Profoundly called the "Ethereum Killer", This Scalable Proof of Stake-cum-Proof of History Blockchain made its mark in the space in just over 2 years, boasting around a 15,000% increase in price and securing the position of 7th biggest cryptocurrency according to CoinMarketCap. The tangible ground upon which Solana worked its way to the top is its state-of-the-art technology which enabled 65,000 Transactions per Second making Solana the fastest cryptocurrency to date along with a Transaction Finality of 13 Seconds. However, On January 4th Solana experienced a DDoS attack which posed a major concern for investors and community members, the blockchain went down for 5 hours which lead to FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) across all platforms. Solana will hopefully continue to grow exponentially but giving a price prediction would be too far-fetched considering the bearish market we're in.

 

This Upcoming Highly Scalable Proof of Stake Blockchain fused with pBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) Consensus Mechanism promises substantially higher capacity as well as improved security, TechPay has the ultimate potential to be the next big thing as it features 300,000 Transactions per Second with a Transaction Finality of mere 2 Seconds, all while requiring 32 Million Times Less energy than Bitcoin. TechPay is yet to hit the market and is currently undergoing beta testing. With the claims of it being years ahead of its competition, this Blockchain would dethrone Solana as the fastest blockchain to ever exist. TechPay is also coming up with numerous bridges with other blockchains, delivering profuse interoperability across the crypto space. This Blockchain could make a brief impact in this space because Web 3.0 requires a performant blockchain for its operation, something Techpay would deliver in due time.

 

Cardano

Another great Proof of Stake Blockchain based on Ouroboros Consensus Mechanism with up to 4 Million Times the energy efficiency of Bitcoin. Capable of Processing 257 Transactions per Second accompanied by Transaction Finality Time of Around 5-10 Minutes, The price of Cardano has been developing because of the expected bullish increment withinside the coming days which lead to many buying $ADA. This is due to FOMO (Fear-of-Missing-Out), which is legit now primarily based on the continued developments. Cardano utilizes the programming language called Haskell. However, Haskell isn't one of the best-recognized programming languages. Nor is it extensively picked up via way of means of the ones simply beginning out on their adventure as a developer. In fact, the 'Popularity of Programming Languages Index' ranks Haskell twenty-seventh most-searched-for language on Google as of November 2020, with the likes of Python and Java taking the pinnacle spots.