Smart Contracts Smart contracts are automatically executed contracts written in a programming language. Snapshot A snapshot of the entire blockchain can be taken at any moment. This function can be used

Namespace Namespace on EOS is similar to the letters at the end of URLs (e.g. .com or .net). Users on EOS can win their suffixes on namespace auctions and add the suffix at the end of the account name.

IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) This tool is not operative yet. The name speaks for itself — this tool will provide communication between different blockchains (whether it's sending of tokens or the

EEP - EOS Enhancement Proposal EEP is a standard used for the proposals of enhancements and the following work on them. This standard is used by the EOS community to develop new standards for the platform.

Block Rewards EOS has inflation by design. The annual inflation is set to be 5%. 1% is a Block Producers' reward. 0.25% is paid on a per-block-created scheme (Bpay). Block.one Block.one is the company

Action The transactions in each block are made up of actions which are instructions to perform a specific task. Some transactions are associated with a single action while others can be made of several

Voting on EOS is incredibly important. Active voting makes this platform safe and efficient so there's no surprise that the platform is designed the way that encourages the EOS community to cast new votes.

In this piece, we will learn everything we need to know about staking and unstaking EOS tokens. The staking mechanism makes EOS special and efficient so it’s important to understand the meaning of staking

The EOS blockchain has several accounts with prefix eosio.* in the name. These accounts are the System Accounts and they are here to maintain certain functions. From the very inception of the EOSIO blockchain,

The EOS community members have the voting power, and it's measured in staked EOS tokens. The voters can participate in voting activity personally or they can opt to delegate their voting power to proxies.

The EOS project uses new approaches which make it different from the other blockchain platforms. More than that, at times, EOS utilizes the approaches opposite to ones used by other platforms in order

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EOS is a very unusual platform. Probably the two following characteristics make EOS paradoxical: the improvement of decentralization is achieved via the decrease of the nodes, and the security is backed

It was told a lot of the world-changing potential or role of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. It's already 10 years from the Bitcoin inception gone but where's the revolution? All this time the way of

Modern blockchain projects provide new ways of making money. Little by little blockchain economy shapes the new idea of things you can do in order to get paid. For instance one of the late projects brings

DPoS The EOS platform has quite an unconventional approach to the production of blocks. The consensus algorithm used by EOS is called Delegated Proof of Stake and it helps to increase scalability drastically.

Utopian (or Utopian Colony) is a new project, that is yet to be fully operative, but it has an original idea in the basis and a decent following. What's the Idea of Utopian Colony? UC is here to provide