Aeon is a mobile-friendly, lightweight privacy coin. Similar to the way that Litecoin is a lighter supplement to Bitcoin, you can look at Aeon as Monero’s little brother. The Monero community is wholly focused on privacy and anonymity for the end-user. This focus has its perks but has caused the coin to fall behind from a usability standpoint. Aeon builds upon Monero’s CryptoNote hash while adding some lightweight functionality of its own. Aeon is the lighter, faster version of Monero. Although both projects share the same underlying privacy protocol, CryptoNote, Aeon is striving to be more accessible. The project is doing so by implementing a lightweight mining algorithm, smaller blockchain, and optional anonymity. As Monero grows, Aeon could very well grow with it. While you would use Monero for transactions in which you want to assure privacy, you may find Aeon to be a suitable substitute for day-to-day exchanges in which guaranteed anonymity isn’t as important.
Ferrum is a DAG-based interoperability network that connects to any blockchain and works natively with fiat currencies. It’s like the Lightning Network but for every blockchain. The advanced financial products that run on the network - like our West African fiat gateway (Kudi Exchange) and non-custodial cross-chain OTC wallet (UniFyre Wallet) - aim to empower millions of people around the world. Our network and products are powered by the FRM token, which is spent and burned with every transaction. And coming in later 2020, a high-speed cross chain DEX and mobile cold store application.