Ripple is based around a shared public ledger,the XRP Ledger, which uses a consensus process that allows for payments, exchanges and remittance in a distributed process. The network can operate without the Ripple company;among its validators are companies, internet service providers, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, its high electricity consumption, price volatility, thefts from exchanges, and the possibility that bitcoin is an economic bubble. Bitcoin has also been used as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts about bitcoin.

OmiseGO was started by Jun Hasegawa and Donnie Harinsut, the founders of the already operating company Omise, which was founded in 2013, in Bangkok, Thailand.OmiseGO's initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 raised over USD $25 million,[1] turning down over USD $100 million in the process.Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions.

Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, its high electricity consumption, price volatility, thefts from exchanges, and the possibility that bitcoin is an economic bubble. Bitcoin has also been used as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts about bitcoin.Dogecoin is an open source peer-to-peer digital currency, favored by Shiba Inus worldwide.

Stellar is an open-source, decentralized protocol for digital currency to fiat currency transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies.[1] The Stellar protocol is supported by a nonprofit, the Stellar Development Foundation.

As I said NEM and NEO both are great projects. You should put money in both if you can. I do see NEO going far far higher than NEM due to very less supply. But also NEO will be huge in China itself. NEO is a very good project and is currently very undervalued inspite of such a rally. It would go beyond Ethereum and can even go beyond Bitcoin one day.

The Litecoin Network aims to process a block every 2.5 minutes, rather than Bitcoin's 10 minutes. The developers claim that this allows Litecoin to have faster transaction confirmation.Litecoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm, a sequential memory-hard function requiring asymptotically more memory than an algorithm which is not memory-hard.

Dash is a popular open source, peer to peer (P2P), decentralized cryptocurrency that offers a number of advantages over <abbr rel="tooltip" title="Currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity. Bitcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, its high electricity consumption, price volatility, thefts from exchanges, and the possibility that bitcoin is an economic bubble. Bitcoin has also been used as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts about bitcoin.

Dash (DASH) is a “next generation” crypto-currency that is trying to solve a lot of the problems that plague Bitcoin. Similar to Bitcoin, it’s an open source crypto-currency that forked (i.e. split) from Litecoin in 2014.Dash is trying to differentiate itself from Bitcoin by working to solve one of the biggest complaints about using Bitcoin as a currency – speed. Bitcoin transactions can take minutes to resolve. In today’s world, that’s unacceptable. Dash currently offers instant transactions via it’s InstantSend protocol.