Aave is a decentralized finance protocol that allows people to lend and borrow crypto. Lenders earn interest by depositing digital assets into specially created liquidity pools. Borrowers can then use their crypto as collateral to take out loans using this liquidity.
Cardano is a decentralised public blockchain and cryptocurrency project and is fully open source. Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach. The development team consists of a large global collective of expert engineers and researchers.
The United Arab Emirates dirham (AED) is the currency of the United Arab Emirates. One dirham is divided into 100 fils. The United Arab Emirates dirham is pegged to the US dollar at the exchange rate of 1 USD = 3.6725 AED.
Algorand makes it easy to tokenize, transfer, and program conditions on any instrument of value. Create fungible tokens, NFTs, and security tokens with a single transaction (no smart contract code required). Or program sophisticated decentralized applications (dApps) with Algorand smart contracts.
ApeCoin is an Ethereum-based token governed by ApeCoin DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) tasked with making decisions around things like ecosystem fund allocations, governance rules, projects, partnerships and more. All holders of APE are eligible to be members of ApeCoin DAO.
Arweave is a decentralized storage network that seeks to offer a platform for the indefinite storage of data. Describing itself as "a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets," the network primarily hosts "the permaweb" — a permanent, decentralized web with a number of community-driven applications and platforms.
Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. Avalanche is blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly.
Basic Attention Token radically improves the efficiency of digital advertising by creating a new token that can be exchanged between publishers, advertisers, and users. It all happens on the Ethereum blockchain. The token can be used to obtain a variety of advertising and attention-based services on the BAT platform. The utility of the token is based on user attention, which simply means a person’s focused mental engagement.
Bitcoin Cash seeks to bring sound money to the world, fulfilling the original promise of Bitcoin as "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash". Merchants and users are empowered with low fees and reliable confirmations. Bitcoin Cash aims to achieve unrestricted growth, global adoption, permissionless innovation, and decentralized development.
Binance Coin (BNB) is an exchange-based token created and issued by the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Initially created on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token in July 2017.
Bitcoin (₿) is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
TRON Foundation and BitTorrent Foundation have introduced a cryptographic token called BTT along with an extended version of the BitTorrent protocol in order to create a token-based economy around the usage of networking, bandwidth and storage on hundreds of millions of computers on the internet.
Binance USD is a U.S. Dollar stablecoin issued by Paxos in partnership with Binance.
The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code BWP and is subdivided into 100 thebe. Pula literally means 'rain' in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana, home to much of the Kalahari Desert, and therefore valuable and a blessing. The word also serves as the national motto of the country.
The renminbi is the official currency of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's 5th most traded currency as of April 2022. The yuan is the basic unit of the renminbi, but the word is also used to refer to the Chinese currency generally, especially in international contexts.
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.
COWRIE is a blockchain-based international utility gifting token. The project combines utility and charity, paying tribute to Nelson Mandela's long-term vision of liberating Africa from the bondages of poverty. With a 27-year vesting period and a hard supply cap, the COWRIE token promotes strong tokenomics. 30% of all COWRIE each year goes to the Community Upliftment Trust to support charitable causes, education, poverty alleviation and environmental conservation.
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.
Civic is an identity verification provider designed to facilitate on demand identity verification (IDV) services. The CVC token is intended for use transacting in IDV related services offered by Civic.
Convex is a protocol that simplifies Curve boosting experience in order to maximize yields. Convex allows Curve liquidity providers to earn trading fees and claim boosted CRV without locking CRV themselves.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency invented by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system that is instant, fun, and free from traditional banking fees. Dogecoin features the face of the Shiba Inu dog from the "Doge" meme as its logo and namesake. It was introduced on December 6, 2013, and quickly developed its own online community.
Polkadot is an open-source sharding multichain protocol that facilitates the cross-chain transfer of any data or asset types, not just tokens, thereby making a wide range of blockchains interoperable with each other.
Ethena is a DeFi protocol offering the USDe stablecoin and ENA governance token, backed by staked Ethereum (stETH). Using a delta-neutral strategy, it maintains USDe's dollar peg while generating yield through staking rewards and derivatives fees. Ethena delivers stability and independence from traditional financial systems for DeFi users.
EOSIO is a blockchain protocol powered by the native cryptocurrency EOS. EOSIO operates as a smart contract platform and decentralized operating system intended for the deployment of industrial-scale decentralized applications. The smart contract platform claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second.
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts, i.e. applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third-party interference. Ether is the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain.
The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 of the 27 member states of the European Union. This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 343 million citizens as of 2019. The euro, which is divided into 100 cents, is the second-largest and second-most traded currency in the international markets for the related different types of transactions after the United States dollar.
Filecoin aims to store data in a decentralized manner. Unlike cloud storage companies like Amazon Web Services or Cloudflare, which are prone to the problems of centralization, Filecoin leverages its decentralized nature to protect the integrity of a data’s location, making it easily retrievable and hard to censor.
Fantom is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) smart contract platform providing decentralized finance (DeFi) services to developers using its own bespoke consensus algorithm. Together with its in-house token FTM, Fantom aims to solve problems associated with smart-contract platforms, specifically transaction speed, which developers say they have reduced to under two seconds.
Sterling is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. The pound is the main unit of sterling, and the word "pound" is also used to refer to the British currency generally, often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling.
The cedi is the unit of currency of Ghana. It is the fourth historical and only current legal tender in the Republic of Ghana. One cedi is divided into one hundred pesewas. After independence Ghana separated itself from the British West African pound, which was the currency of the British colonies in the region.
The Iron Bank is CREAM’s paradigm-shifting protocol-to-protocol lending platform and liquidity backstop for the entire DeFi ecosystem.
The Kenyan Shilling (KES) is the main currency of the Republic of Kenya. Prices often contain the abbreviation KSh, as in "100 KSh" to refer to one hundred shillings, or "100 KSh" to refer to one hundred shillings. KES is the trade symbol for the foreign exchange market (FX).
Keep3rV1 is a decentralized platform designed to facilitate the coordination between projects that need to source outside development operations and those who can provide those required services. Essentially, the project serves as a job board that facilitates the interaction between job posters, such as decentralized finance protocols, and job executors, known as Keepers.
UNUS SED LEO is a utility token that’s used across the iFinex ecosystem. The unusual name is based on a Latin citation from one of Aesop’s fables.
Smart Contracts provide the ability to execute tamper-proof digital agreements, which are considered highly secure and highly reliable. In order to maintain a contracts overall reliability, the inputs and outputs which the contract relies on also need to be secure. Chainlink provides a reliable connection to external data, that is provably secure end-to-end.
Litecoin is a fork of the Bitcoin Core client, differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased maximum number of coins, different hashing algorithm (scrypt, instead of SHA-256), and a slightly modified GUI. Litecoin is often referred to as the Bitcoin testnet, where cutting edge features are tested out before being added to Bitcoin
Terra is a blockchain protocol that uses fiat-pegged stablecoins to power price-stable global payments systems. According to its white paper, Terra combines the price stability and wide adoption of fiat currencies with the censorship-resistance of Bitcoin (BTC) and offers fast and affordable settlements.
Terra 2.0 (LUNA) is the newest iteration of cryptocurrency on the Terra blockchain. In May 2022, the Terra blockchain experienced a hard fork prompted by founder Do Kwon and voted on by the community.
The metical is the currency of Mozambique, abbreviated with the symbol MZN or MT. It is nominally divided into 100 centavos. The name metical comes from Arabic, a unit of weight and an alternative name for the gold dinar coin that was used throughout much of Africa until the 19th century.
NEAR Protocol is a scalable, developer-friendly Proof-of-Stake blockchain that uses sharding to enable fast, low-cost transactions. It supports familiar programming languages and simplifies blockchain access with features like human-readable accounts and gas fee flexibility. NEAR's Aurora EVM ensures compatibility with Ethereum, while its ecosystem is backed by significant venture funding.
The naira is the currency of Nigeria. One naira is divided into 100 kobo. The Central Bank of Nigeria is the sole issuer of legal tender money throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It controls the volume of money supplied in the economy in order to ensure monetary and price stability.
OmiseGO is building a decentralized exchange, liquidity provider mechanism, clearinghouse messaging network, and an asset-backed blockchain gateway. Unlike other decentralized exchange platforms, this allows for decentralized exchange between multiple blockchains directly without a trusted gateway token.
The Paxos Standard token is fully collateralized 1:1 by the U.S. dollar, issued by the Paxos Trust Company, and approved and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Polygon brings massive scale to Ethereum using an adapted version of Plasma with PoS based side chains. Polygon is a well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development.
Qtum (QTUM) is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) smart contract blockchain platform and value transfer protocol. In PoS, node operators are rewarded for validating transactions. Qtum is built on Bitcoin's UTXO transaction model, with the added functionality of smart contract execution.
RenderToken (RENDER) is a distributed GPU rendering network built on top of the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, aiming to connect artists and studios in need of GPU compute power with mining partners willing to rent their GPU capabilities out.
Augur is an open, global platform where anyone, anywhere can create, monitor or trade in prediction markets about any topic. Think of it as an "Event Wagering System" where the most accurate event forecaster "wins". This can effectively be used by a farmer to insure against a dry season, or by an event planner to insure a Festival in the Bahamas.
Shiba Inu coin was created anonymously in August 2020 under the pseudonym “Ryoshi.” The meme coin quickly gained speed and value as a community of investors was drawn in by the cute charm of the coin paired with headlines and Tweets from personalities like Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin.
Solana is a high-throughput blockchain that is currently supporting 50–65k transactions per second and 400ms block times, without complex solutions like sharding or layer-two.
Serum is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and ecosystem that brings unprecedented speed and low transaction costs to decentralized finance. It is built on Solana and is completely permissionless.
SUI is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain developed by ex-Meta engineers, leveraging transaction parallelization technology for exceptional scalability and speed. Built with the secure Move programming language, it offers safer smart contracts and a seamless user experience. Powered by Proof of Stake, SUI enables active participation in network governance and security.
sUSD is a synthetic USD token enabled by the Synthetix protocol. It tracks the price of the US Dollar through price feeds supplied by Chainlink’s decentralized network of oracles. sUSD is integrated across the DeFi ecosystem as one of the most liquid decentralized stablecoins, including at Curve.
SushiSwap (SUSHI) is an example of an automated market maker (AMM). An increasingly popular tool among cryptocurrency users, AMMs are decentralized exchanges which use smart contracts to create markets for any given pair of tokens.
TON is a Layer-1 Proof-of-Stake blockchain designed to handle millions of transactions per second and accommodate billions of users, smart-contracts and decentralized applications - much akin to other Layer-1s (like Ethereum). TON has a unique advantage - it can incorporate other blockchains and link them through a technology coined as Hypercube routing (which makes processing times faster and cheaper). TON aims to integrate seamlessly with Telegram’s messaging app, enabling in-app payments, bot payments, and micro-transactions, while also fostering a robust ecosystem for decentralised applications (dApps).
TRON is an ambitious project dedicated to the establishment of a truly decentralized Internet and its infrastructure. The TRON protocol, one of the largest blockchain-based operating systems in the world, offers high throughput, high scalability, and high availability for all decentralized applications in the TRON ecosystem.
TrueUSD, part of the TrustToken asset tokenization platform, is a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to the value of the U.S. Dollar. In the TrueUSD system, U.S Dollars are held as collateral in the bank accounts of multiple trust companies that have signed escrow agreements, rather than in a bank account controlled by a single company. The U.S. Dollars held are verified by an independent third-party accountant that publishes monthly attestation reports.
The shilling is the currency of Tanzania. It is subdivided into 100 cents. The Tanzanian shilling replaced the East African shilling on 14 June 1966 at par.
UGX is the currency code for the Ugandan shilling, which is the national currency of the Republic of Uganda. UGX is used in the foreign exchange market to identify the country's currency and to facilitate trading. The Ugandan shilling is administered by the country's central bank, the Bank of Uganda (BoU). The bank has the sole authority to print and mint banknotes and coins. It is also responsible for the country's monetary policy and fiscal stability.
The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories.
USD Coin is a stablecoin that is pegged to the U.S. dollar on a 1:1 basis. Every unit of this cryptocurrency in circulation is backed up by $1 that is held in reserve, in a mix of cash and short-term U.S. Treasury bonds.
Tether (USDT) is a cryptocurrency with a value meant to mirror the value of the U.S. dollar. The idea was to create a stable cryptocurrency that can be used like digital dollars. Coins that serve this purpose of being a stable dollar substitute are called “stable coins.” According to their site, Tether converts cash into digital currency, to anchor or “tether” the value of the coin to the price of national currencies like the US dollar, the Euro, and the Yen.
The Central African CFA franc is the currency of six independent states in Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. These six countries have a combined population of 55.2 million people, and a combined GDP of US$113.322 billion.
The West African CFA franc is the currency used by eight independent states in West Africa which make up the West African Economic and Monetary Union: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
Ripple or XRP is the native token of the Ripple network, a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network. Ripple aims to create a global network of banks and other financial institutions that use Ripple software to lower the cost of international settlements and remittances.
Tezos is a blockchain network that’s based on smart contracts, in a way that’s not too dissimilar to Ethereum. However, there’s a big difference: Tezos aims to offer infrastructure that is more advanced — meaning it can evolve and improve over time without there ever being a danger of a hard fork.
Yearn.Finance is an aggregator service for decentralized finance (DeFi) investors, using automation to allow them to maximize profits from yield farming.
The rand is the currency of the Republic of South Africa, and is subdivided into 100 units called cents. The ISO 4217 code allocated to the rand is ZAR, from Afrikaans "Zuid-Afrikaanse Rand" meaning South African Rand. The rand is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area between South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho and Namibia, although the last three countries do have their own currencies pegged at par with the rand.
ZARP is a cryptocurrency pegged to the price of the South African Rand (ZAR). 1 ZARP equals 1 ZAR, stored in our treasury account. ZARP is the only bank-approved, fully backed, transparent, and audited stablecoin for the South African Rand.
The Kwacha (ISO 4217 code: ZMW) is the currency of Zambia. It is subdivided into 100 Ngwee. The name kwacha derives from the Nyanja, Bemba, and Tonga language word for "dawn", alluding to the Zambian nationalist slogan of a "new dawn of freedom".