## What Is Bora (BORA)?

[Bora](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bora/) is a decentralized ecosystem for games and entertainment. Bora aims to attract games and applications from the [GameFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/gamefi) sector to its Bora Chain to avoid building on blockchains like [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/) that have high [gas](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/gas) fees. For that reason, Bora follows a two-tiered blockchain system: the BORA token is traded on the [Klaytn](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/klaytn/) blockchain, a public blockchain that is focused on metaverse and gaming use cases. The Bora chain is a modular blockchain that can be used as an execution layer by decentralized applications. 

The Bora team provides development toolkits that support developers with creating decentralized applications for its ecosystem. It also utilizes Bora Points, a currency within the ecosystem as a resource for development and to incentivize contribution to Bora. Bora Points can subsequently be converted to the BORA token. 


## Who Are the Founders of Bora?

Bora was launched by a Korean team of blockchain and mobile development experts. CEO Gyehan Song is an experienced game developer with over 20 years in the field and experience at Samsung Electronics under his belt. The company’s CSO Key Yune also has 20 years of experience with developing online desktop and mobile games, during which he had created several titles, highly popular in Korea. 

CTO Igoo Lee is an infrastructure operations manager with experience in building the infrastructure of games like Crossfire and FIFA Online. Finally, Kyoungwook Cheon serves as the project’s VP of Engineering and is a former computer engineer and founder of the Free Chal game portal in 2000. 

The team has also built partnerships with more than 30 companies in the blockchain and gaming space, among them companies like ENP Games, UNIT5, Supertree, Neon Games, and Emong, educational consultant RS Edu, digital healthcare service provider Hurray Positive and grid address platform Infoseed.


## What Makes Bora Unique?

Bora is a blockchain with high [cross-chain](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/cross-chain) [interoperability](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/interoperability) that works with different layers to increase its security, scalability, and reliability.

For game developers, Bora is interesting because of its easy-to-navigate API and web interface and full interoperability within its ecosystem. Bora also provides developers and content creators with infrastructure to manage and retain users, such as the Bora point system that integrates with its BORA token.

The three layers of the Bora blockchain are the application layer, the service layer, and the core layer.

The core layer is the blockchain’s bottom layer that supports the ecosystem’s infrastructure and data network. The core layer also supports the settlement of the Bora points. Its code is modeled after Ethereum, and both uses a [proof-of-stake](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-stake-pos) [consensus mechanism](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/consensus-mechanism).

The service layer houses the APIs and software development kits that integrate with content and applications built for Bora. The Bora chain explorer is located on the service layer and allows tracking of all BORA token movements. Bora’s BORA ATOLL software development kit offers developers a tool to manage and design applications for Bora.

The final layer is the application layer, with which end users interact. It hosts all the content for the Bora ecosystem, as well as the asset management platform Bora app. The app provides token exchange functions alongside access to free content applications.

This dual-layer blockchain structure offers an attractive solution to game developers that do not want to build on other blockchains. Bora’s modular structure also means that developers can easily test and develop projects on its blockchain before taking them to other chains. For instance, Bora’s transaction throughput at 2,200 TPS is significantly faster than that of even low-gas fee chains like [BNB Chain](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/binance-coin/). 


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## How Many Bora (BORA) Coins Are There in Circulation?

BORA is the blockchain’s native token with a [total supply](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/total-supply) of 1.325 billion. The distribution of BORA is as follows:



* Token sale: 40%
* Reserve: 20%
* Ecosystem: 25%
* Team & Advisors: 15%

BORA can be exchanged for the blockchain’s internal Bora points, which are used as a reward currency for content providers, event management, and to incentivize games. Bora Points can be exchanged without friction to the BORA token, which can then be traded on various exchanges.

BORA used to be an [ERC-20](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/erc-20) token but migrated to the [Klaytn](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/klaytn/) blockchain because of the latter’s focus on gaming and metaverse applications. 


## How Is the Bora Network Secured?

After its update to Bora 2.0, Bora migrated from a [proof-of-authority](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-authority-poa) to a [PBFT](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/byzantine-fault-tolerance-bft) [consensus mechanism](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/consensus-mechanism), resolving many of the issues faced by other consensus mechanisms like [proof-of-stake](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-stake-pos) or [proof-of-work](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-work-pow). Bora is theoretically infinitely expandable. If necessary, additional blockchains can be built on top of the current core layer blockchain that serves as the settlement layer for transactions on Bora. Thus, each independent side chain on Bora offers potentially 2,200 transactions per second, which opens up potential further use cases in industries beyond gaming.


## Where Can You Buy Bora (BORA)?

BORA is available on [Upbit](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/upbit/), [Bithumb](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bithumb/), and [Coinone](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/coinone/).


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MediBloc (MED) is a South Korean-based decentralized blockchain protocol for the healthcare industry through which medical institutions can securely transfer, collect, store and manage data. With MediBloc, physicians can access patient information, medical history, prescribed medication, insurance issues and more. MediBloc makes medical data more accessible by allowing everyone involved to track and record medical conditions, appointments, examinations, treatments and more.

The ecosystem is built on three key elements: MediBloc Core (a layer for storing data and providing additional storage), MediBloc Application (a layer for accessing and managing data through various applications), and MediBloc Service (a layer applying smart contract technology that connects the other layers and allowing input and output of data).

The platform offers three categories of accounts: for general users (patients), healthcare providers (doctors and medical institutions) and data scientists, the latter two require proof of their accreditation. The project is aimed at improving the quality of medical services and infrastructure by optimizing information storage processes and giving users sovereignty over their own data. MediBloc is compliant with the HIPAA Security Rule, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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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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Hive (HIVE) is a blockchain running on a delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism. It launched in March 2020 as a hard fork of the centralized Steem blockchain and as a gateway from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. The blockchain claims to offer “lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions.” Examples of use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content creators, interactive blockchain games, identity management, micro-loans and more. The platform powers decentralized applications (dApps) like Splinterlands, PeakD and HiveBlog.

Hive is a social network of apps and services, where users discover the capacity of blockchain technology, connect to the platform and securely share content through equitable redistribution of value. Thus, the users are the proprietors of the network, and sponsors can contact communities and artists directly without intermediaries.

Hive is an open source blockchain that focuses on scaling through layer-2 sidechains, while still benefiting from a common layer-1 blockchain backbone to ensure distributed data integrity. The Hive ecosystem runs on two cryptocurrencies — the native governance token, HIVE and the USD-pegged HBD stablecoin.

Hive

Decred is Money Evolved.

By combining battle tested Proof-of-Work with an innovative take on Proof-of-Stake that places coin holders in charge of shaping the future, Decred is able to adapt to challenges and innovate at a rapid pace. You acquire influence in Decred by putting “skin in the game”.

Decred’s security, privacy, scalability, and decentralized treasury empower stakeholders and provides them with the tools needed to enhance their financial sovereignty.

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WEMIX3.0 mainnet is an “experience-based, platform-driven & service-oriented decentralized blockchain protocol” which powers a “mega-ecosystem” of web 3.0 platforms. The mainnet is a high-performance Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible open-source protocol powered by the SPoA (Stake-based Proof of Authority) consensus mechanism. The mainnet claims to offer the highest security possible, based on decentralized on-chain governance via 40 Node Council Partners(NCP), also known as 40 WONDERS, while still ensuring high transaction per second (TPS). Consensus will evolve towards complete decentralization through a multi-phase democratized governance.

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Orbs is a publicblockchain infrastructure that combines scalability, low fees, performance, security, and ease of use.

The platform is designed for mass-use applications and supports a complete blockchain stack. The Orbs platform is a decentralized, open and transparent network that offers practical blockchain solutions for enterprises and other large-scale consumer applications.

The Orbs protocol uses the ORBS token, which calculates commissions for executed applications and provides an incentive system that is used to select validators, thereby ensuring the integrity of the network. The ORBS token serves as the only means of payment on the Orbs platform.

Orbs was established in 2017 and was developed by experienced engineers, businessmen and scientists who have managed to create an infrastructure that uses blockchain virtualization and randomized proof-of-stake (RPoS) to ensure blockchainscalability.

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Gnosis (GNO) builds decentralized infrastructure on Ethereum. Its mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. Gnosis Safe, for example, was born of necessity.

Gnosis operates as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) which provides infrastructure for various types of decentralized applications (dApps), and builds products to transparently guide decisions on the development, support and governance of its ecosystem.

In November 2021, both the xDAI and GnosisDAO community voted to combine their vibrant ecosystems to create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner-companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering.

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WAX (WAXP) is a purpose-built blockchain, released in 2017, that is designed to make e-commerce transactions faster, simpler and safer for every party involved. The WAX blockchain uses delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) as its consensus mechanism. It is fully compatible with EOS.

The custom features and the incentive mechanisms developed by WAX are intended to optimize the blockchain’s utility specifically for use in e-commerce, with the goal of encouraging voting on proposals.

To make this possible, WAX created a suite of blockchain-based tools which decentralized application (DApp) marketplaces and non-fungible tokens can be built upon.

Services such as WAX Cloud Wallet, SSO and OAUTH support e-commerce operations, the latter being a native RNG service and a developer portal. WAX’s blockchain architecture supports 500-millisecond block time and zero-fee transactions for customers. It also makes use of voting rewards to incentivize participation in the selection of block producers and improvement proposals.

Function X is mirroring traditional financial products on the Function X network and creating decentralized financial products and a decentralized trading system. It is a highly customizable and expandable multi-chain architecture blockchain network (subnets) that can meet different business needs.

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JUST is a popular new decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built for the TRON blockchain. It is an entire suite of products that are mostly centered around a decentralized stablecoin lending platform known as JustStable.

The platform launched in August 2020 following an initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Poloniex LaunchBase platform earlier that same year, but the native governance token of the platform (JST) has been circulating since May 2020.

It is a two-token ecosystem built around the USDJ and JUST (JST) tokens. USDJ is a multi-collateral stablecoin that has its value pegged to the value of the US dollar (USD), whereas JST has a variety of functions on the platform — paying interest, helping maintain the platform and participating in its governance, helping to set parameters like interest rates (stability fees) and the minimum collateralization ratio.

To obtain USDJ on JUST, traders need to deposit collateral in the form of supported collateral tokens — including TRON (TRX), which are exchanged to PTRX tokens and locked as collateral forming a collateralized debt position (CDP). Depending on the amount of collateral deposited, users can then mint and withdraw USDJ, which must later be repaid to retrieve the initial collateral.

The platform is designed to provide a fair and borderless hub of DeFi products, that any TRON user can access.

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PlayDapp has developed a comprehensive ecosystem tailored for Web3 users, leveraging the PlayDapp Mainnet as the foundational infrastructure.

Our ecosystem seamlessly integrates various components, including Mobile Web3 Games, NFT Marketplace & Aggregator, NFT Collections, a DAO Game, EZ Play (Revamped Tournaments) and strategic partnerships with notable enterprises. The PDA token enables seamless interoperability, allowing users within our ecosystem to interact effortlessly with each of our products.

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Founded in September of 2018, Pax Dollar is a flat-collateralized stablecoin. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that are designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin, relative to a certain stable asset or a basket of assets.

A stablecoin can be pegged to a cryptocurrency or flat money. In some cases, it can even be traded for commodities. Pax Dollar offers the advantage of transacting with blockchain assets through minimized price risk. The Pax Dollar tokens (USDP) are issued asERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and are collateralized 1:1 through the USD held in Paxos-owned US bank accounts.

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Bifrost is a multichain middleware platform that enables developers to create Decentralized Applications (DApps) on top of multiple protocols. Not restrained to a single blockchain, Bifrost creates a new environment where developers can combine the best protocols to develop substantially more scalable and flexible DApps.

With Bifrost, developers can write smart contracts for multiple blockchain protocols in an unified environment. They simply select the target blockchain for each part of the code, then Bifrost will transpile, compile, and deploy the code into the target blockchains at once. Developers can also easily operate their DApps and even switch the target blockchain as new and better protocols become available.

Bifrost has multiple components that allow for a seamless connection among all blockchains:

Recipe: A language application that defines the programming language of Bifrost and generates smart contract codes with guaranteed code-level flexibility.

Linker: A system that connects the user and Bifrost components, ensuring the seamless operation on top of multiple blockchains.

Builder: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that offers a customized environment to use the comprehensive suite of features of Bifrost.

Gourmet: An automated testing environment for Bifrost service and smart contract development, updating with the latest technologies for blockchain.

Scan: A dashboard that provides you with a full view of the internal process of Bifrost and shows your blockchain interconnectivity in diagram.

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NEM is a blockchain platform that was launched in March of 2015. It was one of the pioneers of the cryptocurrency industry, and sought to improve on the imperfections found on other chains at the time. It was one of the first non-turing complete chains to feature user-defined tokens (called mosaics), namespaces, multisignature accounts, and a P2P reputation system based on EigenTrust++. Its most notable contribution to the space is the proof-of-importance consensus mechanism, which sought to reward on-chain activity and deter the concentration of wealth commonly associated with proof-of-stake. Its client, NIS, is written in Java.

NEM has a global community. It sees the most utility as an alternative form of payment for businesses and vendors, and has a variety of social media apps built on top of it in Japan, such as nemgraph, a community-driven owned and operated alternative to Instagram.

In December 2021, NEM was hard forked by a pseudonymous team of cryptocurrency experts and enthusiasts alike. Titled Harlock, this hard fork signaled the community’s intent to take NEM from a shadow of its former self into the world’s leading payments platform for on-chain and off-chain media content.

Bancor is an ecosystem of decentralized, open-source protocols that promote on-chain trading and liquidity.

Its main protocol, Carbon, is a decentralized trading protocol allowing users to perform automated trading strategies using custom on-chain limit orders and range orders, with the option of combining orders together to create automated buy low, sell high strategies.

By design, Carbon orders are irreversible on execution, easily adjustable directly on-chain, and resistant to MEV sandwich attacks. These capabilities give users an unprecedented level of control and automation to perform novel trading strategies on-chain.

Fast Lane, a separate open-source arbitrage protocol, allows any user to perform arbitrage between Bancor ecosystem protocols and external on-chain exchanges and redirect arbitrage profits back to the Bancor ecosystem.

All Bancor ecosystem protocols are governed by the BancorDAO via staked BNT.

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Apps use ICON to operate cross-chain seamlessly, build momentum and gain reputation. ICON's Cross-Chain Framework simplifies cross-chain development with its easy-to-use xCall messaging standard and connections to secure bridging protocols.

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Fei protocol is a DeFi native algorithmic stablecoin. The aim of Fei is to propose a technological solution in a sweet spot between rigid overcollateralized decentralized stablecoin and centralised custodial stablecoins.

Fei Protocol runs on two crypto assets: FEI stablecoin and TRIBE governance token.

FEI is aimed to be a more capital efficient and fully decentralized stablecoin. The protocol uses the value it controls to maintain liquid secondary markets and earn yield for the protocol.

The project was founded in December 2020 and immediately attracted significant interest in the crypto community. It resulted in $19 million VC investment in early March 2021. Among the names that have entered this project are Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase Ventures, Nascent and Framework Ventures.

There were some issues with the peg in the original mechanism, but through a series of governance upgrades the protocol recovered in the months following launch.

Fei v2 intends to be a major upgrade for the system and will launch in late 2021. It features 1:1 redeemability for FEI against protocol reserves, TRIBE buybacks and backstop, and algorithmic protocol controlled value management.