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Crypto BasicsWhat is Kaspa (KAS)?
Kaspa’s mainnet opened on 7 November 2021. Every coin was mined. Blocks are ordered with GHOSTDAG instead of a single chain. In May 2025 the network went from one block a second to ten, and the coins per second stayed the schedule.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is ENS?
The name service opened in 2017. The token launched on 8 November 2021, with 100 million minted. A quarter was claimable by people who had registered .eth names. That claim closed on 4 May 2022.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is Immutable (IMX)?
IMX started trading on 5 November 2021. Before that, each pre-launch unit was split into 100, and the cap went from 20 million to 2 billion. The rollup was built with StarkWare for NFT minting and trading. ETH still pays a withdrawal.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is JasmyCoin (JASMY)?
Jasmy’s own page says the token is an ERC-20 with a supply of 50 billion. A Japanese exchange started trading it on 26 October 2021 and said it was issued in December 2019. The company was started by a former Sony president. The token is not Sony’s.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is Toncoin, now Gram?
The coin was Toncoin, ticker TON. On 15 June 2026 the display name became Gram, ticker GRAM. Balances were not swapped. The chain is still TON. A site that tells you to claim the new ticker is not the rename.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is Bitget Token (BGB)?
BGB launched on 26 July 2021 as an ERC-20. Bitget burned 800 million around the start of 2025 and said the supply was 1.2 billion. In September 2025 it said Morph would use BGB as gas. Fee discounts apply on the exchange.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is FLOKI?
The project dates the token to 25 June 2021, and a relaunch to 6 July. Ethereum and BNB Chain each had a 10 trillion mint. A bridge between them was closed and burned in February 2023. ETH or BNB pays the fee.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is eCash (XEC)?
Bitcoin Cash split on 15 November 2020. Exchanges kept the BCH ticker for one side. The other became Bitcoin Cash ABC, then eCash on 1 July 2021. The chain did not change. The unit did. One BCHA displays as 1,000,000 XEC.EasyCryptoGuides · · 2 min read
Crypto BasicsWhat is APENFT (NFT)?
APENFT was registered in Singapore on 29 March 2021. The public sale was on 20 May 2021. The supply is 999,990,000,000,000. The ticker is NFT. A fungible token is not the artwork the project said it registered.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readCrypto BasicsWhat is Convex (CVX)?
Convex Finance opened on 17 May 2021. The cap is 100 million CVX. It sits on top of Curve. Locking CRV there was described as one way. CVX is not CRV.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
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