{ "name": "Decred", "website": "https://decred.org", "source_code": "https://github.com/decred", "white_paper": "https://docs.decred.org/", "short_description": "Decred is an autonomous digital currency. With a hybrid consensus system, it is built to be a decentralized, sustainable, and self-ruling currency where stakeholders make the rules.", "description": "Decred (DCR) is an open-source, Bitcoin fork that places emphasis on development funding, on-chain governance, and consensus mechanisms.\r\n\r\nLaunched in Feb 2016 by the Bitcoin developers behind btcsuite (an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang), Decred successfully orchestrated an on-chain user-activated consensus vote, which is emblematic of the project's emphasis on community-driven stakeholder governance. Other features of the project include a hybrid proof-of-work (PoW) proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus voting system, a public proposal platform, smart contracts, cross-chain atomic swaps, and cross-platform wallets.", "explorers": [ { "name": "Decred Block Explorer", "url": "https://explorer.dcrdata.org/" } ], "socials": [ { "name": "Twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/decredproject", "handle": "decredproject" }, { "name": "Reddit", "url": "https://reddit.com/r/decred", "handle": "decred" } ], "data_source": "crowd" }