Platforms for decentralization

There are many platforms available for decentralization now. Many companies around the world have introduced platforms that promise to make distributed application development easy, accessible, and secure for users. Some prominent names are discussed here.

Ethereum

Ethereum tops the list as being the first blockchain that introduced a Turing-complete language and the concept of a virtual machine. This is in contrast to the limited scripting language in bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies. With the availability of this Turing-complete language called Solidity, endless possibilities have opened for the development of decentralized applications. This was proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin and provides a public blockchain ...

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