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The first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap

Created in 2009 by an unknown inventor using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin is considered to be the first wide-scale implementation of blockchain technology

From just a few cents in 2009, BTC’s value skyrocketed to close to $20,000 in 2017

Released in 2012 by Ripple Labs, a company founded by American programmer, Jed McCaleb

XRP enables real-time payments and settlements with greater transaction speeds and lower costs

Aiming to provide solutions for financial institutions, XRP is already in use by many well-known brands, such as the Bank of America and UBS

Created by Russian programmer, Vitalik Buterin, and launched in 2015

Ethereum has received international recognition and support from technology giants such as Microsoft and Intel

In addition to payments, Ethereum also supports ''smart contracts''

Created in August 2017, when Bitcoin underwent a ''hard fork''

Designed to be a solution to the backlog of transactions Bitcoin was experiencing

Bitcoin Cash’s larger block size (eight times that of Bitcoin) and improved hash rate enable faster transaction speeds at a lower cost

Created in 2016, when Ethereum underwent a ''hard fork''

After Ethereum’s founders switched to a new blockchain, the original Ethereum platform became Ethereum Classic

Ethereum Classic has a significantly lower market cap than its namesake, but is still a popular cryptocurrency

Released in 2011 by former Google engineer, Charles Lee

Litecoin is based on Bitcoin’s technology, but offers quicker processing times and a larger number of tokens

The first cryptocurrency to implement SegWit, a method of speeding up transaction times without compromising the underlying blockchain technology

Developed by software programmer, Evan Duffield

Originally launched in 2014 as XCoin, rebranded as Dash in 2015

Based on Bitcoin’s technology, Dash’s additional infrastructure enables faster transactions and higher liquidity

Unlike other cryptoassets, Dash is a decentralised autonomous organization (DAO)

Launched in 2014 and cofounded by Jed McCaleb, the creator of Ripple

Operates on a unique consensus algorithm rather than mining

Average confirmation time for a Stellar transaction is extremely fast — a mere few seconds to complete — at an extremely low cost

Stellar can facilitate transactions between multiple currencies, whether fiat or digital

Created in 2014 by Da Hongfei

NEO was modeled after ETH, and is also known as the ‘Chinese Ethereum’

Designed to be easily modified and to have no forking ability, NEO faces fewer challenges in the Chinese market than other cryptoassets

Overall supply of NEO is hard-capped at 100 million tokens, to be released gradually into circulation

Released in early 2018, EOS quickly became one of the top ten cryptos

Similar to Ethereum in function, EOS was designed for faster transactions and extreme scalability

EOS’s powerful open-source infrastructure could potentially support thousands of commercial scale decentralised applications (DApps)

EOS uses a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS), rather than a mining-based blockchain

Launched in September 2017, Cardano quickly reached a multibillion dollar market cap

Inspired by Ethereum, Cardano aims to utilise blockchain technology for far more than just payments

Enables developers to create their own blockchain apps using the platform

Cardano’s dual-layer structure runs each layer separately, as opposed to Ethereum, where both layers are intertwined

Launched in 2015

IOTA is based on a proprietary ''blockless'' blockchain called Tangle

Has secured strategic partnerships with well-known brands such as Volkswagen

IOTA is paving the way for a decentralised network to power the Internet of Things (IoT)

Released in 2016

Zcash encrypts the contents of shielded transactions, using a novel form of zero-knowledge cryptography called zk-SNARKs to verify their validity

Ensures that the sender, recipient, and amount transferred are all kept private

Zcash has a fixed total supply of 21 million units, similar to Bitcoin

Originally founded in Shanghai in 2017, Binance now operates out of Taiwan

BNB is a utility cryptocurrency used to pay transaction exchange fees

Gives traders a discount on the nominal 0.1% of the transaction’s value and supports transactions of over 150 cryptoassets