Cryptocurrencies

DigixDAO (DGD) provides a use case for tokenizing and documenting physical assets through the Proof of Asset (PoA) protocol. The PoA protocol uses Ethereum and IPFS to track assets along their chain of custody.

Wanchain (WAN) is a fundamentally new distributed financial infrastructure. The cross-chain smart contracts built on Wanchain are meant to break new ground and give the emerging digital economy a push forward.

Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform, designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is an open-source hard fork of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The fork occurred on October 24, 2017, at block height 491407. The stated goal of the fork is to make mining decentralized again by allowing the Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency to be mined using graphics cards instead of specialized ASICs, the price of which can reach several thousand dollars.

These days it is hard to find someone who has not heard of cryptocurrency and related things. Yet far from everyone understands how blockchain works and what it is for. Let us make sense of it without unnecessary terminology or convoluted phrases.