TOPCOIN is a type of crypto-currency, released February 2nd, 2014, with which you can make instant person to person payments, anywhere in the world. TOPCOIN also has a built in staking feature that allows you to collect more coins if you have some in your wallet!
Shardus is building distributed ledger software to remedy the problems of traditional blockchains -- scalability, decentralization and efficiency. The technology being developed will use compute and state sharding to accommodate billions of daily active users, allowing for global-scale decentralized networks.