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Blockchains
- HashrateIn 2023, the Bitcoin network processed roughly 300 exahashes of data every single second. That number represents three hundred trillion hash calculations…
- Solana (blockchain platform)Toly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal founded Solana in 2018. Their San Francisco-based company, Solana Labs, launched the network to the public in March 2020.
- EthereumEthereum went live on the 30th of July 2015 with a genesis block containing 8,893 transactions. That first block was not a financial instrument in the…
- Non-fungible tokenNon-fungible tokens were born in a live demonstration at New York City's New Museum. In May 2014, Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash sold a video clip for four…
- Initial coin offeringInitial coin offering is the name for a method of raising money. A project issues digital tokens and sells them, usually for cryptocurrency or ordinary…
- Avalanche (blockchain platform)Avalanche is a blockchain platform whose native token, AVAX, was trading near $13.8 in January 2026, with a market cap close to $5.9 billion.
- TezosTezos announced itself to the world through a disguise. In 2014, Arthur Breitman published two papers proposing a new kind of blockchain.
- Blockchain analysisIn 2022, the IRS used blockchain analysis to seize over 50,000 bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road dark web marketplace. The seizure raises a question many…
- Terra (blockchain)Terra launched in 2018 as a blockchain protocol designed to power algorithmic stablecoins. The system relied on a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism to…
- Cardano (blockchain platform)In August 2022, the advertising agency MBLM ranked Cardano 26th for brand intimacy out of 600 brands, placing it between Ford and Nestlé.