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TerraUSD held its peg with an algorithm, not a reserve. In May 2022 the mechanism reversed: Luna's supply exploded from 343 million to 6.53 trillion, and $40 billion vanished in six days.
Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.
No block-size limit, one company's reference client, and five 51%-attack reorgs in a single year — Bitcoin SV's design record, measured against the 'original protocol' it set out to restore.
A 45 billion cap, Ouroboros proof-of-stake, and governance split across three organizations — Cardano's own design documents, read against the numbers that marked its launch.
Dogecoin has no whitepaper, no company, and no cap on its supply — a decade-old test of whether Bitcoin's scarcity is what a market actually pays for.
No supply cap, a fee burn that can push issuance negative, and a 2022 switch from mining to staking — Ethereum's own design documents, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
Litecoin copied Bitcoin's code, swapped its proof-of-work and rescaled three figures by four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
Monero forked away from a currency whose founders had quietly mined 82 percent of its supply, then built a ledger that hides what Bitcoin's discloses and an emission with no final block.
A relay chain coordinating parachains, nominated proof-of-stake, and the 2025 vote that capped a supply that had never had a ceiling -- Polkadot's design, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
A consensus mechanism built on its own clock, an issuance rate that keeps shrinking without a cap, and a supply that started with a premine to the foundation and its investors.
A fiat-collateralized design that CENTRE's own whitepaper called a trade-off, a reserve that broke the dollar peg for two days in 2023, and a governing consortium later folded into one company.
Launched on Bitcoin's blockchain as Realcoin in 2014, USDT mints and freezes at one company's discretion, and its reserve reporting has stayed at quarterly attestations, not audits.
A hundred billion units generated in a single stroke in June 2012, a validator list two organizations curate, and a five-year SEC lawsuit over who was allowed to sell them.