Dash (DASH) describes itself as digital cash that aims to offer financial freedom to everyone. Payments are fast, easy, secure, and with near-zero fees. Built to support real-life use cases, Dash aims to provide a fully-decentralized payments solution. Users can purchase goods at thousands of merchants and trade it at major exchanges and brokers around the globe.

 

Dash has -- since its creation in 2014 -- introduced features such as:

 

Two-tier network with incentivized nodes and decentralized project governance (Masternodes)

Instantly settled payments (InstantSend)

Instantly immutable blockchain (ChainLocks)

Optional privacy (PrivateSend)