Cryptocurrencies – Overview
Bitcoin (BTC )
Digital gold, Sound Money
Price for 1 BTC
113.091,00 $
-0,6%
- Hard cash, digital gold
- Largest network, highest security
- Longest history without incidents
Ethereum (ETH )
Smart contracts and DeFi
Price for 1 ETH
4.030,26 $
-1,3%
- Largest Smart Contract Platform
- Technology for decentralized finance and NFTs
- Almost all tokens are based on Ethereum (ERC-20, NFTs)
XRP (XRP )
Universal currency for banks
Price for 1 XRP
2,62 $
0,2%
- "Bitcoin for banks" (bank to bank transfers)
- High number of transactions possible (1,500 per second)
- Transactions take only a few seconds (3.5 - 4 seconds)
BNB (BNB )
Save trading fees on Binance
Price for 1 BNB
1.112,18 $
-1,3%
- Discount system on Binance trading platform
- Quarterly coin burn from Binance acts like dividend
- Cashback on Binance credit card
Solana (SOL )
Potential Ethereum killer
Price for 1 SOL
195,16 $
-1,9%
- Very high transaction speed also for smart contracts
- Energy efficiency
- Possibly better trade-off between scaling, security and decentralization
USDC (USDC )
stark regulierter Dollar Stablecoin
Price for 1 USDC
0,9999 $
0,0%
- Strictly regulated in America
- Support from major stock exchanges
- ERC-20 tokens in the EVM ecosystem: also available as Algorand ASA, Avalanche ERC-20, Flow FT, Hedera SDK, Solana SPL, Stellar asset and TRON TRC-20.
Lido Staked Ether (STETH )
Tokenized ETH 2.0
Price for 1 STETH
4.029,47 $
-1,3%
- 1:1 tokenization from ETH to stETH
- stETH are freely tradable while they generate staking rewards
- Leverage of Lido stETH in DeFi possible
Dogecoin (DOGE )
Much crypto wow, Memecoin
Price for 1 DOGE
0,1939 $
-2,4%
- Meme Coin (1 Doge = 1 Doge)
- Very low transaction fees
- Positive community
TRON (TRX )
Blockchain platform, scalable?
Price for 1 TRX
0,2974 $
0,4%
- DApp platform with high scalability
Cardano (ADA )
Third-generation blockchain
Price for 1 ADA
0,6440 $
-2,1%
- Fast and inexpensive transactions (in seconds)
- Interoperability between different blockchains
- Platform for blockchain applications and smart contracts
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC )
Bridge to Ethereum via ERC-20 token
Price for 1 WBTC
113.051,00 $
-0,6%
- De facto interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum
- KYC required for mining WBTC
- Regular audits
Chainlink (LINK )
Decentralized oracle network
Price for 1 LINK
17,86 $
-1,1%
- Connecting real world data with blockchains (oracle).
- Actually used by many DeFi applications
- Reliable data provider
Bitcoin Cash (BCH )
Digital cash
Price for 1 BCH
561,90 $
0,6%
- Bitcoin without high transaction fees
- Scaling should process directly "on-chain”
- Digital cash
Stellar (XLM )
Decentralized Ripple
Price for 1 XLM
0,3178 $
-1,9%
- Cross-border payment (replace Swift)
- No miners
- Minimal transaction time and cost (3 - 5 seconds; 0.00001 XLM)
Price for 1 LEO
9,64 $
2,9%
- Discounts and benefits for holders
- LEO are repurchased piecemeal (token burn) to achieve value appreciation
- Tokens available for investment on Bitfinex's IEO platform, Tokinex.
Avalanche (AVAX )
Customizable PoS blockchain platform
Price for 1 AVAX
19,53 $
-2,6%
- Scalable & low fees
- Network consists of Exchange (X), Platform (P) & Contract (C) Chain
- EVM support and smart contract migration
Hedera (HBAR )
Trust layer for the Internet
Price for 1 HBAR
0,1941 $
-5,6%
- High number of transactions per second
- Very low fees
- Smart contracts
Litecoin (LTC )
Digital Cash
Price for 1 LTC
97,08 $
-2,9%
- Code fork of Bitcoin with faster transactions
- Basically a test network
- Long standing in the market
Monero (XMR )
Anonymous digital cash
Price for 1 XMR
342,98 $
-0,1%
- Coin with the highest level of privacy
- Sender, receiver, transaction amount and address are all anonymous
- Flexible block size (the more transactions, the larger the block)
Shiba Inu (SHIB )
Internet Phenomenon & Memetoken
Price for 1 SHIB
0,000010 $
-1,4%
- Meme token on Ethereum, pushed by Elon Musk & Vitalik Buterin.
- Featured in WoofPaper, created by Ryoshi
- Buterin donated a large portion to the COVID India Relief Fund
Cronos (CRO )
DeFi competition for Ethereum
Price for 1 CRO
0,1496 $
-0,7%
- Lower fees
- More environmentally friendly according to the platform, due to the use of Proof of Authority
- Higher number of transactions than on the Ethereum Chain
Zcash (ZEC )
Anonymous Digital Cash
Price for 1 ZEC
316,91 $
-3,4%
- Anonymous payment method
- Focus on privacy and security
- Selective disclosure of transactions possible
Polkadot (DOT )
The bridge between blockchains
Price for 1 DOT
3,06 $
-1,4%
- Multichain model
- Interoperability between chains, private and public
- Next-Generation blockchain
Uniswap (UNI )
Governance Token of the Uniswap Exchange
Price for 1 UNI
6,35 $
-1,6%
- Token of the largest decentralized exchange
- Governance via Uniswap
- Potentially also revenue sharing
Aave (AAVE )
The DeFi protocol with flash loans
Price for 1 AAVE
229,74 $
-1,8%
- Staking based on the Safety Module (SM), Staker earn Safety Incentives (SI) in the form of AAVE along with a share of the protocol fees.
- Staking consists of AAVE and an AAVE/ETH duo
- Ecosystem Incentives (EI) for lending and borrowing.
NEAR Protocol (NEAR )
Cloud collective with improved contribution and incentivization via EVM
Price for 1 NEAR
2,24 $
-3,0%
- Interoperability to many blockchains
- Climate neutral blockchain
- Developers receive 30% of fees from smart contracts
Ethereum Classic (ETC )
Code is law
Price for 1 ETC
16,03 $
-1,6%
- A principled community that adheres to the original values
Internet Computer (ICP )
potential of the cloud, but decentralized
Price for 1 ICP
3,06 $
-3,1%
- Fast transactions
- Low storage costs
- Users do not need a wallet for dApps
Algorand (ALGO )
PoS smart contract platform
Price for 1 ALGO
0,1832 $
-5,0%
- Low transaction fees
- Fast transaction processing within 5 seconds
- Exclusively Proof-of-Stake
Cosmos Hub (ATOM )
Internet of blockchains
Price for 1 ATOM
3,12 $
-0,9%
- Scalable blockchains
- Consensus layer (tendermint) separate from application layer
- Modularity
VeChain (VET )
Supply chain blockchain
Price for 1 VET
0,0168 $
-1,9%
- Comprehensive management solution, for instance through co-determination via voting rights
- Private individuals cannot set up nodes
- Proof of authority: authority masternodes append blocks to the blockchain
