Technology like Blockchain is fast growing among other technologies that are now explored into various fields
including services in finance, services in land holdings, department of health, academic organizations and many more. Crypto
currency is a biggest shift towards assets online which is tradable. It is built with Blockchain as the backbone technology where
trading takes place only online. Digital Wallets on computers or smartphones are used to store crypto currency. Using these
digital wallets crypto currency transactions can be made. Every transaction is stored in a block that are chained together to form
Blockchain. This paper, “Survey on Blockchain: backbone of Cryptocurrency”, is a detailed survey on Blockchain and its
applications.