Although cryptocurrencies have attracted a large amount of users and investors and there has been various researches in the area of distributed ledger technology (DLT), there is little work on cryptocurrency studies. Given the rapidly increasing number and diversity of cryptocurrencies, we present a landscape with a selective set of representative cryptocurrencies to holistically portray their characteristics and provide practitioners an analysis from both business and technical perspectives. The focused observations elaborate how the typical cryptocurrency are designed and operated in industry. This study offers a breakthrough understanding of the cryptocurrencies through the generated landscape which report the state of cryptocurrencies, and can be used as a framework for cryptocurrency analysis.