Vertcoin is a cryptocurrency with a strong emphasis on keeping the ecosystem as decentralized as possible. Vertcoin was designed with the goal of being easily mined by all users and to resist the centralizing tendency of specialized mining operations. Vertcoin has a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism that is ASIC resistant, and uses the Lyra2RE mining algorithm.

SIBCoin is a Proof-of-Work coin that was originally based on the same code as the Dash blockchain. SIBcoin was developed by a team of cryptocurrency enthusiasts in Siberia and it has gained a significant following in Russia.