Cryptocurrencies – Overview
Bitcoin (BTC )
Digital gold, Sound Money
Price for 1 BTC
96.587,00 $
-3,7%
- Hard cash, digital gold
- Largest network, highest security
- Longest history without incidents
Ethereum (ETH )
Smart contracts and DeFi
Price for 1 ETH
3.386,70 $
-5,9%
- Largest Smart Contract Platform
- Technology for decentralized finance and NFTs
- Almost all tokens are based on Ethereum (ERC-20, NFTs)
XRP (XRP )
Universal currency for banks
Price for 1 XRP
2,23 $
-4,4%
- "Bitcoin for banks" (bank to bank transfers)
- High number of transactions possible (1,500 per second)
- Transactions take only a few seconds (3.5 - 4 seconds)
BNB (BNB )
Save trading fees on Binance
Price for 1 BNB
667,35 $
-3,1%
- Discount system on Binance trading platform
- Quarterly coin burn from Binance acts like dividend
- Cashback on Binance credit card
Solana (SOL )
Potential Ethereum killer
Price for 1 SOL
190,48 $
-7,1%
- Very high transaction speed also for smart contracts
- Energy efficiency
- Possibly better trade-off between scaling, security and decentralization
Dogecoin (DOGE )
Much crypto wow, Memecoin
Price for 1 DOGE
0,3082 $
-12,0%
- Meme Coin (1 Doge = 1 Doge)
- Very low transaction fees
- Positive community
USDC (USDC )
stark regulierter Dollar Stablecoin
Price for 1 USDC
1,00 $
0,1%
- Strictly regulated in America
- Support from major stock exchanges
- ERC-20 tokens in the EVM ecosystem: also available as Algorand ASA, Avalanche ERC-20, Flow FT, Hedera SDK, Solana SPL, Stellar asset and TRON TRC-20.
Lido Staked Ether (STETH )
Tokenized ETH 2.0
Price for 1 STETH
3.384,22 $
-5,8%
- 1:1 tokenization from ETH to stETH
- stETH are freely tradable while they generate staking rewards
- Leverage of Lido stETH in DeFi possible
Cardano (ADA )
Third-generation blockchain
Price for 1 ADA
0,8784 $
-7,1%
- Fast and inexpensive transactions (in seconds)
- Interoperability between different blockchains
- Platform for blockchain applications and smart contracts
TRON (TRX )
Blockchain platform, scalable?
Price for 1 TRX
0,2438 $
-6,7%
- DApp platform with high scalability
Avalanche (AVAX )
Customizable PoS blockchain platform
Price for 1 AVAX
38,24 $
-8,7%
- Scalable & low fees
- Network consists of Exchange (X), Platform (P) & Contract (C) Chain
- EVM support and smart contract migration
Chainlink (LINK )
Decentralized oracle network
Price for 1 LINK
22,54 $
-6,9%
- Connecting real world data with blockchains (oracle).
- Actually used by many DeFi applications
- Reliable data provider
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC )
Bridge to Ethereum via ERC-20 token
Price for 1 WBTC
96.320,00 $
-3,7%
- De facto interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum
- KYC required for mining WBTC
- Regular audits
Shiba Inu (SHIB )
Internet Phenomenon & Memetoken
Price for 1 SHIB
0,000021 $
-10,5%
- Meme token on Ethereum, pushed by Elon Musk & Vitalik Buterin.
- Featured in WoofPaper, created by Ryoshi
- Buterin donated a large portion to the COVID India Relief Fund
Stellar (XLM )
Decentralized Ripple
Price for 1 XLM
0,3601 $
-7,8%
- Cross-border payment (replace Swift)
- No miners
- Minimal transaction time and cost (3 - 5 seconds; 0.00001 XLM)
Polkadot (DOT )
The bridge between blockchains
Price for 1 DOT
6,98 $
-6,9%
- Multichain model
- Interoperability between chains, private and public
- Next-Generation blockchain
Hedera (HBAR )
Trust layer for the Internet
Price for 1 HBAR
0,2626 $
-8,0%
- High number of transactions per second
- Very low fees
- Smart contracts
Bitcoin Cash (BCH )
Digital cash
Price for 1 BCH
435,77 $
-8,0%
- Bitcoin without high transaction fees
- Scaling should process directly "on-chain”
- Digital cash
Price for 1 LEO
9,25 $
2,4%
- Discounts and benefits for holders
- LEO are repurchased piecemeal (token burn) to achieve value appreciation
- Tokens available for investment on Bitfinex's IEO platform, Tokinex.
Uniswap (UNI )
Governance Token of the Uniswap Exchange
Price for 1 UNI
12,54 $
-13,4%
- Token of the largest decentralized exchange
- Governance via Uniswap
- Potentially also revenue sharing
Litecoin (LTC )
Digital Cash
Price for 1 LTC
96,92 $
-9,3%
- Code fork of Bitcoin with faster transactions
- Basically a test network
- Long standing in the market
NEAR Protocol (NEAR )
Cloud collective with improved contribution and incentivization via EVM
Price for 1 NEAR
5,11 $
-8,0%
- Interoperability to many blockchains
- Climate neutral blockchain
- Developers receive 30% of fees from smart contracts
Internet Computer (ICP )
potential of the cloud, but decentralized
Price for 1 ICP
10,07 $
-7,5%
- Fast transactions
- Low storage costs
- Users do not need a wallet for dApps
Aave (AAVE )
The DeFi protocol with flash loans
Price for 1 AAVE
308,38 $
-5,0%
- Staking based on the Safety Module (SM), Staker earn Safety Incentives (SI) in the form of AAVE along with a share of the protocol fees.
- Staking consists of AAVE and an AAVE/ETH duo
- Ecosystem Incentives (EI) for lending and borrowing.
Cronos (CRO )
DeFi competition for Ethereum
Price for 1 CRO
0,1572 $
-10,1%
- Lower fees
- More environmentally friendly according to the platform, due to the use of Proof of Authority
- Higher number of transactions than on the Ethereum Chain
Ethereum Classic (ETC )
Code is law
Price for 1 ETC
26,38 $
-8,2%
- A principled community that adheres to the original values
VeChain (VET )
Supply chain blockchain
Price for 1 VET
0,0459 $
-7,4%
- Comprehensive management solution, for instance through co-determination via voting rights
- Private individuals cannot set up nodes
- Proof of authority: authority masternodes append blocks to the blockchain
Monero (XMR )
Anonymous digital cash
Price for 1 XMR
189,36 $
-8,2%
- Coin with the highest level of privacy
- Sender, receiver, transaction amount and address are all anonymous
- Flexible block size (the more transactions, the larger the block)
Filecoin (FIL )
decentralized P2P cloud storage
Price for 1 FIL
4,93 $
-10,6%
- Low storage costs, about $24 per tebibyte per year.
- Focus on long-term incentivization to keep storage available
- Storage Providers: show that data is stored securely and correctly and compute create cryptographic proofs
Algorand (ALGO )
PoS smart contract platform
Price for 1 ALGO
0,3261 $
-9,7%
- Low transaction fees
- Fast transaction processing within 5 seconds
- Exclusively Proof-of-Stake
Fantom (FTM )
fast Ethereum 2.0 with useful additions
Price for 1 FTM
0,9631 $
-12,3%
- Fast, low-cost transactions
- Integration of oracles like Chainlink
- 4% - 13% interest on staked capital
Cosmos Hub (ATOM )
Internet of blockchains
Price for 1 ATOM
6,67 $
-9,1%
- Scalable blockchains
- Consensus layer (tendermint) separate from application layer
- Modularity
Theta Network (THETA )
Decentralized streaming network
Price for 1 THETA
1,98 $
-12,2%
- Decentralized streaming platform with incentive system
- Experienced team
- Renowned partners
THORChain (RUNE )
Decentralized Cross Chain Exchange
Price for 1 RUNE
5,12 $
-7,2%
- Crypto exchange cross blockchain
- Trust-minimized
- Without KYC or middlemen
Maker (MKR )
Evidence-free loans against security deposit
Price for 1 MKR
1.649,71 $
-0,8%
- DAI Stablecoin Issuer
- Loan for ETH
- Largest Decentralized Finance application
The Sandbox (SAND )
metaverse with focus on art and games
Price for 1 SAND
0,5495 $
-8,1%
- Several ways to earn
- Focus on voxel art
- Cooperation with well-known artists like Snoop Dogg and deadmau5
Tezos (XTZ )
Democratic blockchain platform
Price for 1 XTZ
1,20 $
-6,4%
- Scalability through Proof of Stake
- "Self-amendment" to avoid hard forks