Emercoin began in December of 2013 in the form of a Peercoin fork. During 2014, it added STUN IP discovery and Name-Values Storage, which is a universal trusted platform working with external blockchain-based services. It also implemented EmerDNS that year. In 2015, it implemented blockchain-based security services and added EmerSSH, EmerSSL, and the InfoCard. It also added the concepts for Magnet, EmerTTS, and EmerDPO.