## Basic Attention Token (BAT) คืออะไร?
 
 Basic Attention Token หรือ BAT เป็นโทเค็นที่ขับเคลื่อนแพลตฟอร์มโฆษณาทางดิจิทัลแบบบล็อคเชน ออกแบบมาเพื่อให้รางวัลแก่ผู้ใช้อย่างเป็นธรรมสำหรับความตั้งใจของพวกเขา ในขณะที่ให้ผลตอบแทนจากค่าโฆษณาแก่ผู้ทำการโฆษณาที่มากขึ้น
 
 ประสบการณ์นี้ส่งผ่านเบราว์เซอร์ Brave ซึ่งผู้ใช้สามารถรับชมโฆษณาที่มีการรักษาความเป็นส่วนตัวและสามารถรับรางวัล BAT สำหรับการทำเช่นนั้นได้ ในทางกลับกัน ผู้ทำการโฆษณาสามารถแสดงโฆษณาที่ตรงเป้าหมายเพื่อเพิ่มการมีส่วนร่วมและลดความสูญเสียอันเนื่องมาจากการฉ้อโกงขและการใช้ในทางที่ผิด
 
 Basic Attention Token เป็นหน่วยของรางวัลในระบบนิเวศการโฆษณานี้ และมีการแลกเปลี่ยนระหว่างผู้ทำการโฆษณา, ผู้เผยแพร่ และผู้ใช้งาน ผู้ทำการโฆษณาจะต้องจ่ายค่าแคมเปญโฆษณาของพวกเขาในรูปแบบโทเค็น BAT จากงบประมาณนี้ มีการแจกจ่ายส่วนเล็ก ๆ ให้กับผู้ทำการโฆษณา ในขณะที่ 70% ถูกแจกจ่ายให้กับผู้ใช้งาน — ในขณะที่ตัวกลางที่มักจะมีส่วนในการเพิ่มต้นทุนการโฆษณาจะถูกตัดออกจากสมการเพื่อปรับปรุงประสิทธิภาพด้านต้นทุน
 
 Basic Attention Token เปิดตัวในปี 2017 เป็นหนึ่งใน initial coin offerings ([ICOs](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/initial-coin-offering-ico)) ที่ขายออกได้เร็วที่สุดตลอดกาล โดยแพลตฟอร์มนี้ระดมทุนได้ 35 ล้านดอลลาร์ภายในเวลาไม่ถึงนาที ตั้งแต่นั้นมา ได้เปิดตัวประสบการณ์การโฆษณาตามความสนใจแก่ผู้ใช้ในประเทศผ่านโปรแกรม Brave Rewards เป็นส่วนใหญ่
 
 ณ เดือนพฤศจิกายน 2020 สหรัฐอเมริกา, สหราชอาณาจักร และแคนาดามีแคมเปญโฆษณาที่มีการเคลื่อนไหวมากที่สุด
 
 ### ใครคือผู้ก่อตั้ง Basic Attention Token?
 
 Basic Attention Token มีผู้ก่อตั้ง 2 คน: Brendan Eich และ Brian Bondy — บุคคลที่มีความโดดเด่นอย่างมากทั้ง 2 คนในอุตสาหกรรมซอฟต์แวร์อินเทอร์เน็ต
 
 Brendan Eich เป็น CEO ของ Brave Software, Inc — บริษัทแม่ที่อยู่เบื้องหลังเบราว์เซอร์ Brave และ Basic Attention Token ก่อนหน้าที่จะมาทำงานที่ Brave Eich เป็นผู้ก่อตั้งและ CTO ของ Mozilla และยังเป็นผู้คิดค้น JavaScript ในปี 1995 นอกจากนี้ เขายังช่วยเปิดตัวหนึ่งในเว็บเบราว์เซอร์ที่ได้รับความนิยมมากที่สุดในโลกในปี 2004 — Mozilla Firefox
 
 ในทำนองเดียวกัน Brian Bondy ก็ร่วมเป็น CTO ของ Brave และ Basic Attention Token Bondy เป็นวิศวกรที่มีประสบการณ์สูง โดยมีประสบการณ์ทำงานในตำแหน่งวิศวกรซอฟต์แวร์อาวุโสที่ Mozilla, นักพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ที่ Corel Corporation และหัวหน้าฝ่ายพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ที่ Khan Academy Eich และ Bondy มีประสบการณ์รวมกันในการพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์มากกว่า 50 ปี
 
 โดยรวมแล้วเว็บไซต์ Basic Attention Token มีสมาชิกในทีม 16 คน ซึ่งหลายคนมีพื้นฐานด้านการพัฒนา, วิศวกรรม หรือการวิจัย
 
 ### อะไรที่ทำให้ Basic Attention Token ไม่เหมือนใคร?
 
 กรณีการใช้งานหลักสำหรับโทเค็น Basic Attention Token คือการชำระเงินสำหรับการเรียกใช้แคมเปญโฆษณาผ่าน Brave Ads ในเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2020 ผู้ทำการโฆษณาจะต้องใช้จ่ายค่าโฆษณาขั้นต่ำ $2,500 ต่อเดือนเพื่อให้สามารถเปิดตัวแคมเปญได้ แต่แพลตฟอร์มแบบบริการตนเองที่มีขีดจำกัดที่ต่ำกว่านั้นก็ยังอยู่ในไปป์ไลน์
 
 ปัจจุบัน งบประมาณการโฆษณานี้ต้องชำระเป็น Basic Attention Token ซึ่งผู้โฆษณาสามารถหาได้จากแพลตฟอร์มการแลกเปลี่ยนของบุคคลที่สามหลายแห่ง ด้วยเหตุนี้ Brave จึงได้รับค่าคอมมิชชั่นเล็กน้อย และส่วนที่เหลือจะแจกจ่ายให้กับผู้เผยแพร่และผู้ใช้งาน
 
 หนึ่งในคุณสมบัติหลักที่โดดเด่นของ Basic Attention Token และระบบนิเวศของ Brave Browser คือความสามารถในการให้รางวัลแก่ผู้ใช้ (ทิป) ที่ยังไม่ได้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของเครือข่าย — ซึ่งรวมถึงเว็บไซต์และผู้ใช้ Twitter แต่ละคน ผู้ใช้งานเหล่านี้สามารถลงทะเบียนกับแพลตฟอร์มได้อย่างปลอดภัยเพื่อเก็บรวบรวมเคล็ดลับที่ต้องการเพิ่มพูน
 
 ทั้งโทเค็น Basic Attention และ Brave Browser ได้รับการตอบรับอย่างดีจากผู้ใช้งานตั้งแต่เปิดตัว ณ เดือนตุลาคม 2020 Brave Browser มีผู้ใช้งานรายเดือนทั้งหมด 20.5 ล้านคน ในขณะที่โทเค็น Basic Attention ถูกครอบครองโดยวอลเลทที่ไม่ซ้ำกันทั้งหมดมากกว่า 368,000 ใบ
 
 #### หน้าที่เกี่ยวข้อง:
 
 ลองใช้ [Decentr (DEC)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/decentr/) — เว็บเบราว์เซอร์ที่ขับเคลื่อนด้วยบล็อคเชนและพอร์ทัลเว็บ 3.0
 
 สำรวจ [เครือข่าย AdEx (ADX)](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/currencies/adx-net/) — แพลตฟอร์มโฆษณาที่ขับเคลื่อนด้วยบล็อคเชน
 
 พบกับ [CoinMarketCap Alexandria](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/) — บทสรุปความรู้ด้านคริปโต
 
 นำหน้าตลาดด้วยข่าว, การวิเคราะห์ และการอัปเดตที่มากที่สุดด้วย [CoinMarketCap blog](https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/)
 
 ### มีเหรียญ Basic Attention Token (BAT) หมุนเวียนอยู่กี่เหรียญ?
 
 Basic Attention Token มีอุปทานรวมสูงสุด 1.5 พันล้าน [โทเค็น](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/a-deep-dive-into-tokenization) ซึ่งจะไม่สามารถเพิ่มได้ หากไม่เปลี่ยนไปใช้ token smart contract ใหม่
 
 อุปทานเกือบทั้งหมดนี้อยู่ในการหมุนเวียนในปัจจุบัน ด้วยเหตุนี้ Basic Attention Token จึงดูเหมทือนว่าจะมีการเจือจางจนเกือบหมด
 
 ใน ICO เมื่อ 2017 มีการขายโทเค็น BAT ทั้งหมด 1 พันล้านโทเค็นให้กับนักลงทุน ในขณะที่โทเค็นที่เหลืออีก 200 ล้านโทเค็นถูกล็อคไว้ในกลุ่มการพัฒนา และ 300 ล้าน BAT ถูกสงวนไว้สำหรับกลุ่มการลงทุนเพื่อเติบโตของผู้ใช้ (UGP) ณ เดือนพฤศจิกายน 2020 ทั้งการพัฒนาและที่อยู่ของกลุ่มการลงทุน UGP เกือบจะว่างเปล่า
 
 ### เครือข่าย Basic Attention Token มีความปลอดภัยอย่างไร?
 
 Basic Network Token (BAT) เป็น [โทเค็น ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) ดังนั้นมันจึงถูกสร้างขึ้นบน [บล็อคเชน](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/blockchain) ของ Ethereum เช่นเดียวกับโทเค็น ERC-20 อื่น ๆ BAT ได้รับการรักษาความปลอดภัยโดยอัลกอริธึมฉันทามติ [proof-of-workน](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake) (POW) ที่ได้รับการทดสอบอย่างเข้มงวด ซึ่งได้รับการสนับสนุนโดยเครือข่ายนักขุด Ethereum จำนวนมาก
 
 ซึ่งอัลกอริธึม [ฉันทามติ](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/consensus) นี้จะทำให้แน่ใจว่าเฉพาะธุรกรรมที่ถูกต้องเท่านั้นที่ได้รับการยืนยัน ในขณะที่การทำงานร่วมกันของเครือข่ายการขุด Ethereum จะช่วยทำให้มั่นใจได้ว่าธุรกรรม BAT นั้นไม่สามารถย้อนกลับได้เมื่อได้รับการยืนยัน
 
 ### คุณสามารถซื้อ Basic Attention Token (BAT) ได้จากที่ไหน?
 
 Basic Attention Token ปัจจุบันสามารถซื้อขายได้บนแพลตฟอร์มการแลกเปลี่ยนคริปโตเคอร์เรนซียอดนิยมส่วนใหญ่ และปัจจุบันตัวมันเองก็มีสภาพคล่องที่ดีเยี่ยม [Binance](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/binance/), Coinbase Pro และ [Huobi Global](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/huobi-global/) เป็นหนึ่งในตัวกลางการแลกเปลี่ยนที่มีชื่อเสียงที่สุดสำหรับการซื้อขาย BAT
 
 เช่นเดียวกับคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีอื่น ๆ เนื่องจาก BAT สามารถ [ซื้อได้โดยตรงโดยใช้สกุลเงิน fiat](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/) ได้ที่โบรกเกอร์ต่าง ๆ หรือสามารถซื้อขายกับสินทรัพย์ fiat บนแพลตฟอร์มเช่น [Kraken](https://coinmarketcap.com/th/exchanges/kraken/) และ Bithumb ได้ด้วย
 
 นี่คือบทความอื่น ๆ ที่คุณอาจสนใจ:
 
 * [คริปโตฟอเซ็ต (Crypto Faucet) คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-a-crypto-faucet)
 * [บัตรเดบิตคริปโตคืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-crypto-debit-cards)
 * [Web 3.0 คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-web-3-0)
 * [การฟาร์มผลตอบแทนคืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-yield-farming)
 * [การให้ยืมคริปโต (Crypto Lending) คืออะไร?](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-crypto-lending)

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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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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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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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Decentraland (MANA) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications.

In this virtual world, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.

Decentraland was launched following a $24 million initial coin offering (ICO) that was conducted in 2017. The virtual world launched its closed beta in 2019 and opened to the public in February 2020. Since then, users have created a wide range of experiences on their parcels of LAND, including interactive games, sprawling 3D scenes and a variety of other interactive experiences.

Decentraland uses two tokens: MANA and LAND. MANA is an ERC-20 token that must be burned to acquire non-fungible ERC-721 LAND tokens. MANA tokens can also be used to pay for a range of avatars, wearables, names, and more on the Decentraland marketplace.

Decentraland (MANA) is a decentralized virtual world platform with software based on the Ethereum blockchain, where users create, test and monetize content. In short: users buy virtual plots of land as NFTs with MANA tokens on the Decentraland platform. Progress in the game depends only on players themselves, their efforts and their imagination.

The digital platform is completely owned by its users. Within the Decentraland metaverse, participants can explore the virtual world, purchase plots of land that can be monetized, create works of art, own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and take part in a decentralized autonomous organization of the platform Decentraland DAO. Due to the DAO, the community influences the development vector of the project.

In addition, users have access to interactive applications, in-world payments and peer-to-peer communication. The 3D world resonates with many participants as Decentraland has many applications, both entertainment for gamers and business for investors.

Two types of tokens called MANA and LAND govern operations in Decentraland. They also allow users to interact with the platform.

MANA is the official currency of Decentraland. It’s an ERC-20 standard token that powers the Decentraland platform. With MANA, users can purchase plots of LAND, as well as pay for in-game items and services.

MANA gives its holders the right to vote in Decentraland DAO. MANA can be purchased on a cryptocurrency exchange or by selling collectibles on Decentraland Marketplace. The owner of tokens converts them to wrapped MANA, or wMANA, and then commits them to the DAO. One wMANA equals one vote. MANA can be exchanged for fiat currency and other digital assets.

As for LAND, it’s a non-fungible token (NFT) based on Ethereum (ETH). It is used to track ownership of land parcels aka digital real estate. Like MANA, LAND is part of the protocol and confers voting rights, but LAND does not need to be fixed in the DAO. One LAND is equal to two thousand votes.

Players choose what to do with their land. Owners store tokens in crypto wallets and buy necessities with MANA tokens on the Decentraland Marketplace. Moreover, on the marketplace, participants can manage or exchange LAND tokens (priced in MANA). Holders use the marketplace to transact or transfer in-game items. All transactions are conducted, regulated and registered via the Ethereum blockchain.

Decentraland combines an online gaming space and blockchain technology. All control over the rules is given to the players, and token holders vote on in-game and organizational policies. The original goal was to form a decentralized virtual reality, but in practice, Decentraland has turned into a massive NFT market.

A special role in Decentraland is assigned to NFTs, such as collectibles, virtual equipment and real estate (LAND). However, for new players who want to join the universe and seize NFTs, the entry barrier will be high.

The Decentraland protocol is built on three levels using Ethereum smart contracts. On the consensus layer, the ownership of LAND is tracked and managed. The land content layer displays the content of the Decentraland virtual world. Finally, on the real-time layer, participants interact with each other.

The platform was co-founded by two blockchain experts, Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, in 2015. Officially it was launched a year later and became available only in February 2020, gradually turning from a 2D experiment into a full-fledged 3D world.

To sum up, Decentraland is a decentralized game and a 3D virtual reality platform where players own lands and create limitlessly. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) software is at the core, and governance is in the hands of the community. Through the native token MANA, players participate in any proposals for managing and improving the ecosystem, the auction system, and the in-game policy.

Decentraland

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.

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

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

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.

Compound

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

Algorand is a self-sustaining, decentralized, blockchain-based network that supports a wide range of applications. These systems are secure, scalable and efficient, all critical properties for effective applications in the real world. Algorand will support computations that require reliable performance guarantees to create new forms of trust.

The Algorand mainnet became live in June 2019, and was able to handle almost 1 million transactions per day as of December 2020. Algorand transaction metrics can be viewed here. Algorand initial coin offering (ICO) was held in June 2019, with the Algorand price of $0.24 per token.

Algorand

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.

Loopring

Theta 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

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.

The Graph

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

Aave

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

Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity. It uses the zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology that allows nodes on the network to verify transactions without revealing any sensitive information about those transactions.

Contrary to a common misunderstanding, the majority of cryptocurrencies on the market, including Bitcoin (BTC), are not anonymous, but rather pseudonymous; while they do not explicitly reveal the identities of their users, each user has their own public address or addresses which can be traced back to them via the methods of data science and blockchain forensics.

Zcash transactions, on the other hand, still have to be relayed via a public blockchain, but unlike pseudonymous cryptocurrencies, ZEC transactions by default do not reveal the sending and receiving addresses or the amount being sent. There is an option, however, to reveal this data for the purposes of auditing or regulatory compliance.

Zcash was first released on October 28, 2016, and it was originally based on Bitcoin’s codebase.

Zcash

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.

IOTA

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

Curve is a decentralized exchange for stablecoins that uses an automated market maker (AMM) to manage liquidity.

Launched in January 2020, Curve is now synonymous with the decentralized finance (DeFi) phenomenon, and has seen significant growth in the second half of 2020.

In August, Curve launched a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), with CRV as its in-house token. The DAO uses Ethereum-based creation tool Aragon to connect multiple smart contracts used for users’ deposited liquidity. Issues such as governance, however, differ from Aragon in their weighting and other respects.