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This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.
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This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.
| 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 | January 3, 2009 | Satoshi Nakamoto | PoW with Nakamoto Consensus | Yes (scripts) | No | No | Probabilistic | UTXO | First and most well-known blockchain. | ||
| Litecoin | Oct 8, 2011 | Charlie Lee | LTC | PoW | Yes (scripts) | Yes | |||||
| Peercoin | Aug 19, 2012 | PPC | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | [1] | |||||
| Primecoin | Jul 7, 2013 | Sunny King | XPM | PoW | Work is finding long Cunningham chains of prime numbers | ||||||
| MazaCoin | 2014? | Payu Harris, AnonymousPirate [2] | MAZA | Initially created for the Oglala Lakota Tribe, [2] but never quite used for that purpose | |||||||
| Namecoin | ? | NMC | Allows users to register names; precursor to NFTs | ||||||||
| Ethereum | Jul 30, 2015 | 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 | |||
| Base | June 15, 2023 | Coinbase | ETH | Optimistic rollup | Yes | EVM-compatible Layer-2 on Ethereum | [3] | ||||
| Optimism | ? | Optimism PBC | ETH | Optimistic rollup | Yes | EVM-compatible Layer-2 on Ethereum | [3] | ||||
| StarkNet | ? | StarkWare | STRK | ZK-rollup | Yes | Layer-2 on Ethereum | |||||
| Ethereum Classic | Jul 20, 2016 | ETC | PoW | Yes | No | No | Split from Ethereum due to The DAO hack earlier that month | ||||
| Bitcoin Cash | Aug 1, 2017 | BCH | PoW | [4] | split from Bitcoin | ||||||
| Cardano | Sep 27, 2017 | Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood | ADA | DPoS | Yes | No | No | Probabilistic | UTXO | ||
| TRON | Jun 24, 2018 | TRON | DPoS | Yes | No | ||||||
| Tezos | Jun 30, 2018 | Arthur and Kathleen Breitman | XTZ | PoS | Yes | No | |||||
| Bitcoin SV | Nov 2018 | BSV | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | split from Bitcoin Cash, itself split from Bitcoin | |||||
| Lightning Network [ relevant? ] | 2018 | n/a | ? | Layer-2 on Bitcoin | |||||||
| Algorand | Jun 10, 2019 | Silvio Micali and others | ALGO | PoS | Yes | No | No | Immediate | |||
| Solana | March 16, 2020 | Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal | SOL | PoS with Proof of History (PoH) | Yes | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | ||
| Polkadot | May 26, 2020 | Parity Technologies | DOT | Started with PoA then moved to PoS | Yes (in parachains) | No | No | Account-balance | |||
| Avalanche | September 10, 2020 | Emin Gün Sirer, Maofan "Ted" Yin and Kevin Sekniqi | AVAX | PoS | Yes (in C-Chain) | No | No | Immediate | UTXO | ||
| MobileCoin | Dec 6, 2020 | MobileCoin Inc. (founded by Josh Goldbard and Shane Glynn) | MOB | ||||||||
| DESO | Jan 18, 2021 | Nader al-Naji (aka diamondhands) and others | DESO (formerly BTCLT, CLOUT) | social media; flagship app BitClout; name acquired in Sep 2021 | |||||||
| Terra Classic | ? | 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) | |||||||
| Stellar | Apr 6, 2016 | XLM | BFT | ? | ? | Yes | ? | [1] | |||
| EOS.IO | Jul 1, 2017 | ? | EOS | DPoS | Yes | No | ? | ? | [1] | ||
| LBRY | ? | LBC | |||||||||
| Ripple | June 2012 | Ripple Labs | XRP | BFT | No | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | Blockchain is known as XRP Ledger. Smart contract capabilities are being added. | |
| Stacks | ? | STX | |||||||||
| Vertcoin | Jan 8, 2014 | VTC | |||||||||
| Hedera Hashgraph | ? | HBAR | Yes | No | Yes | Account-balance | Uses a directed acyclic graph instead of a chain per se | ||||
| Zcash | Oct 28, 2016 [1] | ZEC | PoW | Yes | uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy | ||||||
| Monero | Apr 18, 2014 | XMR | PoW | No | Yes | [1] | |||||
| Bitcoin Gold | BTG | PoW | Yes (scripts) | No | |||||||
| Dogecoin | DOGE | PoW | No | No | |||||||
| Polygon | ? | ? | MATIC | PoS | Yes | No | No | Immediate | Account-balance | network anchored to Ethereum | [3] |
| BNB Smart Chain (formerly Binance Smart Chain) | ? | Binance | BNB | PoS and PoA | Yes | No | Yes | Immediate | ? | BNB chain is a permissioned blockchain. | |
| IOTA | Jul 11, 2016 | IOTA Foundation | MIOTA | PoW/TaPoW[ clarification needed ] | No | No | Yes | Immediate | UTXO | Smart contract capabilities are being added. | |
| Nano | October 4, 2015 | Colin LeMahieu | XNO | Open Representative Voting | No | No | No | Instant (less than1 second) with deterministic finality | Account-balance | ||
| NEAR | 24 Sep, 2020 | NEAR Foundation | NEAR | Started with PoA then moved to PoS | Yes | No | No | Finality | Account-balance |