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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Litecoin copied Bitcoin's code and rescaled four parameters by an identical factor of four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
A fiat-collateralized design CENTRE named as a trade-off in its own whitepaper, a reserve that broke the dollar peg for two days in 2023, and a governing consortium later folded into one company.
A relay chain coordinating parachains, nominated proof-of-stake, and the 2025 vote that capped a decade of roughly-10-percent issuance -- Polkadot's design, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
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.
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 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.
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.