City guide · 🏞️ Province
Payments Harbor
A harbour for veteran mainnet coins built for payments and transfers.
At a glance
| Who lives here | Small mainnets in the payments sector |
|---|---|
| For example | Dash · Bitcoin SV · Decred · DigiByte |
Stand-alone mainnet coins made for payments and transfers — Dash, Bitcoin SV, Decred, eCash, DigiByte and others — are gathered in this seaside harbour. Many of them are mined with proof of work, like Bitcoin.
These chains do not host tokens, so each has only its own coin; rather than one city per chain, they are grouped by sector (payments).
📰 The story of this city: Payments Harbor: Veteran Coins That Docked Early to Be Digital Cash
Payments Harbor is home to Dash, Bitcoin SV, Decred, eCash, DigiByte and Nano, payment-focused coins that appeared between 2014 and 2021 as fast, cheap electronic cash. They are now veterans that must compete with stablecoins.
A harbor for veterans that dreamed of electronic cash
On the Crypto Nation map, Payments Harbor is the district where these six coins stand, each as the own coin of its own blockchain. They share Bitcoin’s early dream of electronic cash for everyday payments. Instead of smart contracts or DeFi, they set out to fix payment itself: speed, fees and governance.
Their starting points differ. Dash began in January 2014 as Xcoin, passed through Darkcoin and took its present name in 2015, and DigiByte launched in January 2014 with no pre-mining. Nano started in 2015 as RaiBlocks and renamed itself in January 2018, while Decred launched in February 2016.
Six answers to the payment problem
Dash relies on ‘masternodes’, nodes that lock up a set amount of coins, for instant confirmation (InstantSend), transaction mixing (PrivateSend) and votes on funding proposals from a budget fed by block rewards. DigiByte rotates five mining algorithms and makes a block about every 15 seconds so mining does not pile up on one method. Nano gives each account its own ledger in a ‘block lattice’, sends money almost instantly without fees, and reaches agreement by votes from ‘representative’ nodes instead of mining.
Decred is a hybrid in which miners and coin holders who buy voting tickets validate blocks together, and holders vote on rule changes and development spending. eCash is BCHA, split from Bitcoin Cash in November 2020 and renamed in July 2021, with Avalanche-style consensus for faster finality. Bitcoin SV split from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018, choosing bigger blocks and on-chain data storage.
Where they are used, and what happened
Dash found use in shops and remittances in countries with unstable prices, such as Venezuela, and Nano’s zero fees suit tiny payments and tipping. Most of these coins, however, live mainly in exchange trading and small community payments, not mainstream consumer payment rails.
Key dates: in February 2018 a large amount of NANO went missing from the BitGrail exchange, and in April 2019 Binance stopped supporting Bitcoin SV. BSV suffered several chain-reversal attacks in 2021, and in March 2024 a UK High Court ruled that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
Things to know
In payments they face bigger rivals: stablecoins, card networks and Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, and their users and developers are fewer than before. Small mining-based chains are also vulnerable to 51% attacks, in which someone controlling most of the computing power reverses transactions.
Controversies differ by coin: BSV for Wright’s claims and exchange delistings, Nano for the exchange theft, eCash for the dispute that split Bitcoin Cash. Privacy-featured coins can face exchange listing limits in some countries, so check each coin’s status in official sources.
Coins in this city
| Rank | Symbol | Name | Chain | Sector | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #101 | DASH 📰 | Dash | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $618M |
| #129 | BSV 📰 | Bitcoin SV | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $354M |
| #156 | DCR 📰 | Decred | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $254M |
| #236 | XEC | eCash | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $127M |
| #298 | QRL | Quantum Resistant Ledger | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $88.9M |
| #374 | DGB | DigiByte | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $64.6M |
| #493 | XNO | Nano | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $44.1M |
| #521 | XVG | Verge | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $40.8M |
| #530 | ABEY | Abey | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $39.7M |
| #536 | SC | Siacoin | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $38.9M |
| #696 | XP | Xphere | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $26.6M |
| #906 | VRSC | Verus | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $17.4M |
| #945 | EPIC | Epic Private Internet Cash | Own chain (small mainnets) | Payments | $15.9M |
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