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Category 03
Payments and Settlement
Assets designed for fast, low-cost value transfer. Representative assets: XRP, TRON, Stellar, Litecoin.
Assets in this category
BCH
Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash was created on August 1, 2017, as a hard fork of Bitcoin — the outcome of one of crypto history's most famo…
LTC
Litecoin
Litecoin was launched by Charlie Lee — at the time a Google engineer, an MIT graduate, born in Ivory Coast to Chinese pa…
TRX
TRON
TRON was founded by Justin Sun in 2017. Born in China in 1990, Sun studied at Peking University and the University of Pe…
XLM
Stellar
Stellar was founded in July 2014 by Jed McCaleb — who had previously created the eDonkey file-sharing network and the Mt…
XRP
XRP & Ripple
The story goes back to 2004: Canadian developer Ryan Fugger was already working on a system called RipplePay, meant to l…