What is the name of the cryptocurrency that resulted from the Ethereum hard fork in 2016?

The cryptocurrency that resulted from the Ethereum hard fork in 2016 is Ethereum Classic.

Ethereum Classic, whose ticker is ETC, continued the original Ethereum blockchain history after the community split over how to respond to The DAO hack. On July 20, 2016, Ethereum’s main chain adopted an irregular state change intended to return stolen funds. Participants who accepted that change continued on the chain now known as Ethereum, or ETH.

Other participants rejected the intervention and kept using the unaltered ledger. That chain was subsequently known as Ethereum Classic. The split occurred at block 1,920,000, creating two separate networks with related technology but independent histories and assets.

Ethereum Classic still supports smart contracts and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Its native asset is ETC, sometimes called ether within the Ethereum Classic context, but it should not be confused with ETH. Bitcoin Cash was also created through a hard fork, but it split from Bitcoin in 2017, not Ethereum in 2016.