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A lot of blockchains claim to be the “Improved Bitcoin,” but DASH might be the best one of them all. source DASH offers all of the usual “blockchain-as-mainstream-currency” features: One second transaction

NEM, short for “New Economy Movement,” is a blockchain smart contract platform with one of the best websites in the entire game. Seriously, check it out. I’ve never had a better experience doing preliminary

Is It All Going Towards Sex & Drugs? 🤔 Monero is the most popular privacy-focused cryptocurrency in the world. As of the time of this writing (Jan 11th, 2018), it is one of only 14 cryptocurrencies

Musicoin is a music distribution protocol that claims to offer great streaming royalty rates and a ethical approach to music sales. Music is perhaps the most frequently “revolutionized” industry in the

IOTA is a Directed Acrylic Graph (DAG) based cryptocurrency that enables fast, high frequency, no fee transactions. This is designed to facilitate new and improved implementations of Internet of Things

Bitconnect is a company that claims to offer stable investment returns of about 1% per day by matching bitcoin lenders with borrowers. It faces several credible allegations of being a ponzi scheme. If

Ethereum Classic is the less popular of the two major Ethereum blockchain branches. Following the theft of about $50 million in ETH in 2016, the Ethereum Foundation led a hard fork to return stolen tokens

OmiseGO is an attempt to create a standard payment processing solution for the world, in the form of a decentralized exchange powered by blockchain technology. source: Payment processing is a complicated

Qtum is a Value Transfer Protocol (VTP) blockchain that aims to combine the best features of Bitcoin and Ethereum. source: qtum.org This is the third blockchain in a row that is competing to provide a

Lisk is a blockchain that enables people to build decentralized apps and customized tokens, a lot like Ethereum does. source: lisk.io Blockchain applications can do anything that a normal application does,

Cardano is an increasingly popular blockchain project which uses a rigorous scientific process to develop a scalable, secure cryptocurrency. source: This top 50 list is in order based on a market snapshot

ZCash is an anonymous cryptocurrency that uses zero knowledge proofs to verify transactions while keeping the sender, recipient, and total value secret. Anonymous cryptocurrency is one of the most

Tether is a cryptocurrency token that is strictly pegged to $1 USD, with each token being backed by a dollar of fiat currency held in reserve. source: tether.io . The Tether token has been remarkably stable

Waves is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platform with a full-featured wallet app attached. weird logo, lol The idea is simple enough: Waves is a platform where any business can issue digital tokens.

Stratis is a blockchain-as-a-service platform that aims to help companies to more easily build/use private blockchain-based applications. source: stratisplatform.com Today most blockchain projects are

HShare is trying to become a sidechain service that allows value to be transferred between any two other blockchains… although the details seem confusing. What is HCash? If you look on the site, you’ll

Stellar is a non-profit organization attempting to connect all people, poor or rich, within a single easily accessible financial network. The ‘lumens’ token powers this network. source: stellar.org If

Ark is a fast, secure blockchain that claims to use “SmartBridge” technology to connect itself with other major blockchains. It is positioned as the “Google of Blockchains,” (in theory) allowing users

Bytecoin is a blockchain built on CryptoNote such that all transactions are completely private. Transactions in this system are immutable and decentralized but not transparent. It is undeniable that

Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform with a diverse set of front-ends and one of the largest communities in blockchain. I knew that I would eventually get to write the post about steem! Steem