## अंकर (ANKR) क्या है?
 
 अंकर एक समाधान के रूप में उत्पन्न होता है जो आसान और किफायती ब्लॉकचैन नोड होस्टिंग समाधान प्रदान करने के लिए साझा संसाधनों का उपयोग करता है। इसकी स्थापना नवंबर 2017 में हुई थी और बाजार में अपने समय के दौरान, इसने साझा संसाधनों के उपयोग के माध्यम से कंटेनर-आधारित क्लाउड सेवाओं के लिए एक बाज़ार बनाया है।
 
 यह बदले में डेवलपर्स और उद्यम ग्राहकों को सार्वजनिक क्लाउड प्रदाताओं की तुलना में बहुत सस्ती कीमत पर ब्लॉकचेन नोड्स को आसानी से तैनात करने की क्षमता प्रदान करता है।
 
 जैसे, अंकर पर ब्लॉकचैन नोड्स की मेजबानी किसी भी केंद्रीकरण के मुद्दों और विफलता के एकल बिंदु को दूर करती है।
 
 इसके अलावा, सार्वजनिक ब्लॉकचेन समुदायों में शामिल होने और अपने नेटवर्क को और सहायता प्रदान करने में सक्षम हैं। अंकर का लक्ष्य वेब3-स्टैक परिनियोजन के लिए एक बुनियादी ढांचा मंच और बाज़ार का निर्माण करना है ताकि संसाधन प्रदाताओं के साथ-साथ अंतिम उपयोगकर्ताओं को [ब्लॉकचेन](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) टेक्नोलॉजीज और [DeFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-decentralized-finance) अनुप्रयोगों से जुड़ने में सक्षम बनाया जा सके।
 
 ध्यान दें कि जब हम सार्वजनिक क्लाउड प्रदाताओं से इसकी तुलना करते हैं तो अंकर मालिकाना क्लाउड इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर स्वतंत्र रूप से संचालित होता है, और यह कि इसकी स्थिरता और लचीलापन स्तर बढ़ाने के लिए भौगोलिक रूप से वितरित डेटासेंटर के माध्यम से पूरी तरह से संचालित होता है।
 
 ### अंकर के संस्थापक कौन हैं?
 
 अंकर नेटवर्क 2017 में कैलिफोर्निया के बर्कले विश्वविद्यालय में एक वितरित कंप्यूटिंग प्लेटफॉर्म के रूप में स्थापित किया गया था जो ब्लॉकचेन प्रौद्योगिकियों का लाभ उठाता है। सह-संस्थापक चांडलर सॉन्ग ने अमेज़ॅन वेब सर्विसेज में एक इंजीनियर के रूप में काम किया और सीईओ के रूप कार्यरत, जबकि अन्य सह-संस्थापक रयान फेंग मॉर्गन स्टेनली में एक निवेश बैंकर के रूप में काम किया।
 
 चांडलर सॉन्ग ने 2014 में अपने नए साल के दौरान रयान फेंग को बिटकॉइन और ब्लॉकचेन से परिचित कराया, जहां उन्होंने उनसे 22 बिटकॉइन एक साथ खरीदने की बात की। 2017 में, वे बिटकॉइन सीड बन गए जिन्होंने अंकर परियोजना को वित्त पोषित किया।
 
 साथ में, उन्होंने क्लाउड कंप्यूटिंग बाजार की क्षमता को एक बुनियादी ढांचे के रूप में स्वीकार किया जो वैश्विक नवाचार को नयी दिशा दिखा सकता है। इसने उन्हें एक सस्ता, विकेन्द्रीकृत क्लाउड बनाने के मिशन पर ले लिया।
 
 ### क्या बनता है Ankr को सबसे अलग?
 
 अंकर नेटवर्क एक नया ब्लॉकचेन समाधान प्रदान करने के लिए बनाया गया है जो संपूर्ण रूप से उपकरणों और डेटा केंद्रों से निष्क्रिय कंप्यूटिंग शक्ति का लाभ उठाता है।
 
 यह एक ऐसा मंच है जो साझा अर्थव्यवस्था को सक्षम बनाता है, जहां कोई भी ग्राहक अधिक किफायती दर पर संसाधनों का उपयोग कर सकता है, जबकि उद्यमों को उनकी अतिरिक्त कंप्यूटिंग शक्ति पर मुद्रीकरण करने की क्षमता भी प्रदान करता है जिसका उपयोग नहीं किया जा रहा है। यह इस तरह से अद्वितीय है कि यह विश्वसनीय हार्डवेयर का उपयोग करने वाला पहला है, और इस तरह यह उच्च स्तर की सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित करता है।
 
 #### संबन्धित पेज:
 
 [Bancor (BNT) के](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/bancor/) बारे में जानें।
 
 [Decentraland (MANA) के](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/decentraland/) बारे में पता करें।
 
 [अलेक्जेंड्रिया के](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/) माध्यम से क्रिप्टोकरेंसी के बारे में जानें।
 
 [CoinMarketCap ब्लॉग](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog) पर हमारे नवीनतम पोस्ट पढ़ें।
 
 ### कितने Ankr (ANKR) कॉइन प्रचलन में हैं?
 
 ANKR की वर्तमान परिसंचारी आपूर्ति 6,496,232,711 सिक्कों पर निर्धारित है। वे $49,811,009 USD के ट्रेडिंग वॉल्यूम पर हैं। अंकर के सिक्कों की अधिकतम आपूर्ति 10,000,000,000 ANKR सिक्कों की है।
 
 [एक्सचेंजों पर तरलता और व्यापार प्रदान करने के लिए ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/erc20/)और [BEP-2](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/bitcoin-bep2/) टोकन का उपयोग किया जाता है, और ब्लॉकचैन कार्यों तक पहुंचने के लिए मूल अंकर टोकन की आवश्यकता होती है।
 
 ### अंकर नेटवर्क कैसे सुरक्षित है?
 
 अंकर ब्लॉक सत्यापन प्रक्रिया में सत्यापन नोड्स का उपयोग करता है, और इस तरह यह सुनिश्चित कर सकता है कि नेटवर्क की गुणवत्ता स्वयं बनी रहे और किसी भी खराब एक्टर्स को सिस्टम से हटा दिया जाए।
 
 यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सिस्टम सुरक्षित रहे और केवल अच्छे एक्टर्स को चुना जाए, अंकर एक प्रतिष्ठा-आधारित प्रणाली को नियोजित करता है। यह नोड योगदान के आधार पर एक्टर्स को फ़िल्टर करता है। इसके अलावा, एक प्रदर्शन परीक्षण का उपयोग उनके कार्यभार के आधार पर उनके भिन्न कम्प्यूटेशनल संसाधनों को उचित रूप से वितरित करने के लिए किया जाता है।
 
 अंकर इंटेल SGX को अपने मुख्य घटक के रूप में भी नियोजित करता है। यह कुछ हार्डवेयर और सॉफ़्टवेयर हमलों के खिलाफ उच्च स्तर की सुरक्षा की अनुमति देता है क्योंकि यह हार्डवेयर के अंदर ही निष्पादन की प्रक्रिया करता है।
 
 जब हम ऑफ-चेन डेटा और इसकी प्रोसेसिंग पर चर्चा करते हैं, तो एक नेटिव ओरेकल सिस्टम, या संक्षेप में NOS का नाम आता है, जो ऑन-चेन स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट्स के साथ-साथ ऑफ-चेन डेटा के बीच ट्रांसफर होता है। यह NOS सुरक्षित है और इसमें प्रमाणीकरण की आवश्यकता होती है।
 
 डेटा स्रोत सुरक्षा को स्वयं TLS 1.2,1.3 और Perfect Forward Security, या PFS के माध्यम से नियंत्रित किया जाता है।
 
 ### आप अंकर (ANKR) कहां से खरीद सकते हैं?
 
 अंकर एक क्रिप्टो संपत्ति है जो कई अलग-अलग क्रिप्टो एक्सचेंजों में पाई जा सकती है। अंकर (ANKR) की खरीद, बिक्री और व्यापार के लिए शीर्ष क्रिप्टो एक्सचेंजों में शामिल हैं:
 
 [Upbit](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/upbit/)
 
 [Bithumb](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/bithumb/)
 
 [Houbi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/huobi-global/)
 
 [Digifinex](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/digifinex/)
 
 [Bittrex](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/bittrex/)
 
 [यूनिस्वैप (V2)](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/uniswap-v2/)
 
 अंकर में ट्रेडिंग करने वाले एक्सचेंजों की संख्या में अंकर टोकन के लिए अच्छी तरलता है, और परिणामस्वरूप बड़े ब्लॉक ऑर्डर पर शायद बहुत अधिक स्लिपऐज नहीं होगी।
 
 क्रिप्टो के बारे में और अपने पहले सिक्के को कैसे खरीदें, यह सिखाने के लिए यहां [एक चरण-दर-चरण मार्गदर्शिका दी गई है।](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/)
 
 यहां कुछ अन्य लेख दिए गए हैं, जिनमें आपकी रुचि हो सकती है:
 
 * [Crypto Faucet क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-crypto-faucet)
 * [क्रिप्टो डेबिट कार्ड क्या हैं?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-crypto-debit-cards)
 * [वेब 3.0 क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-web-3-0)
 * [यील्ड फार्मिंग(Yield Farming) क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-yield-farming)
 * [क्रिप्टो ऋण(Crypto Lending) क्या है?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-crypto-lending)

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Nervos Network (CKB) is an open-source public blockchain ecosystem. Its goal is to create a peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto-economy network where users can access a wide range of provably secure blockchain services and capabilities.

The Nervos mainnet launched in November 2019 with a novel dual-layer architecture. There’s a base layer where the consensus mechanism operates and smart assets are stored, and a computation layer where transactions are processed.

The base layer, also known as the Common Knowledge Base, has its own cryptocurrency called CKByte (CKB). It uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism and drives the Nervos ecosystem. It is used to pay miners for keeping the network safe, managing network resources, and letting users store things on the network.

The Nervos Network allows developers to create decentralized applications (dApps) that can operate on various blockchain systems. Any of the network layers can be used to run both decentralized apps and smart contracts.

Nervos Network

The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying data for networks like Ethereum and IPFS, powering many applications in both DeFi and the broader Web3 ecosystem. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph and the decentralized network will be launching later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks coming soon.

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

To date, over3,000 subgraphs have been deployed by thousands of developers, for DApps like Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, AAVE, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Decentraland and many others. The Graph usage has been growing at over 50% MoM and hit over 7 billion queries during the month of September 2020.

The Graph has a global community, including over 200 Indexer Nodes in the testnet and more than 2,000 Curators in the Curator Program as of October 2020. To fund network development, The Graph raised funds from community members, strategic VCs and influential individuals in the blockchain community including Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework, ParaFi Capital, CoinFund, DTC, Multicoin, Reciprocal Ventures, SPC, Tally Capital and others. The Graph Foundation also successfully completed a public GRT Sale with participation from 99 countries (not including the U.S.). To date as of November 2020, The Graph has raised ~$25M.

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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.

Chiliz is the leading digital currency for sports and entertainment by the eponymous Malta-based FinTech provider. It operates the blockchain-based sports entertainment platform Socios, which enables users to participate in the governance of their favorite sports brands. Multiple fan tokens by Socios.com are an example of that. For sports clubs and associations, fan tokens offer a way of connecting with their fans and unlocking new revenue streams.

For instance, fans can participate and influence club-related decisions through surveys and polls, such as messages the captain should wear on his armband. The company aims to bridge the gap between being an active and a passive fan. Chiliz has developed partnerships with some of the biggest sporting institutions in the world: FC Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus Turin, and Paris Saint-Germain. It also boasts partnerships with the UFC and gaming organizations. By purchasing CHZ, fans get access to various fan tokens and literally have a stake in their club.

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Fantom is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) smart contract platform providing decentralized finance (DeFi) services to developers using its own bespoke consensus algorithm.

Together with its in-house token FTM, Fantom aims to solve problems associated with smart-contract platforms, specifically transaction speed, which developers say they have reduced to under two seconds.

The Fantom Foundation, which oversees the Fantom product offering, was originally created in 2018, with the launch of OPERA, Fantom’s mainnet, coming in December 2019.

Fantom is an open-source decentralized smart contract platform for DApps and digital assets that was created as an alternative to Ethereum. Fantom has the goal of overcoming the limitations of previous generation blockchains and balancing three components: scalability, security and decentralization. The project offers a set of tools to simplify the process of integrating existing DApps, as well as a detailed staking reward system and built-in DeFi instruments.

Fantom is a Layer-1 blockchain that uses a scratch-built consensus mechanism and independent consensus layer, Lachesis, to facilitate DeFi and related services on the basis of smart contracts. Lachesis provides security for other layers as well, including Opera, Fantom's EVM-compatible smart contract chain. The long-playing mission of the project is to “grant compatibility between all transaction bodies around the world.”

One of Fantom's key strengths is its performance and efficient transaction processing, namely thousands of transactions per second, where transactions are settled in 1-2 seconds, and the cost is fractions of a cent per transaction. As a result, Fantom provides higher scalability but at a lower cost.

The ecosystem is based on two main technologies: Lachesis protocol and Opera.

The Lachesis protocol is the core consensus layer that secures the Fantom network by providing both transaction speed and security.

Lachesis is an aBFT consensus engine that uses a directed acyclic graph (DAG) algorithm. How it works: network data can be processed at different times, and the network filters the participants, allowing only one third, which are allocated due to erroneous or malicious behavior, without compromising network processes.

Fantom's Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism maintains the efficiency of the entire network, its design provides security at maximum speed. Fantom developers emphasize that the PoS mechanism is a leaderless phenomenon — there are no leaders of blocks and participants, and anyone can join (or leave) the network of nodes at a convenient moment.

The key qualities of Lachesis are: asynchronous, leaderless, Byzantine fault-tolerant, and near-instant finality.

As for Opera, it's an application development layer or Fantom's mainnet deployment platform, permissionless and open-source hosting DApps. Thanks to EVM integration and support for the Solidity programming language, Fantom has a full set of smart contract capabilities, which allows users to seamlessly interact with Ethereum platforms while maintaining the advantage of Fantom's transaction efficiency.

The Fantom Foundation concluded that removing block leaders improves network security, so Opera uses a PoS model and leaderless validators (validators do not determine which blocks are valid).

In addition to being a fast, secure and cheap payment platform that enables to make fast and secure payments at minimal cost, Fantom also features on-chain governance where users vote with FTM tokens (one token equals one vote). Of the features: users have the right to express the degree of agreement / disagreement on a scale from 0 to 4.

FTM is the native utility in-house PoS token of Fantom that powers the ecosystem and is applied for payments, network fees, staking, and governance. FTM forms the backbone of transactions, and allows fee collection and staking activities, along with the user rewards the latter represents.

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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.

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Founded in 2017 and launched via IEO on Binance in March 2019, Fetch.AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) lab building an open, permissionless, decentralized machine learning network with a crypto economy. Fetch.ai democratizes access to AI technology with a permissionless network upon which anyone can connect and access secure datasets by using autonomous AI to execute tasks that leverage its global network of data. The Fetch.AI model is rooted in  use cases like optimizing DeFi trading services, transportation networks (parking, micromobility), smart energy grids, travel — essentially any complex digital system that relies on large-scale datasets.

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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

Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot. Moonbeam makes it easy to use popular Ethereum developer tools to build or redeploy Solidity projects in a Substrate-based environment.

Moonbeam is much more than just an EVM implementation: it’s a highly specialized parachain that mirrors Ethereum’s Web3 RPC, accounts, keys, subscriptions, logs, and more. The Moonbeam platform extends the base Ethereum feature set with additional features such as on-chain governance, staking, and cross-chain integrations.

Moonbeam’s Ethereum compatibility is unmatched:

Minimal Changes: developers can use existing Solidity smart contracts right away, with no need to rewrite or reconfigure

Use Existing Developer Tools: connect popular tools like MetaMask, Hardhat, Waffle, Remix, and Truffle via a complete set of Web3 RPC endpoints. Use well-known Javascript libraries such as Web3.Js or Ethers.Js.

Unified Accounts, Addresses, and Signatures: use your existing Ethereum H160 accounts & ECDSA signatures to interact with Moonbeam

Tap into the Most Integrations on Polkadot: use existing oracles, bridges, wallets, and other tools that are already building on Moonbeam

Moonbeam provides integration and connectivity between Polkadot Parachains as well as with other chains such as Ethereum and Bitcoin via bridges. Moonbeam was started in 2019 by Derek Yoo of Pure Stake.

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Enjin Coin is a project of Enjin, a company that provides an ecosystem of interconnected, blockchain-based gaming products. Enjin's flagship offering is the Enjin Network, a social gaming platform through which users can create websites and clans, chat, and host virtual item stores.

Enjin allows game developers to tokenize in-game items on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses Enjin Coin, an ERC-20 token, to back the digital assets issued using its platform, meaning that items can be bought, sold and traded with real-world value.

Enjin Coin was first announced in July 2017, and it launched on the Ethereum mainnet in June 2018.

Enjin Coin (ENJ) is a digital store of value used to back the value of blockchain assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Every asset minted with the Enjin Platform contains ENJ, a minting resource which is locked inside NFTs and removed from circulation. Minting blockchain assets with ENJ provides a variety of benefits to creators and users:

Infuses them with a reserve value

Ensures their transparency and scarcity

Gives them instant liquidity

Provides utility in games and apps

Anti-inflationary

Enjin's "melting" functionality allows users to destroy their blockchain assets at any time to retrieve the ENJ value from within.

The Enjin blockchain ecosystem aims to offer software products that make it easy for everyone to develop, trade, monetize, and market with blockchain.

Founded in 2009, Enjin has roots in the gaming industry, with the company’s first product, a gaming community platform called the Enjin Network, growing to 20 million users over the course of a decade.

In 2017 following an ICO, Enjin established itself as a leading blockchain ecosystem developer, building a suite of software products that enable anyone to easily mint, manage, trade, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets.

Enjin’s co-founder Witek Radomski wrote the code for one of the first ever non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and is also the co-author of the ERC-1155 Ethereum token standard.

Built on top of an on-chain infrastructure, the Enjin ecosystem enables game developers and businesses of all sizes to use tokenized digital assets as part of their acquisition, retention, engagement, and monetization strategies. The Enjin ecosystem is fueled by Enjin Coin (ENJ), a cryptocurrency used to back the value of blockchain assets.

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Gala is a web3 ecosystem powered by a layer-1 blockchain (GalaChain) built to power the Gala entertainment ecosystem that originally included Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film. More recently however, GalaChain has opened its doors to external developers and projects from any applicable industry, providing open source developer resources to simplify the process.

On a mission to empower users and creators across multiple industries throughout the world, Gala’s goal is to become the first billion user blockchain in the world. Innovators can extend the benefits of web3 to their users and communities more easily than ever before by leveraging open source tools like the GalaChain SDK and Creator Portal.

By elevating their ideas to web3 through GalaChain, developers can create custom tokens, smart contracts, reward opportunities and node networks for their communities and projects. Assets built on GalaChain can also be bridged to other blockchains, such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and more. Developers who wish to learn more about getting involved with GalaChain are welcome to reach out via GalaChain.com.

The core of GalaChain is powered by its DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) of Founder’s Nodes, whose operators earn daily $GALA rewards for actively providing resources to the ecosystem and enjoy governance voting rights on certain core Gala decisions. In addition to the Founder’s Node network’s foundational workload, individual projects can also create Node networks on GalaChain with more specific workloads.

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Quant launched in June 2018 with the goal of connecting blockchains and networks on a global scale, without reducing the efficiency and interoperability of the network. It is the first project to solve the interoperability problem through the creation of the first blockchain operating system.

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

The project is built as an operating system distributed ledger technology— and Overledger Network — for connecting different blockchain networks. The project is billed as the first OS to be built for blockchains.

The main aim of Quant — using Overledger — is to bridge the gap that exists between different blockchains. The backbone of the project is the Overledger network, which Quant bills as the ecosystem on which the future digital economy ecosystem will be built.

Overledger allows developers to build decentralized multi-chain applications (known as MApps) for their customers. For developers to build a Mapp on the network, they must hold a certain amount of Quant tokens (QNT).

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In a nutshell, Cosmos bills itself as a project that solves some of the “hardest problems” facing the blockchain industry. It aims to offer an antidote to “slow, expensive, unscalable and environmentally harmful” proof-of-work protocols, like those used by Bitcoin, by offering an ecosystem of connected blockchains.

The project’s other goals include making blockchain technology less complex and difficult for developers thanks to a modular framework that demystifies decentralized apps. Last but not least, an Interblockchain Communication protocol makes it easier for blockchain networks to communicate with each other — preventing fragmentation in the industry.

Cosmos’ origins can be dated back to 2014, when Tendermint, a core contributor to the network, was founded. In 2016, a white paper for Cosmos was published — and a token sale was held the following year. ATOM tokens are earned through a hybrid proof-of-stake algorithm, and they help to keep the Cosmos Hub, the project’s flagship blockchain, secure. This cryptocurrency also has a role in the network’s governance.

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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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Filecoin is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information.” The project raised $205 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017, and initially planned a launch date for mid-2019. However, the launch date for the Filecoin mainnet was pushed back until block 148,888, which is expected in mid-October 2020.

The project was first described back in 2014 as an incentive layer for the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer storage network where users pay for data storage and distribution services in $FIL. Filecoin is open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants, with transactions made using FIL, the blockchain’s native currency. The blockchain is based on both proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime.

Filecoin is open-source and decentralized, which means that all governance is in the hands of the community. On the Filecoin platform, developers have the opportunity to create cloud file storage services like Dropbox or iCloud. Anyone can join Filecoin and start storing their data or earn money by providing space for someone else's funds. The creators of Filecoin opted for their blockchain technology to run the network and their token with their own consensus.

$FIL is the native currency of Filecoin that powers the entire network and all processes. Clients pay for transactions in FIL tokens. Miners place FIL as collateral, guaranteeing their services.

The developers claim that Filecoin solves the problem of inefficient file storage and retrieval. Customers can find the right solution with an efficient set of tools and its core development, IPFS.

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Developed by leading Korean IT company Kakao, Klaytn is a global Layer 1 public blockchain designed to power tomorrow’s on-chain world. With the lowest transaction latency amongst leading blockchains, enterprise-grade reliability, and a developer-friendly environment, Klaytn provides a seamless experience for users and developers that is second to none. Since its launch in June 2019, Klaytn has been accelerating blockchain mass adoption through a broad array of use cases from DeFi to real-world assets, entertainment and gaming, and even the Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot project. Today, it is one of the only globally competitive Web 3.0 ecosystems developed in South Korea, generating more than 1 billion transactions from over 300 decentralized applications.

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Founded in 2017, Chainlink is a blockchain abstraction layer that enables universally connected smart contracts. Through a decentralized oracle network, Chainlink allows blockchains to securely interact with external data feeds, events and payment methods, providing the critical off-chain information needed by complex smart contracts to become the dominant form of digital agreement.

The Chainlink Network is driven by a large open-source community of data providers, node operators, smart contract developers, researchers, security auditors and more. The company focuses on ensuring that decentralized participation is guaranteed for all node operators and users looking to contribute to the network.

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

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.