Dash was created three years ago on 18 January 2014 by its developer Evan Duffield. Dash was originally released as XCoin (XCO). In February 2014, the name was changed to “Darkcoin”. And on 25 March 2015, Darkcoin was rebranded as “Dash”.
Dash is designed to have a total supply of 18 million coins. At present, the circulating supply of Dash is 7.4 million, and it will reach 18 million in the year 2300. Dash has a variable block reward which decreases at a 7.1 % rate each year. The average block mining time is 2.5 minutes on the Dash blockchain, which makes it four times faster than Bitcoin.