Cryptocurrencies – Overview
Bitcoin (BTC )
Digital gold, Sound Money
Price for 1 BTC
62.976,00 $
2,5%
- Hard cash, digital gold
- Largest network, highest security
- Longest history without incidents
Ethereum (ETH )
Smart contracts and DeFi
Price for 1 ETH
2.465,82 $
4,4%
- Largest Smart Contract Platform
- Technology for decentralized finance and NFTs
- Almost all tokens are based on Ethereum (ERC-20, NFTs)
BNB (BNB )
Save trading fees on Binance
Price for 1 BNB
565,66 $
1,1%
- 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
142,56 $
6,7%
- Very high transaction speed also for smart contracts
- Energy efficiency
- Possibly better trade-off between scaling, security and decentralization
XRP (XRP )
Universal currency for banks
Price for 1 XRP
0,5874 $
0,3%
- "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)
Lido Staked Ether (STETH )
Tokenized ETH 2.0
Price for 1 STETH
2.464,48 $
4,3%
- 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
0,1051 $
1,5%
- Meme Coin (1 Doge = 1 Doge)
- Very low transaction fees
- Positive community
TRON (TRX )
Blockchain platform, scalable?
Price for 1 TRX
0,1513 $
1,1%
- DApp platform with high scalability
Cardano (ADA )
Third-generation blockchain
Price for 1 ADA
0,3506 $
2,4%
- Fast and inexpensive transactions (in seconds)
- Interoperability between different blockchains
- Platform for blockchain applications and smart contracts
Avalanche (AVAX )
Customizable PoS blockchain platform
Price for 1 AVAX
26,62 $
8,5%
- Scalable & low fees
- Network consists of Exchange (X), Platform (P) & Contract (C) Chain
- EVM support and smart contract migration
Shiba Inu (SHIB )
Internet Phenomenon & Memetoken
Price for 1 SHIB
0,000014 $
3,4%
- 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
Chainlink (LINK )
Decentralized oracle network
Price for 1 LINK
11,21 $
3,4%
- 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
340,16 $
6,8%
- Bitcoin without high transaction fees
- Scaling should process directly "on-chain”
- Digital cash
Polkadot (DOT )
The bridge between blockchains
Price for 1 DOT
4,25 $
2,2%
- Multichain model
- Interoperability between chains, private and public
- Next-Generation blockchain
Price for 1 LEO
5,73 $
0,6%
- 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.
Uniswap (UNI )
Governance Token of the Uniswap Exchange
Price for 1 UNI
6,81 $
1,1%
- Token of the largest decentralized exchange
- Governance via Uniswap
- Potentially also revenue sharing
Litecoin (LTC )
Digital Cash
Price for 1 LTC
65,45 $
1,1%
- Code fork of Bitcoin with faster transactions
- Basically a test network
- Long standing in the market
NEAR Protocol (NEAR )
Cloud collective with improved contribution and incentivization via EVM
Price for 1 NEAR
4,38 $
3,3%
- Interoperability to many blockchains
- Climate neutral blockchain
- Developers receive 30% of fees from smart contracts
Internet Computer (ICP )
potential of the cloud, but decentralized
Price for 1 ICP
8,08 $
-0,9%
- Fast transactions
- Low storage costs
- Users do not need a wallet for dApps
Monero (XMR )
Anonymous digital cash
Price for 1 XMR
175,09 $
2,2%
- 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)
Stellar (XLM )
Decentralized Ripple
Price for 1 XLM
0,0960 $
0,1%
- Cross-border payment (replace Swift)
- No miners
- Minimal transaction time and cost (3 - 5 seconds; 0.00001 XLM)
Ethereum Classic (ETC )
Code is law
Price for 1 ETC
18,80 $
2,9%
- A principled community that adheres to the original values
Aave (AAVE )
The DeFi protocol with flash loans
Price for 1 AAVE
150,10 $
6,7%
- 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.
Cronos (CRO )
DeFi competition for Ethereum
Price for 1 CRO
0,0826 $
2,5%
- 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
Filecoin (FIL )
decentralized P2P cloud storage
Price for 1 FIL
3,69 $
3,1%
- Low storage costs, about $24 per tebibyte per year.
- Focus on long-term incentivization to keep storage available
- Storage Providers: show that data is stored securely and correctly and compute create cryptographic proofs
Hedera (HBAR )
Trust layer for the Internet
Price for 1 HBAR
0,0516 $
2,1%
- High number of transactions per second
- Very low fees
- Smart contracts
VeChain (VET )
Supply chain blockchain
Price for 1 VET
0,0226 $
3,5%
- 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
Fantom (FTM )
fast Ethereum 2.0 with useful additions
Price for 1 FTM
0,6318 $
-2,3%
- Fast, low-cost transactions
- Integration of oracles like Chainlink
- 4% - 13% interest on staked capital
Cosmos Hub (ATOM )
Internet of blockchains
Price for 1 ATOM
4,51 $
3,3%
- Scalable blockchains
- Consensus layer (tendermint) separate from application layer
- Modularity
THORChain (RUNE )
Decentralized Cross Chain Exchange
Price for 1 RUNE
4,46 $
4,0%
- Crypto exchange cross blockchain
- Trust-minimized
- Without KYC or middlemen
Theta Network (THETA )
Decentralized streaming network
Price for 1 THETA
1,40 $
0,4%
- Decentralized streaming platform with incentive system
- Experienced team
- Renowned partners
Maker (MKR )
Evidence-free loans against security deposit
Price for 1 MKR
1.523,86 $
0,8%
- DAI Stablecoin Issuer
- Loan for ETH
- Largest Decentralized Finance application
Polygon (MATIC )
Layer 2 Scaling for Ethereum
Price for 1 MATIC
0,3982 $
3,4%
- Scaling for Ethereum via side chain
- Low transaction costs
- Fast transactions
Algorand (ALGO )
PoS smart contract platform
Price for 1 ALGO
0,1314 $
3,1%
- Low transaction fees
- Fast transaction processing within 5 seconds
- Exclusively Proof-of-Stake
Bitcoin SV (BSV )
Satoshi's „vision“
Price for 1 BSV
48,60 $
2,9%
- Extremely large blocks, theoretical scalability
- Claim to enforce Satoshi Nakamoto's actual vision
- But Craig Wright is a Fraud
BitTorrent (BTT )
Decentralized peer-to-peer network
Price for 1 BTT
0,000001 $
1,1%
- World's largest P2P file sharing platform
- More than 100 million monthly active users
- Use of unused upload capacities of users
Klaytn (KLAY )
open source blockchain for the metaverse
Price for 1 KLAY
0,1350 $
2,0%
- Open Source
- GameFi and art as main focus
- Direct link to Open Sea
EOS (EOS )
Scalable smart contracts
Price for 1 EOS
0,5086 $
4,1%
- Very low transaction fees
- Highly scalable, several thousand transactions per second
- Smart contracts /DApps with the goal: decentralization of everything.
MultiversX (EGLD )
via sharding to scalability
Price for 1 EGLD
27,37 $
5,0%
- Secure Proof of Stake: randomization of a wide variety of processes in the consensus mechanism
- Metachain that authenticates block headers from shards
- Roles: Validators, Observers, Fishermen
Axie Infinity (AXS )
Popular play-to-earn game on Ethereum
Price for 1 AXS
4,90 $
3,8%
- Axie creatures are tradable NFTs
- Axies can be multiplied with Small Love Motion (SLP)
- Axie Infinity Shards (AXS) are used as governance tokens, for payment and for staking
