Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
Coins in the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) category. 4 coins listed. Updated weekly.
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a category of cryptocurrencies sharing common characteristics or use cases. Explore the listed coins and compare what they do and how they are categorized.
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Hedera began with Leemon Baird's patented hashgraph algorithm and Mance Harmon's wager that global institutions could govern a public ledger. Accounts opened to everyone in 2019; the patents gave way to Apache 2.0 and then Hiero. Yet the live network still draws a firm line: HBAR stake influences consensus, while Council organizations decide software, nodes, pricing and treasury.
Kaspa is a proof-of-work blockDAG whose GHOSTDAG ordering keeps parallel blocks in one ledger history. It launched without a premine, but protocol influence still depends on miners, software authors, community-funded multisigs and operators adopting hardfork releases.
IOTA is the native asset of a Move-based, object-oriented delegated-proof-of-stake network. Rebased preserved Stardust balances through a 1:1 ledger-state transfer in May 2025, but changed decimals, fees, staking and supply policy; it did not create equity or a redemption claim on the IOTA Foundation.
Colin LeMahieu introduced RaiBlocks in 2014 as a fee-free payment ledger with one chain per account. Renamed Nano in 2018, it kept that design through the BitGrail custody loss and the 2021 spam crisis by changing how nodes prioritize scarce capacity.