Analysis of Dash

In January 2014, Dash was launched by Evan Duffield who found the potentially incredible value of cryptocurrency but was unsatisfied with the situation of the most popular crypto — Bitcoin. Evan believed that there was a further way to improve upon Bitcoin. While Dash was based on Bitcoin, it is a new cryptocurrency with many innovate features, which made Dash a private cryptocurrency with tamper-proof instant transactions and a secondary peer-to-peer(P2P) network.

Overview of NuCypher Economics Model

NuCypher is a decentralized blockchain privacy layer that functions as a key management system. It allows users to share private data on public networks securely and scalable, through the power of Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE).

Analysis of Cosmos

Cosmos, being developed by the Interchain Foundation (ICF), is a decentralized network of parallel blockchains. Parallel blockchains are those that are connected by a central blockchain but do not otherwise interfere with each other's operations. When necessary, they can exchange information through the central blockchain. ICF has a strong focus on developing a scalable system to improve the interoperability between different blockchains, essentially creating an internet of blockchains.

Overview of Tezos Economics Model

When it comes to ICOs, few projects have seen more hype than Tezos. In 2017, its two-week ICO raised US $232 million in bitcoins and ether tokens. It is the second largest in ICO history. The project attracted such attention because the development team has a clear vision that they want to address several common issues that some high profile blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum had at the time.

Overview of VeChainThor Economics Model

VeChainThor (referred as VeChain hereafter) , launched on June 30th, 2018, is a blockchain platform that pioneers in enhancing supply chain management. It provides a solid governance structure, and advances IoT integration. The new blockchain can be utilized in cold-chain logistics, luxury goods, medical products, automobiles, and many other industries that can benefit from trustworthy supply chain record keeping.

Overview of EOS Economics Model

EOS, launched on June 10th, 2018, is a blockchain platform for smart contracts and the development of decentralized applications (dApps). It is similar to the functionality of Ethereum but has been named “Ethereum killer” by many blockchain enthusiasts. EOS’s smart contract platform is powered by WebAssembly which supports multiple languages widely used in application development. EOS also provides a set of services and functions that closely resembles what an operating system would offer for dApps. All these features enable businesses to develop and deploy high-performance dApps in relatively fast paces.

Analysis of Ontology

The company behind Ontology is a technology company called Onchain that launched NEO/GAS blockchain in April 2016. Although NEO and Ontology are both started by Onchain, they are both separate entities from Onchain. Most importantly, Ontology is not a competitor of NEO but rather a compliment to the NEO blockchain. It is designed to bring enterprise clients to migrate to blockchain technology and to provide a multi-chain, distributed trust collaboration platform that will bridge between the real world and the NEO ecosystem.

Analysis of TRON

TRON is an ambitious project trying to “heal” the internet by implementing the infrastructures for a genuinely decentralized Internet. It is a high throughput blockchain based decentralized app (dApp) and smart contract platform that is highly scalable and widely available. TRON aims to build a free, global content entertainment ecosystem that bridges the content creators and consumers.

Overview of Steem Economics Model

Launched in April 2016, Steem is a blockchain-based platform that rewards content creators, curators, remitters for distributing meaningful content and helps them build their communities. It uses DPoS as a scalable blockchain consensus algorithm for publicly accessible and immutable content.

Overview of Blockchain Consensus Algorithms

Blockchain is a decentralized peer-to-peer system with all of its nodes widely distributed across the internet. The data stored on the ledger from every node is in sync with each other and modifying data without consensus is nearly impossible. The most significant achievement of blockchain technology is that it manages to maintain trust in networks on a global scale without any central authority. At the center of this technology, are consensus algorithms.