## Τι Είναι το Ontology (ONT);

Το Ontology είναι ένα σύνθετο κατανεμημένο δίκτυο εμπιστοσύνης που εξυπηρετεί ένα ευρύ φάσμα επιχειρήσεων και έργων, επιτρέποντας στις εξουσιοδοτημένες εταιρικές [αλυσίδες blockchain](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) τους να χτίζουν πάνω στο δημόσιο δίκτυο blockchain του Ontology, αλληλεπιδρώντας με όποιον τρόπο θέλουν, χωρίς να διακυβεύονται ιδιωτικά δεδομένα.

Κατά την έναρξη της λειτουργίας του, το Ontology επέλεξε να αφήσει το δημοφιλές μοντέλο [αρχικής προσφοράς νομισμάτων (ICO)](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico) υπέρ μιας σειράς κοινοτικών διανομών και airdrops του [κρυπτονομίσματος](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-cryptocurrencies) του, το ONT, το οποίο ξεκίνησε ως token NEP-5 στο blockchain [NEO](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/neo/).

Αυτό βοήθησε στη γρήγορη εγκαθίδρυση τόσο της εξεύρεσης οργανικών τιμών όσο και μιας παθιασμένης κοινότητας και βοήθησε το έργο να αποφύγει τον επακόλουθο ρυθμιστικό έλεγχο.

Για παράδειγμα, για ένα σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα, κάθε άτομο που εγγράφηκε στο ενημερωτικό δελτίο Ontology λάμβανε δωρεάν 1.000 ONT από airdrop, το οποίο έφτασε σε αξία 10$ ανά token αμέσως μετά την εισαγωγή του token σε μεγάλα χρηματιστήρια όπως το [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/binance/).

Το Ontology [λάνσαρε το δικό του κεντρικό δίκτυο](https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/ontology-mainnet-ontology-1-0-has-officially-launched) τον Ιούλιο του 2018 και τώρα λειτουργεί ανεξάρτητα από το blockchain NEO.

### Ποιοι Είναι οι Ιδρυτές του Ontology;

Το Ontology ιδρύθηκε το 2017 από την κινεζική εταιρεία OnChain, η οποία δημιούργησε και το NEO, που μερικές φορές αναφέρεται ως το "Κινεζικό Ethereum". Τα ιδρυτικά μέλη περιλαμβάνουν τους βετεράνους του blockchain, Jun Li (σημερινό Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος) και τους συνιδρυτές του NEO, Da Hongfei και Eric Zhang.

### Τι Κάνει το Ontology Μοναδικό;

Το Ontology προσφέρει μια ποικιλία από καθημερινές περιπτώσεις χρήσης και επιτρέπει στις επιχειρήσεις να χτίσου το δικό τους blockchain πάνω στο blockchain Ontology.

Είναι σημαντικό ότι το Ontology προσφέρει μεγαλύτερη ευελιξία στις επιχειρήσεις, επιτρέποντάς τους να δημιουργούν προσαρμοσμένα blockchain για να ταιριάζουν στις συγκεκριμένες ανάγκες τους όσον αφορά χαρακτηριστικά όπως η διακυβέρνηση και το βελτιωμένο απόρρητο, η λειτουργικότητα που στερούνται από το σχεδιασμό τους ανταγωνιστές, όπως το [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ethereum/) και το NEO.

Η αλυσίδα ONT βοηθά επίσης στην κατάργηση τω [τελών δικτύου συναλλαγών](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/gas-price), δημιουργώντας και διανέμοντας δωρεάν [Ontology Gas (ONG)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ontology-gas/) στους κατόχους ONT με βάση της αξίας του μεριδίου τους.

Το Ontology παρέχει επιπλέον χαρακτηριστικά, όπως έξυπνα συμβόλαια, κρυπτογραφικές αποδείξεις ταυτότητας (ONT ID) και tokenized δεδομένα (DDXF) που μπορούν να μεταφερθούν απρόσκοπτα μεταξύ διαφορετικών blockchain.

Παράδειγμα: Τα ιατρικά αρχεία ενός ασθενούς, που υπόκεινται σε αυστηρούς νόμους περί απορρήτου δεδομένων στις περισσότερες χώρες, μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν σε όλο το δίκτυο Ontology χωρίς να διακυβεύεται η ακεραιότητα και το απόρρητο των δεδομένων του ασθενούς. Η ιατρική επιχείρηση που μεταφέρει τα εμπιστευτικά δεδομένα είναι σε θέση να ελέγχει τι μοιράζεται με άλλα μέρη και υπό ποιες συνθήκες, χωρίς φόβο μήπως πέσουν δεδομένα ασθενών στα χέρια μη εξουσιοδοτημένων μερών.

#### Σχετικές σελίδες:

Μάθε περισσότερα για το [NEO (NEO)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/neo/).

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

Μάθε περισσότερα για το [Ontology Gas (ONG)](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/currencies/ontology-gas/).

Επισκέψου το [blog του CoinMarketCap](https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/) για τα τελευταία νέα και πληροφορίες σχετικά με το blockchain.

### Πόσα Νομίσματα Ontology (ΟΝΤ) Υπάρχουν σε Κυκλοφορία;

Το Ontology έχει συνολική προσφορά νομισμάτων 1.000.000.000 ΟΝΤ, από τα οποία σχεδόν το 80% κυκλοφορεί επί του παρόντος.

Κατά την κυκλοφορία του, το 15% των token ONT κατανεμήθηκε στη βασική ομάδα του, το 10% στο συμβούλιο NEO, το 28% σε θεσμικούς εταίρους, το 10% στην τεχνική κοινότητα του και το 25% στην ανάπτυξη του οικοσυστήματος του.

Αυτά τα token υποβλήθηκαν σε μια αυστηρή διαδικασία ελέγχου και σε διάφορες περιόδους ξεκλειδώματος που διήρκεσαν δύο χρόνια έως τα τέλη Οκτωβρίου 2020. Διάβασε περισσότερα για τη [διανομή των token του εδώ](https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/ontologys-ont-token-distribution-and-circulating-supply-da96d5540827).

### Πώς Διασφαλίζεται το Δίκτυο Ontology;

Το δίκτυο Ontology είναι πλήρως αποκεντρωμένο και ως εκ τούτου είναι εξαιρετικά ανθεκτικό σε παραβιάσεις ασφαλείας, οι οποίες θα πρέπει να επηρεάσουν περισσότερες από τις μισές συνδεδεμένες συσκευές για να έχουν αντίκτυπο.

### Πού Μπορείς να Αγοράσεις Ontology (ONT);

Τόσο το ONT όσο και το ONG είναι εισηγμένα και υποστηρίζονται από τα κορυφαία χρηματιστήρια παγκοσμίως, όπως το [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/binance/) και το [OKEx](https://coinmarketcap.com/el/exchanges/okex/), με εξαίρεση το Coinbase. Είναι πλέον δυνατή η αγορά κρυπτονομισμάτων όπως του Ontology και του Bitcoin απευθείας μέσω πιστωτικής κάρτας. Για να μάθεις πώς, [διάβασε περισσότερα εδώ](https://www.binance.com/en/buy-sell-crypto).

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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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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.

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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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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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.”

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Waves is a multi-purpose blockchain platform which supports various use cases including decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts.

Launched in June 2016 following one of the cryptocurrency industry’s earliest initial coin offerings (ICO), Waves initially set out to improve on the first blockchain platforms by increasing speed, utility and user-friendliness.

The platform has undergone various changes and added new spin-off features to build on its original design.

Waves’ native token is WAVES, an uncapped supply token used for standard payments such as block rewards.

Waves

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.

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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.

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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.

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IOTA is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that features unique architecture and an open-source product suite for individuals, businesses, and institutions to use in Web3. It is built on a directed acyclic graph (DAG) called the Tangle, which can be pictured as a multi-dimensional blockchain. It enables the exchange of data and value on a decentralized platform through direct and secure transfers, executed on and immutably recorded on the network.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive into IOTA.

Together with its staging network Shimmer, IOTA aims to offer solutions to establish a secure and permissionless infrastructure that can drive the economy of the future. It enables the development of decentralized applications through automated trust in the form of Ethereum-compatible smart contracts, an advanced consensus algorithm, and thoughtfully balanced incentives.

IOTA delivers tools for creating and managing custom Layer 2 (EVM) chains, deploying smart contracts, minting native tokens and NFTs with distinctive features, and introducing digital identities to users.

Launching in 2024, IOTA 2.0 will be a protocol upgrade that rebuilds IOTA’s architecture to deliver full decentralization. You can find more about it here.

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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.

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Lisk is striving to on-board 100,000,000 users into crypto and web3 by offering an accessible blockchain application platform and an industry leading JavaScript SDK.

Released in 2019, the Lisk SDK enables developers to build application-specific blockchains entirely in JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world. To get a deep-dive into the Lisk SDK, please visit the Lisk SDK documentation or watch Lisk.js 2019 and Lisk.js 2022.

To be released in 2022, the Lisk blockchain application platform allows interoperability between all application-specific blockchains built with the Lisk SDK. With other words, users will be able to use DeFi, NFT or Metaverse blockchain applications on Lisk.

To better understand why Lisk is important watch the following videos: The Case for Lisk and The Ultimate Vision for Lisk.

If you are curious about Lisk’s history and journey, watch Looking Back on Lisk.

The Lisk project is managed by the Lisk Foundation, a non-profit entity based in Zug, Switzerland. A local team of experts specialized in law and finance, as well as yearly audits, ensure the proper handling of funds and regulatory compliance under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority (ESA, Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht).

The Lisk products are developed by the Lightcurve GmbH, a Berlin based blockchain studio. With a team of over 40 blockchain experts, Lightcurve is researching, developing and promoting the Lisk SDK and the Lisk blockchain application platform.

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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.

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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.

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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.