Introduction to Dash
Dash was launched in 2014 as a fork of Litecoin, with the aim of providing better privacy, alongside faster transaction speeds. It was the brainchild of software developers Evan Duffield and Kyle Hagan who originally named it Darkcoin, before rebranding to Dash in March 2015 to avoid any negativity derived with this name, which had associations with the darknet.
Despite no longer being a top 100 cryptocurrency in terms of market cap, Dash remains one of the most widely accepted cryptocurrencies in terms of the number of major exchanges where it can be bought and sold (including Binance, Coinbase and Kraken, to name just a few), with daily trading volumes being in the tens of millions of dollars.