The archive · Fourteen records · Checked August 2026
The records
Every record answers the same six questions in the same order: what it is, who builds it, how the token works, what it is actually used for, the factual risks, and where it trades. The order never changes, so you can read across records without hunting for the part you want.
What changes is the middle. Each record is built around one mechanism — the thing that makes that asset different from the other thirteen — and that is where the detail goes. Fourteen pages that were all the same table would be worth nothing.
New to this and not sure which vocabulary you are missing? Start with the guide on supply and emission schedules; every record links back to it.
The 21 million ceiling is a rule every node enforces rather than a promise anyone made, and the halving curve is quietly moving miner income from subsidy to fees.
Issuance and burn run in opposite directions at the same time, so net supply can be either sign. That is not what “deflationary” means.
Two burn mechanisms walking supply toward a stated floor, and the closest tie in this archive between a token and one company's commercial business.
An attestation and an audit are different documents answering different questions. Most of this record is about that distinction, because most of the risk lives there.
Same peg as Tether, different issuer, different reserve vehicle, different redemption path. The differences are structural, and one of them has already been tested.
Every unit that will ever exist was made in 2012. Escrow paces how much can reach the market, and the queue refills from the back rather than emptying.
A published curve with a starting rate, a decay rate and a floor — plus an open proposal to make the decay twice as fast, which would change every forward projection.
No maximum supply at all, and a project that argues its supply is bounded anyway. The argument is worth reading rather than being handed either slogan.
Transfers that look free because the cost was paid earlier by staking — and a burn that surprises anyone who did not, especially on contract calls.
Node operators are paid in LINK for work they publish. Where that working demand ends and holding begins is a question this record does not pretend to have settled.
Three chains in the Primary Network plus independent L1s. For a holder, the question that costs money is which chain the balance is actually on.
Most of the supply is bonded and four weeks from liquidity. Token holders have also voted twice in two years to change how much DOT gets created.
A distribution channel most chains would envy and a dependency most chains do not have. The same relationship explains both, which is why they belong on one page.
A reserve that only ever drains, feeding rewards and a treasury, and a roadmap of named eras — recorded strictly by what has already shipped.
Why fourteen, and not four hundred
Because every figure on these pages had to be traced to a project's own documentation, its source code or a public block explorer before it was allowed on. That is slow, and it does not scale to hundreds of pages without the error rate climbing to the point where the archive would be worse than useless.
More records will be added over time, at a pace that keeps the checking honest. If a coin you want is missing, the desk takes suggestions.
Comparing across all fourteen at once is what the supply structure table and the consensus comparison are for.