Crypto Currency

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Blockchains

The basic building block of crypto currencies

Coins vs Tokens

What are altcoins? What are tokens? What's the difference?

Coins are standalone cryptocurrencies based on their own blockchain. Tokens are built and hosted on existing blockchains.  --Finder.com

• Differences Between Cryptocurrency Coins and Tokens
• Cryptocurrency Coins vs Tokens
• What Are Different Types of Cryptocurrencies?

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique, immutable virtual assets, such as Decentraland LAND or CryptoKitties or baseball cards. They are used as collectibles, and have sparked surprisingly robust and well-funded markets considering that they are largely imaginary items with no intrinsic value.

Smart Contracts

Code that acts as the "back-end" of decentralized applications (DApps)

DApps

Decentralized Applications

DeFi

Decentralized Finance

Crypto Wallets

Where one keeps links to crypto assets, protected by public-private key encryption

Crypto Info Sites

About Ethereum

• ETH Gas Station
• My ETHer Wallet
• EtherScan

Newsletters

• This Week in DeFi
• CryptoNews

Podcasts

• Crypto Basics

Crypto Currency Exchanges

For buying or trading crypto currency

• Coinbase and Coinbase Pro
• Binance
• EtherDelta
• eToro
• Exchanges that trade in Decentraland MANA
• XCoins guarantees delivery of BTC, ETH or LTC purchased by debit/credit card within 15 minutes
• Uphold a wallet with trading abilities, takes up to 3 days to process bank/credit/debit purchases, but no fees

Keeping Track of Alt Coins & Tokens

• Accointing cryptocurrency portfolio tracking
• Altcurrency dashboard
• CoinCodex portfolio