Alibaba Coin is a digital currency that plans to implement blockchain-based facial recognition technology that will allow users to make transactions by showing their faces to a merchant's camera. Alibaba Coin was created by a company in Dubai, and has no relation to the Chinese online retail giant.

MonaCoin is the first alternative cryptocurrency developed in Japan. It is based on the popular Japanese character, Mona. MonaCoin has a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism and uses a version of the Lyra2RE mining algorithm that was first used by Vertcoin.
MonaCoin has an enthusiastic user base that has developed a variety of Mona-based web applications and services. MonaCoin holders also use the coin as a tipping system.

MOL is developing a blockchain platform for micro-payments. MOL's architecture will be based on the block lattice design used in Nano, and will have a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (dPoS) consensus mechanism that incorporates elements from Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG). The MOL network is currently powered by the Ethereum-based MOL token.