It dawned on me that I didn't have a great understanding of what crypto's came when. Upon looking up when certain Crypto's were started I couldn't find a list that had every detail I wanted or even had a lot of cryptos. Wikipedia's list is barebones to say the least. So I figured I would put together a list for myself and share it with you all.
I know not every detail I list below is 100% accurate. I attempted to get the most accurate information I could and where possible I used the first block date as the inception date.
Bitcoin (BTC)
January 9th, 2009
Consensus: PoW - SHA-256d
Founder: Satoshi Nakamoto
Litecoin (LTC)
October 7th, 2011
Consensus: PoW - Scrypt
Founder: Charlie Lee
Dogecoin (DOGE)
December 6th, 2013
Consensus: PoW - Scrypt
Founder: Jackon Palmer & Billy Markus
Ripple (XRP)
May 15th, 2018
Consensus: Consensus - ECDSA
Founder: Chirrls Larsen & Jed McCaleb
Dash (DASH)
January 18th, 2014
Consensus: PoW - X11 | Proof of Service
Founder: Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan
Monero (XMR)
April 18th, 2014
Consensus: PoW - RandomX
Founder: Monero Core Team
Stellar (XLM)
July 31st, 2014
Consensus: Stellar Consensus Protocol
Founder: Jed McCaleb & Joyce Kim
Ethereum (ETH)
July 20th, 2015
Consensus: PoW - Ethash (soon to be PoS)
Founder: Vitalik Buterin
Nano (NANO)
October 2015
Consensus: PoS ORV
Founder: Colin LeMahieu
Zcash (ZEC)
October 28th, 2016
Consensus: PoW - Equihash
Founder: Zooko Wilcox
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
August 1st, 2017
Consensus: PoW - SHA-256d
Founder: Group of people not happy with Bitcoin's Segwit implementation
Worldwide Asset Exchange (WAX)
2017
Consensus: DPoS - Delegated PoS
Founder: QPSkins (William Quigley & Jonathan Yantis)
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
January 7th, 2018
Consensus: Proof by Viewing ads? It's hard to get a definitive answer on this.
Founder: Brandon Eich
EOS.IO (EOS)
January 31st, 2018
Consensus: PoS - delegated
Founder: Dan Larminer
Banano (BAN)
April 1st, 2018
Consensus: PoS ORV
Founder: BananoTeam
Tezos (XTZ)
June 30th 2018
Consensus: Proof of Stake
Founder: Arthur and Kathleen Breitman
Tron (TRX)
July 25th, 2018
Consensus: Proof of Stake
Founder: Justin Sun
Ampleforth (AMPL)
September 5th, 2018
Consensus: Rebases?
Founder: Evan Kuo
Ravencoin (RVN)
2018
Consensus: PoW - X16R
Founder: Medici Ventures originally? Now Ravencoin Foundation
Theta (THETA + TFUEL)
March of 2019
Consensus: PoS - Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Founder: Mitch Liu
Helium (HNT)
July of 2019
Consensus: Proof of Coverage
Founder: Amir Haleem, Shawn Fanning & Sean Carey
HIVE (HIVE)
March 20th, 2020
Consensus: Delegated PoS
Founder: people who didn't like Justin Sun taking over Steem
Shiba Inu Coin (SHIB)
August of 2020
Consensus: PoW - Scrypt
Founder: Ryoshi
Raptoreum (RTM)
February 26th, 2021
Consensus: PoW - GhostRider
Founder: 7 anonymous 'people'
I fully understand that this list could go on and on. However I just put together the ones that interested me. If you would like me to add any I do not mind at all. However I am not going to add ones that I think are just stupid :)
