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Developer (s) Circle. Website. Website. www.circle.com /en /usdc. USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar. USD Coin is managed by Circle. [1] USDC is issued by a private entity and should not be confused with a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Tether (often referred to by its currency codes, USD₮ and USDT, among others) is a cryptocurrency stablecoin, launched by the company Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. [3]As of August 1, 2024, it was reported that Tether has $118.4 billion in reserves, with excess reserves of $5.3 billion, after reporting a $1.3 billion profit in the second quarter of 2024, putting Tether at a profit of $5.2 ...
Stellar is an open-source protocol for exchanging money or tokens using the Stellar Consensus Protocol. [1] The platform's source code is hosted on GitHub. Servers run a software implementation of the protocol, and use the Internet to connect to and communicate with other Stellar servers.
Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network that is open to financial institutions worldwide and was created by Ripple Labs Inc., a US-based technology company. Released in 2012, Ripple is built upon a distributed open source protocol, and supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency ...
G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [1][2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [3][4] The site operates in the resale of gaming offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for platforms such as Steam, EA app ...
The first and most widely used decentralized ledger currency, [8] with the highest market capitalization as of 2018. [9] 2011 Litecoin: LTC, Ł Charlie Lee: Scrypt: C++ [10] PoW: One of the first cryptocurrencies to use scrypt as a hashing algorithm. 2011 Namecoin: NMC Vincent Durham [11] [12] SHA-256d: C++ [13] PoW: Also acts as an alternative ...
Uses Distributed computing. Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus achieved using proof of stake. It can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, ADA. [5] Cardano's development began in 2015, led by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson.
[8] [9] In response to the legal threats, the development team changed the name of the currency from "Coinye West" to "Coinye" and moved to a new domain name. [10] By January 10, 2014, the development team stated that they had removed all references to West but instead "to a half-man-half-fish hybrid," a nod to a South Park episode in which ...