Reference pages for major cryptocurrencies: live price and market data, how each network works, and our latest coverage.
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, launched in January 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It runs on a proof-of-work blockchain secured by miners, with a hard cap of 21 million coins and a supply issuance that halves roughly every four years.
Price: $75,553.46 · 24h: -1.17%
Ethereum is a programmable blockchain launched in July 2015. Rather than only recording transfers, it runs smart contracts — code that executes exactly as written — which makes it the base layer for most decentralised finance, NFTs and layer-2 networks.
Price: $2,388.08 · 24h: -2.53%
Solana is a high-throughput layer-1 blockchain launched in March 2020. It combines proof-of-stake with a timestamping mechanism called Proof of History to order transactions quickly, targeting very low fees and high transaction volume.
Price: $96.90 · 24h: -3.59%
XRP is the native asset of the XRP Ledger, a payments-focused blockchain launched in 2012. All 100 billion XRP were created at inception rather than mined, and the ledger settles transactions in a few seconds using a validator consensus mechanism rather than proof-of-work.
Price: $1.27 · 24h: -10.14%
Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain launched in September 2017, developed with an unusually research-led process in which protocol changes are peer-reviewed before implementation. Its Ouroboros consensus was among the first proof-of-stake designs with formal security proofs.
Price: $0.1917 · 24h: -6.64%
BNB launched in July 2017 as an exchange utility token and became the native asset of BNB Chain. It is used for transaction fees on that chain and for fee discounts on the Binance exchange, with supply steadily reduced through scheduled burns.
Price: $710.27 · 24h: -1.40%
Dogecoin launched in December 2013 as a joke built on Litecoin's codebase, and became the most durable of the meme cryptocurrencies. It has no supply cap, adding roughly 5 billion DOGE each year, and is merge-mined with Litecoin.
Price: $0.0789 · 24h: -4.47%
Tether (USDT) is the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, launched in 2014 and designed to hold a value of one US dollar. It is issued across many blockchains, and supply expands or contracts as tokens are minted against deposits or redeemed.
Price: $0.9994 · 24h: -0.02%