WHAT IS DASH?

Dash (formerly known as Darkcoin and XCoin) is an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that aims

to be the most user-friendly and most on-chain-scalable cryptocurrency in the world. On top of Bitcoin's
feature set, it currently offers instant transactions (InstantSend), private transactions
(PrivateSend) and operates a self-governing and self-funding model that enables the Dash network to pay
individuals and businesses to perform work that adds value to the network. Dash's decentralized
governance and budgeting system makes it a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

WHEN AND WHO PROMOTED DASH?

Creator and lead developer of Dash, Evan Duffield, started Dash as XCoin (XCO) on January 18, 2014. On
February 28, the name was changed to "Darkcoin." On March 25, 2015, Darkcoin was rebranded as
"Dash." Dash is thus a portmanteau of "Digital Cash.

HOW DOES DASH WORK?

DigitalCash (DASH) uses a new chained hashing algorithm approach, with many new scientific hashing
algorithms for the proof-of-work. DASH aims to be the first privacy-centric cryptographic currency with
fully encrypted transactions and anonymous block transactions, this feature is called PrivateSend and can
be found on the official Dashcore wallet. PrivateSend mixes your DASH coins with other users who are
also using this feature at the time, making your transactions untraceable. Users can also earn DigitalCash
rewards by hosting a master node to help maintain the Blockchain. One must have a balance of at least
1000 DASH in order to host a Dash master node, this collateral is required to avoid 51% attacks on the
network. 

WHAT PPROBLEMS DOES DASH SOLVE?

1: Incentivized nodes to enable long-term scaling

2: Internal development budget to avoid both open-source and “ICO problem”

3: Investor-driven governance ensures prudent decision-making

4: Funding and spam filter focus community projects

5: Recurring income investment dampens volatile day-trading

6: Governance system incentivizes community harmony

WHAT IS ETHEREUM CLASSIC?
Ethereum Classic is a secure, censorproof, reliable, public, trustless and decentralized platform for
running applications.

WHEN AND WHO PROMOTED ETHEREUM CLASSIC?

In May of 2016, a venture capital fund called The DAO built on Ethereum raised around $168 million, with
the intention of investing in projects using smart contracts. In the same month a paper was released
detailing security vulnerabilities with The DAO that could allow ether to be stolen. In June, 3.6 million
Ether (approximately $50 million USD) was taken from accounts in The DAO and moved to another
account without the owners' consent, exploiting one of the vulnerabilities that had been raised in May.
Members of The DAO and the Ethereum community debated what actions, if any, should occur to resolve
the situation. A vote occurred and in July 2016 it was decided to implement a hard fork in the Ethereum
code and to move the Ether taken in the exploit to a new smart contract through which it would be
restored to the owners from whom it had been taken.
Ethereum Classic came into existence when some members of the Ethereum community rejected the
hard fork on the grounds of "immutability", the principle that the blockchain cannot be changed, and
decided to keep using the unforked version of Ethereum

HOW DOES ETHEREUM CLASSIC WORK?

When the hard-fork was implemented, users that did not agree with it decided not to upgrade their
software and to continue mining on the blockchain that did not have this implementation. Since the hard-
fork creates an incompatibility between the new and previous versions, the users that decided to remain
on the "original" blockchain, have diverged into their own blockchain that is identical to Ethereum's in
every way until block 1920000. 

WHAT PPROBLEMS DOES ETHEREUM CLASSIC SOLVE?

 Stays true with the philosophy of the immutability of the blockchain.
 Has recently got the backing of a few big players
WHAT IS NEO?
NEO is a platform in which users can issue and trade assets. NEO has been rebranded from the original
'Antshares'. NEO tokenizes proofs of ownership of an asset and not the asset itself, thus taking into
account all of the legal complications and obligations that may come with the transfer of shares, equity
and assets.
NEO represent an ownership of the NEO platform and allows users to buy NEO (ANC) and to vote on
protocol changes on the NEO blockchain. ANS are 100% premined and issued on the NEO's genesis block.

WHEN AND WHO PROMOTED NEO?

The main community members include the founder – Da Hongfei, co-founder and core developer – Zhang
Zhengwen, Secretary General – Tao Rongqi, and other community developers, operators, and
contributors.

HOW DOES NEO WORK?

The consortium version of NEO, namely DNA (distributed networks architecture), shares the same
architect and smart contract system as NEO, and is equipped with more tools for institutional purposes.
Onchain is a legal entity that provides Blockchain solutions and services based on DNA.

WHAT PPROBLEMS DOES NEO SOLVE?

NEO supports many additional code bases (e.g. C#, VB.Net, F#, Java, Kotlin) while Ethereum has it’s own
proprietary language called Solidity, which requires developers to learn that before any development can
take place. This means a longer learning curve and barrier to entry which could hinder the number of
developers that can enter the ecosystem.
WHAT IS RIPPLE?
Ripple is more known for its digital payment protocol than its cryptocurrency, XRP. Ripple operates on
an open source and peer-to-peer decentralized platform that allows for a seamless transfer of money in
any form, whether USD, Yen, litecoin, or bitcoin.

WHEN AND WHO PROMOTED RIPPLE?

The predecessor to the Ripple payment protocol, Ripplepay, was first developed in 2004 by Ryan Fugger,
a web developer in Vancouver, British Columbia. Fugger's first iteration of this system, RipplePay.com,
debuted in 2005 as a financial service to provide secure payment options to members of an online
community via a global network.
This led to the conception of a new system by Jed McCaleb of eDonkey network, which was designed and
built by Arthur Britto and David Schwartz.

HOW DOES RIPPLE WORK?

The digital currency, XRP, acts as a bridge currency to other currencies. It does not discriminate between
one fiat/crypto currency and another, and thus, makes it easy for any currency to be exchanged for
another. Each currency on the ecosystem has its own gateway

WHAT PPROBLEMS DOES RIPPLE SOLVE?

  What sets XRP apart from the other major digital assets is that XRP is highly performant and optimized
for institutional use in global payments. While I’m personally loving BTC and a believer that it’s solving a
different use case, the reality is that today the average time to complete a BTC transaction is about four
hours. In contrast, XRP is about four seconds. A couple of other similar comparisons important for
payments and enabling an Internet of Value:

 The XRP ledger can handle more than 1500 transactions/second. BTC is currently ~15
transactions/second.

 XRP fees per transaction are measured as fractions of a penny. BTC fees per transaction
are measured in dollars.
NEWS SNIPPETS-RIPPLE
Source: https://www.ripplecoinnews.com/, https://cointelegraph.com/tags/ripple ,
https://ripple.com/category/insights/news/

1. October 31, 2017: Coinrail is going to enlist Ripple XRP Next Month
2. October 21, 2017: The Swell Conference in Canada ignored the XRP
contrary to our positive expectations
3. OCT 19, 2017: Japanese Ripple Crypto Exchange Takes Hit as Founder
Arrested for Scam

RippleNet Grows to More Than 100 Financial Institutions

1. Oct 10, 2017

Ripple Rolls Out $300M RippleNet Accelerator Program to

Grow Volume and XRP Utility
Oct 13, 2017

SBI Ripple Asia partners with DAYLI Financial Group to

bring Ripple to South Korea
Sep 11, 2017

Ripple Launches New Mumbai Office to Serve India’s

Digital Economy
Sep 5, 2017
NEWS SNIPPETS- DASH
Source: https://www.dash.org/blog/page3/

Dash Sponsors Texas Bitcoin Conference, Dash Force to Speak

Oct 26, 2017

Crypto: With $1b+ Cap, DASH Wants to be a Better Venmo

Oct 24, 2017

DashMasternodeTool v0.9.12 released

Oct 31, 2017

The first official purchase of a software between 2 companies was done in

cryptocurrency Dash
Oct 23, 2017
NEWS SNIPPETS- NEO

NEO To Benefit from Chinese ICO Regulations

SEP 02, 2017 

NEO Shakes Off Bad News, Surges 20 Percent

SEP 27, 2017

You can now trade $NEO against Thai Baht on Thailand based exchange, TDAX (@TDAXOfficial)

https://twitter.com/neonewstoday?lang=en

https://cointelegraph.com/tags/neo
news snippets- Ethereum classic
https://cointelegraph.com/tags/ethereum-classic

Suddenly, Ethereum Classic Price Explodes 25% on South Korea

Rumors
AUG 23, 2017

Ethereum Classic Begins to Differentiate Itself from Ethereum With

Release of New Mantis Client
AUG 09, 2017