Blockchains Built from Scratch

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Rules and Explanations

- We are looking for distributed ledger projects that were truly built from scratch (no forks, no simple patchwork of pre-existing technologies)

- Projects with running blockchains/dags/block lattices etc. go into the "Running" tab, those not yet running into "Announced"

- There must be proof for the "built from scratch" claim, ideally open source code commits that demonstrate a creation history, or multiple credible soures that confirm the fact

- Projects not built from scratch, but examined for that property go under "Dismissed"

- "Rightful successors" are acceptable, example: AntShares->NEO, Loopchain->Icon, or Crypti->Lisk (because Crypti officially merged their project into Lisk)

- The oldest running chain on a codebase goes on the list, e.g. Bytecoin is older than Monero and still running, so Bytecoin goes on the list. Other examples: BitShares goes on the list, not EOS, NXT, not Ardor.

- If the chain started with a forked client, but the client was later rebuilt from scratch, the project does NOT go on the list. Examples: Stratis, Ark V2, Rise. This is admittedly an edge case, but starting a new chain seems to be a substantially bigger challenge than building a client for a running chain.

- Unclear: does the protocol have to be new? E.g. if I reimplement Cryptonote in Scala, do I make the list? Right now, we include these projects.

- "Velocity" column: average number of commits per day (since first commit), to give a rough idea of development intensity

Keep in mind that I am not judging the overall quality of blockchain projects that I put on this list. I try to assess the simple property "built (coded) from scratch",

to get an idea of where the forked projects are coming from, who the new players are, and what changes people propose to distributed ledger technology in general.

This is a code history/forensics project, there are many promising forked projects out there.

- Please DM @cryptic_monk on Twitter, Discord or Telegram if you spot any errors or would like to add a project. Alternatively, DM @johntromp on Telegram.

- If you think that you spotted a project that I missed, please check the "Dismissed" tab first and verify whether you can find it there and argue with my reasoning

Added @johntromp as editor

Added Chainspace to Announced

Updated BEAM, HT Stas Oskin

Added Phantasma Chain to Running/testnet

Revised Tron https://twitter.com/cryptic_monk/status/1095342985691058176

Revisited a number of announced projects (see "last visited" column)

Moved Blue Protocol to Dismissed

Moved CPChain to "Dismissed"

Upgraded Ergo to Running (Testnet)

Upgraded Insolar to Running (Testnet)

Upgraded Quarkchain to testnet

Removed TERA, could not find info about the project any more

Upgraded Aeternity to mainnet

Upgraded Ontology to mainnet

Added Tangram to "Announced"