## What Is Particl (PART)?

Particl stands out as both a privacy coin and a web3 platform dedicated to anonymous decentralized applications. Its primary offerings include the Particl Marketplace, a decentralized, eBay-style platform fostering private and unrestricted eCommerce, and BasicSwap, an anonymous cross-chain DEX platform supporting a variety of coins, like Monero.
The core mission of Particl is to establish a digital economy that champions privacy, liberty, and freedom, completely independent of the global fiat system. The platform is designed to be compatible with a wide range of cryptocurrencies, aiming to make its benefits accessible to as many people as possible, thereby safeguarding their privacy and freedoms.

## What is the PART Coin?

PART is the native privacy coin of the Particl platform. It uses RingCT to let you make untraceable currency transactions without revealing the sender, receiver, or amounts transferred.

PART also lets you take part in complex, confidential financial activities via the network’s anonymous dApps.

**PART is the platform’s native privacy and utility coin. It is used for:**
* Execute anonymous transactions that hide both the participants and amounts transferred
* Fees for processing transactions and storing data.
* Used as the settlement layer of Particl Marketplace
* Paying for publishing listings on Particl Marketplace.
* Used as moderation tokens when upvoting/downvoting content on Particl Marketplace.
* Used for governance votes to determine how network resources are allocated.

**PART’s technical specifications:**
* Based on the latest version of the Bitcoin codebase (currently 25.0)
* Particl Proof-of-Stake (PPoS), including cold staking and staking pools since 2017
* Block time of 2 minutes
* Segwit-enabled
* Taproot-enabled
* Confidential Transactions (CT) enabled
* RingCT-enabled


## What is Particl Marketplace
Particl Marketplace is a decentralized, anonymous online marketplace similar to eBay but running exclusively on blockchain and P2P technology. It connects buyers and sellers across the globe, facilitating the trading of goods and services without borders, sales fees, or restrictions of any kind.
This marketplace features a trustless, two-party escrow system, ensuring secure transactions between users who may not know each other, and all transactions are made using the PART privacy coin, thus maintaining anonymity from start to finish. The marketplace provides exceptional levels of user data protection as it doesn't generate any data or metadata, thus eliminating any risk of data leaks, mining, or misuse.
Operating entirely on the Particl network, the marketplace functions autonomously, with each participating user's node contributing to its decentralization. This structure ensures there is no central authority or third-party involvement at any stage of the process.

## What is BasicSwap DEX
BasicSwap is a privacy-focused, cross-chain, and atomic swap-based decentralized exchange (DEX) that enables trading of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Monero, and Particl, without the need for intermediaries. Its distributed order book allows users to place or accept orders free of charge, facilitating trades in a free and open environment devoid of central points of failure.
Developed as a countermeasure to not only the invasive data collection and privacy concerns prevalent in today's cryptocurrency exchanges, but also their custodianship risks, BasicSwap aims to provide a more reasonable and secure trading environment without fees. Its goal is to contribute to the growth of cryptocurrencies as a digital economy completely independent of the global fiat system.


### Where Can I Learn More About Particl?

* Start with the [Particl Academy](https://academy.particl.io), a rich resource filled with educational materials and tutorials covering various aspects of the Particl platform.
* For those seeking detailed technical insights, the [Particl whitepaper](https://github.com/particl/whitepaper/blob/master/Particl%20Whitepaper%20Draft%20v0.3.pdf) is a comprehensive guide to the intricate components of our ecosystem.
* Stay updated with [Particl News](https://particl.news), our official blog where we post all the latest news, updates, and engaging stories about relevant topics.
* Check out our [YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/c/particl) for informative video guides, interviews, and presentations from various events.
* And don't forget to check out our [collection of useful links](https://academy.particl.io/en/latest/intro/intro_useful_links.html). There, you’ll find our social media accounts, chat platforms, explorers, and more, providing you with a wealth of information at your fingertips.


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WaykiChain

Oxen (formerly known as LOKI) is a privacy tech project with a mission. It’s a private cryptocurrency with instant transactions. An enormous and powerful PoS network. A secure messaging platform. A network anonymity layer. Tools to build a more private future for the Internet — all on blockchain.

Our vision is to provide a range of tools and services powered by the OXEN coin, enabling users and developers all over the world to leverage the power of our decentralised blockchain network to achieve unparalleled privacy and security as they work, play, and live their day-to-day lives on the internet. And this isn’t just an empty vision — we've put in the hard yards and spent years building these technologies to make our vision a reality.

The Oxen privacy stack includes:

Session, a fully anonymous, totally decentralised encrypted messaging platform

Lokinet, a powerful low-latency onion router

Oxen Name System (ONS), a registration system that allows users to provably burn OXEN to purchase temporary or permanent usernames for Session (and Oxen wallets), and domain names for Lokinet services

The Oxen coin is used for:

Staking to run Oxen Service Nodes

Purchasing name registrations for Lokinet (our onion router) and Session (our private messenger)

Transferring value through instant, private transactions with our revolutionary Blink transaction tech

Oxen

Humaniq

Peercoin, also known as PPC or Peer-to-Peer Coin, was created by Sunny King and his team and launched in August 2012. It is the first blockchain to implement Proof-of-Stake consensus.

The primary inspiration behind the creation of Peercoin was to address a number of perceived shortcomings of Bitcoin, including energy efficiency, security and sustainability, decentralization and long-term viability.

Essentially it was designed as an enhanced replacement for Bitcoin. As such, it was originally forked from Bitcoin and uses the same UTXO style blockchain. However, Peercoin's code was modified to introduce Proof-of-Stake as its primary consensus protocol. The next section explains how this makes for a better blockchain.

Given that Peercoin uses most of the same code, it can easily port new features from Bitcoin and utilize any of the supporting infrastructure, including tech advancements like Taproot or Lightning Network. Peercoin is the only Proof-of-Stake blockchain that uses modern Bitcoin code, making it the perfect drop-in replacement.

Peercoin also has a dedicated community, is actively developed, fairly distributed, has low barriers of participation, can do everything that Bitcoin does, minus the 13 TWh of energy usage, and it's not a scam.

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BitKan

Tachyon Protocol

HyperCash

Ignis

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Grin

Carbon Protocol

Haven Protocol is similar to an offshore bank where users can create private tokens that represent stable and volatile assets, including commodities and fiat currencies (such as USD). The protocol is based on Monero, which focuses on secure, private and untraceable transactions.

As a result, most of the features of Monero extend to the Haven protocol, including the bulletproofs and other privacy tech. The base currency of Haven is the XHV, which is burnt to provide users with private, untraceable, synthetic assets and commodities called xAssets.

The network uses a “mint and burn” process to provide users with untraceable digital assets with standard market pricing and real asset-pegged value storage. Simply, users can burn Haven (XHV) for Haven Dollars (xUSD), which is a synthetic stablecoin.

Haven Protocol

SALT Lending is a blockchain-based lending platform that offers users cryptocurrency-backed loans. Users deposit any combination of accepted tokens — such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Doge (DOGE), DASH (DASH) or SALT (SALT) — as collateral to receive a loan in the form of a fiat currency or stablecoin.

SALT Lending has a native token, called SALT, that can be spent to reduce the interest rate on a loan and can be used as a secondary form of loan collateral. Currently, SALT is redeemable at a $7.50 value for interest reductions on loans, a policy and valuation which are subject to change.

The company was launched in 2016 and is operated by Salt Blockchain Inc., a for profit entity, Salt Lending LLC: Salt Master Fund II, LLC – NMLS 1711910.