Cardano is the first blockchain project that has a clear roadmap for scaling and developing DApp capabilities. This has led to it becoming one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in the world by market cap.

Polkadot is the latest blockchain protocol to get attention from the crypto community. It’s an Ethereum rival created by Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum. The project aims to allow blockchains to work together under one roof, creating a “shared web.”

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

This new version of Ethereum, if successful, could support 100,000 transactions per second, compared with Visa’s average of 1,700.

Ethereum is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the world. It reached an all-time high in November 2021 and has been considered by many to be Bitcoin’s successor.

Smart contracts are programs that are written in bytecode and run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). After a contract has been deployed, other network users can interact with it.