Financial ledger cryptocurrencies

Chains whose native design is a financial ledger — settlement, lending, structured issuance — rather than a general-purpose computer. Ripple's XRP Ledger and Stellar's Horizon are the reference cases.

Chains counted
16
Combined market cap
$1.9B
Snapshot
10 November 2026
#AssetConsensusMarket cap
1 InjectiveINJ Tendermint (CometBFT) $782M
2 XDC NetworkXDC XDPoS (delegated PoS) $599M
3 Provenance BlockchainHASH Tendermint (CometBFT) $438M
4 KavaKAVA Tendermint (CometBFT) $74M
5 BitSharesBTS DPoS (graphene) $2M
6 MintlayerML PoS (VRF, chain density) $2M
7 DeFiChainDFI PoS $1M
8 KujiraKUJI CometBFT (Cosmos SDK) $1M
9 MezoMEZO CometBFT (PoA validators) $364,300
10 Acala TokenACA NPoS (Polkadot parachain) $242,763
11 StaFiFIS NPoS (BABE + GRANDPA, Substrate) $184,432
12 KaruraKAR NPoS (Kusama parachain) $70,518
13 STO CHAINSTOC Tendermint (CometBFT) $0
14 ZetrixZETRIX DPoS-elected validators + BFT (21 validators) $0
15 PendulumPEN Polkadot parachain (Aura collators, relay-chain finality) $0
16 SwiftCashSWIFT PoS (v3 reset; Keccak PoW phase ended at block 200) $0

Methodology — the rules under which each chain's purpose was decided. Assets that don't fit one of the categories are left unclassified rather than filed under a guess.