Cryptocurrency also termed as Digital or Virtual currency is considered as a form of asset and the currency is designed to work as an exchange medium.

Crytpocurrency uses strong cryptography to secure the financial transactions. All these cryptocurrencies work on the blockchain technology which is a decentralized system.

The best feature of the cryptocurrency is its organic nature, where it is not issued by any central authority nor does have any government interference or manipulation with the currency.

Bitcoin is the first blockchain based cryptocurrency and is the popular and most valuable one. The popularity of Bitcoin has given birth to hundreds of alternate cryptocurrenies designed with various specifications and functions.

Some of these cryptocurrencies are clones of Bitcoins and few are forks. With so many cryptocurrencies out in the market, where new ones come out almost daily and old ones disappear seemingly.

In order to make a place and be considered as successful coin in the crypto market, these cryptocurrencies are ranked based on few criteria or values such as the market cap value, price, circulating supply of cryptocoins and maximum supply of crytocurrencies.

If the crypto coin holds the maximum market cap value along with the maximum and circulating supply then the coin stands first in the race. Bitcoin is one such coin which stands in first place so far and still continues to be in the same place followed by Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash.

The following infographic is all about description of the Top 33 Cryptocurrencies in 4 words or less.

33 Cryptocurrencies

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Name	Sym.	Description
Bitcoin	BTC	Digital gold
Ethereum	ETH	Programmable contracts and money
Bitcoin Cash	BCH	Bitcoin clone
Ripple	XRP	Enterprise payment settlement network
Litecoin	LTC	Faster Bitcoin
Dash	DASH	Privacy-focused Bitcoin clone
NEO	NEO	Chinese-market Ethereum
NEM	XEM	Batteries-included digital assets
Monero	XMR	Private digital cash
Ethereum Classic	ETC	Ethereum clone
IOTA	MIOTA	Internet-of-things payments
Qtum	QTUM	Ethereum contracts on Bitcoin
OmiseGO	OMG	Banking, remittance, and exchange
Zcash	ZEC	Private digital cash
Lisk	LSK	Decentralized applications in JavaScript
Cardano	ADA	Layered currency and contracts
Tether	USDT	Price = 1 USD
Stellar Lumens	XLM	Digital IOUs
EOS	EOS	Decentralized applications on WebAssembly
Stratis	STRAT	Decentralized applications in C#
Electroneum	ETN	Monero clone
Bytecoin	BCN	Privacy-focused cryptocurrency
Ardor	ARDR	Blockchain for spawning blockchains
Binance Coin	BNB	Pay Binance exchange fees
Augur	REP	Decentralized prediction market
Decred	DCR	Bitcoin with alternative governance
TenX	PAY	Cryptocurrency credit card
BitShares	BTS	Decentralized exchange
Golem	GNT	Rent other people’s computers
PIVX	PIVX	Inflationary Dash clone
TRON	TRX	In-app-purchases
Vertcoin	VTC	Bitcoin clone
MonaCoin	MONA	Japanese Dogecoin
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