A Deep Dive Into How the Top 10 DAOs Work

## Τι Είναι το 0x (ZRX);

Το 0x είναι ένα πρωτόκολλο υποδομής που επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να ανταλλάσσουν εύκολα token ERC20 και άλλα περιουσιακά στοιχεία στο blockchain [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ethereum/) χωρίς να βασίζονται σε κεντρικοποιημένους μεσάζοντες όπως τα παραδοσιακά χρηματιστήριο [κρυπτονομισμάτων](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-cryptocurrencies).

Το 0x καταφέρνει να λειτουργεί ως αποκεντρωμένο χρηματιστήριο χρησιμοποιώντας μια συλλογή [έξυπνων συμβολαίων](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/smart-contract) ανοιχτού κώδικα, που μπορούν να ελεγχθούν δημόσια και δουλεύουν μαζί για να δημιουργήσουν ένα ευέλικτο πρωτόκολλο διαπραγματεύσεων που οι προγραμματιστές μπορούν εύκολα να συνδυάσουν στα προϊόντα τους.

Το πρωτόκολλο τροφοδοτείται από ένα βοηθητικό token ERC20 γνωστό ως ZRX. Οι κόμβοι (γνωστοί και ως αναμεταδοτές) που διαχειρίζονται ένα βιβλίο εντολών εκτός αλυσίδας και προσφέρουν εφαρμογές που απευθύνονται στον χρήστη που παρουσιάζουν αυτές τις πληροφορίες και επιτρέπουν στους χρήστες να πραγματοποιούν, να συμπληρώνουν και να ακυρώνουν συναλλαγές, πληρώνονται σε token ZRX (ως τέλη διαπραγματεύσεων). Το ZRX μπορεί επίσης να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τη συμμετοχή στη διακυβέρνηση πλατφόρμας, βοηθώντας τους κατόχους να προτείνουν και να ψηφίζουν αλλαγές στο πρωτόκολλο.

Το 2019, το 0x [ανακοίνωσε](https://blog.0xproject.com/0x-roadmap-2019-part-4-proposal-for-stake-based-liquidity-incentive-52c16558df29) μια γενική αναμόρφωση του token ZRX, προσθέτοντας επιπλέον λειτουργικότητα, επιτρέποντας στους κατόχους ZRX να αναθέσουν το μερίδιό τους σε έναν διαμορφωτή αγοράς για να κερδίσουν παθητικές ανταμοιβές διατηρώντας παράλληλα την ικανότητα ψήφου τους.

### Ποιοι Είναι οι Ιδρυτές του 0x;

Το 0x ιδρύθηκε το 2016 από τους Will Warren και Amir Bandeali. Οι δύο συνιδρυτές συνεχίζουν να υπηρετούν την πλατφόρμα, με τον Will Warren ως Διευθύνοντα Σύμβουλο της 0x, ενώ ο Amir Bandeali είναι Τεχνικός Διευθυντής.

Η πλατφόρμα ξεκίνησε μετά από μια επιτυχημένη αρχική προσφορά νομισμάτων ([ICO](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico)) το 2017, κατά τη διάρκεια της οποίας συγκέντρωσε συνολικά 24 εκατομμύρια δολάρια — με υποστήριξη από εξέχουσες επενδυτικές εταιρείες συμπεριλαμβανομένων των Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital και FBG Capital.

Πριν από το ξεπούλημα του ICO, ο Warren εργάστηκε σε αρκετούς ερευνητικούς ρόλους και για λίγο κατείχε το ρόλο του τεχνικού συμβούλου στο [Basic Attention Token (BAT)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/basic-attention-token/). Ο Bandeali, από την άλλη πλευρά, αποφοίτησε από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Illinois με πτυχίο στα Χρηματοοικονομικά και κατείχε αρκετές εμπορικές θέσεις πριν συνιδρύσει το 0x.

Τώρα η ομάδα αποτελείται από περισσότερα από 30 άτομα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων μηχανικών, ερευνητών και σχεδιαστών που εργάζονται για να ενημερώσουν την πλατφόρμα και να διατηρήσουν την ομαλή λειτουργία της.

### Τι Κάνει το 0x Μοναδικό;

Σε αντίθεση με πολλά άλλα πρωτόκολλα αποκεντρωμένων χρηματιστηρίων Ethereum, το 0x υποστηρίζει τόσο αντικαταστατά (ERC20) όσο και μη αντικαταστατά (ERC-723) token. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για διαπραγματεύσεις χωρίς ανάγκη αδειοδότησης ενός ευρέος φάσματος περιουσιακών στοιχείων, δίνοντας στους κατόχους έναν τρόπο να αγοράσουν, να πουλήσουν και να ανταλλάξουν τη συντριπτική πλειονότητα των περιουσιακών στοιχείων Ethereum μέσω περισσότερων από δώδεκα διαφορετικών εφαρμογών.

Το πρωτόκολλο 0x μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί σε ένα ευρύ φάσμα περιπτώσεων χρήσης, συμπεριλαμβανομένων αγορών τύπου eBay για ψηφιακά αγαθά και υπηρεσίες, γραφεία εξωχρηματιστηριακών διαπραγματεύσεων, λειτουργικότητα χρηματιστηρίων για πρωτόκολλα DeFi και απλά αποκεντρωμένα χρηματιστήρια.

Αν και το 0x μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τη δημιουργία εξαιρετικά ευέλικτων προϊόντων χρηματιστηρίων, μπορεί επίσης να ενσωματωθεί σε προϊόντα όπου η ανταλλαγή περιουσιακών στοιχείων είναι δευτερεύον χαρακτηριστικό — όπως για αγορές εντός παιχνιδιού και πλατφόρμες διαχείρισης χαρτοφυλακίου.

Στο πρωτόκολλο 0x, οι λήπτες ρευστότητας πληρώνουν μια προμήθεια με τη μορφή token ZRX — αυτή η χρέωση χρησιμοποιείται για την παροχή κινήτρων για τη ρευστότητα του διαμορφωτή αγοράς (αναμεταδότη). Οι χρήστες πρέπει επίσης να πληρώσουν ένα τέλος πρωτοκόλλου σε Ether (ETH), το οποίο χρησιμοποιείται για την πληρωμή του αερίου που χρησιμοποιείται σε οποιεσδήποτε συναλλαγές ολοκληρώνουν. Ως πρωτόκολλο ανοιχτού κώδικα, το 0x δεν λαμβάνει κανένα μερίδιο από αυτά τα έσοδα και υποστηρίζεται από token ZRX που ξεκλειδώνονται ως κίνητρα της ομάδας και των προγραμματιστών — μαζί με την αρχική του χρηματοδότηση ICO.

#### Σχετικές Σελίδες

Μάθε για το [Uniswap (UNI)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/uniswap/) — μια σύγχρονη εναλλακτική του 0x.

Κάνε κλικ [εδώ](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/how-to-use-uniswap) για να μάθεις πώς να χρησιμοποιείς το Uniswap ως αρχάριος.

Ρίξε μια ματιά στο [Δίκτυο Ferrum (FRM)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ferrum-network/) — μια πλατφόρμα που χρησιμοποιείται για τη δημιουργία χρηματοοικονομικών προϊόντων που βασίζονται σε blockchain.

Μείνε ενημερωμένος για τα τελευταία νέα με το [Blog του CoinMarketCap](https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/).

### Πόσα Νομίσματα 0x (ZRX) Υπάρχουν σε Κυκλοφορία;

Όπως πολλά ψηφιακά στοιχεία, το token ZRX έχει μια σταθερή μέγιστη παροχή που δεν θα ξεπεραστεί ποτέ. Αυτή έχει οριστεί στο 1 δισεκατομμύριο ZRX. Αυτήν τη στιγμή, περίπου τα τρία τέταρτα αυτής της μέγιστης προσφοράς κυκλοφορούν ήδη, και μόνο ένα μικρό μέρος αυτής είναι κλειδωμένο για ποντάρισμα ανταμοιβών.

Σε αντίθεση με πολλά πρωτόκολλα, το 0x δεν περιέγραψε ποτέ δημόσια το ποσοστό εκπομπής για νέα token ZRX, καθιστώντας δύσκολο να πούμε πόσο χρόνο θα χρειαστεί μέχρι να διαλυθεί πλήρως η κυκλοφορούσα παροχή. Ωστόσο, με το 50% της προσφοράς να κυκλοφορεί όταν το token ξεκίνησε τον Αύγουστο του 2017 και το 75% της προσφοράς που κυκλοφόρησε τον Οκτώβριο του 2020, αυτό υποδηλώνει ότι μπορεί να επιτύχει πλήρη διάλυση στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 2020.

Σύμφωνα με μια [πρώιμη καταχώριση ιστολογίου](https://blog.0xproject.com/announcing-the-0x-token-zrx-launch-d4c097d893c7) από τον Διευθύνοντα Σύμβουλο του 0x, Will Warren, το μισό της συνολικής προσφοράς token ZRX πωλήθηκε σε επενδυτές στο ICO του 2017, ενώ το 15% το καθένα προορίζεται για τον βασικό οργανισμό ανάπτυξης του 0x και το εξωτερικό ταμείο ανάπτυξης έργων, ενώ ένα 10% προορίζεται για την ιδρυτική ομάδα με τετραετές χρονοδιάγραμμα θεμελίωσης και αρχή θεμελίωσης το ένα έτος, και το υπόλοιπο 10% διατηρείται για πρώιμους υποστηρικτές και συμβούλους.

### Πώς Διασφαλίζεται το Δίκτυο 0x;

Το 0x είναι χτισμένο στο blockchain Ethereum. Ως αποτέλεσμα, προστατεύεται ενάντια σε επιθέσεις από τις συνδυασμένες προσπάθειες του τεράστιου δικτύου εξόρυξης και κόμβων Ethereum.

Όσον αφορά τα υποκείμενα έξυπνα συμβόλαια, η έκδοση 3 του πρωτοκόλλου έχει ελεγχθεί από πολλές τρίτες εταιρείες, οι οποίες έλεγξαν εάν υπήρχαν υποκείμενα τρωτά σημεία, κερκόπορτες και περιττές λειτουργίες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του [ConsenSys Diligence](https://diligence.consensys.net/audits/2019/09/0x-v3-exchange/) — δεν βρέθηκαν σημαντικά ζητήματα.

Ωστόσο, εντοπίστηκε μια ευπάθεια στο έξυπνο συμβόλαιο v2.0, το οποίο διορθώθηκε αργότερα από την βασική ομάδα 0x. Αυτή η ευπάθεια [εντοπίστηκε](https://blog.0xproject.com/shut-down-of-0x-exchange-v2-0-contract-and-migration-to-patched-version-6185097a1f39) από ανεξάρτητο ερευνητή και δεν έγινε αντικείμενο εκμετάλλευσης. Το 0x συνεχίζει να χρησιμοποιεί ένα γενναιόδωρο πρόγραμμα επιβράβευσης για εντοπισμό σφαλμάτων, για να βοηθήσει στην ανίχνευση και την επιδιόρθωση τυχόν προβλημάτων πριν από την αξιοποίησή τους.

### Πού Μπορείς να Αγοράσεις 0x (ZRX);

Το ZRX είναι επί του παρόντος διαθέσιμο για διαπραγμάτευση σε περισσότερες από 200 διαφορετικές χρηματιστηριακές πλατφόρμες, αλλά οι πιο δημοφιλείς περιλαμβάνουν το [Coinbase Pro](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/coinbase-pro/), το [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/binance/) και το [BitMax](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/bitmax/). Επί του παρόντος μπορεί να διαπραγματεύεται με μια σειρά άλλων κρυπτονομισμάτων, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT) και Ethereum (ETH), καθώς και με πολλά παραστατικά νομίσματα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των δολαρίων ΗΠΑ (USD), ευρώ (EUR) και γουόν Νότιας Κορέας (KRW).

Θέλεις να μετατρέψεις τα παραστατικά σου νομίσματα σε κρυπτονομίσματα; [Μάθε πώς](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/).

0x Protocol

Ledger

Coinbase

Trust Wallet

MetaMask

Atomic wallet

Welcome to 0x Protocol's Community channel aggregated by CoinMarketCap.

Ethereum

Shiba Inu

Chainlink

UNUS SED LEO

Uniswap

1inch Network

Rocket Pool

PAX Gold

Frax Share

Livepeer

Threshold

ether.fi

Arkham

SKALE

Galxe

Olympus v2

Smart Reward Token

ether.fi Staked ETH

X2Y2

Osaka Protocol

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Compound.

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.

Compound

Bancor is an ecosystem of decentralized, open-source protocols that promote on-chain trading and liquidity.

Its main protocol, Carbon, is a decentralized trading protocol allowing users to perform automated trading strategies using custom on-chain limit orders and range orders, with the option of combining orders together to create automated buy low, sell high strategies.

By design, Carbon orders are irreversible on execution, easily adjustable directly on-chain, and resistant to MEV sandwich attacks. These capabilities give users an unprecedented level of control and automation to perform novel trading strategies on-chain.

Fast Lane, a separate open-source arbitrage protocol, allows any user to perform arbitrage between Bancor ecosystem protocols and external on-chain exchanges and redirect arbitrage profits back to the Bancor ecosystem.

All Bancor ecosystem protocols are governed by the BancorDAO via staked BNT.

Bancor

UMA was founded in 2018 by Allison Lu and Hart Lambur, two ex Goldman Sachs traders, with the goal of making global markets universally fair, accessible, secure and decentralized.

The team drew inspiration from traditional finance derivatives to define an open-source protocol to allow anyone, anywhere, to design and build trustless financial contracts.

Basic Attention Token, or BAT, is the token that powers a new blockchain-based digital advertising platform designed to fairly reward users for their attention, while providing advertisers with a better return on their ad spend.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Basic Attention Token.

This experience is delivered through the Brave Browser, where users can watch privacy-preserving adverts and receive BAT rewards for doing so. On the other hand, advertisers can deliver targeted ads to maximize engagement and cut down losses due to ad fraud and abuse.

The Basic Attention Token itself is the unit of reward in this advertising ecosystem, and is exchanged between advertisers, publishers and users. Advertisers pay for their advertising campaigns in BAT tokens. Out of this budget, a small portion is distributed to advertisers, while 70% is distributed to users — whereas the intermediaries that typically drive up advertising costs are cut out of the equation to improve cost-efficiency.

Basic Attention Token launched in 2017 following one of the fastest sell-out initial coin offerings (ICOs) of all time, with the platform raising a total of $35 million in under a minute. Since then, it has rolled out its attention-based advertising experience to users in most countries through its Brave Rewards program.

As of November 2020, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada had the most active advertising campaigns.

Basic Attention Token

Ren (REN) is an open protocol built to provide interoperability and liquidity between different blockchain platforms.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Ren.

Formerly known as Republic Protocol, Ren launched RenVM, its virtual machine mainnet, in May 2020, having completed a $34 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2018.

The protocol’s native token, REN, functions as a bond for those running nodes which power RenVM, known as Darknodes.

Ren aims to expand the interoperability, and hence accessibility, of decentralized finance (DeFi) by removing hurdles involved in liquidity between blockchains.

OMG Network, formerly known as OmiseGo, is a non-custodial, layer-2 scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain. As an Ethereum scaling solution, OMG Network is designed to allow users to transfer ETH and ERC20 tokens significantly faster and cheaper than when transacting directly on the Ethereum network.

The network is based on a novel scaling solution called MoreViable Plasma, which uses a sidechain architecture to group several transactions off-chain into a batch, which can then be verified as a single transaction on the Ethereum root chain. According to OMG Network, this technology has the potential to scale Ethereum to thousands of transactions per second (TPS) — instead of the 10 to 14 tps Ethereum 1.0 is currently capable of.

The network is powered by the OMG utility token, which can be used as one of the payment methods for fees on the OMG Network, and will eventually be stakable — helping to secure the network in return for rewards.

OMG Network

Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contributing to customizable liquidity pools.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Balancer(https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-balancer.

The protocol operates a few types of pools:

Private pools give the owner governance over the pool, and make the person the sole contributor of liquidity to the pool. Also, all the parameters are mutable by the owner.

Shared pools are for those who want to become liquidity providers (LPs). The LPs are rewarded with the Balancer Pool Tokens (BPTs).

Smart pools are similar to private pools but are controlled by a smart contract. They also reward using BPTs and allow anyone to contribute liquidity to the pool.

Balancer

Synthetix is building a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol that any protocol can tap into for various purposes. Its deep liquidity and low fees serve as a backend for many exciting protocols on both Optimism and Ethereum. Many user-facing protocols in the Synthetix ecosystem, such as Kwenta (Spot and Futures), Lyra (Options), Polynomial (Automated Options), and 1inch & Curve (Atomic Swaps), tap into Synthetix liquidity to power their protocols. Synthetix is built on Optimism and Ethereum mainnet. The Synthetix Network is collateralized by SNX, ETH, and LUSD, enabling the issuance of synthetic assets (Synths). Synths track and provide returns on the underlying asset without requiring one to directly hold the asset. This pooled collateral enables an array of on-chain, composable financial instruments backed by liquidity from Synthetix. Some of the most exciting upcoming releases from SNX are Perps V2, which hopes to enable low-fee on-chain futures trading through the usage of off-chain oracles, and Synthetix V3, which aims to rebuild the protocol to achieve its earliest goal, being a fully permissionless derivatives protocol. Learn more about Synthetix on their blog or by joining the SNX Discord.

The platform aims to broaden the cryptocurrency space by introducing non-blockchain assets, providing access to a more robust financial market.

Synthetix

Ontology is a project designed to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. It is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.

The Ontology blockchain is a high speed, low cost public blockchain. It is designed to bring decentralized identity and data solutions to Web3, with the goal of increasing privacy, transparency, and trust. To achieve this, users and enterprises are provided with the flexibility to build blockchain-based solutions that suit their needs, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Through Ontology’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Ontology ensures frictionless compatibility with Ethereum, the first step in the creation of the Ontology Multi-Virtual Machine and further interoperability for the chain.

At its launch, Ontology chose to forego the popular initial coin offering (ICO) model in favor of a series of community distributions and airdrops of its ONT cryptocurrency.

This helped to quickly establish both organic price discovery and a passionate community and helped the project to avoid subsequent regulatory scrutiny.

For example, for a brief period any person who signed up for the Ontology newsletter received an airdrop of free 1,000 ONT, which reached a value of $10 per token soon after the token became listed on major exchanges like Binance.

Ontology launched its own MainNet on June 30, 2018 and has been up and running smoothly since.

Ontology

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that is able to take real-world data and supply it to on-chain applications, while also connecting APIs to smart-contracts to facilitate the exchange of information between on-chain and off-chain data sources.

By supplying reputable, verifiable real-world data to blockchains, Band Protocol unlocks a range of new use cases for developers to explore — since they can now use any type of real-world data as part of their decentralized application (DApp) logic, including sports, weather, random numbers, price feed data and more.

Band Protocol initially launched as an ERC-20 project on the Ethereum blockchain in September 2019, but transitioned to the Cosmos network in June 2020 with the release of Band Protocol 2.0. The new protocol is built on BandChain using the Cosmos SDK. Oracle nodes on BandChain not only relay data but are also involved in block production/validation, giving them a dual role.

BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol ecosystem and is used as collateral by validators involved in fulfilling data requests, as well as the main medium of exchange on BandChain — being used to paying for private data.

Band Protocol

Apps use ICON to operate cross-chain seamlessly, build momentum and gain reputation. ICON's Cross-Chain Framework simplifies cross-chain development with its easy-to-use xCall messaging standard and connections to secure bridging protocols.

ICON

LRC is the Ethereum-based cryptocurrency token of Loopring, an open protocol designed for the building of decentralized crypto exchanges.

In 2020, the average daily trading volume of the entire cryptocurrency market fluctuated in the approximate range of $50-$200 million. Most of that trading is conducted on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges — online platforms operated by private companies that store users’ funds and facilitate the matching of buy and sell orders.

Such platforms have a number of downsides common to all of them, so a new type of exchange — decentralized— has emerged to try to alleviate these disadvantages. However, fully decentralized exchanges are not without their own flaws.

Loopring’s purported goal is to combine centralized order matching with decentralized on-blockchain order settlement into a hybridized product that will take the best aspects of both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

LRC tokens became available to the public during an initial coin offering (ICO) in August 2017, while the Loopring protocol was first deployed on Ethereum mainnet in December 2019.

Loopring

Tezos is a high-performing blockchain and open-source platform for assets and applications, with a strong focus on code security, on-chain governance, and decentralization. Tezos 2.0, the upcoming step in the evolution of Tezos, aims to improve scalability (via layer 2s), composability, and to implement support to mainstream programming languages (like Javascript, Typescript, Python, and many others).

Initially built with formal verification in mind, the Tezos protocol enables builders to avoid bugs when developing smart contracts, making it particularly suited to applications that require a high degree of security and certainty.

Tezos’ LPoS (Liquid Proof-of-Stake) consensus mechanism enables any stakeholder to take part, directly or by delegation, in the consensus process, and to be rewarded for securing the network. Rather uniquely, Tezos’ on-chain governance system also enables stakeholders to create and vote on protocol upgrade proposals. This pioneering system allows the protocol to self-amend and upgrade itself without leading to a split (or fork) in the blockchain, empowering the community without slowing down innovation.

First proposed in 2014 and launched in 2018, the Tezos Mainnet has a proven track record of running uninterrupted ever since, having earned a strong reputation for technical excellence and a supportive community.

Tezos

Curve is a decentralized exchange for stablecoins that uses an automated market maker (AMM) to manage liquidity.

Launched in January 2020, Curve is now synonymous with the decentralized finance (DeFi) phenomenon, and has seen significant growth in the second half of 2020.

In August, Curve launched a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), with CRV as its in-house token. The DAO uses Ethereum-based creation tool Aragon to connect multiple smart contracts used for users’ deposited liquidity. Issues such as governance, however, differ from Aragon in their weighting and other respects.

Curve DAO Token

Storj, pronounced as “storage,” is an open-source cloud storage platform. Basically, it uses a decentralized network of nodes to host user data. The platform also secures hosted data using advanced encryption.

In a white paper published in December,2014, Storj was first introduced to the world as a concept. It was to be a decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted cloud storage platform.

Two years later, an updated white paper was published. Here, a decentralized network  — connecting users who need cloud storage space with those who have hard drive space to sell — was described. The platform was launched in late 2018.

People with hard drive space and good internet connectivity can participate in the network. They become a unit in the network, called a node. Space providers are rewarded by Storj tokens.

Storj

The EOS Network is an open-source blockchain platform that prioritizes high performance, flexibility, security, and developer experience. As a third-generation blockchain platform powered by the EOS virtual machine, EOS has an extensible WebAssembly engine for deterministic execution of near fee-less transactions.

EOS is the market's most scalable, divisible, and programmable digital currency. EOS is a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) network where stakeholders have the authority to select node operators. Due to the decentralized nature of the token distribution on EOS, power doesn't reside in the hands of block miners, but rather all parties involved in the EOS Network.

The EOS Network is attractive because of its technology and community. It allows developers to build projects that other blockchains cannot support. The network is straightforward and has multiple tools and educational resources to help users acclimate to the blockchain.

Yearn.finance is an aggregator service for decentralized finance (DeFi) investors, using automation to allow them to maximize profits from yield farming.

Its goal is to simplify the ever-expanding DeFi space for investors who are not technically minded or who wish to interact in a less committal manner than serious traders.

Launched in February 2020, the service, formerly known as iEarn, has seen huge growth in recent months as new products debuted and developers released in-house token YFI.

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Qtum (pronounced ‘“quantum”)  is a proof-of-stake (PoS) smart contract open-source blockchain platform and value transfer protocol. It aims to bring together the strengths of Bitcoinand Ethereumin one chain. Qtum is built on Bitcoin's UTXO transaction model, with the added functionality of smart contract execution and DApps. Recently, the platform added support for DeFi applications. As of March 2021, there are more than 20 tokens created on the Qtum blockchain.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Qtum.

The project was announced in March 2016 and held an ICO a year after, in March 2017, which brought its founders $15 million USD. The Qtum main chain was released on Sept.13, 2017. Initially, the Qtum coin was issued as a ETH-20 token, but with the launch of the mainnet, it was converted to native blockchain.

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Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity. It uses the zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology that allows nodes on the network to verify transactions without revealing any sensitive information about those transactions.

Contrary to a common misunderstanding, the majority of cryptocurrencies on the market, including Bitcoin (BTC), are not anonymous, but rather pseudonymous; while they do not explicitly reveal the identities of their users, each user has their own public address or addresses which can be traced back to them via the methods of data science and blockchain forensics.

Zcash transactions, on the other hand, still have to be relayed via a public blockchain, but unlike pseudonymous cryptocurrencies, ZEC transactions by default do not reveal the sending and receiving addresses or the amount being sent. There is an option, however, to reveal this data for the purposes of auditing or regulatory compliance.

Zcash was first released on October 28, 2016, and it was originally based on Bitcoin’s codebase.

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SKALE, described as a modular blockchain network, is designed to bring scalability to Ethereum. SKALE is the only blockchain network capable of running an unlimited number of fast, on-demand, pooled-security Blockchains with zero gas fees to end users. These individual chains are known as SKALE chains and can be dapp-specific or shared.

The project’s website says it wants to enable people to build and run DApps in a “decentralized modular cloud built for real-world needs and configured for your requirements.” This emphasis on decentralization isn’t at the expense of security.

According to SKALE, those who build on this platform can run Solidity smart contracts “thousands of times faster at a fraction of the mainnet cost” — with games and content streaming services among the projects that already take advantage of its infrastructure.