The Verge cryptocurrency (XVG) is a cryptocurrency designed for everyday use. It is an improvement on the original Bitcoin blockchain and is aimed at fulfilling its original goal — to provide individuals and businesses with a fast, efficient, and decentralized way to make direct transactions while preserving personal privacy.

The Ontology cryptocurrency (ONT) is a new high-performance public blockchain that incorporates a range of complete distributed ledgers and smart contracts. The Ontology framework supports public blockchain systems and is able to configure various public blockchains to interact with different applications. Ontology supports communication between network chains with different groups of protocols.

Kefir and efir are nothing other than slang names for the Ethereum cryptocurrency.

A soft fork is a soft update of a cryptocurrency protocol that is compatible with older versions of the software, in which the network continues to operate as a single whole and is not split into separate chains.

Cloud mining is the renting of computing power from a third-party service to mine cryptocurrency without buying and maintaining your own equipment, which lowers the barrier to entry but increases dependence on the provider.