## Τι Είναι το DigiByte (DGB);

Το DigiByte (DGB) είναι ένα [blockchain](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) ανοιχτού κώδικα και πλατφόρμα δημιουργίας περιουσιακών στοιχείων. Η ανάπτυξη ξεκίνησε τον Οκτώβριο του 2013 και το [πρώτο μπλοκ](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/genesis-block) του token DGB εξορύχθηκε τον Ιανουάριο του 2014 ως πιρούνι του [Bitcoin](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/bitcoin/) (BTC).

Ένα μακροχρόνιο δημόσιο blockchain και κρυπτονόμισμα, το DigiByte χρησιμοποιεί πέντε διαφορετικούς αλγόριθμους για τη βελτίωση της ασφάλειας και αρχικά είχε ως στόχο τη βελτίωση της ασφάλειας, της χωρητικότητας και της ταχύτητας συναλλαγών του blockchain του Bitcoin.

Το DigiByte αποτελείται από τρία επίπεδα: ένα «App Store» έξυπνων συμβολαίων, ένα δημόσιο καθολικό και το βασικό πρωτόκολλο που διαθέτει κόμβους που επικοινωνούν για να αναμεταδώσουν συναλλαγές.

### Ποιοι Είναι οι Ιδρυτές του DigiByte;

Το DigiByte δημιουργήθηκε από τον Jared Tate, γνωστό και ως "DigiMan", ο οποίος επέβλεψε τη μεταμόρφωσή του από το στάδιο ανάπτυξής του έως την τρέχουσα διαμόρφωσή του προτού ανακοινώσει ότι αποσύρεται προσωρινά από τη θέση του τον Μάιο του 2020.

Ο Tate έχει επιστρέψει έκτοτε και από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2020 εμφανίζεται και πάλι στενά συνδεδεμένος με την ανάπτυξη του DigiByte.

Η βιογραφία του Tate αναφέρει ότι ασχολήθηκε με το Bitcoin από το 2012 και μετά και έγραψε το πρώτο βιβλίο που γράφτηκε από έναν ιδρυτή blockchain, το "Blockchain 2035: The Digital DNA of Internet 3.0".

Οι λειτουργίες της DigiByte εξαρτώνται όχι μόνο από τους προγραμματιστές, αλλά και από το Ίδρυμα DigiByte, έναν εθελοντικό οργανισμό που είναι επιφορτισμένος με την επίβλεψη της διατήρησης του έργου. Μια τρίτη ομάδα εθελοντών, η DigiByte Awareness Team, είναι υπεύθυνη του μάρκετινγκ και των δραστηριοτήτων προώθησης.

### Τι Κάνει το DigiByte Μοναδικό;

Το DigiByte είναι μια τροποποίηση του Bitcoin που στοχεύει στη διαφοροποίηση των δυνατοτήτων ασφάλειας, ταχύτητας και χωρητικότητας.

Η πρώτη του μορφή ήταν ως blockchain ανοιχτού κώδικα με συνδεδεμένο κρυπτονόμισμα, το DGB. Το δίκτυο έχει πέντε ξεχωριστούς αλγόριθμους που βοηθούν στη διατήρηση της ασφάλειας και αποτρέπουν τους εξορύκτες ASIC (Ειδικό Ολοκληρωμένο Κύκλωμα Εφαρμογής) από το να διαχειρίζονται υπερβολική ισχύ.

Αργότερα, εμφανίστηκε μια άλλη προσφορά, το DigiAssets, με το DGB ως εγγενές token. Το DigiAssets απευθύνεται σε όσους προγραμματιστές θέλουν να λανσάρουν ψηφιακά στοιχεία, αποκεντρωμένες εφαρμογές (DApps) και να κωδικοποιήσουν τα απαραίτητα αντίστοιχα έξυπνα συμβόλαια.

Όλες οι δομές διακυβέρνησης του DigiByte λειτουργούν εθελοντικά, σύμφωνα με τη θεωρία ότι το δίκτυο πρέπει να είναι ανοιχτού κώδικα και προσβάσιμο στο κοινό. Τα τέλη συναλλαγών σε DGB καταβάλλονται στους [εξορύκτες](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/how-long-does-it-take-to-mine-one-bitcoin) για επικυρώσεις στο blockchain.

#### Σχετικές σελίδες:

Μάθε περισσότερα για το Litecoin (LTC) [εδώ](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/litecoin).

Μάθε περισσότερα για το Ethereum (ETH) [εδώ](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ethereum).

Νέος στα κρυπτονομίσματα; Μάθε όλα όσα πρέπει να γνωρίζεις με το [Alexandria](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/crypto-basics), το ειδικό εκπαιδευτικό βοήθημα του CoinMarketCap.

### Πόσα Νομίσματα DigiByte (DGB) Υπάρχουν σε Κυκλοφορία;

Το DigiByte (DGB) είναι ένα κρυπτονόμισμα [απόδειξης εργασίας](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake) (PoW) και οι εξορύκτες κερδίζουν token, ως ανταμοιβή, για την επικύρωση μπλοκ.

Τον Ιανουάριο του 2014, προεξορύχθηκε το 0,5% της συνολικής προσφοράς του DGB (105 εκατομμύρια νομίσματα). Το 50% της προεξόρυξςη κρατήθηκε για αναπτυξιακούς σκοπούς, ενώ το υπόλοιπο διατέθηκε.

Το DGB έχει ανώτατο όριο προσφοράς 21 δισεκατομμυρίων token, με την εξόρυξη να σχηματίζει μια καμπύλη εκπομπών με φθίνουσα έκδοση — η ανταμοιβή μπλοκ μειώνεται κατά 1% κάθε μήνα.

Το DigiByte έχει δηλώσει ότι σκόπιμα δεν προσπάθησε να συγκεντρώσει κεφάλαια ή να δώσει token μέσω μιας αρχικής προσφοράς νομισμάτων ([ICO](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico)) ή παρόμοια πώληση token.

### Πώς Διασφαλίζεται το Δίκτυο DigiByte;

Το DigiByte χρησιμοποιεί συνολικά πέντε αλγόριθμους απόδειξης εργασίας για να ασφαλίσει το blockchain και να μειώσει τον κίνδυνο διπλής δαπάνης ή [επιθέσεων του 51%](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/51-attack).

Οι προσαρμογές δυσκολίας διασφαλίζουν την ανθεκτικότητα ενάντια σε εχθρικές κινήσεις στους κύκλους εξόρυξης, με το DigiByte να ισχυρίζεται ότι έχει το πιο προηγμένο σύστημα ρύθμισης δυσκολίας μεταξύ των κρυπτονομισμάτων.

Με περίπου ένα μπλοκ κάθε 15 δευτερόλεπτα, το blockchain του DigiByte έχει καταφέρει να αποδείξει τη μακροζωία του PoW blockchain του από την κυκλοφορία του, έχοντας πλέον πολύ μεγαλύτερη αλυσίδα PoW από, για παράδειγμα, το Bitcoin.

### Πού Μπορείς να Αγοράσεις DigiByte (DGB);

Το DGB είναι ένα ελεύθερα διαπραγματεύσιμο altcoin και είναι διαθέσιμο σε πολλά χρηματιστήρια. Ζεύγη διαπραγματεύσεων υπάρχουν για κρυπτονομίσματα, stablecoins και παραστατικά νομίσματα.

Τα Bilaxy, [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/binance/), Sistemkoin και [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/okex/) είχαν τη μερίδα του λέοντος στον όγκο για τα ζεύγη διαπραγματεύσεων DGB από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2020.

Είσαι νέος στα κρυπτονομίσματα; Μάθε πώς μπορείς να αγοράσεις Bitcoin ή οποιοδήποτε άλλο token [εδώ](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/).

Binance

DigiByte

Ledger

Trezor

Trust Wallet

Math Wallet

Digibytewallets

Atomic wallet

Grassroots, multi-consensus UTXO blockchain developed, supported, and maintained by global volunteers. http://github.com/DigiByte-Core

Siacoin (SC) is the native utility token of Sia, a blockchain-based distributed, decentralized cloud storage platform. Sia acts as a secure, trustless marketplace for cloud storage in which users can lease access to their unused storage space. Agreements and transactions are enforced with smart contracts, and Siacoin is the medium of exchange for paying for storage on the network. The main goal of the project is to become the "backbone storage layer of the internet."

Sia was originally announced in May 2014 before being revised and re-announced a year later in May 2015. It officially launched in June 2015.

Siacoin

Zilliqa is a public, permissionless blockchain that is designed to offer high throughput with the ability to complete thousands of transactions per second. It seeks to solve the issue of blockchain scalability and speed by employing sharding as a second-layer scaling solution. The platform is home to many decentralized applications, and as of October 2020, it also allows for staking and yield farming.

Development work officially started on Zilliqa in June 2017, and its testnet went live in March 2018. A little over a year later, in June 2019, the platform launched its mainnet.

The native utility token of Zilliqa, ZIL, is used to process transactions on the network and execute smart contracts.

Zilliqa

Holo is a peer-to-peer distributed platform for hosting decentralized applications built using Holochain, a framework for developing DApps that does not require the use of blockchain technology. The goal of Holo is to serve as a bridge between the broader internet and apps built using Holochain, offering an ecosystem and marketplace in which DApps are easily accessible, as they are hosted on the internet by Holo network participants.

The Holo network will be facilitated using a token called HoloFuel, which is actively being tested and will act as an accounting system to pay hosts for their services. In 2018, the project minted an ERC-20 token, HOT — also known as HoloToken — as an "IOU" that will be redeemable for HoloFuel upon launch.

Holo is still in development and is expected to launch for open alpha and beta testing by 2021.

Holo

NEM is a blockchain platform that was launched in March of 2015. It was one of the pioneers of the cryptocurrency industry, and sought to improve on the imperfections found on other chains at the time. It was one of the first non-turing complete chains to feature user-defined tokens (called mosaics), namespaces, multisignature accounts, and a P2P reputation system based on EigenTrust++. Its most notable contribution to the space is the proof-of-importance consensus mechanism, which sought to reward on-chain activity and deter the concentration of wealth commonly associated with proof-of-stake. Its client, NIS, is written in Java.

NEM has a global community. It sees the most utility as an alternative form of payment for businesses and vendors, and has a variety of social media apps built on top of it in Japan, such as nemgraph, a community-driven owned and operated alternative to Instagram.

In December 2021, NEM was hard forked by a pseudonymous team of cryptocurrency experts and enthusiasts alike. Titled Harlock, this hard fork signaled the community’s intent to take NEM from a shadow of its former self into the world’s leading payments platform for on-chain and off-chain media content.

IOST describes itself as an “ultra-fast,” fully fledged and decentralized blockchain network and ecosystem with its own nodes, wallets and based on the “next-generation” consensus protocol dubbed “proof-of-believability.”

IOST

Verge is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain that seeks to offer a fast, efficient, decentralized payments network that improves upon the original Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. It includes additional privacy features including integrating the anonymity network Tor into its wallet, called vergePay, and providing the option of sending transactions to stealth addresses.

The project describes itself as community-driven, relying on volunteers and priding itself on being open source.

Verge was first launched in October 2014 as DogeCoinDark, a fork of Peercoin (PPC). In February 2016, it was renamed Verge in order to rebrand for easier mass-market adoption and to distinguish itself from Dogecoin (DOGE), with which it has no direct connection. The project is now based on the Bitcoin source code.

Verge

Launched in 2017, Dent is a revolutionary digital mobile operator offering eSIM cards, mobile data plans, call minutes top-ups and a roaming-free experience. According to the company website, Dent employs blockchain technology’s powers to create a global marketplace for mobile data liberalization.

Dent has an ambitious roadmap ahead, with plans to expand its services to new markets by the end of 2021. The company has already attracted more than twenty-five million mobile device users, and Dent services are available in more than 140 countries. Enterprise partnerships for Dent include Samsung Blockchain, The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Telecom Infra.

Dent

Ravencoin is a digital peer-to-peer (P2P) network that aims to implement a use case specific blockchain, designed to efficiently handle one specific function: the transfer of assets from one party to another. Built on a fork of the Bitcoin code, Ravencoin was announced on Oct. 31, 2017 and released binaries for mining on Jan. 3, 2018 with what is called a fair launch: no premine, ICO or masternodes. It was named in reference to a TV show Game of Thrones.

Ravencoin

Harmony is a blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows creating blocks in seconds.

According to the project’s website, Harmony is expected to introduce cross-shard contracts and a cross-chain infrastructure by the end of 2021.

Harmony

Theta Fuel

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

VeChainThor (VET) is a versatile enterprise-grade L1 smart contract platform whose origins began in 2015. VeChain is known as a pioneer of real-world enterprise applications, and built a distributed platform powered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, NFC chips and blockchain to help various industries solve data-related challenges.

VeChain solves major blockchain adoption hurdles. The platform uses an intelligent two token model, VET and VTHO, separating the protocol's Store of Value and gas fee payment mechanisms, ensuring costs can be kept low and stable. Fee delegation allows smart contracts to pay gas fees on behalf of business users, and an advanced transaction model allows data to be packaged more efficiently while ensuring finality of data.

VeChain is focused on delivering a wave of incentive-based sustainability dApps through its new platform, VeBetterDAO, working closely with Boston Consulting Group to achieve adoption across enterprise and individual users, and helping  onboard the next billion users to Web3 over the coming decade.

From supply chains to sustainability, VeChain has continuously demonstrated its leading role as a driver of blockchain in business, and is dedicated to its role as a pioneer of driving real world adoption of blockchain technology.

VeChain

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

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

Stellar (XLM) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized network created in 2014 by The Stellar Development Foundation or Stellar.org. The network officially launched in 2015 with the purpose of connecting the world's financial systems and ensuring a protocol for payment providers and financial institutions. The platform is designed to move financial resources swiftly and reliably at minimal cost. Stellar links people, banks, payment processors and allows users to create, send and trade multiple types of crypto.

The basis of the network is its native digital currency - XLM or Lumens. XLM acts as an intermediate currency for operations and is also used to pay transaction fees. How it works: the protocol converts money in a few seconds, first into XLM, and then into the requested currency.

The Stellar payment protocol is based on distributed ledger technology -- an open-source development, community-owned and distributed by community. The crypto asset of the Stellar platform helps with cross-border transactions, overcoming the problems of high fees and slow procedures. XLM is more focused on assisting individuals transfer money than they are with institutions. Thus, Stellar offers access to financial systems, and people can send money at low cost and promptly around the world.

Moreover, Stellar serves as a decentralized exchange and marketplace, with a built-in order book that tracks ownership of Stellar assets. Platform users can manage buy/sell orders, as well as select and set their preferred assets in settlements. XLM is a built-in coin that helps reduce transaction fees.

The network maintains a high level of security.  XLM holders must have at least one token in order to remain active on the network. This nuance performs a global goal - the execution of network transactions efficiently and with minimal time costs. Plus, Lumens offers protection against flood attacks by making microtransactions too expensive for hackers with no chance of profit, which keeps Stellar Network safe from serious threats.

The target audience of Stellar is the inhabitants of developing countries, ordinary users who are provided access to the global economy through fast, simple and inexpensive transactions. Stellar Network makes extensive use of Lumens to produce live convection as well as to send cash in multiple currencies; currency is sent from one peer, and the recipient can receive the amount in another currency. This feature is beneficial when a transaction is made between currencies without widely traded pairs.

Support for multi-currency transactions is another competitive advantage of Stellar, and the ability for cross-currency transactions has only enhanced processes with foreign operations. Moreover, stable speed and low transaction costs are a privilege that users receive.

This functionality is powered by a development called Anchors (a bridge between different currencies and the network), which simplifies the exchange within the network and helps speed up the whole process.

In summary, the benefits of Stellar (XLM) include:

Stellar

Reserve Rights (RSR) is an ERC-20 token that will serve two main purposes for the Reserve Protocol: overcollateralization of Reserve stablecoins (RTokens) through staking and governing them through proposing & voting on changes to their configuration.

The Reserve Rights (RSR) token was launched in May 2019 following a successful initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Huobi Prime platform.

Reserve Rights

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.

0x is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the many different blockchains (including Ethereum) without relying on centralized intermediaries. It is a protocol for decentralized exchange.

0x achieves this decentralized exchange functionality using a collection of open-source, publicly auditable smart contracts that work together to produce a flexible, low-friction trading protocol that developers can easily weave into their products.

The protocol is used by companies building web3 apps such as wallets, DEXes, portfolio trackes, and others. It is a used by hundreds of developers for their projects. The protocol has facilitates over $200B in trading volume since its inception. One can track its usage in its dedicated https://explorer.0x.org/.

The protocol is powered by an ERC20 governance token known as ZRX. ZRX holders can participate in protocol governance, having direct power over protocol changes and its community treasury.

0x Protocol

Dash is an open-source blockchain and cryptocurrency focused on offering a fast, cheap global payments network that is decentralized in nature. According to the project's white paper, Dash seeks to improve upon Bitcoin (BTC) by providing stronger privacy and faster transactions.

Dash, whose name comes from "digital cash," was launched in January 2014 as a fork of Litecoin (LTC). Since going live, Dash has grown to include features such as a two-tier network with incentivized nodes, including "masternodes," and decentralized project governance; InstantSend, which allows for instantly settled payments; ChainLocks, which makes the Dash blockchain instantly immutable; and PrivateSend, which offers additional optional privacy for transactions.

Dash

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.