ICON is a Cryptocurrency, the network powered by DPoS (consensus mechanism based on stacking) algorithm. The original software was developed by DAYLI Financial Group from KR and first released August 24th, 2017. Nowadays the cryptocurrency is managed by the ICON Foundation, an organization based in the KR. Smart Contracts are supported by the ICON blockchain. The official ICON website is https://icon.foundation.
As of today, January 20th, 2021, out of totally available 800,460,000 ICX, 583,356,463 are in circulation. It's not possible to mine icons. The total market capitalization of icon is $412,009,854, the rank among other cryptocurrencies (based on the capitalization) is #74. The current rate of 1 ICX is $0.71 USD.
ICON is an interconnecting blockchain network; the project developers are building a global alternative to the Ethereum blockchain, a smart contract platform connecting independent blockchains without the use of additional third-party intermediaries. These blockchains (and the users' communities, "republics" in project terminology) are communicating with each other through the ICON platform. The mission is "to hyperconnect the world"; if achieved, the ICON blockchain will become the largest decentralized network in existence.
The native utility token of ICON blockchain is ICX: it's a cryptocurrency that can be used for real-time payments and also is a protocol for connecting the blockchain world in ICON network. ICX originally was an ERC20 standard token issued on the Ethereum blockchain during the ICO (Oct 20, 2017 — Nov 20, 2017). Once the ICON own blockchain was started, the tokens were migrated, ICX ERC20 tokens support stopped May 25, 2018.
The network utilizes a modified form of dPoS consensus mechanism: Loop Fault Tolerant (LFT) algorithm. Nodes participating in transactions verification and carrying the governance functions are called "C-Reps" (all others are "Citizen Nodes", the ones without the governance rights). Malicious C-Reps nodes (the ones proposing/validating invalid blocks) are penalized by burning their ICX deposits. Transaction fees are set to 0.01 ICX, which doesn't depend on the amount transferred. ICON offers a self-developed smart contract platform, the "SCORE"; the source code is based on Python language. Some third-party projects completed ICOs on the ICON platform, issuing their own tokens on top of this blockchain.
ICON is currently supported by 9% of exchanges (1 of 11) currently having active orders at ExchangeRates.Pro: 1 eWallets have offers, allowing you to buy and sell ICX. Let's check and compare which of these exchanges will suit you the best, dear visitor!
Sorry, at the moment there are no active exchanges with live offers to buy/sell ICON with fiat currencies in United States. Our teams tries our best to add some ASAP!
Besides the abovelisted great exchanges, serving United States among other countries, there are also very good international ones among the websites exchanging icons (exchanges that accept US, but don't allow fiat payments there are also in this list). So, if you want to pay using a payment method from abroad (say, you are originally from another country and want to buy or sell icon using the bank account or local payment system from there) or if you are looking for an exchange for someone else, we have another top list prepared for you! Of course, we can't know what is that country you are looking for, but we have two options for you, both good. You are welcome to either find the best ones yourself from all offers available at our comparison @ ExchangeRates.Pro, or feel free to check this selection of top one highest-ranked ICX exchanges from all around the world:
Are you looking for the best place to buy icons? Of course, you are! Our price comparison of exchanges is here to help, although the easiest way is to check the best offers right away @ ExchangeRates.Pro, feel free to compare yourself. Let us show you what banks and payment systems you can use to buy and sell ICX, based on your location and preferences.
At this moment, there are 1 offers to buy ICON in United States. Our software is collecting the statistics about the popularity of specific local banks and payment systems. Usually, the top ones that are the most popular are also very convenient. Otherwise, why would these become so popular? You can choose any of these right away, please be our guest:
We've compared a lot of offers to find the top ones; right now we have 214 ways for you to purchase icon available worldwide. Enough to choose from, right? Please keep in mind that not all of these may be possible to pay from United States, the ones that will surely be good for this country are a little bit above. The top popular ways to purchase ICX crypto:
Even the greatest ICX HODL GANG members sometimes have to sell some of their precious coins. It's alright, everyone does it sometimes and we are here to help! We know you want to find the buyer which will give you the highest price, there are such ones at our platform — check ExchangeRates.Pro now to find the highest rate to sell icons to US Dollar and 151 more local currencies! There are various opportunities to swap your coins to hard cash, we list the most requested ones below.
There are currently 1 opportunities to cash out your icon coins in US. You'd likely need to out-exchange the crypto to pay for some local expenses, shopping, etc. It's reasonable to choose the safest and most comfortable option — a local bank you are using, your preferred payment system or cash in your city. Here is our top list of the ways other people in United States prefer to exchange icon to fiat:
Sometimes you may need to transfer the money to another country. If you are holding ICX, it makes sense to exchange some of these coins to the currency of that country. We can't know where exactly you would like to send the funds, so we will show you the most requested banks and payment systems worldwide you can send the transfer to. There are totally 224 options to out-exchange the icx to fiat; the most frequently used banks, money transfer operators and global payment systems are:
Did you know that it's possible to exchange ICX to 30 other cryptocurrencies? It's possible to convert ICON to/from 91% of crypto coins supported @ ExchangeRates.Pro. Some of these are really great ones (we don't list useless coins and tokens at our website), that's why we've prepared a list of exchange opportunities available. There are totally 59 swap possibilities with ICX and other coins and tokens. Coin to coin exchanges are safe, easy and beneficial when you are using our service, don't worry! Feel free to get all the best rates to swap ICX with other cryptos @ ExchangeRates.Pro right away or refer to the list of most highly demanded exchange directions first: