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 Kevacoin Core integration/staging tree
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 https://kevacoin.org
 
 What is Kevacoin?
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-Kevacoin is a decentralized open source key-value data store based on the Kevacoin (which is in turn based on Bitcoin) cryptocurrency. Kevacoin is largely influenced by Namecoin [https://namecoin.org](https://namecoin.org), even though it serves very different purposes and works very differently.
+Kevacoin is a decentralized open source key-value data store based on Litecoin (which is in turn based on Bitcoin) cryptocurrency. Kevacoin is largely influenced by Namecoin [https://namecoin.org](https://namecoin.org), even though it serves very different purposes and works very differently.
 
 What does it do?
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