Smart-Contract Platforms

Cardano was launched by Charles Hoskinson — a co-founder of Ethereum — after he left Ethereum in 2014 following a govern…

Avalanche's story began in May 2018, when a pseudonymous group calling itself “Team Rocket” published the Avalanche cons…

Canton Network is developed by Digital Asset Holdings, LLC — a New York-based enterprise blockchain company founded in 2…

Polkadot is the work of Dr. Gavin Wood — a British programmer, Ethereum co-founder, and former CTO, who authored the Eth…

The idea for Ethereum was born in late 2013: a whitepaper written by Vitalik Buterin, published in November 2013, outlin…

The story begins with Telegram, founded in 2013 by brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov (previously creators of VKontakte, t…

The technology behind Hedera, the hashgraph consensus algorithm, was developed by Dr. Leemon Baird — a computer scientis…

Internet Computer is the work of Dominic Williams, who was inspired by Bitcoin's rise in 2013. He initially worked on a …

Mantle grew out of the transformation of BitDAO — founded in June 2021 by Bybit exchange co-founders Daniel Yan and Ben …

NEAR has an unusually distinctive origin story: in June 2017, Illia Polosukhin (a Ukrainian-born computer scientist, pre…

The idea for Solana was born in 2017 in the mind of Anatoly Yakovenko, a former Qualcomm engineer. Frustrated by the spe…

Sui's roots trace back to Facebook's (later Meta's) Libra/Diem blockchain project, announced in 2019, which aimed to bui…