Payments cryptocurrencies

Chains built to move money. Small transfers, low fees, or both — the design brief is throughput and cost per transaction rather than smart contracts, storage, or novel finance primitives.

Chains counted
14
Combined market cap
$28.2B
Snapshot
24 September 2026
#AssetConsensusMarket cap
9 DogecoinDOGE Scrypt (merge-mined) $14.5B
13 Bitcoin CashBCH SHA-256 $6.8B
15 LitecoinLTC Scrypt $4.8B
26 KaspaKAS kHeavyHash (GHOSTDAG) $1.1B
34 DashDASH X11 $742M
54 eCashXEC SHA-256 (+ Avalanche finality) $175M
65 DigiByteDGB MultiAlgo (5 PoW algos: SHA256/Scrypt/Skein/Qubit/Odocrypt) $80M
94 Fractal BitcoinFB SHA-256 (merge-mined with BTC) $37M
152 NimiqNIM Nimiq Albatross (single-chain PoS) $4M
175 Electra ProtocolXEP Delta PoSV (X11) $2M
206 Bitcoin 2BTC2 SHA-256 (Bitcoin fork) $1M
208 Openverse NetworkBTG Equihash-BTG $1M
282 TalerTLR Lyra2Z PoW + PoS $97,464
362 MimbleWimbleCoinMWC Cuckatoo C31 (MimbleWimble) $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.