Kava is a DeFi platform that offers collaterized loans and stablecoins built with the Cosmos SDK. It aims to be cross-chain enabled bringing stablecoins to major crypto ecosystems such as BTC, BNB, ATOM and more. KAVA token will act as a governance and staking token to secure the network and vote on key upgrades. USDX token will be issued as a stablecoin backed by crypto asset collateral. Some calls it the MakerDAO on Cosmos. While USDX will be have similar to DAI, the USD stablecoin on Ethereum.
Harmony’s open, decentralized network is enabled through the use of the native protocol token - Harmony ONE. The token incentivizes and rewards a variety of participants including developers, validators/stakers, investors, and community members who develop, secure and govern the network. In order to use the network, users pay a small transaction fee denominated in the native Harmony token. Harmony’s scalable, high-throughput protocol is powered by a native token which is used for various forms of payment and participation in the protocol (staking, transaction fees, voting & governance). Harmony uses blockchain to align incentives of different stakeholders, developers and businesses while allowing them to build open marketplaces of fungible and non-fungible tokens and assets. Furthermore, the upcoming application of zero-knowledge proofs will allow Harmony to become a data sharing platform that can overcome the conflicting problem plaguing many information and data markets: that individual market participants’ have mutual distrust to share data but strong desire to acquire data themselves. The Harmony token will function in the following aspects of the protocol: The token is used for staking, which is necessary to participate in the POS consensus & earn block rewards and transaction fees. The token is used to pay for transaction fees, gas and storage fees. The token is used in voting for on-chain governance of the protocol.