Cryptocurrencies

Waves (WAVES) is a blockchain platform that lets any business launch its own universal applications and create cryptographically secured coins of its own. It was founded by Alexander Ivanov and launched on 1 June 2016.

Steem (STEEM) is the decentralized cryptocurrency of the social news service of the same name, built on blockchain technology. It was created by Ned Scott and Dan Larimer and released in March 2016.

Now, when Bitcoin is storming the cryptocurrency exchanges of the world, no one will be surprised by the new e-currency. Developers deliberately take a risk releasing a new cryptoproduct, because they need to interest the user, prove their product's originality and reliability, attracting investors and ordinary users to start buying the cryptocurrency they have developed. However, Waves is quite popular and popular, despite its youth.

Litecoin is a fork of bitcoin. Litecoin is called "electronic silver" by analogy with Bitcoin's "electronic gold". Charles Lee, programmer from San Francisco, developed and launched Litecoin in 2011. The project was conceived and created as an alternative to Bitcoin, the program code of which was taken as the basis. At the moment, Litecoin cryptocurrency is quite stable and therefore it can be easily converted into Bitcoin.

Lisk is probably one of the youngest cryptocurrencies - its launch took place in 2016. Funds for the project launch were collected in the shortest possible time - in just a month and the campaign successfully managed to attract financial resources to the side of the new project. The amount collected on Lisk crowdfunding was no less than 6 million dollars. Only Ethereum cryptocurrency overtaken this figure which had collected 18 million at one time.