Crypto markets are like a Vegas casino—loud, chaotic, and full of bad financial decisions. But while everyone’s busy betting on memecoins, Algorand ($ALGO ), Kaspa ($KAS), and Mina ($MINA ) are actually building. Instead of chasing hype, they’re locking in major partnerships, solving real problems, and quietly shaping the future of blockchain.
Algorand: The Grown-Up in the Room
If most blockchains are rowdy teenagers trying to impress their friends, Algorand is the responsible adult handling trillion-euro deals. The Bank of Italy chose Algorand to digitise its €1.3 trillion bank guarantees system (bancaditalia.it). That’s not some NFT side project—it’s one of the biggest financial institutions in the world integrating blockchain into its actual operations.
Meanwhile, Algorand’s eco-cred is more than just marketing fluff. ClimateTrade uses its carbon-negative blockchain to track and trade carbon credits, letting companies greenwash themselves with at least some actual receipts (algorand.foundation). Oh, and banks are now testing Algorand for tokenising real-world assets, meaning we might finally get a financial system that’s as fast as your food delivery app (algorand.foundation).
Kaspa: Bitcoin, But on Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Bitcoin is great at being a decentralised store of value, but it moves at the speed of a pensioner crossing the road with a bad hip. Enter Kaspa, a Proof-of-Work blockchain that actually understands the concept of time. Using blockDAG technology, Kaspa confirms transactions every second (kaspa.org). That’s thousands of transactions per second—all while keeping PoW’s security and decentralisation intact.
And if that wasn’t enough, major mining pools such as AntPool, F2Pool, and 2Miners are backing it (cointelegraph.com). Additionally, with the recent introduction of KRC-20 tokens, Kaspa is paving the way for future DeFi projects to utilize its high-speed settlement capabilities (tangem.com). It’s proof that PoW doesn’t have to be slow, expensive, and environmentally catastrophic—it can actually work.
Mina: The Blockchain That Won’t Eat Your Hard Drive
Most blockchains have a storage problem—the more they grow, the harder they are to run. Mina fixed this by making its entire blockchain smaller than a cat GIF. Thanks to zk-SNARKs, Mina keeps its size permanently tiny (just a few kilobytes), meaning even your old Nokia could run a full node (minaprotocol.com).
This efficiency isn’t just a party trick. Celestia is integrating Mina’s zero-knowledge proofs to create scalable, modular blockchain solutions (celestia.org). Finoa, a major digital asset custodian, now offers institutional-grade Mina storage (finoa.io), and Orochi Network is leveraging Mina’s tech for privacy-focused financial services (orochi.network). In short: Mina is doing the impossible—being fast, private, and lightweight all at once.
What These Three Have in Common (Other Than Not Being Dumpster Fires)
Unlike the casino coin du jour, Algorand, Kaspa, and Mina aren’t just hoping for the next hype cycle—they’re actually useful right now. Algorand is rewiring the financial system, Kaspa is making PoW relevant again, and Mina is solving blockchain’s biggest scaling problems.
So when the market inevitably swings from euphoria to despair faster than a squirrel on an energy drink bender, these three won’t just survive the next cycle—they’ll be building the infrastructure that keeps crypto from being a never-ending joke.
