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This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.

List

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Name Date created Created by Native cryptocurrency Consensus algorithm Programmable? Private?[Note 1] Permissioned?[Note 1] Finality Ledger state Notes Refs.
Bitcoin 2009-01-03 Satoshi Nakamoto

BTC

PoW with Nakamoto Consensus Yes (scripts) No No Probabilistic UTXO First and most well-known blockchain of all; BTC is the most valuable token in terms of market share. ,[1][2]
Namecoin 2011-04-18 Vincent Durham NMC PoW Allows users to register names; precursor to NFTs
Litecoin 2011-10-08 Charlie Lee LTC PoW Yes (scripts) Yes ,[1][3]
Ripple 2012-06-? Ripple Labs XRP BFT No No No Immediate Account-balance Blockchain is known as XRP Ledger. Smart contract capabilities are being added. ,[4][5][6]
Peercoin 2012-08-19 Scott Nadal, Sunny King (pseudonym) PPC PoW Yes (scripts) No ,[1][7]
Primecoin 2013-07-07 Sunny King XPM PoW Work is finding long Cunningham chains of prime numbers
Dogecoin 2013-12-06 DOGE PoW No No [1]
Vertcoin 2014-01-08 VTC
Dash 2014-01-18 Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan DASH PoW & Proof of Service
MazaCoin 2014-02-07 Payu Harris, AnonymousPirate[8] MAZA PoW Initially created for the Oglala Lakota Tribe,[8] but never quite used for that purpose
Monero 2014-04-18 Nicolas van Saberhagen XMR PoW No Yes ,[1][7]
Verge 2014-10-09 Justin Sunerok XVG PoW
Ethereum 2015-07-30 Ethereum Foundation

(founded by Vitalik Buterin and others)

ETH

ETH 1.0 - PoW with Nakamoto consensus, ETH 2.0 - PoS with supermajority Yes No No ETH 1.0 Probabilistic, ETH 2.0 Economic Account-balance ETH is the second most valuable token in terms of market share; switched to PoS (the “merge”) on September 15, 2022; progenitor of Ethereum Classic [1][9]
Nano 2015-10-04 Colin LeMahieu XNO Open Representative Voting No No No Instant (less than1 second) with deterministic finality Account-balance
Stellar 2016-04-06 XLM BFT ? ? Yes ? [7]
LBRY 2016-06-23 LBC
IOTA 2016-07-11 IOTA Foundation MIOTA PoW/TaPoW[clarification needed] No No Yes Immediate UTXO Smart contract capabilities are being added. ,[1][10][11]
Ethereum Classic 2016-07-20 ETC PoW Yes No No Split from Ethereum due to The DAO hack earlier that month [1]
Firo 2016-09-28 Poramin Insom, Reuben Yap FIRO PoW
Zcash 2016-10-28[7] ZEC PoW Yes uses zero-knowledge proofs for privacy
Quorum 2016-11-22 ? Ether PoA with supermajority voting Yes Yes Yes Immediate Account-balance Enterprise version of Ethereum [12]
EOS.IO 2017-07-01 ? EOS DPoS Yes No ? ? [7]
Hyperledger Fabric 2017-07-11 Linux Foundation N/A BFT, PoA Yes Yes Yes Immediate Account-balance
Hedera Hashgraph 2017-07-? HBAR Yes No Yes Account-balance Uses a directed acyclic graph instead of a chain per se
Bitcoin Cash 2017-08-01 BCH PoW [13] split from Bitcoin
Cardano 2017-09-23 ADA DPoS Yes No No Probabilistic UTXO ,[1][14][15]
R3 Corda 2017-10-03 R3 N/A PoA (by notaries) Yes Yes Yes Immediate UTXO
Bitcoin Gold 2017-11-12 BTG PoW Yes (scripts) No [1]
Lightning Network[relevant?] 2018-03-15 n/a ? Layer-2 on Bitcoin
TRON 2018-06-24 TRON DPoS Yes No ,[1][16]
Tezos 2018-06-30 XTZ PoS Yes No ,[1][17]
Bitcoin SV 2018-11-15 BSV PoW Yes (scripts) No split from Bitcoin Cash, itself split from Bitcoin [1]
Terra Classic 2019-04-24? Do Kwon and others LUNC (formerly LUNA), UST Formerly Terra until May 2022; ecosystem collapsed in May 2022 (UST depegged to near-zero and LUNA also went to near-zero)
XDC Network 2019-06-01 XinFin XDC XDPOS Yes No No immediate XDC Network is an layer 1 EVM compatible, environmental friendly, near zero transaction cost with high speed settlement blockchain platform.
Algorand 2019-06-10 Silvio Micali and others ALGO PoS Yes No No Immediate Uses a verifiable random function to choose random validators for consensus [18]
$PC 2019-09-16 $PC PoS Yes (scripts) No No $PC future well-known blockchain [19]
Solana 2020-03-16 SOL PoS with Proof of History (PoH) Yes No No Immediate Account-balance [20]
Polkadot 2020-05-26 DOT Started with PoA then moved to PoS Yes No No Parachains on Polkadot support smart contracts, but not the relay chain. [21][22]
Polygon 2020-05-30 ? MATIC PoS Yes No No Immediate Account-balance Layer 2 network anchored to Ethereum
Binance Smart Chain 2020-08-29 Binance BNB PoS and PoA Yes No Yes Immediate ? Binance Smart Chain is now merged with Binance chain and called BNB chain. Validators on BNB chain are chosen by BNB Beacon chain validators who are permissioned. Hence, BNB chain is considered permissioned. [23]
Avalanche 2020-09-23 AVAX
NEAR 2020-09-24 NEAR Foundation NEAR Started with PoA then moved to PoS Yes No No Finality Account-balance [24]
MobileCoin 2020-12-06 MobileCoin Inc. (founded by Josh Goldbard and Shane Glynn) MOB
Stacks 2021-01-14 STX
DESO 2021-01-18 Nader al-Naji (aka diamondhands) and others DESO (formerly BTCLT, CLOUT) social media; flagship app BitClout; name acquired in Sep 2021 [25]
Internet Computer 2021-05-06 DFINITY Foundation (founded by Dominic WIlliams) ICP Computation is very cheap; can host websites
Arbitrum 2021-08-31 Offchain Labs ? Optimistic rollup Layer-2 on Ethereum
Terra 2.0 2022-05-28 LUNA New blockchain created following the collapse of Terra. [26]
Aptos 2022-10-12 Aptos Foundation APT BFT Yes No No Finality? Ledger state? [27]
  1. ^ a b Defined as per ISO 22739:2020 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies standard (see https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:22739:ed-1:v1:en):
    • Public - blockchain/DLT system which is accessible to the public for use.
    • Private - blockchain/DLT that is accessible for use only to a limited group of DLT users.
    • Permissioned - requiring authorization to perform a particular activity or activities.
    • Permissionless - not requiring authorization to perform any particular activity.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "List of blockchains by consensus, smart contracts and privacy". DLT-Repo. December 27, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  2. ^ "Block: 0 | Blockchain Explorer". www.blockchain.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  3. ^ "Litecoin (LTC) Block: #1". litecoinblockexplorer.net. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  4. ^ "Consensus". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  5. ^ "Consensus Protections Against Attacks and Failure Modes". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "XRPL's Origin". XRP Ledger. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e Bamakana, S.M. Hosseini; Motavalia, Amirhossein; Bondarti, A. Babaei (April 13, 2020). "A survey of blockchain consensus algorithms performance evaluation criteria". Expert Systems with Applications. 154 (113385): 113385. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113385. S2CID 218814732.
  8. ^ a b Consunji, Bianca (September 18, 2014). "One Man's Lonely Quest to Build 'Bitcoin for Native Americans'". Mashable. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  9. ^ "On Settlement Finality". Ethereum Foundation Blog. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
  10. ^ "The Coordinator". ConsenSys. September 27, 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  11. ^ @iota (June 24, 2016). "Launch date of IOTA is set to July 11" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Configure QBFT consensus". IOTA Wiki. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  13. ^ Larson, Selena (August 1, 2017). "Bitcoin split in two, here's what that means". CNNMoney. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  14. ^ "CardanoGenesisBlock NFT". cardanogenesisblock.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  15. ^ "Epoch | Cardano Explorer". explorer.cardano.org. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  16. ^ "TRONSCAN | TRON BlockChain Explorer | 波场区块链浏览器". TRON. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  17. ^ "Tezos Genesis Block". www.objkt.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  18. ^ "Algorand Block #". algoexplorer.io. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  19. ^ "Explorer | $PC". lowgas.io. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  20. ^ "Explorer | Solana". explorer.solana.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  21. ^ Polkadot [@polkadot] (May 26, 2021). "The network's genesis block was produced 1 year ago today" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  22. ^ "Polkadot / Block / 1". blockchair.com. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  23. ^ "Consensus Engine". BNB Chain Documentation. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  24. ^ "NEAR MainNet is now Community-Operated". NEAR. September 24, 2020. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  25. ^ "Bitclout blockchain explorer | Cloutangel". explorer.cloutangel.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  26. ^ Terra 🌍 Powered by LUNA 🌕 [@terra_money] (May 28, 2022). "1/ Block 1 of the brand new Terra blockchain (with a chain_id of "Phoenix-1") has officially been produced at 06:00 AM UTC on May 28th, 2022!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  27. ^ "Aptos Tokenomics Overview". Aptos Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2023.

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