DASH is a second-tier cryptocurrency, with a total market capitalization only a few percent of Bitcoin's. Like Bitcoin, it can be used to hold value on a distributed ledger, and make payments and transfers. But DASH offers additional features, including improved governance, a treasury to fund development and marketing, and a type of interest-bearing structure called a masternode that provides stability and functionality to the blockchain over and above the transaction clearing services of miners.
DASH, from 2014 to present:
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