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Zyber 365
Zyber 365
Web3 and AI-based OS, are the new innovative operating system that combines the power of cyber security and quantum proofing to create sustainable and affordable solutions for the future. We are an innovative enterprise that prioritizes the development of a sustainable cyber-chain that will form the core of our operating system with the objective of delivering a decentralized and secure working environment. Unique and immutable node for identification of each user on multiple applications. Leveraging cutting-edge AI and Web3 solutions to enable transparency, security, and personalization. We are aiming to provide a sophisticated and futuristic collection of decentralized OS, applications, and programs to replace the traditional operating system and its subsequent applications. -
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Canto
Canto Blockchain
Canto is a permissionless general-purpose blockchain running the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It was built to deliver on the promise of DeFi – that through a post-traditional financial movement, new systems will be made accessible, transparent, decentralized, and free. Canto aims to establish free public infrastructure, core DeFi primitives will not have sovereign governance tokens, nor the capacity to extract rent in the future. Where possible, Canto avoids interface-driven user ownership. Public infrastructure DEXes will have no swapping interface, so all users must trade on third-party aggregators. This will facilitate user acquisition for new protocols. Canto is a distributed community of DeFi advocates for a free public infrastructure. -
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Sei
Sei
Pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology through open source development, Sei stands to unlock a brand-new design space for consumer-facing applications. Sei's blockchain utilizes battle tested architecture, ensuring a reliable and secure environment for your projects. Sei’s blockchain supports vast scalability, enabling your projects to grow exponentially without performance constraints. Sei is designed to adapt and evolve, ensuring your projects remain at the cutting edge of blockchain technology. Sei is the ideal platform for developing groundbreaking applications, supporting the latest trends and innovations in blockchain. Sei’s commitment to carbon neutrality makes it the perfect choice for environmentally conscious blockchain development. -
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XRP Ledger (XRPL)
XRP Ledger
The XRP Ledger: The Blockchain Built for Business. The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a decentralized, public blockchain led by a global community of businesses and developers looking to solve problems and create value. Proven reliable over more than a decade of error-free functioning, the XRPL offers streamlined development, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. So you can build with confidence–and move your most critical projects forward. The XRP Ledger is a decentralized public blockchain built for business. The peer-to-peer network that manages the ledger is open to everyone. The XRP Ledger is maintained by software engineers, server operators, users, and businesses–a global community working to solve problems and create real-world value. -
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Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid
Crypto is fragmented today, but it doesn’t need to be. For the first time, build projects, create value, and exchange assets on the same hyper-performant chain. The foundation of the Hyperliquid L1 is HyperBFT consensus, which lets a disparate set of nodes agree on the state of the world. The state comprises all applications, both those built as native components and the HyperEVM. The Hyper Foundation, established to support the development of the Hyperliquid blockchain and its ecosystem, has announced the upcoming genesis distribution of its native token, HYPE. This initiative marks a significant step toward implementing proof-of-stake consensus and launching the HyperEVM on the layer-1 blockchain's mainnet. Hyperliquid's flagship application is a decentralized trading platform that provides deep on-chain liquidity for a wide range of assets. With the introduction of HyperEVM, applications built on Hyperliquid will have access to this extensive liquidity. -
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Somnia
Somnia
Somnia is a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to support real-time, mass-consumer applications such as gaming, social platforms, and metaverses. Its novel multistream consensus mechanism and custom database, IceDB, enable the processing of over 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality, ensuring ultra-low transaction fees. Somnia's architecture allows developers to utilize existing EVM tools and codebases, facilitating seamless integration and rapid development. By introducing reactive primitives to Solidity, Somnia enables the creation of fully on-chain applications that can respond to data changes and events in real time, fostering a new class of decentralized applications. The platform's focus on scalability and affordability makes it suitable for building complex on-chain games, social networks, and fully on-chain metaverses, promoting user sovereignty, composability, and transparency. -
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Corda
R3
A blockchain platform built for business and longevity. Unlock new value and transform your business by building any blockchain application on top of Corda. R3’s vision is of a world where everyone can transact directly and privately with trust. Business partners operate in perfect synchrony, and trustless interactions are a thing of the past. R3’s Corda is an enterprise blockchain platform that delivers privacy, security, interoperability and scalability. Corda underpins top-of-stack applications, CorDapps, built by ecosystem participants. R3 leads the largest blockchain ecosystem in the world. Participation as an app builder or explorer offers comprehensive benefits tailored to your institution’s needs and development stages. -
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Celo
Celo
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Global payments infrastructure built for mobile. Thousands of organizations and individuals are developing, growing, and governing Celo, an open-source platform that enables anyone to build borderless applications. Hyper-efficient light client and full node incentives allowing for scalability to 6 billion smartphones. Full EVM compatibility making it easy to get started. Growing family of native stablecoins, like Celo Dollars, which follow the value of fiat currencies. Pay transaction fees with stablecoins or your own tokens. Users can easily send currency to any mobile number, enabled by Celo’s decentralized phone verification protocol, and get access to a growing ecosystem of global cash-in cash-out options. Explore, build, and ship ideas for your community using Celo’s developer tools. -
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Solana
Solana Foundation
Solana is a fast, secure, and censorship resistant blockchain providing the open infrastructure required for global adoption. The best projects in DeFi, Web3, and blockchain gaming choose to build on Solana for the long-term. Solana can process 50k transactions per second. Don't believe us? Stress test the network to experience Solana's speed for yourself. Say goodbye to high fees and slow confirmations. Solana is built for speed, without trade-offs. Solana leverages Proof of History and several other breakthrough innovations to allow the network to scale at the rate of Moore's Law. Never worry about rising fees as your user base grows. Solana is designed to keep fees low for applications with billions of users. Solana's single global state ensures composability between projects. Never deal with multiple shards or layer 2 systems. -
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WAX
WAX
The Worldwide Asset eXchange™ (WAX) is the world’s leading decentralized video game and entertainment network. We deliver the safest and most convenient way to create, buy, sell, and trade virtual items (NFTs) - to anyone, anywhere in the world. The WAX tokenomic model marries the explosive growth of NFTs with the superior monetization capabilities of DeFi. It enables anyone who participates to earn rewards in the form of Ethereum Tokens (ETH) and WAXG Governance Tokens. Global brands trust WAX to launch their NFT sales, including deadmau5, Atari, Topps, William Shatner, Capcom, and more. Build dApps, games, marketplaces and more on WAX. The WAX Developer Hive offers documentation, quickstarts, code samples and more. There's so much you can do on WAX - play a game, buy and sell NFTs on a marketplace, upgrade your dApp. -
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Tezos
Tezos
Security focused. Upgradable. Built to last. Tezos is an open-source platform for assets and applications backed by a global community of validators, researchers, and builders. Tezos addresses key barriers facing blockchain adoption to date: smart contract safety, long-term upgradability, and open participation. Tezos is designed to provide the safety and code correctness required for assets and other high value use cases. Its native smart contract language, Michelson, facilitates formal verification, a methodology commonly used in mission-critical environments such as the aerospace, nuclear, and semiconductor industries. Tezos’ modular architecture and formal upgrade mechanism allow the network to propose and adopt new technological innovations smoothly as they emerge. These aspects, combined with Tezos’ on-chain invoicing mechanism, enable the protocol to remain the state-of-the-art long into the future — without sacrificing community consensus. -
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Zilliqa
Zilliqa Research
At Zilliqa, we leverage on our silicon-smooth, speedy and cost-effective blockchain platform to catalyze and transform digital infrastructure across all global communities and industries. We're committed to delivering a scalable and secure platform for developers and enterprises who wish to build decentralized applications. Our unique application of sharding allows the blockchain to scale in a linear fashion. This ensures that the Zilliqa platform can scale to meet the needs of a growing ecosystem of miners and applications. Zilliqa is powered by the first peer- reviewed and safe-by-design smart contract language called Scilla. Using functional programming design principles (as in OCaml) allows it to be more friendly towards static checks and formal verification. Thanks to Zilliqa's consensus mechanism, the ecological footprint of mining has considerably been reduced. Only 1 minute out of every 2-3 hours is needed to mine ZIL, allowing one to dual-mine other chains at the same time. -
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Neo
Neo Team
The blockchain development platform. Neo provides a full stack of features out of the box, but doesn't keep you boxed in. Native functionality provides all the infrastructure you need to build complete decentralized applications, while advanced interoperability allows you to harness the power of the global blockchain ecosystem. Neo has a unique dual token model that separates governance from utility. NEO token holders are the owners of the network and are able to participate in governance. NEO holders also receive passive distribution of the network utility token, GAS - No staking required. GAS rewards are increased for voting participation. GAS is used to pay for network fees, smart contract deployments, and in dApp purchases. -
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Holochain
Holochain
An end-to-end open source P2P app framework. Local circles of trust provide data integrity without centralized authorities. Holochain delivers the promises of blockchain with a mashup of proven tech that provides self-owned data, a distributed database, and peer accountability. Holochain helps by creating an alternative to the dominant centralized systems of the Internet, protecting our ability to make our own choices, and giving trustworthy information we can act on. We call this 'digital agency', and we believe it will give us the power to face today's complex problems, together. Access other Holochain apps as if they were part of your codebase. No HTTP client, just function calls with optional access control. Compute and data live at the edges, which means there’s no infrastructure for you to maintain and defend. Holochain automatically adapts to disruptions and threats. -
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Hedera Hashgraph
Hedera Hashgraph
Hedera is owned and governed by the world's leading organizations. Hedera is the most used enterprise-grade public network for you to make your digital world exactly as it should be – yours. HBAR is the native, energy-efficient cryptocurrency of Hedera that powers the decentralized economy. Whether you're a startup or enterprise, a creator or consumer, Hedera goes beyond blockchain for developers to create the next era of fast, fair, and secure applications. Bitcoin pioneered decentralized infrastructure and Ethereum brought programmability. But earlier proof-of-work blockchains consume massive amounts of energy and process transactions slowly in order to achieve acceptable levels of security. Heavy bandwidth consumption by these technologies leads to expensive fees, even for a simple cryptocurrency transaction. The Hedera proof-of-stake public network, powered by hashgraph consensus, achieves the highest-grade of security possible (ABFT). -
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IOTA
IOTA Foundation
IOTA has fundamentally reengineered distributed ledger technology, enabling secure exchange of both value and data, without any fees. IOTA’s Tangle is an open, feeless and scalable distributed ledger, designed to support frictionless data and value transfer. IOTA is the first distributed ledger built for the “Internet of Everything” - a network for exchanging value and data between humans and machines. No blocks. No Miners. When you send an IOTA transaction you validate two other transactions. This allows IOTA to overcome the cost and scalability limitations of blockchain. The IOTA network is built to for the Internet of Things, with tamper-proof data, feeless microtransactions and low resource requirements. Electronic healthcare (eHealth) data is the bedrock of healthcare. IOTA secures this data and opens up new models of care. With IOTA technology, eHealth data is secure and trusted thanks to the immutability of the Tangle. -
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Ardor
Jelurida
Ardor is a multichain blockchain platform with a unique parent - child chain architecture. The security of the whole network is provided by the parent Ardor chain while the interoperable child chains have all the rich functionality. This elegant design and access to hybrid user permissioning capabilities are the key to the flexibility necessary for a variety of use cases and opens the door towards mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. Not only that - Ardor is created with scalability in mind and solves many existing industry problems such as blockchain bloat, single token dependency and the need for easily customizable-yet-compatible blockchain solutions. -
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Consensys Quorum
Consensys
ConsenSys Quorum enables enterprises to leverage Ethereum for their high-value blockchain applications. Businesses can rely on the Quorum open-source protocol layer and integrate on top of it product modules from ConsenSys, other companies, or your own in-house development team to build high-performance, customizable applications. Our mission is the seamless adoption of blockchain technology. On top of ConsenSys Quorum, you can integrate product modules from ConsenSys, third-party vendors, or your own in-house developers to build high-performance, customizable applications. ConsenSys Quorum consists of two open-source projects, one based on Hyperledger Besu and another on GoQuorum. ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service Support is a subscription-based support service providing developers and businesses with on-demand, developer, or production support for the Quorum open-source protocol projects, plus additional tooling and upgrades to ensure the success of your production system. -
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Decentralized Social (DESO)
DeSo Foundation
DeSo is a new layer-1 blockchain built from the ground up to scale decentralized social applications to one billion users. Social applications generate a lot of data, and existing blockchains are not equipped to store and index it. DeSo was built from the ground up to scale one of the biggest untapped markets for blockchain: Social Media. 100% of all code and data are totally open, and all content is stored directly on-chain. Why DeSo? One word: Scale. It’s the only blockchain custom-built to scale decentralized social apps. The DeSo blockchain has its own native cryptocurrency called $DESO, which can be used to purchase social tokens, purchase NFTs, create profiles, create posts, give "diamonds," and much more! -
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Cronos PoS Chain
Cronos Labs
Cronos PoS Chain is a public, open-source and permissionless blockchain - a fully decentralized network with high speed and low fees, designed to be a public good that helps drive mass adoption of blockchain technology through use cases like Payments, DeFi and NFTs. -
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Ergo
Ergo Platform
Ergo builds advanced cryptographic features and radically new DeFi functionality on the rock-solid foundations laid by a decade of blockchain theory and development. Ergo draws on ten years of blockchain development, complementing tried and tested principles with the best peer-reviewed academic research into cryptography, consensus models and digital currencies. We start with solid blockchain basics and implement new and powerful cryptography natively. Our team has a solid background in core development with cryptocurrencies and blockchain frameworks including Nxt, Scorex and Waves, and our lean approach means we can prioritise new features and requirements quickly. -
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COTI
COTI
In an era of “everything digital” currencies remain outdated. Currently, it’s cheaper to pay in cash than to use banks, PayPal, Alipay, and the like. COTI is the first enterprise-grade fintech platform that empowers organizations to build their own payment solution and digitize any currency to save time and money. COTI can process over 100,000 TPS, compared to 25,000 TPS in traditional payment systems and up to 20 TPS in common blockchain protocols. COTI’s user and merchant-facing tools are seamless and extremely easy to use. COTI provides the first-ever dispute resolution system to safeguard users against errors, fraud, and counterparty abuse. COTI cuts out intermediaries and eliminates the need for costly mining, which drastically reduces costs and energy consumption. COTI is creating price stability technology, which is necessary for the mass adoption of blockchain for payments. COTI’s technology makes transactions, P2P payments, and remittances instant, instead of taking hours. -
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DERO
DERO
DERO is a general-purpose, private, and scalable decentralized application platform that allows developers to deploy powerful and unstoppable applications, while users retain total control over their assets with complete privacy. Account balances and data are never decrypted by the blockchain. Only account owners can decrypt and access their data. Welcome to a new data privacy paradigm. DERO has been developed from scratch in Golang and is being actively developed by the original developers. It is not a fork of any other coin. DERO is a homomorphically encrypted protocol that can serve individuals and businesses worldwide, with fast and anonymous transactions, smart contracts, and service models. The DERO Project has created a platform for developers to deploy secure, open, scalable, and privacy-preserving decentralized applications. DERO is unique because we value security and privacy above all else. -
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Bitcoin Gold
Bitcoin Gold
BTG is a cryptocurrency with Bitcoin fundamentals, mined on common GPUs instead of specialty ASICs. ASICs tend to monopolize mining to a few big players, but GPU mining means anyone can mine again - restoring decentralization and independence. GPU mining rewards go to individuals worldwide, instead of mostly to ASIC warehouse owners, recreating network effects that Bitcoin used to have. Bitcoin Gold is extended by Lighting Network, which scales to route nearly limitless payments per second. This is an example of a "second layer" solution living atop the main blockchain. Second layers and side chains enable technologies like smart contracts which can run at blazing speeds, secured by the underlying BTG mainchain. BTG enhances and extends the crypto space with a blockchain closely compatible with Bitcoin (with SegWit and Lightning Network) but without using resources like Bitcoin hashpower or vying for the "real Bitcoin" title. -
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Seele
Seele
Seele is powered by anti-asic MPoW algorithm and Seele Sharding Technology for high throughput concurrency with 2000 TPS in the Seele main-net currently as a starting point and highly scalable as demand increases. Seele is fully EVM smart contract compatible. MPoW (Matrix-Proof-of-Work), an innovative PoW consensus algorithm developed by SeeleTech and implemented in Seele’s main-net. Compared to conventional PoW consensus algorithm, MPoW requires miners to compute the determinants of sub-matrices from a matrix constructed with n hashes other than brute-force-hashing using a hash function to find the target. It consists of several steps which can efficiently prevents ASIC and GPU from dominating the network. -
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Litecoin
Litecoin
Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Litecoin is an open source, global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. Mathematics secures the network and empowers individuals to control their own finances. Litecoin features faster transaction confirmation times and improved storage efficiency than the leading math-based currency. With substantial industry support, trade volume and liquidity, Litecoin is a proven medium of commerce complementary to Bitcoin. Wallet encryption allows you to secure your wallet, so that you can view transactions and your account balance, but are required to enter your password before spending litecoins. This provides protection from wallet-stealing viruses and trojans as well as a sanity check before sending payments. -
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Mina
Mina
We are the world’s lightest blockchain, powered by participants. Using zero knowledge technology, Mina is creating the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve. Build on Mina with zkApps, smart contracts powered by zero knowledge. The SDK, based on Typescript, will be available soon. Users today are compelled to hand over their data to centralized entities in order to participate in the modern world. But Mina’s zkApps, smart contracts powered by zero knowledge, keep users in control of their privacy by validating and sharing proofs of their data, rather than the data itself. Think about getting a loan by simply sharing a proof of your personal ID and credit score, rather than the data itself. No risk of your personal information being hacked or sold. You are the only one owning your data, and it never leaves your device. -
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Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash is the strongest money ever, delivering on Bitcoin's original promise as "User-to-User Electronic Money." Low commissions and reliable and irreversible transactions empower merchants and users. With unfettered growth, decentralized development, global adoption, and free innovation, the future is bright. All people are welcome to join the Bitcoin Cash community and contribute to advancing the development of sound money for all mankind. With Bitcoin Cash, you can send money to anyone, wherever they are, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Like the Internet, the network is always operational. No transaction is too big or too small and you never need anyone's permission or approval. Banks can also decide to block your transactions, charge you fees, or close your account without warning. -
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Dash
Dash
Dash is easy to buy or receive online, from friends, or at an ATM near you. Grab a coffee, buy a plane ticket, or pay your phone bill. Dash is growing and is accepted by new businesses every day. Experience cryptocurrency payments in an enhanced easy-to-use user experience and with social factors like username, contacts and personalization. Dash’s transaction rules are identical to Bitcoin, and therefore for regulatory and compliance purposes Dash can and should be treated identically to Bitcoin. BlockchainIntel and Coinfirm are KYC/AML service providers that offer services covering the Dash blockchain. Integrating Dash is easy and you have full control over how your funds are handled. Convert Dash to your local currency instantly, hold it all, or something in between. -
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ARK
ARK Ecosystem
Whether you're a blockchain enthusiast, a solo developer, or a 100+ strong Enterprise, ARK has the blockchain solutions you've been searching for. The ARK Public Network (APN) is the official home of the native ARK crypto asset. The APN is integrated with the ARK Blockchain Platform as well as Projects, products, and swap services to give Blockchain developers the best tools to succeed. ARK is fully open source allowing anyone to contribute. Earn bounties for your contributions and join a thriving community of developers just like you. The ARK Blockchain Framework architecture is fully modular, allowing you to customize your chain to fit your application's needs. ARK Logic allows you to create your own custom Smart Transactions that allow your application to implement native Smart Contract functionality in a simple way.