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.

Spendcoin is an open-sourced cryptocurrency designed for the Cross Ledger Ecosystem, which includes the Spend App and the Blockchain University. The project is run by the Spend Foundation. Their network is currently powered by the Ethereum-based SPND token. Users receive tokens for performing tasks in the Spen ecosystem.

DigiByte is a a blockchain platform that places an emphasis on security and block speed. DigiByte has one of the fastest block speeds of any public blockchain and uses an innovative consensus protocol with 5 mining algorithms. This prevents mining centralization and also minimizes the chances of security breaches. DigiByte transactions are limited in size and scope to increase speed, efficiency, and throughput.
DigiByte hopes that these innovations will provide the ideal blockchain infrastructure for a range of applications within the IoT and AI fields, that require a high degree of security and fast block speeds.