ICON

## ICON नेटवर्क (ICX) क्या है?

[ICON नेटवर्क](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/icon/) दक्षिण कोरिया का एक [लेयर-1](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/layer-1-blockchain) ब्लॉकचेन है। इसकी घोषित विज़न स्वायत्त ऑनलाइन समुदायों और वास्तविक दुनिया के उद्यमों को एक करने के लिए एक इंटरऑपरेबल ब्लॉकचेन नेटवर्क का निर्माण करना है। ICON नेटवर्क फ्रिक्शनलेस वैल्यू एक्सचेंजों को बढ़ावा देकर हाइपरकनेक्टिविटी को आगे बढ़ाकर वास्तविक दुनिया की उपयोगिता प्रदान करने पर ध्यान केंद्रित करता है।

अपने डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड लेजर पर लेनदेन की पुष्टि करके, ICON बिचौलियों की संख्या को कम कर सकता है और क्रॉस-बॉर्डर इंटरेक्शन को मिटा सकता है। विशेष रूप से, कंपनी डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड पहचान, डिजिटल प्रमाणपत्र जारी करने, ब्लॉकचेन भुगतान, [डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड फाइनेंस](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/defi), [non-fungible tokens](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/non-fungible-token) और अतिरिक्त उपयोग के मामलों: ई-गवर्नमेंट, चुनाव, डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड ओरेकल और ई-स्वास्थ्य के उपयोग के मामलों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करती है।

उद्यम अपनाने पर अपना ध्यान केंद्रित करते हुए, ICON दक्षिण कोरियाई कंपनियों और देश के निजी क्षेत्र के साथ कई साझेदारियां हासिल करने में सक्षम रहा है। उदाहरण के लिए, ICONLOOP, दक्षिण कोरिया की एक प्रमुख ब्लॉकचेन टेक्नोलॉजी कंपनी और ICON प्रोजेक्ट में प्राथमिक योगदानकर्ता, कोरिया के सबसे बड़े डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड आइडेंटिटीसंघ का नेतृत्व करती है। साथ ही, अगस्त 2020 में, देश के जेजू द्वीप ने निजी और सुरक्षित COVID-19 संपर्क ट्रेसिंग के लिए कंपनी का चयन किया। Icon Network के अन्य साझेदारों में दक्षिण कोरिया का दूसरा सबसे बड़ा वाणिज्यिक बैंक शिनहान बैंक और वैश्विक भुगतान और प्रेषण ऐप Paycoin के पीछे की कंपनी Danal Fintech शामिल हैं।

### ICON नेटवर्क के संस्थापक कौन हैं?

ICON नेटवर्क की स्थापना कोरिया की सबसे बड़ी फिनटेक होल्डिंग कंपनी, DAYLI फाइनेंशियल ग्रुप के पूर्व मुख्य रणनीति अधिकारी और तापस मीडिया, एक अमेरिकी डिजिटल सामग्री वितरण मंच के चीफ ऑपरेटिंग ऑफिसर, मिन किम ने की थी। वह बर्कले में कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय में हास स्कूल ऑफ बिजनेस के पूर्व छात्र भी हैं। मिन किम ने ICON नेटवर्क के लूपचैन के विकास के पीछे एक दक्षिण कोरियाई सॉफ्टवेयर कंपनी ICONLOOP को इनक्यूबेट किया। कंपनी ICON फाउंडेशन की निगरानी के साथ ब्लॉकचैन का विकास और रखरखाव करती है और इस तरह की अनुमति रहित है, लेकिन पूरी तरह से ओपन सोर्स नहीं है।

### क्या बनता है ICON Network को सबसे अलग?

ICON नेटवर्क दक्षिण कोरिया में हाइपरकनेक्टिविटी के अपने घोषित लक्ष्य को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए कई अलग-अलग उपयोग के मामलों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करता है। एक आइडेंटिटी प्रमाणीकरण और प्रबंधन समाधान Zzeung के माध्यम से डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड आइडेंटिटीहै। दक्षिण कोरिया में उद्यम ग्राहकों को डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड आइडेंटिटी सेवाएं प्रदान करने के लिए कंपनी ने दक्षिण कोरिया में वित्तीय सेवा आयोग से एक विशेष लाइसेंस प्राप्त किया। कंपनियां अपने उपयोगकर्ताओं की प्रमाणीकरण जानकारी सुरक्षित रूप से संग्रहीत कर सकती हैं और वित्तीय खाते खोलने के लिए चेहरे की आइडेंटिटी सेवाएं प्रदान कर सकती हैं। डेटा ICON नेटवर्क के माध्यम से सुरक्षित है। डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड आइडेंटिटी सेवाओं का एक अन्य उदाहरण COVID-19 कांटेक्ट ट्रेसिंग के लिए Zzeung का उपयोग है।

ICON दक्षिण कोरियाई विश्वविद्यालयों को डिप्लोमा और योग्यता प्रमाणपत्र जारी करने के लिए डिजिटल प्रमाणपत्र जारी करने, भंडारण और सत्यापन सेवाएं भी प्रदान करता है। इसके अलावा, कोरिया का सबसे बड़ा ऑनलाइन जॉब सर्च प्लेटफॉर्म ICON द्वारा सुरक्षित डिजिटल सर्टिफिकेट मैनेजमेंट सॉल्यूशन के जरिए आवेदकों की अकादमिक और पेशेवर साख को प्रमाणित करता है।

एक अन्य उपयोग का मामला एक विजिटर चेक-इन और प्रबंधन सेवा है जो ICON नेटवर्क का उपयोग कैफे, रेस्तरां, अस्पतालों और अन्य स्थानों के लिए अद्वितीय विजिटर पास जारी करने के लिए करता है, जिन्हें COVID महामारी के दौरान अपने विजिटर पर नज़र रखने की आवश्यकता होती है।

ICON में एक संपन्न DeFi और NFT इकोसिस्टम भी है जो ऑर्बिट ब्रिज के माध्यम से ईथीरियम नेटवर्क से जुड़ा है, जिससे ईथीरियम आधारित टोकन को ICON में स्थानांतरित किया जा सकता है। अधिकांश DeFi प्रोडक्ट्स ों के विपरीत, ICON पर उपयोगकर्ता अनुभव पर बहुत अधिक ध्यान केंद्रित किया जाता है। उदाहरणों में बैलेंस्ड नेटवर्क, ICON नेटवर्क के लिए स्थिर स्टॉक पेश करने के लिए बनाया गया एक DeFi सहयोग, और ओपन मनी मार्केट, एक उधार और उधार मंच शामिल है।

#### संबन्धित पेज:

[सोलाना](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/solana/) (SOL) देखें - एक हाई-स्पीड ब्लॉकचैन।

[पोलकाडॉट](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/polkadot-new/) (DOT) देखें - मल्टीचैन भविष्य के लिए एक और ब्लॉकचेन।

[Avalanche में हमारे डीप डाइव को पढ़ें](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/de/article/a-deep-dive-into-avalanche-avax), एक और लेयर -1 ब्लॉकचेन।

[CoinMarketCap ब्लॉग के](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog) साथ नवीनतम क्रिप्टो समाचार और नवीनतम ट्रेडिंग अंतर्दृष्टि प्राप्त करें।

### कितने ICON Network (ICX) कॉइन प्रचलन में हैं?

ICX की वर्तमान आपूर्ति 800 मिलियन टोकन है, कुल आपूर्ति पर कोई सख्त सीमा नहीं है। टोकन वितरण इस प्रकार है:

* सितंबर 2017 में $0.11. की कीमत पर ICO में 400 मिलियन ICX बेचा गया
* 16% कम्युनिटी रिज़र्व
* टीम, सलाहकारों और शुरुआती योगदानकर्ताओं को 10%
* सामुदायिक समूह और रणनीतिक भागीदारों को 10%
* ICON फाउंडेशन को 14%

ICX का उपयोग स्टेक लगाने, स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट और लेनदेन शुल्क का भुगतान करने और नेटवर्क भागीदारी के लिए उपयोगकर्ताओं को पुरस्कृत करने के लिए किया जाता है। स्टेक पर लगाई गई कुल राशि के आधार पर, प्रति वर्ष 6% से 36% के बीच स्टेकिंग पुरस्कार होते हैं। अनस्टेकिंग अवधि ICX की हिस्सेदारी की राशि के सापेक्ष है, कुल आपूर्ति में से जितना कम ICX को स्टेक पर लगाया जाता है, उतनी ही लंबी अवधि, जो 20 दिनों और पांच दिनों के बीच हो सकती है।

### ICON नेटवर्क कैसे सुरक्षित है?

ICON एक Byzantine fault tolerance delegated proof-of-stake सर्वसम्मति तंत्र द्वारा सुरक्षित है। ICON इकोसिस्टम में सत्यापनकर्ताओं को जन प्रतिनिधि (P-Reps) कहा जाता है और ICON नेटवर्क को अपने मूल टोकन ICX को दांव पर लगाकर सुरक्षित करता है। इन 100 P-Reps में से, 22 Main P-Reps और 78 Sub P-Reps नेटवर्क के गवर्नेंस और ब्लॉक प्रोडक्शन के लिए जिम्मेदार हैं।

टोकन धारक, जिन्हें ICONists कहा जाता है, नेटवर्क को सुरक्षित करने के लिए अपने ICX को इन P-Reps को सौंप सकते हैं। प्रत्येक P-Rep को उनके ICONists के हिस्से का समर्थन प्राप्त है। इसके अलावा, नए उम्मीदवार नेटवर्क को मान्य करने में योगदान देने वाले शीर्ष 100 P-Reps में से एक बन सकते हैं। P-Reps सॉफ्टवेयर डेवलपर्स, मार्केटर, कॉर्पोरेशंस और अन्य घटकों की टीमों द्वारा चलाए जाते हैं जो ICON प्रोजेक्ट में दीर्घकालिक योगदानकर्ता हैं।

### आप ICON नेटवर्क (ICX) कहां से खरीद सकते हैं?

ICX [FTX](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/ftx/), [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/binance/), [Uniswap (V2)](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/uniswap-v2/), [BitStamp](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/bitstamp/) and [Gate.io](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/gate-io/) पर उपलब्ध है।

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)

Hana

Ledger

Trezor

Trust Wallet

Math Wallet

ICONex

Atomic wallet

🌐 ICON Network is a layer-one blockchain focused on building a multichain bridging solution that is scalable, chain-agnostic, and secure!

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

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.

Qtum

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.

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

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

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

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.

Lisk

Billed as "digital money for the modern world," nano is a lightweight cryptocurrency that is designed to facilitate secure, practically instant payments, without fees, and addresses some of the major limitations of both legacy financial infrastructure, and many modern cryptocurrencies.

Development of the project began in 2014 under the name RaiBlocks, and the coin (then termed XRB) launched the following year through a public faucet, which allowed users to claim small amounts of XRB after completing a captcha challenge. Anyone with access to a computer or phone could solve captchas, and be rewarded with RaiBlocks. The number of XRB people received per solved captcha varied over time

RaiBlocks (XRB) was rebranded to Nano in January 2018, with the new name chosen to better represent the speed and simplicity the project offers to users.

It is a peer-to-peer platform that uses a unique block-lattice data structure to allow users to easily transfer value to one another without relying on centralized intermediaries.

Unlike other platforms which typically use the combined proof-of-work of a massive mining network to achieve consensus, nano instead uses a system known as Open Representative Voting (ORV) — which sees account holders vote for their chosen representative, who then work to confirm blocks of transactions securely.

ORV makes Nano extremely energy efficient, positioning it as a more environmentally friendly alternative to proof-of-work (POW)-based cryptocurrencies.

In November, 2021, aiming to bring nano to the real world and to comply with the globally-recognized standards of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) requirements, nano adopted a new ticker and a standard symbol: XNO and Ӿ.

Nano

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

DigiByte (DGB) is an open source blockchain and asset creation platform. Development began in October 2013 and the genesis block of its DGB token was mined in January 2014 as a fork of Bitcoin (BTC).

A longstanding public blockchain and cryptocurrency, DigiByte uses five different algorithms to improve security, and originally aimed to improve on the Bitcoin blockchain’s security, capacity and transaction speed.

DigiByte consists of three layers: a smart contract “App Store,” a public ledger and the core protocol featuring nodes communicating to relay transactions.

DigiByte

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

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

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.