Top 5 most populous megacities worldwide
The United Nations has released fresh data on the most populous cities in the world. Let's take a look at the top megacities by population.
Cardano (ADA)
Capitalization: 2.13 billion dollars (9th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 25,927,070,538
Aggregate supply: 31,112,483,745
Maximum price: $1.26
Current price: $ 0.0823
Cardano acts as a competitor of Ethereum in the field of smart contracts. Cardano is developed by many well-known experts and researchers who are striving to develop the blockchain protocol taking into account all the existing problems and solve them using a scientific approach.
In addition to the scientific approach, the key feature of the platform is the possibility of formal verification, that is, the performance and security of all decentralized applications and smart contracts in the network can be checked mathematically.
Vechain (VET)
Capitalization: 713.5 million dollars (19th place in the Coinmarketcap rating)
Number of coins in circulation: 55,454,734,800
Aggregate supply: 86,712,634,466
Maximum price: $0.02
Current price: $0.0128 (June 30)
The Vechain Thor project has an extensive list of renowned partners, including PWC, Renault, DNV GL, BMW Concern, and China Unicom.
Presented in 2015, the VeChain start-up offered to use blockchain to track the origin and authenticity of the product, as well as to control the supply chains of products.
In 2018, the company announced rebranding. Vechain Thor launched the main network (mainnet) suggesting a wide range of tools to developers of blockchain-based applications. This provided the company with access to a wider audience.
Capitalization of the currency continues to grow.
Bitshares (BTS)
Capitalization: 308 million dollars (31st place)
Number of coins in circulation: 2,660,910,000
Aggregate supply: 3,600,570,502
Maximum price: $0.88
Current price: $0.1157
Bitshares was founded by Dan Larimer, one of the industry veterans, who later created Steem and EOS.
Bitshares is essentially a decentralized exchange that was designed to help people who lack access to banking services, as well as to provide financial services through the blockchain.
Bitshares has been designed to avoid scaling problems and minimize costs. In addition to stable coins, Bitshares offers a range of different tokens and decentralized projects. More than 33 thousand people use the platform services annually.
Siacoin (SIA)
Capitalization: 225.5 million dollars (39th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 37,057,172,220
Maximum price: $0.097
Current price: $0.0061
Siacoin is developing a decentralized cloud storage platform. The data is divided into parts, encrypted and distributed across network nodes. Payment for services is carried out by Siacoin tokens.
Unlike the cloud industry leaders, Amazon and Google, Siacoin significantly reduces the cost of storing information. At present, the network is capable of accumulating up to 4.1 petabytes of data distributed over 606 nodes; 194 terabytes of them are already involved.
IOST (IOST)
Capitalization: 107.6 million dollars (60th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 8,400,000,000
Aggregate supply: 21,000,000,000
Maximum price: $0.12
Current price: $0.0129
IOST developers have set a super goal: to surpass the bandwidth of such e-commerce giants as eBay and Alibaba while maintaining a high level of decentralization. To this end, many innovative technologies were integrated into the project, including effective distributed sharding, time-sharing, a unique algorithm of consensus, Proof-of-Believability, etc. Currently, more than 43 thousand active wallets are opened in the project, and transaction volumes are estimated at 4.45 million
Decentraland (MANA)
Capitalization: 78.3 million dollars (77th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 1,050,141,509
Aggregate supply: 2,644,403,343
Maximum price: $0.25
Current price: $0.0745
Decentraland is a new virtual world based on the blockchain technology. Any user can become the owner of a plot of the virtual space and build anything on it. The currency of the virtual kingdom is MANA, and the rights to the plots are stored in the blockchain. Decentraland encourages participants to create virtual projects with the possibility of monetization, such as BP games, beautiful graphic objects and virtual markets.
Loopring (LRC)
Capitalization: 54.7 million dollars (96th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 572,074,043
Aggregate supply: 1,374,956,262
Maximum price: $2.20
Current price: $0.0957
Loopring is developing a protocol for the decentralized exchange of tokens and other blockchain-based assets. The main feature of the project is that it supports various blockchains. Users can share assets based on different distributed registries.
Loopring introduced two unique technologies: order distribution and ring matching. The first allows you to split the order into several parts and automatically execute them at the best price.
Civic (CVC)
Capitalization: 42.6 million dollars (116th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 342,699,966
Aggregate supply: 1,000,000,000
Maximum price: $1.37
Current price: $0.1243
The project is developing a decentralized system for storing personal data on the Ethereum blockchain. Thanks to the decentralized approach, personal data are securely kept in the blockchain and centralized organizations don't have an access to them. Over the past year, the platform has made some progress and the project team is currently trying to attract users. Platform promotion cost 333 million CVC tokens (about $33 million). Using them, new members of the network will be able to register for free in a decentralized application.
Blockport (BPT)
Capitalization: 4.4 million dollars (514th place)
Number of coins in circulation: 52,870,933
Aggregate supply: 69,434,800
Maximum price: $0.81
Current price: $0.0828
The Blockport Dutch project aims to make the exchange of cryptocurrency and the investment process accessible and understandable for beginners paying great attention to the exchange interface. Thanks to Blockport's hybrid architecture, users control their own funds relying on blockchain technology. Among the advantages are also an intuitive interface, tracking and copying portfolios and transactions of experienced investors.
FundRequest (FND)
Capitalization: 431 thousand dollars (1,001st place)
Number of coins in circulation: 43,306,342
Aggregate supply: 98,611,464
Maximum price: $0.26
Current price: $0.0099
It is a decentralized open source platform for software developpers. This niche is now occupied by the Github site, but it does not include the possibility of financial incentives. FundRequest, in turn, allows you to stimulate developers with FND tokens and attract new people to projects.
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