCoin ecosystem, and APE is its native gas token. It is built as an Arbitrum Orbit chain that settles to Arbitrum One and, through it, to Ethereum. APE itself no…
Ankr provides Web3 infrastructure: the RPC connections apps use to talk to blockchains, services for launching new chains, and staking products. Its token, ANKR, recently gained a new role through Ankr Forge, a reward…
eCash calls itself cash for the internet: a proof-of-work blockchain built to handle payments at mass scale. Its signature feature is combining Nakamoto proof of work with Avalanche consensus, which the project says b…
Walrus describes itself as the verifiable data platform for AI builders: open-source, decentralised storage that keeps data persistent, portable and under its owner's control. It is part of the Sui stack, created by M…
ZKsync is a network of interoperable chains secured by zero-knowledge proofs and settling to Ethereum. It has increasingly focused on institutional finance, with a private chain product called Prividium. ZK is the net…
Mobile networks belong to carriers, and carriers belong to shareholders. Helium asked a different question: what if ordinary people put small radio boxes in their windows, and the network paid them for it? HNT is the…
SafePal is a crypto wallet maker offering air-gapped and Bluetooth hardware wallets, a mobile app, a browser extension and a Telegram mini app. SFP, the SafePal Token, is a utility token with a fixed supply of 500 mil…
TAG is the native utility and governance token described in Tagger’s documentation. Workers can earn it for data tasks, while customers can use it for datasets and services. The documentation is readable, but the main…
Golem Network is an open-source, decentralised platform where anyone can use or share computing power without relying on centralised cloud providers. Those who offer resources are called Providers; those who use them…
Vision, or VSN, is Bitpanda’s unified Web3 token. It replaced BEST and PAN through fixed conversion rates and is designed for staking, governance, fees and loyalty benefits. This guide separates functions available to…
Moonbeam Protocol now describes itself as the network where AI agents settle up: a settlement layer built on Base where autonomous agents find each other, agree terms and get paid only against proof of work. GLMR, onc…
Vaulta describes itself as the operating system for Web3 banking and open finance, empowering users, institutions and developers to build financial tools that are secure, compliant and permissionless. Its token, A, re…
WEMIX3.0 is an Ethereum-compatible public blockchain from the games company WEMADE, run by 40 vetted node partners under a stake-based proof-of-authority design. WEMIX is its native coin: it pays for activity on the c…
1inch describes itself as the first DEX aggregator. It has grown into intent-based and cross-chain swaps across more than 18 networks, alongside a wallet, a portfolio tracker, a payment card and developer tools. 1INCH…
Aethir offers on-demand GPU computing through a distributed cloud, aimed at AI companies and gaming studios. Instead of one company owning every data centre, independent providers contribute hardware and are paid for…
SKL is the utility token securing SKALE Network. It is delegated to validators, used in governance and paid by developers for chain resources. Users transact with sFUEL instead, an important distinction in understandi…
Cap calls itself verifiable money. It describes a three-sided platform for USD yield, private credit and financial guarantees, headquartered in New York. Depositors earn dollar yield, borrowers take unsecured dollar l…
Nano describes itself as a digital currency for everyone, without fees. It has no mining, no printing and no minting, sends in under half a second, and the Nano Foundation says a transaction uses less energy than a Go…
GoPlus describes itself as a decentralised security layer for Web3, offering token security checks, a browser extension that scans transactions, a security API for developers and a token-locking platform. It is now ex…
COTI now presents itself as the only privacy coin you can actually spend. Its new app brings together private travel booking, a crypto card and a no-signup VPN, with COTI used for payments, cashback and subscriptions.…
Band Protocol operates an oracle network built with the Cosmos SDK. BAND is its native utility and staking token, rewarding validators and delegators while giving stakers a say in protocol decisions.
UMA calls itself a decentralized truth machine. Its optimistic oracle can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain, and it is used by prediction markets including Polymarket. The UMA token provides the or…
Secret Network describes itself as the first mainnet blockchain with privacy-preserving smart contracts, launched in 2020. Today it pitches itself as a confidential computing layer for Web3 and AI: developers can keep…
Verge is an open-source proof-of-work cryptocurrency with 30-second blocks, five mining algorithms and a fully issued supply of about 16.5 billion XVG. Its official wallet also includes paid, encrypted wallet-to-walle…
o1.exchange calls itself the onchain everything exchange: a trading terminal, a swap that searches many venues for the best route, and a launchpad for new tokens. It says it is the first full-featured trading terminal…
RaveDAO describes itself as a movement to bring millions of electronic dance music fans into crypto. It hosts events, gives every attendee an NFT as proof they were there, and donates a share of event proceeds to char…
Re calls itself the internet capital market for insurance risk. It offers onchain access to regulated reinsurance, with yield paid from real insurance premiums rather than token rewards. Its products include reUSD and…
Cartesi's tagline is "Any code. Ethereum's security." It lets developers build app-specific rollups that run a full Linux stack inside a verifiable virtual machine. CTSI is the project's token. This profile uses Carte…
Allora calls itself a self-improving, decentralised AI network that harnesses community-built machine-learning models for accurate, context-aware predictions. Instead of relying on one model, it coordinates many, lear…
Bedrock describes its 2.0 release as an intelligent yield engine for Bitcoin capital. It moves beyond staking to route BTC across structured and institutional-grade yield opportunities, with liquid tokens such as uniB…
Kyber Network describes itself as a multi-chain crypto trading and liquidity hub that connects liquidity from different sources so trades get the best rates. It lets people swap tokens, earn from providing liquidity,…
Audius is a music streaming service built on the Open Audio Protocol, a community-run network for publishing and streaming audio. AUDIO is the token that node operators stake to secure that network, that unlocks extra…
Casper calls itself the real-world-ready blockchain: one of the most complete and adaptable networks for real assets, real solutions and real people. Its current plan, published as the Casper Manifest, adds EVM compat…
RedStone describes itself as a data engine for blockchains: a modular oracle network that delivers price feeds, proof of reserves and other data to more than 200 clients across 110+ chains. Founded in April 2021, it n…
XVS is the governance and incentive token of Venus Protocol, a decentralised lending system associated with BNB Chain. Holders can stake it for voting power and vault rewards, while the Venus Prime programme links lon…
peaq describes itself as everything robots and machines need to do business on every chain. It wants to turn machines into a new asset class, with tools to activate, finance and scale them. PEAQ is the network's token…
Babylon describes itself as an infrastructure project building Bitcoin collateral solutions. Its Trustless Bitcoin Vaults let holders lock native Bitcoin in a self-custodial vault and use it as collateral elsewhere, s…
Axelar calls itself the gateway to onchain finance. It connects institutions to the wider onchain ecosystem through one integration, covering token launches, trading and yield. Its Interchain Token Service lets a toke…
Gravity describes itself as an ultra-fast parallel EVM Layer 1 blockchain built by Galxe, delivering 1 gigagas per second of throughput and sub-second finality to over 25 million users. It combines a pipelined AptosBF…
Holoworld calls itself the agentic app store: a place to create, play and fundraise for AI-powered apps and characters. Its tools include Ava Studio for AI video, HoloLaunch for fundraising, and developer tools for bu…