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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Dogecoin — the digital currencies that made some rich and others rekt.

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Cryptocurrency↕	Symbol↕	Launched↕	Primary Use Case↕	Reputation↕
Bitcoin	BTC	2009	Digital gold, store of value	The OG, Satoshi mystery, 21M cap, institutional adoption, energy FUD, $100K milestone
Ethereum	ETH	2015	Smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs	World computer, Vitalik's vision, gas fees pain, PoS transition, 'ultra sound money'
Solana	SOL	2020	Fast cheap transactions, DeFi	Speed demon (65K TPS theoretical), VC chain criticism, network outages, came back from FTX association
Dogecoin	DOGE	2013	Meme / tipping / payments	Started as a joke, Elon tweets move it, Shiba Inu mascot, 'to the moon', actually used for tipping
Cardano	ADA	2017	Smart contracts (academic approach)	Charles Hoskinson's peer-reviewed blockchain, 'always building', criticized for slow delivery, Africa focus
XRP (Ripple)	XRP	2012	Cross-border payments	Bank partnerships, SEC lawsuit saga (partial win), not-truly-decentralized debate, XRP Army
Polkadot	DOT	2020	Cross-chain interoperability	Gavin Wood's (Ethereum co-founder) vision, parachains, complex but ambitious, treasury spending debates
Avalanche	AVAX	2020	DeFi, subnets, gaming	Fast finality, subnet architecture, Cornell professor founded it, competing with Ethereum L2s
Chainlink	LINK	2017	Oracle network (off-chain data)	DeFi infrastructure backbone, Sergey Nazarov's flannel, LINK marines, staking finally launched
Toncoin	TON	2018	Telegram integration, payments	Telegram's blockchain, SEC stopped original launch, community revived it, Telegram mini-apps ecosystem
Monero	XMR	2014	Privacy-focused transactions	Actually private (unlike 'transparent' blockchains), delisted from exchanges, darknet use, cypherpunk values
Uniswap	UNI	2020	Decentralized exchange	AMM pioneer, democratized token trading, SEC scrutiny, fee switch debate, $4B daily volume
Pepe	PEPE	2023	Meme coin	Frog meme coin that hit $5B market cap, pure speculation, community-driven, no utility and proud of it
Stablecoins (USDT/USDC)	USDT/USDC	2014/2018	Dollar-pegged stability	Tether's reserves mystery ($100B+), USDC transparent alternative, backbone of crypto trading, de-pegging fears