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This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.
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[edit]Name | Date created | Created by | Native cryptocurrency | Consensus algorithm | Programmable? | Private?[Note 1] | Permissioned?[Note 1] | Finality | Ledger state | Notes | Refs. | |
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Bitcoin | 2009-01-03 | Satoshi Nakamoto | PoW with Nakamoto Consensus | Yes (scripts) | No | No | Probabilistic | UTXO | First and most well-known blockchain of all; BTC is the most valuable token in terms of market share. | ,[1][2] | ||
Namecoin | 2011-04-18 | Vincent Durham | NMC | PoW | Allows users to register names; precursor to NFTs | |||||||
Litecoin | 2011-10-08 | Charlie Lee | LTC | PoW | Yes (scripts) | Yes | ,[1][3] | |||||
Ripple | 2012-06-? | Ripple Labs | XRP | BFT | No | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | Blockchain is known as XRP Ledger. Smart contract capabilities are being added. | ,[4][5][6] | |
Peercoin | 2012-08-19 | Scott Nadal, Sunny King (pseudonym) | PPC | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | ,[1][7] | |||||
Primecoin | 2013-07-07 | Sunny King | XPM | PoW | Work is finding long Cunningham chains of prime numbers | |||||||
Dogecoin | 2013-12-06 | DOGE | PoW | No | No | [1] | ||||||
Vertcoin | 2014-01-08 | VTC | ||||||||||
Dash | 2014-01-18 | Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan | DASH | PoW & Proof of Service | ||||||||
MazaCoin | 2014-02-07 | Payu Harris, AnonymousPirate[8] | MAZA | PoW | Initially created for the Oglala Lakota Tribe,[8] but never quite used for that purpose | |||||||
Monero | 2014-04-18 | Nicolas van Saberhagen | XMR | PoW | No | Yes | ,[1][7] | |||||
Verge | 2014-10-09 | Justin Sunerok | XVG | PoW | ||||||||
Ethereum | 2015-07-30 | Ethereum Foundation
(founded by Vitalik Buterin and others) |
ETH 1.0 - PoW with Nakamoto consensus, ETH 2.0 - PoS with supermajority | Yes | No | No | ETH 1.0 Probabilistic, ETH 2.0 Economic | Account-balance | ETH is the second most valuable token in terms of market share; switched to PoS (the “merge”) on September 15, 2022; progenitor of Ethereum Classic | [1][9] | ||
Nano | 2015-10-04 | Colin LeMahieu | XNO | Open Representative Voting | No | No | No | Instant (less than1 second) with deterministic finality | Account-balance | |||
Stellar | 2016-04-06 | XLM | BFT | ? | ? | Yes | ? | [7] | ||||
LBRY | 2016-06-23 | LBC | ||||||||||
IOTA | 2016-07-11 | IOTA Foundation | MIOTA | PoW/TaPoW[clarification needed] | No | No | Yes | Immediate | UTXO | Smart contract capabilities are being added. | ,[1][10][11] | |
Ethereum Classic | 2016-07-20 | ETC | PoW | Yes | No | No | Split from Ethereum due to The DAO hack earlier that month | [1] | ||||
Firo | 2016-09-28 | Poramin Insom, Reuben Yap | FIRO | PoW | ||||||||
Zcash | 2016-10-28[7] | ZEC | PoW | Yes | uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy | |||||||
Quorum | 2016-11-22 | ? | Ether | PoA with supermajority voting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Immediate | Account-balance | Enterprise version of Ethereum | [12] | |
EOS.IO | 2017-07-01 | ? | EOS | DPoS | Yes | No | ? | ? | [7] | |||
Hyperledger Fabric | 2017-07-11 | Linux Foundation | N/A | BFT, PoA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Immediate | Account-balance | |||
Hedera Hashgraph | 2017-07-? | HBAR | Yes | No | Yes | Account-balance | Uses a directed acyclic graph instead of a chain per se | |||||
Bitcoin Cash | 2017-08-01 | BCH | PoW | [13] | split from Bitcoin | |||||||
Cardano | 2017-09-23 | ADA | DPoS | Yes | No | No | Probabilistic | UTXO | ,[1][14][15] | |||
R3 Corda | 2017-10-03 | R3 | N/A | PoA (by notaries) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Immediate | UTXO | |||
Bitcoin Gold | 2017-11-12 | BTG | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | [1] | ||||||
Lightning Network[relevant?] | 2018-03-15 | n/a | ? | Layer-2 on Bitcoin | ||||||||
TRON | 2018-06-24 | TRON | DPoS | Yes | No | ,[1][16] | ||||||
Tezos | 2018-06-30 | XTZ | PoS | Yes | No | ,[1][17] | ||||||
Bitcoin SV | 2018-11-15 | BSV | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | split from Bitcoin Cash, itself split from Bitcoin | [1] | |||||
Terra Classic | 2019-04-24? | Do Kwon and others | LUNC (formerly LUNA), UST | Formerly Terra until May 2022; ecosystem collapsed in May 2022 (UST depegged to near-zero and LUNA also went to near-zero) | ||||||||
XDC Network | 2019-06-01 | XinFin | XDC | XDPOS | Yes | No | No | immediate | XDC Network is an layer 1 EVM compatible, environmental friendly, near zero transaction cost with high speed settlement blockchain platform. | |||
Algorand | 2019-06-10 | Silvio Micali and others | ALGO | PoS | Yes | No | No | Immediate | Uses a verifiable random function to choose random validators for consensus | [18] | ||
$PC | 2019-09-16 | $PC | PoS | Yes (scripts) | No | No | $PC future well-known blockchain | [19] | ||||
Solana | 2020-03-16 | SOL | PoS with Proof of History (PoH) | Yes | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | [20] | |||
Polkadot | 2020-05-26 | DOT | Started with PoA then moved to PoS | Yes | No | No | Parachains on Polkadot support smart contracts, but not the relay chain. | [21][22] | ||||
Polygon | 2020-05-30 | ? | MATIC | PoS | Yes | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | Layer 2 network anchored to Ethereum | ||
Binance Smart Chain | 2020-08-29 | Binance | BNB | PoS and PoA | Yes | No | Yes | Immediate | ? | Binance Smart Chain is now merged with Binance chain and called BNB chain. Validators on BNB chain are chosen by BNB Beacon chain validators who are permissioned. Hence, BNB chain is considered permissioned. | [23] | |
Avalanche | 2020-09-23 | AVAX | ||||||||||
NEAR | 2020-09-24 | NEAR Foundation | NEAR | Started with PoA then moved to PoS | Yes | No | No | Finality | Account-balance | [24] | ||
MobileCoin | 2020-12-06 | MobileCoin Inc. (founded by Josh Goldbard and Shane Glynn) | MOB | |||||||||
Stacks | 2021-01-14 | STX | ||||||||||
DESO | 2021-01-18 | Nader al-Naji (aka diamondhands) and others | DESO (formerly BTCLT, CLOUT) | social media; flagship app BitClout; name acquired in Sep 2021 | [25] | |||||||
Internet Computer | 2021-05-06 | DFINITY Foundation (founded by Dominic WIlliams) | ICP | Computation is very cheap; can host websites | ||||||||
Arbitrum | 2021-08-31 | Offchain Labs | ? | Optimistic rollup | Layer-2 on Ethereum | |||||||
Terra 2.0 | 2022-05-28 | LUNA | New blockchain created following the collapse of Terra. | [26] | ||||||||
Aptos | 2022-10-12 | Aptos Foundation | APT | BFT | Yes | No | No | Finality? | Ledger state? | [27] |
- ^ a b Defined as per ISO 22739:2020 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies standard (see https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:22739:ed-1:v1:en):
- Public - blockchain/DLT system which is accessible to the public for use.
- Private - blockchain/DLT that is accessible for use only to a limited group of DLT users.
- Permissioned - requiring authorization to perform a particular activity or activities.
- Permissionless - not requiring authorization to perform any particular activity.
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Block: 0 | Blockchain Explorer". www.blockchain.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Litecoin (LTC) Block: #1". litecoinblockexplorer.net. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Consensus". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ "Consensus Protections Against Attacks and Failure Modes". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ "XRPL's Origin". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Bamakana, S.M. Hosseini; Motavalia, Amirhossein; Bondarti, A. Babaei (April 13, 2020). "A survey of blockchain consensus algorithms performance evaluation criteria". Expert Systems with Applications. 154 (113385): 113385. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113385. S2CID 218814732.
- ^ a b Consunji, Bianca (September 18, 2014). "One Man's Lonely Quest to Build 'Bitcoin for Native Americans'". Mashable. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
- ^ "On Settlement Finality". Ethereum Foundation Blog. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
- ^ "The Coordinator". ConsenSys. September 27, 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ @iota (June 24, 2016). "Launch date of IOTA is set to July 11" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Configure QBFT consensus". IOTA Wiki. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ Larson, Selena (August 1, 2017). "Bitcoin split in two, here's what that means". CNNMoney. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
- ^ "CardanoGenesisBlock NFT". cardanogenesisblock.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Epoch | Cardano Explorer". explorer.cardano.org. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "TRONSCAN | TRON BlockChain Explorer | 波场区块链浏览器". TRON. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Tezos Genesis Block". www.objkt.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Algorand Block #". algoexplorer.io. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Explorer | $PC". lowgas.io. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ "Explorer | Solana". explorer.solana.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ Polkadot [@polkadot] (May 26, 2021). "The network's genesis block was produced 1 year ago today" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Polkadot / Block / 1". blockchair.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ "Consensus Engine". BNB Chain Documentation. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^ "NEAR MainNet is now Community-Operated". NEAR. September 24, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- ^ "Bitclout blockchain explorer | Cloutangel". explorer.cloutangel.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
- ^ Terra 🌍 Powered by LUNA 🌕 [@terra_money] (May 28, 2022). "1/ Block 1 of the brand new Terra blockchain (with a chain_id of "Phoenix-1") has officially been produced at 06:00 AM UTC on May 28th, 2022!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Aptos Tokenomics Overview". Aptos Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2023.