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Universal Bitcoin (UPBTC) is a tokenized, therefore convertible, version of Bitcoin (BTC). Considered part of the proxy asset camp, this Ethereum-powered, ERC-20-wrapped BTC was launched in 2019 by the Universal Protocol Alliance. Which is a consortium of blockchain companies focused on tokenizing non-Ethereum blockchain projects. Why? They’re seeking to create a universal transparent reserve standard allowing for more functionality, compatibility and, as a result, more widespread take-up of digital assets. 

UP Alliance members such as Blockchain at Berkeley, CertiK, OmiseGO and Uphold, help power an ecosystem comprising more than 10 million users and are aiming at an even loftier target – attracting 100 million users. Designed with institutional-level security – a smart bookkeeping system that logs deposits and withdrawals on a smart contract – UPBTC facilitates, via seamless interoperability with the Universal Protocol Token (UPT), fast, low-cost conversion to Bitcoin and other digital assets. The architecture allows for vast connectivity among ecosystems, elegantly solving the individual smart contract scalability conundrum. 

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XRP is the cryptocurrency used by the RippleNET payment platform. Banks and other traditional financial institutions are known for their slow and expensive transactions; Ripple is trying to build a global settlement network, specifically designed to solve these problems and provide a cheaper, faster, and friction-free payments system.

Ripple describes RippleNET as "a decentralised global network of banks and payment providers using Ripple's distributed financial technology, which provides real-time messaging, clearing, and settlement of financial transactions."

XRP is the native token fuelling the XRP ledger open-source software. There’s a total market capitalization of 100 billion XRP.

XRP not only has one of the fastest confirmation times in the industry but also is capable of handling around 1,500 transactions per second.

Although the total supply is large in comparison with other digital assets, not all XRP is circulating in the market. The Ripple Labs company still holds a high percentage of the total supply, which is reserved for the ongoing funding and development of RippleNET. 

A big part of the XRP value proposition derives from the fact that a certain amount of XRP coins are burned after every transaction, making it deflationary by nature. Also, XRP requires a minimum of 20 XRP for every new wallet address assigned. 

Like many cryptocurrencies, XRP doesn’t require a whole-unit purchase. You can buy fractions of XRP in fact, a single XRP is divisible up to six decimal points, with 0.000001 being the smallest unit, known as a "drop". 

1 XRP is equivalent to 1,000,000 drops. 

A common view of cryptocurrencies is that they have no intrinsic value. 

While this may ring true compared with traditional financial assets, cryptocurrencies do in fact possess enormous intrinsic value. They represent the first time in history that anyone, virtually anywhere with a smartphone or laptop can move value worldwide without touching the legacy financial system. 

The price of XRP is ultimately determined by the law of the market supply and demand. Traders put up asking (selling) and bids (buying) orders and the order book matching process at exchanges creates the current XRP price chart, No surprise: it’s constantly changing.

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Dogecoin was created in December 2013. It's often referred to as the ‘meme’ coin and for good reason. Doge was created as Bitcoin started to be taken seriously and subsequently became valuable.

The creators of Doge thought that crypto should be a laugh and not so uptight.  So they came up with an alternative coin whose goal was to make the industry fun again.

Dogecoin took the community spirit of crypto to new levels. Followers of Dogecoin call themselves Shibes. They even have their own Shibe language made up of funny broken English phrases like, “such amazing”, “much grateful” and “many works”.

You could argue Dogecoin was created as a joke - but the crypto has a huge following and community members ‘tip’ each other Doge for content. 

The developers of Dogecoin haven’t made any changes to the crypto since 2015. There are three developers who work as part-time volunteers. Apart from security updates, the core code remains the same

The goal is to become the defacto standard fun cryptocurrency with a strong community. Elon Musk says Dogecoin is his favorite crypto.

Simply put, like most assets, Dogecoin derives its value from how much people are willing to pay for it. 

Since Dogecoin is stored and transferred online, the price is determined globally. It’s the same wherever you are. Any price differences between exchanges are soon arbitraged out by traders. 

There are 125,297,665,179 Doge tokens on the open market, but supply is unlimited. 

What the bears are saying about Dogecoin (DOGE)

Unlimited supply:
If a currency has unlimited supply then in theory it can never materially rise in value.

Dogecoin founder is bearish:
Jackson Palmer has said he thinks there is too much hype and that alone underpins Dogecoin’s value. 

It was created as a ‘Joke’ coin:
Never designed to solve problems or become the next Bitcoin. There’s no roadmap with lofty ambitions. So why would you invest?

What the bulls are saying about Dogecoin (DOGE)

High profile:
Even now, when you think of cryptocurrencies you can name and that your kids know because they’ve seen the memes - Dogecoin is up there. Could its high-profile and celebrity fans woo developers and lead to something useful?  

Cost of entry:
Doge costs less than a cent. Speculators like to see the potential for plenty of upside.

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Ethereum is a blockchain built for facilitating smart contracts underpinning decentralized applications (dApps). The network's native token, ether (ETH), primarily serves as a means of payment for network transaction fees.

ETH is also used as collateral for borrowing specific ERC-20 tokens within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, as Messari points out.

“Disrupting everything imaginable through decentralization” could very well be Ethereum's mantra as it stood on the shoulders of Bitcoin and hurled blockchain technology toward a wide array of products and services, turning “fintech” on its head in the process.

Ethereum’s stated vision: to create a "world computer" that anyone could access to build applications in a decentralized manner, CoinGecko explained.

All states and data are distributed. And open to the public – total transparency.

At Ethereum’s core is its support for smart contracts, or programmable contracts i.e. coders write “if this, then that” type instructions and, if conditions are met, the contract auto-executes.

Developers of use Ethereum-run smart contracts to write code to securely program an array of digital technology services, value propositions and asset varietals, sans the need for any third-party intermediary.

Examples of projects built on Ethereum as of late August 2022 include tokens, NFTs, DEXs, AMMs, DeFi platforms; lending protocols, yield farms, prediction market platforms and more.

The coming "Merge" is one of the most anticipated events in the history of the blockchain. The “Merge” is shorthand for the long-awaited transitioning the Ethereum blockchain’s transaction verification method from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to a less energy-intensive proof-of-stake (PoS) approach.

What will happen is that the Ethereum PoW Mainnet protocol, used for ETH-based transactions, will become the Beacon Chain, a PoS network, meaning that going forward, post-Merge, transactions will be conducted on Beacon. ETH mining via PoW will cease. New ETH tokens will be minted by nodes running the network and staking ETH tokens into a pool to secure the network and validate transactions.

This change potentially puts Ethereum on a path to scalability, according to Messari. "Scalability is a known limitation for the current state of Ethereum, Messari said. "Periods of high user activity can cause transaction times and fees to skyrocket, which often prices out retail users and newcomers."

One of the most memorable network clogging periods unfurled in November of 2017 with the explosion of the CryptoKitties collectibles fad; traffic (and gas fees) spiked yet again during the so-called "DeFi Summer" of 2020, when yield farming activities rocketed to popularity, spawning numerous projects for borrowing, lending and staking.

One of Ethereum’s most infamous episodes, in 2016, involved not scalability but security.

A decentralized autonomous organization, The DAO, set up as venture fund and conducted an initial coin offering (ICO), raising $150 million in ETH. But within weeks, an attacker exploited a bug in one of The DAO's smart contracts resulting in the loss of 3.6 million ETH. In the wake of the incident, the majority of the members of the Ethereum community voted to do a hard fork, start the chain fresh, erasing The DAO from the ledger’s history. Remaining stakeholders, bent on preserving immutability, rebuffed all notions that the ledger could ever be amended and kept the transaction history unchanged. That legacy chain became known as Ethereum Classic (ETC).

When was ETH created and how much was it worth?

Ethereum is the brainchild of Vitalik Buterin, alongside an extensive roster of noteworthy tech industry members who advised him every step of the way (and then went on to start their own projects).

The Ethereum mainnet launched in July of 2015. One year earlier, Buterin received a Thiel Fellowship grant and set up a non-profit, The Ethereum Foundation, which issued 72 million ETH, 80% of which was sold to the public in an online crowdsale held that summer of 2014. Ultimately, the Ethereum Foundation raised roughly 31,000 BTC, which at the time was equivalent to $18.3 million.

The first year of trading saw ETH follow a flat line, in terms of its value in USD. It went from being barely $1 to nearly $10 by the end of 2016, according to CoinGecko.

Ethereum’s original token distribution event involved the sale of roughly 60 million ETH, or 80% of the initial supply of 72 million, according to Messari.

Some 12 million ETH (20% of the initial supply) went to the Foundation and early Ethereum contributors.

The supply of ether has been increasing 4.5% each year. Currently, the circulating supply is estimated to be 120 million ETH.

ETH has been an inflationary asset. As Blockworks explained, Ethereum has countered its token issuance to miners by removing from circulation, or burning, a gas fee paid by buyers that varies based on network demand. When more ETH is created for miners than there is ETH burned, inflation ensues, as has been the case lately (as of late August 2022). This dynamic was set to become more or less a moot point with Ethereum's transition to PoS.

Every transaction on the network requires "gas," which requires expenditures of ether and so it has been said that a virtuous cycle of constant purchase and spending of ETH inherently stokes demand. The transition to "Eth 2.0" means a change from PoW to PoS, and possibly a another shift for the second-largest crypto – from inflationary asset to a more deflationary one.

Here’s why. The PoW consensus approach involves miners creating blocks with 2 newly minted ETH distributed to miners per block.

The supply of ether has been increasing 4.5% each year. The change to PoS will no longer involve miners. Instead, validators will lock up, or stake, their ether in exchange for a yield on their tokens. Ethereum pays 90% less for the network’s security by rewarding stakers as compared to miners because of the difference in required computer power, according to research from Runa Digital Assets, per Blockworks.

If the gas fee exceeds the yield paid to stakers, more ether will be burned than created. This could, in turn, result in deflation, which would, in theory, put upward pressure on the price of ETH.

The PoS system “feels like a share buyback to equity investors,” said Runa's Max Williams. “The network is effectively buying back ETH shares – and destroying them.”

Blockchain security comes down to decentralization. The more decentralized a network is, the better the odds of it preventing a chain from being unceremoniously commandeered by rogue validators, as CoinDesk explained.

A comparative analysis of Ethereum and its closest competitors illustrates that "it is the most decentralized smart contract blockchain in the space," CoinDesk said.

The chain's smart contracts are only as secure as any given developer builds it to be.

It facilitates the creation and execution of smart contracts. And here is why that’s important – because whereas Bitcoin gave the world a decentralized way to mint digital money, it was Ethereum's goal to go even further, presenting to the world a blockchain that featured, per the Ethereum white paper, "a built-in, fully fledged, Turing-complete programming language used to create 'contracts' that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions."

Which is a technical way of saying Ethereum made it possible for software developers around the world to create their own multi-purpose networks on top of the baseline network, spawning a universe of all kinds of decentralized systems and markets – automatically trading coins, minting tokenized art, conducting prediction markets, swapping data, aggregating yield farms, you name it. And it's made possible by smart contracts, rendered by writing up the logic in a few lines of code.

Indeed, the flexibility of Ethereum’s smart contracts, CryptoEQ said, "allows for a multitude of projects to build on the Ethereum blockchain and participate in Web 3.0."

It is a bustling super-hub of dApp development. The Ethereum community openly acknowledges that it’s too clogged, which is a kind badge of honor. It's clogged because it boasts more developer and dApp activity – thousands built on the platform – than any other digital asset. And it has partnerships galore, as well as name recognition (second only to Bitcoin) and which has contributed to tremendous network effects (CryptoEQ).

Adds CoinDesk: "The primary reason Ethereum remains superior to its counterparts, and thus worth the cost, is that it is fairly decentralized."

Primarily that it is a congested and expensive network on which to transact. Not being able to scale has confounded Ethereum since its inception and given birth to a cottage industry of rival smart-contract-execution-centric chains – Polkadot and Cardano come to mind – as well as "layer-2 scaling solutions," most notably Polygon and Optimism.

Competition from rival blockchains could eat away at Ethereum's standing while efforts to solve for scalability drag on. Or there are worse fates, critics contend. They cite the network’s fees as a fatal flaw that makes it unusable, opening the door for an “ETH killer” to dethrone it as the primary smart contract execution platform, CoinDesk said.

Currently, Ethereum is in the midst of a prolonged, multi-year upgrade. "Current scaling issues limit the ability of dApps and other projects to grow and create satisfying user experiences," said CryptoEQ. "The project is still incomplete."

Scalability and gas fee issues dominate all conversations concerning Ethereum's drawbacks but there are some other commonly hurled critiques, such as the network's use of overly complicated programming language, a nitpick noted by the Analytics Steps blog. The authors also took issue with Ethereum's unfocused, overly sprawling build, build and build some more model, with platforms on top of platforms, "and so on, all of which may lead to errors, malfunctions, and hacks."

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BAT is the cryptocurrency token used to reward viewers and publishers using the Brave Browser.

'Brave' is a new style of browser that protects a user's privacy by blocking ad trackers and malware. By removing ads in this way, while offering a simple interface and different search engine options, the Brave browser provides a faster, safer (and more rewarding) way to browse the internet.

In brief: faster load times while keeping your browsing history all your own.

The BAT or Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and is the native token of the Brave Browser ecosystem. 

Advertisers use it to pay rewards to users for viewing ads and to publishers for creating quality content that attracts attention, measured in dwell time.

Why is Basic Attention Token (BAT) popular?

Basic Attention Token (BAT) is popular for many reasons:

As a user, you get paid in BAT for viewing ads while using the browser.

The Brave Browser has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet that securely stores your BAT.

You can set the frequency of how many ads are shown to you while using the browser. 

In addition, BAT is easily transferable, tradable, and could be a good investment given the multi-billion-dollar annual demand for online advertising.

BAT (Basic Attention Token) was launched in an ICO on May 29th, 2017, and sold out in just 30 seconds.

1.5 billion BAT tokens (worth US $35 million) changed hands, proving that there was a huge market for browsing the internet and advertising in new ways. 

What are the advantages of Basic Attention (BAT)

The potential for Brave to grow is enormous: People are looking for alternative browsers, privacy is in the zeitgeist and Brave offers a seamless, easy experience across all devices. More users, more use of BAT.

Other browsers monetise your information:
Browsers like Chrome track you and offer access to your browsing data. Brave pays you instead, with cryptocurrency you can convert to fiat or hold for the future. And it protects your data and history.

Brave Rewards + Uphold Wallet:
Uphold is helping to drive the adoption of BAT by integrating its wallet into the Brave browser so that BAT can be seamlessly converted into national currencies. Apart from the bull run of November 2017 to January 2018, the price of BAT has stayed between $0.50 and $0.10. With wider adoption of the Brave Browser, the demand for Basic Attention Tokens is likely to increase - driving the price up further.

What are the disadvantages of Basic Attention (BAT)

Other competitors could beat Brave:
While people are moving to Brave for privacy, popular browser Firefox already offers customizable privacy settings, and Tor offers completely private viewing.  

The BAT price isn't going up:
The price of Basic Attention Token has been stable for several years.

They've got massive competitors in browsers:
Google and Safari have over 80% of the browser market 
(approximately 65% and 16% respectively), and Brave has less than 1%.

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Bitcoin Cash is a top 10 cryptocurrency, so an accurate price is available on many exchanges (like Uphold.com) as well as cryptocurrency price tracking websites.  

Bitcoin Cash was ‘hard forked’ from the Bitcoin core code in August 2017 by a group of cryptocurrency miners and enthusiasts who were concerned about how slow Bitcoin was progressing. 

Their new code design increased the size of the ‘blocks’ that form the blockchain from approximately 1MB per block to 8MB per block. This meant that more information could be processed at the same time, effectively speeding up the network. As Bitcoin Cash was given to holders of Bitcoin at the time of the fork (1:1), it has been incredibly popular with enthusiasts and investors alike. 

How is the price of Bitcoin Cash determined?

Just like Bitcoin, there are 21 million Bitcoin Cash in total and less than that in circulation. 

The price is determined by how much BCH people want to buy at any one time (Demand) vs how many are for sale (Supply). The price 'floats' between the prices that people are offering to buy BCH for (Bid ) and the price that BCH is offered for sale (Offer).

There are thousands of exchange computers around the world that calculate the price constantly. 

What the bears are saying about Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Bitcoin Cash is still slow: Bitcoin Cash is nearly 4x faster than Bitcoin (~25 transactions per second), but it’s still very slow when compared with XRP (at 1,500 TPS).  

Transactions require mining: With increasing concerns about its environmental impacts, Bitcoin Cash's energy-intensive computing may come under scrutiny in the future.  

Bitcoin Cash is a fork of Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash was ‘hard forked’ from the Bitcoin code in 2017 and has since been ‘hard forked’ twice again. How many more times will it change?

What the bulls are saying about Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Bitcoin Cash is a Top 5 cryptocurrency: Modeled on the #1 cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, BCH is showing incredible popularity due to its namesake.

A long term hold: With increasing difficulty in mining and limited supply, growth over the long term could be significant. 

It’s a better Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash was designed to be a faster version of Bitcoin and more in line with the original intent of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Cardano is a multi-layered blockchain run by a non-profit foundation made up of scientists from around the world, which includes the University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan.

Cardano markets itself as a third-generation blockchain platform. Bitcoin is first generation. Second generation is Ethereum, this scales capabilities which introduces smart contract concepts. Cardano is even more ambitious. 

Cardano has different layers to perform different functions. These include one for software applications (DApps). One for distributed computing, and, finally, one for financial transactions & settlements where Cardano’s currency ‘ADA’ is used to settle transactions.

Like many projects - Cardano wants to be the world’s top smart contract platform. Using a secure, proof-of-stake algorithm (named Ouroboros), Cardano eliminates the need for an energy-consuming protocol and claims to solve scalability issues. 

Cardano has a lofty goal of creating interoperability between its blockchain and the financial ecosystem - much like XRP & XLM.

How much Cardano (ADA) is worth on the open market?

Cardano has 25,927,070,538 ADA tokens on the market, with a total supply of 145,000,000,000.

What are the disadvantages of Cardano (ADA)

The competition:
Cardano isn’t the first ‘Ethereum killer’. EOS has made huge strides forward in scaling its blockchain and forming partnerships over the past year. Is Cardano unique enough to beat such strong competition? 

Transaction speed:
Ripple and Stellar Lumens can process more than 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) hence their partnerships with Santander & IBM respectively. Cardano only offers 257 transactions per second. 

Cardano infrastructure: 
The Proof of Stake algorithm is said to be flawed by a problem known as «nothing at stake». This issue highlights the problem that voting on a particular version of a proof of stake blockchain requires no resources, unlike the labor-intensive PoW model. Cardano is still a relatively unproven project that has not been tested in the way Ethereum has.

Third generation:
Cardano was specifically created to offer the same functionality as second-generation platforms but without the scaling issues. 

Privacy:
Many users favor privacy in the current climate, yet few cryptos provide it. Cardano does. The privacy of its transactions is guaranteed since it can be executed without metadata.

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