Coin columns
207 stories of the top coins by market cap and of a few cities. Each column explains, in four short parts, what the coin is, how it works, where it is used and what to keep in mind. Coins without a column get a basic data card.
801 coins without a column have a data card · The 50 deep-dive columns on Ethereum are in the Ethereum City library.
🏙️ City stories
- Base City Base: Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 and the City Without Its Own Coin
- Robinhood Chain City Robinhood Chain: Tokenized Stocks and Meme Coins on an Ethereum L2
- L2 Suburbs The L2 Suburbs: Small Rollups Growing Beside Ethereum
- AI Valley AI Valley: Small Mainnets Built Around AI and Computing
- Mainnet Province Mainnet Province: Independent Chains With Few Tokens
- Layer-2 & Scaling District Layer-2 & Scaling District: Standalone Chains, Not Ethereum L2s
- Frontier Province Frontier Province: A Home for Coins That Fit No Other City
- Payments Harbor Payments Harbor: Veteran Coins That Docked Early to Be Digital Cash
Ethereum City (Capital) 87Arbitrum One City 5Base City 2L2 Suburbs 2ZKsync Era City 2Robinhood Chain City 1Bitcoin City 1BNB Chain City 14XRP City 2Solana City 19TRON City 7Zcash City 1HyperEVM City 1Dogecoin City 1Monero City 1Cardano City 2Stellar City 1NEAR Protocol City 1Bitcoin Cash City 1Litecoin City 1Avalanche City 1Sui City 1TON City 1Canton City 1Bittensor City 1Polygon PoS City 1Mainnet Province 35Frontier Province 2Payments Harbor 3AI Valley 1
Ethereum City (Capital)
- ETH Ethereum: The Programmable Blockchain at the Heart of the Capital · City hall
- USDT Tether (USDT): The Dollar Stablecoin, Its Reserves and Its Critics
- USDC USDC: Circle’s Dollar Stablecoin and How It Keeps the Peg
- USDS USDS: Sky’s Dollar Stablecoin and the Successor to DAI
- WBT WhiteBIT Coin (WBT): The Exchange Token of Europe’s WhiteBIT
- LINK Chainlink (LINK): The Oracle Network Linking Blockchains to Data
- LEO LEO: Bitfinex’s Crisis-Born Exchange Token and Its Burn Pledge
- USDE Ethena USDe: A Synthetic Dollar Held at One Dollar by Futures Hedges
- DAI Dai (DAI): The Decentralized Dollar Minted Against Collateral
- UNI Uniswap (UNI): The Order-Book-Free Exchange and Its Governance Token
- XAUT Tether Gold (XAUT): A Token for an Ounce of Gold in a Swiss Vault
- SHIB Shiba Inu: From a ‘Dogecoin Killer’ Experiment to an Ecosystem
- PYUSD PayPal USD (PYUSD): A Payments Giant’s Dollar Stablecoin
- QNT Quant (QNT): Licensing Token for Overledger, Linking Banks and Chains
- ENA Ethena: USDe, a synthetic dollar hedged with futures, and ENA
- USYC Circle USYC: A Tokenised Fund of Treasury Bills and Repo Loans
- OKB OKB: From OKX Exchange Token to the Gas of X Layer
- USDY USDY: Ondo’s Tokenized Note That Earns US Treasury Yield
- AAVE Aave and AAVE: The Governance Token of Ethereum’s Lending Giant
- BUIDL BUIDL: BlackRock’s Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum
- ONDO Ondo (ONDO): Governance Token of a Leader in Tokenized Treasuries
- USDF Falcon USD: an overcollateralized dollar minted from many assets
- PAXG PAX Gold (PAXG): A Token Backed by One Ounce of London-Vaulted Gold
- WLFI WLFI: Governance Token of the Trump-Linked DeFi Project
- MORPHO Morpho (MORPHO): Isolated Lending Markets and Curated Vaults
- PEPE Pepe: an Ethereum meme coin born from an internet frog
- SKY Sky (SKY): The Rebranded MakerDAO and Its USDS Stablecoin
- BGB Bitget’s BGB: From Fee Discounts to an L2 Gas Token
- GT Gate (GT): The Platform Token Linking an Exchange and GateChain
- BCAP Blockchain Capital (BCAP): A Security Token Holding a Venture Fund
- RENDER Render (RENDER): Sharing Idle GPUs to Render 3D Graphics
- OUSD Open USD (OUSD): A Dollar Stablecoin Founded by Payment Giants
- USTB USTB: A Tokenized Treasury Fund Now Managed by Invesco
- INJ Injective (INJ): A Finance-First Chain Born as an Ethereum Token
- NEXO Nexo (NEXO): The Loyalty Token of a Crypto Lending Platform
- LIT Lighter (LIT): Token of a Perpetuals Exchange on a ZK Rollup
- ZRO LayerZero (ZRO): The Token of a Cross-Chain Messaging Protocol
- GHO GHO: Aave’s Own Dollar Stablecoin, Minted Through Loans
- EUTBL EUTBL: Spiko’s Tokenized Fund of Short-Term Euro Government Bills
- ETHFI Ether.fi (ETHFI): From Liquid Restaking to a Crypto ‘Neobank’
- JAAA JAAA: A Tokenized Fund That Invests in AAA-Rated CLOs
- USD0 Usual USD (USD0): A Stablecoin Backed by Tokenized US Treasuries
- CRV Curve DAO Token (CRV): The Vote-Lock Token of a Stablecoin DEX
- KAU Kinesis Gold (KAU): A Gold Token Worth One Gram, With Fee Sharing
- Q Quack AI (Q): Governance Tools Where AI Agents Vote and Execute
- EURC EURC: Circle’s Euro Stablecoin Built to the EU’s MiCA Rules
- TUSD TrueUSD (TUSD): An Early Dollar Stablecoin Shaken by Reserve Disputes
- A7A5 A7A5: The Ruble-Pegged Stablecoin Caught in Western Sanctions
- FET ASI Alliance (FET): Three AI Projects That Merged Their Tokens
- VIRTUAL Virtuals Protocol: The Market Where AI Agents Get Their Own Tokens
- DRV Derive (DRV): The Onchain Options Exchange Formerly Called Lyra
- SOFID SoFiUSD: A Stablecoin Issued Directly by a US National Bank
- FF Falcon Finance (FF): The Token Behind the USDf Synthetic Dollar
- PENDLE Pendle (PENDLE): The Coin of a Market for Trading Future Yield
- REUSD Re Protocol reUSD: A Dollar Token Earning Reinsurance Yield
- SPX SPX6900: The Meme Coin That Parodies the S&P 500
- JTRSY JTRSY: A Tokenized Short-Term US Treasury Fund from Janus Henderson
- OUSG OUSG: Ondo Finance’s Tokenized Short-Term US Treasury Fund
- FDUSD First Digital USD (FDUSD): A Dollar Stablecoin Issued from Hong Kong
- LDO Lido DAO (LDO): The Vote Behind Ethereum’s Liquid Staking Service
- APXUSD apxUSD: A Dollar Coin Backed by Preferred-Share Dividends
- GNO Gnosis (GNO): From Prediction Markets to an Ethereum Rollup
- OHM Olympus (OHM): A Treasury-Backed Coin That Rode the (3,3) Craze
- KITE Kite (KITE): A Layer 1 for AI Agent Identity and Payments
- BAT BAT: The Token Behind Brave’s Privacy-Focused Ads
- GRT The Graph (GRT): A Search Engine for Blockchain Data
- SHFL Shuffle (SHFL): Token of the Crypto Casino Shuffle.com, on Ethereum
- ENS ENS: The ‘name.eth’ Address Book of Ethereum and Its Governance Coin
- SYRUP Maple Finance’s SYRUP: An Onchain Credit Market for Institutions
- EIGEN EigenLayer (EIGEN): From Restaking to a ‘Verifiable Cloud’
- JASMY JasmyCoin (JASMY): A Japanese IoT Token for Owning Your Own Data
- FLOKI FLOKI: A Viking-Themed Meme Coin Named After Elon Musk’s Dog
- FRAX Legacy Frax Dollar: The Original FRAX Stablecoin, Renamed
- CRVUSD crvUSD: Curve’s Own Crypto-Backed Dollar Stablecoin
- COMP Compound (COMP): The Algorithmic Lending Pioneer of DeFi
- KAG Kinesis Silver (KAG): A Token Tied to One Ounce of Silver
- EURCV EURCV: A Euro Coin Issued by Société Générale Under EU Rules
- FLUID Fluid (FLUID): DeFi Where Lending and Trading Share One Pool
- USAT USAT: Tether’s Federally Regulated Dollar Stablecoin for US Users
- CVX CVX: The Token of Convex Finance, a Booster for Curve Rewards
- AUSD AUSD: Agora’s Dollar Stablecoin Backed by Cash and T-Bills
- ANVL Anvil (ANVL): Posting Collateral to Issue Payment Guarantees
- ZAMA Zama (ZAMA): The Coin of a Protocol That Computes on Encrypted Data
- MX MX Token: The Exchange Coin of MEXC and Its Quarterly Burns
- SAND The Sandbox (SAND): Token of a Metaverse Where Users Build Games
- AXS AXS: The Token Behind Axie Infinity and the Play-to-Earn Boom
- TRAC OriginTrail: From Supply Chains to Verifiable Knowledge for AI
Arbitrum One City
- RAIN Rain (RAIN): open prediction markets on Arbitrum
- EURSAFO EURSAFO: The Euro Class of Amundi and Spiko’s Overnight Swap Fund
- ARB Arbitrum (ARB): the governance token of an optimistic rollup · City hall
- USDAI USDai: A Synthetic Dollar Tied to Loans Backed by AI Chips
- SAFO SAFO: Amundi and Spiko’s Tokenized Overnight Swap Fund
Base City
- VVV Venice Token (VVV): Staking for a Share of a Private AI Service
- AERO Aerodrome: The DEX Built to Be Base’s Liquidity Hub
L2 Suburbs
- WLD Worldcoin (WLD): Proving You Are Human With an Iris Scan · City hall
- OP Optimism (OP): The Token Behind an Ethereum L2 and Its Superchain · City hall
ZKsync Era City
- PC0000031 SSTN: A Tokenized Note Tied to North American Rent Financing
- ZK ZKsync (ZK): Governance Token of a Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Layer 2 · City hall
Robinhood Chain City
Bitcoin City
BNB Chain City
- BNB BNB: From Exchange Discount Coin to the Fuel of BNB Chain · City hall
- USD1 USD1: The Dollar Stablecoin From Trump-Linked World Liberty
- BTW Bitway (BTW): A BNB Chain Token for Bitcoin Lending and Yield
- ASTER Aster (ASTER): Token of a Perpetuals DEX That Grew on BNB Chain
- M MemeCore: A Layer 1 Built Around Meme Coins and Its M Coin
- U United Stables (U): A BNB Chain Dollar Backed by Other Stablecoins
- CAKE PancakeSwap: The BNB Chain DEX That Turned to Burns and a Supply Cap
- AKE AKEDO (AKE): An AI Platform That Builds Games From Descriptions
- BDX Beldex (BDX): A Privacy Coin With a Messenger, VPN and Browser
- 币安人生 币安人生: The Chinese Meme Coin Named ‘Binance Life’
- UB Unibase (UB): A Decentralised Memory Layer for AI Agents
- PIEVERSE Pieverse: A BNB Chain Project for AI Agents’ Payments and Records
- KOGE KOGE (48 Club Token): The Membership Coin of a BNB Chain DAO
- TWT Trust Wallet Token (TWT): The Utility Token of a Self-Custody Wallet
XRP City
- XRP XRP: The Payments Ledger Built for Fast Cross-Border Transfers · City hall
- RLUSD Ripple USD (RLUSD): Ripple’s Own Regulated Dollar Stablecoin
Solana City
- SOL Solana: Betting on One Fast Chain Instead of Many Layers · City hall
- USDG Global Dollar (USDG): Paxos’s Dollar Coin Under Singapore Rules
- PUMP Pump.fun (PUMP): the token of Solana’s memecoin factory
- USDGO USDGO: A Regulated Dollar Coin for Businesses From OSL and Anchorage
- JUP Jupiter (JUP): Solana’s Best-Price Finder Turned Super App
- PYTH Pyth Network (PYTH): The Oracle Fed Directly by Trading Firms
- TRUMP Official Trump: The Memecoin Launched Before the Inauguration
- RAY Raydium (RAY): Token of a Solana Exchange and Token Launchpad
- PENGU Pudgy Penguins (PENGU): A Solana Meme Coin From an NFT Brand
- GRASS Grass: Lending Spare Internet Bandwidth to Collect Data for AI
- BP Backpack’s BP: A Wallet-and-Exchange Token With an Equity Path
- BONK Bonk (BONK): A Dog Meme Coin Dropped on Solana’s Community
- JTO Jito (JTO): The DAO Behind Solana’s MEV Tips and JitoSOL
- CARDS Collector Crypt’s CARDS: Token of a Solana Tokenized-Card Platform
- KMNO Kamino (KMNO): A Lending and Liquidity Protocol on Solana
- USX Solstice USX: A Solana Dollar Coin Split From Its Yield Vault
- ZBCN Zebec Network (ZBCN): Streaming Pay by the Second on Solana
- WIF dogwifhat (WIF): The Solana Meme Coin Born from a Hat-Wearing Dog
- MET Meteora: Solana’s Liquidity Pool Builder and Its MET Token
TRON City
- TRX TRON (TRX): Justin Sun’s Chain That Became a Highway for USDT · City hall
- USDD USDD: TRON’s Dollar Coin, From Algorithmic Toward Collateral
- HTX HTX DAO (HTX): The TRON-Based Token of the Former Huobi Exchange
- JST JUST (JST): the governance token tying together TRON’s DeFi services
- BTT BitTorrent (BTT): How TRON Turned a File-Sharing Icon Into a Token
- SUN SUN: The Governance Token of Sun.io, TRON’s All-in-One DeFi Hub
- NFT From APENFT to AINFT: A TRON NFT Token Turns Toward AI
Zcash City
HyperEVM City
Dogecoin City
Monero City
Cardano City
- ADA Cardano (ADA): A Research-First L1 Built in Careful Stages · City hall
- NIGHT Midnight (NIGHT): The Token of a Privacy Chain Born Out of Cardano
Stellar City
NEAR Protocol City
Bitcoin Cash City
Litecoin City
Avalanche City
Sui City
TON City
Canton City
Bittensor City
Polygon PoS City
Mainnet Province
- FIGR_HELOC Figure Heloc: US home-equity loans recorded as a blockchain token
- HBAR Hedera: hashgraph consensus and a council of global organizations · City hall
- CRO Cronos (CRO): the coin of the chains grown by Crypto.com · City hall
- DOT Polkadot: A ‘Chain of Chains’ Under One Security Umbrella · City hall
- MNT Mantle (MNT): The BitDAO-Born Ethereum L2 Close to Bybit · City hall
- ICP Internet Computer (ICP): A Layer-1 Built to Host Whole Web Services · City hall
- ETC Ethereum Classic (ETC): The Original Chain That Rejected the DAO Fork · City hall
- KCS KuCoin Token (KCS): From Exchange Fee Discount to a Chain’s Own Coin · City hall
- ALGO Algorand (ALGO): Pure Proof of Stake from a Turing Award Winner · City hall
- KAS Kaspa: A Proof-of-Work Chain That Stacks Blocks Side by Side · City hall
- ATOM Cosmos Hub: the first hub of an ‘internet of blockchains’ · City hall
- PI Pi Network (PI): From a Phone ‘Mining’ App to an Open Mainnet
- FIL Filecoin (FIL): A Network for Renting Out Spare Storage · City hall
- APT Aptos (APT): The Move-Language Chain Built by Meta’s Diem Alumni · City hall
- STABLE Stable (STABLE): Coin of a Layer 1 Built Around USDT Payments
- STX Stacks: Smart Contracts for Bitcoin via Proof of Transfer · City hall
- XDC XDC Network: The Enterprise Chain for Trade Finance and RWAs · City hall
- TIA Celestia (TIA): A Modular Chain That Publishes Rollups’ Data
- VET VeChain: An Enterprise Blockchain Born in Supply-Chain Tracking · City hall
- FLR Flare (FLR): An Ethereum-Compatible Layer 1 With Built-In Data Feeds · City hall
- YLDS YLDS: An SEC-Registered, Interest-Paying Dollar Stablecoin
- STRK Starknet and STRK: A Proof-Based Layer 2 for Ethereum · City hall
- SEI Sei (SEI): Base Coin of a Parallel, Trading-Focused Layer-1 Chain · City hall
- HASH Provenance Blockchain (HASH): A Chain Built for Financial Services · City hall
- XPL XPL: The Coin of Plasma, a Layer-1 Chain for Stablecoin Payments · City hall
- XTZ Tezos (XTZ): The Coin of a Proof-of-Stake Chain That Upgrades Itself · City hall
- CFX Conflux (CFX): A Standalone Layer 1 Built on Tree-Graph Consensus · City hall
- KAIA Kaia (KAIA): The Merged Chain of Kakao’s Klaytn and LINE’s Finschia · City hall
- LUNC Terra Classic (LUNC): The Fallen Terra Chain, Run by Its Community · City hall
- MON Monad (MON): A Parallel Layer 1 for Faster Ethereum-Style Apps · City hall
- IOTA IOTA: From the Tangle to a Smart-Contract Layer 1 Built on Move · City hall
- S Sonic (S): The Fast EVM-Compatible Layer 1 That Replaced Fantom · City hall
- RUNE THORChain (RUNE): Swapping Native Coins Without Wrapped Tokens · City hall
- AKT Akash Network: A Decentralized Cloud Run by Reverse Auction · City hall
- THETA Theta Network (THETA): From Video Delivery Toward AI Computing · City hall
Frontier Province
- BFUSD BFUSD: Binance’s Reward-Bearing Margin Asset That Lives Off-Chain
- AR Arweave: Pay Once, Store Data Practically Forever
Payments Harbor
- DASH Dash: ‘Digital Cash’ Run by Miners and Masternodes
- BSV Bitcoin SV (BSV): The Big-Block Chain That Split From Bitcoin Cash
- DCR Decred (DCR): A Hybrid Blockchain Where Coin Holders Vote
AI Valley
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