Monero (XMR) launched in April 2014 as a Bytecoin fork by "thankful_for_today" on Bitcointalk forum. This privacy-focused cryptocurrency distinguished itself from Bitcoin through its commitment to anonymous transactions, implementing a…
Arweave (AR) is a decentralized storage protocol founded in 2017 by Sam Williams and William Jones, initially named Archain. The protocol's core architecture uses a blockweave structure with Proof of…
Celestia (TIA), founded by Mustafa Al-Bassam and Ismail Khoffi in 2019, revolutionized the blockchain space with its October 31, 2023 mainnet launch, introducing the first modular blockchain focused on data…
THORChain (RUNE), conceived at a 2018 Binance hackathon, revolutionizes cross-chain cryptocurrency trading by enabling direct swaps between assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Built on Cosmos SDK, the protocol implements an…
Kaspa (KAS) represents a breakthrough in blockchain technology through its innovative directed acyclic graph (DAG) architecture. This design stems from the GhostDAG protocol, pioneered by researchers Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv…
Bittensor, founded by Jacob Robert Steeves and Ala Shaabana under the Opentensor Foundation in 2021, represents a groundbreaking fusion of AI and blockchain. The platform utilizes TAO tokens and a…
VeChain (VET), launched in 2015 by former Louis Vuitton China CIO Sunny Lu as a Bitse subsidiary, revolutionized blockchain technology through supply chain transparency. After migrating from Ethereum in 2018,…
The Injective Protocol (INJ), founded in 2018 by Eric Chen and Albert Chon, evolved from a decentralized exchange (DEX) into a comprehensive Layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos SDK. The…
Pepe Coin (PEPE) emerged on April 19, 2023, as a cryptocurrency inspired by the famous Pepe the Frog meme. Built on Ethereum's blockchain as a deflationary token where transactions burn…
Optimism (OP), founded in 2019 by Jinglan Wang and Karl Floersch, is a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum using optimistic rollups. It launched its mainnet in January 2021, with…