## Τι είναι το Αέριο;

Στον κόσμο των κρυπτονομισμάτων, το Gas (GAS) κατέχει μια μοναδική θέση, ιδιαίτερα σε σχέση με την πλατφόρμα NEO και το κρυπτονόμισμα Neo (NEO). Το Gas δεν είναι απλώς ένας έννοια αλλά ένα απτό περιουσιακό στοιχείο εντός του οικοσυστήματος blockchain του NEO, σχεδιασμένο για να τροφοδοτεί λειτουργίες και συναλλαγές. Αυτή η συμβιωτική σχέση μεταξύ του Gas, του NEO και της πλατφόρμας NEO τονίζει την καινοτόμο προσέγγιση στη λειτουργικότητα και τη διακυβέρνηση του blockchain.

Το Gas παράγεται και διανέμεται στους κατόχους του NEO, λειτουργώντας ως μηχανισμός ανταμοιβής και παροτρύνοντας την κατοχή των διακριτικών NEO. Αυτή η διαδικασία είναι παρόμοια με την κερδοφορία μερισμάτων, όπου η κατοχή ενός περιουσιακού στοιχείου αποφέρει ένα άλλο με την πάροδο του χρόνου, βάσει των κανόνων διακυβέρνησης του συστήματος. Η διανομή του Gas στους κατόχους του NEO διευκολύνει μια σταθερή ροή πόρων απαραίτητων για την εκτέλεση έξυπνων συμβολαίων και συναλλαγών στο δίκτυο NEO, διασφαλίζοντας ότι το οικοσύστημα παραμένει ενεργό και βιώσιμο.

Επιπλέον, το Gas διαδραματίζει κρίσιμο ρόλο στη διακυβέρνηση της πλατφόρμας NEO. Χρησιμοποιείται για την πληρωμή τελών συναλλαγών, την ανάπτυξη έξυπνων συμβολαίων και άλλες λειτουργ

### Πώς εξασφαλίζεται το αέριο;

Η ασφάλεια του Gas, ενός token που χρησιμοποιείται εντός ενός συγκεκριμένου οικοσυστήματος blockchain, επιτυγχάνεται μέσω μιας πολυδιάστατης προσέγγισης. Αυτή η προσέγγιση περιλαμβάνει τη χρήση ενός μηχανισμού διακυβέρνησης εντός της αλυσίδας, ενός αποκεντρωμένου πρωτοκόλλου αποθήκευσης και ενός προηγμένου συστήματος έξυπνων συμβολαίων.

Πρώτον, ο μηχανισμός διακυβέρνησης εντός της αλυσίδας διαδραματίζει κρίσιμο ρόλο στη διατήρηση της ασφάλειας και της ακεραιότητας του δικτύου. Αυτός ο μηχανισμός επιτρέπει μια δημοκρατική και διαφανή διαδικασία λήψης αποφάσεων, όπου οι αλλαγές και οι αναβαθμίσεις του δικτύου μπορούν να προταθούν και να ψηφιστούν από τους μετόχους. Αυτό διασφαλίζει ότι οι τροποποιήσεις στο δίκτυο είναι προς το συμφέρον των χρηστών του και συμβάλλουν στη συνολική του ασφάλεια.

Δεύτερον, το αποκεντρωμένο πρωτόκολλο αποθήκευσης, γνωστό ως NeoFS, ενισχύει την ασφάλεια του δικτύου παρέχοντας ένα διανεμημένο και ανθεκτικό σε σφάλματα σύστημα για την αποθήκευση δεδομένων. Αυτό το σύστημα διασφαλίζει ότι τα δεδομένα δεν είναι κεντρικοποιημένα σε μία μόνο τοποθεσία, καθιστώντας τα λιγότερο ευάλωτα σε επιθέσεις και απώλεια δεδομένων. Μ

### Πώς θα χρησιμοποιηθεί το αέριο;

Στο πλαίσιο της κρυπτονομίσματος και της τεχνολογίας blockchain, το "Gas" διαδραματίζει κρίσιμο ρόλο στη διαχείριση και τη διευκόλυνση λειτουργιών σε διάφορες πλατφόρμες. Συγκεκριμένα, στο blockchain του NEO, το Gas λειτουργεί ως το καύσιμο για την εκτέλεση συναλλαγών, περιλαμβανομένων, αλλά όχι περιορισμένων σε, εκτελέσεις έξυπνων συμβολαίων, δημιουργία νομισμάτων και λειτουργία αποκεντρωμένων εφαρμογών (dApps). Αυτό το utility token είναι ουσιώδες για το οικοσύστημα του NEO, διασφαλίζοντας ότι οι χρήστες μπορούν να αλληλεπιδρούν ομαλά με τις προσφορές του δικτύου.

Ο μηχανισμός χρήσης του Gas είναι σχεδιασμένος για να διατηρεί την αποδοτικότητα και την ασφάλεια του δικτύου. Όταν οι χρήστες εκτελούν συναλλαγές ή εκτελούν έξυπνα συμβόλαια στην πλατφόρμα NEO, απαιτείται να πληρώσουν ένα τέλος σε Gas. Αυτή η δομή τελών είναι διττή, περιλαμβάνοντας ένα βασικό τέλος, το οποίο είναι υποχρεωτικό για την επεξεργασία οποιασδήποτε συναλλαγής, και ένα προαιρετικό φιλοδώρημα, το οποίο μπορεί να επιταχύνει τον χρόνο επεξεργασίας της συναλλαγής. Η συμπερίληψη τελών Gas εξυπηρετεί πολλαπλούς σκοπούς: αποτρέπει τις συναλλαγές spam που θα μπορούσαν να φράξουν το δίκτυο, αποζημι

### Ποιοι είναι οι ιδρυτές της Gas;

Το διακριτικό GAS είναι άρρηκτα συνδεδεμένο με το blockchain του NEO, το οποίο συν-ιδρύθηκε από τον Da Hongfei και τον Erik Zhang. Το NEO, συχνά αναφερόμενο ως το "Κινεζικό Ethereum", στοχεύει στη δημιουργία ενός κλιμακούμενου δικτύου αποκεντρωμένων εφαρμογών. Το διακριτικό GAS παράγεται ως μορφή καυσίμου για το δίκτυο NEO, διευκολύνοντας την εκτέλεση έξυπνων συμβολαίων και συναλλαγών στο blockchain του NEO. Καθώς οι χρήστες κρατούν NEO στα πορτοφόλια τους, ανταμείβονται με διακριτικά GAS, τα οποία μπορούν στη συνέχεια να χρησιμοποιηθούν για την πληρωμή τελών συναλλαγών στο δίκτυο. Το όραμα του Da Hongfei και του Erik Zhang ήταν να δημιουργήσουν μια ψηφιακή οικονομία όπου τα περιουσιακά στοιχεία θα μπορούσαν να ψηφιοποιηθούν και τα έξυπνα συμβόλαια θα μπορούσαν να αυτοματοποιήσουν τη διαχείριση αυτών των ψηφιακών περιουσιακών στοιχείων, με το GAS να διαδραματίζει κρίσιμο ρόλο σε αυτό το οικοσύστημα λειτουργώντας ως το λειτουργικό διακριτικό που τροφοδοτεί τις συναλλαγές και τα έξυπνα συμβόλαια.



Gas is a token created on the NEO blockchain platform with primary purpose of being fees for processing transactions on the NEO network.

TokenPocket

Atomic wallet

Flamingo

Nash

ARK is a cryptocurrency- and blockchain- based development platform allowing anyone to create their own fully customizable and interoperable blockchain. Reducing the industries need for Smart Contracts by using custom transactions, logic and multiple programming languages. ARK was founded in mid 2016, running a Toekn Exchange Campain(TEC) later that year which raised $800K in bitcoin and other exchanged cryptos. Sound financial planning has allowed the team to become a well-funded entity since its inception. On March 21, 2017, the ARK Public Network went live, hosting the native ARK crypto asset. The ARK business entity formed shortly after, called ARK ECOSYSTEM SCIC. The business entity is commonly referred to as 'ARK.io' which is part of the teams branding as well as the teams website.

The ARK Ecosystem consists of an open-source blockchain technology stack authored in TypeScript programming language. ARK’s public network acts as a live implementation of ARK technology, node operators acting as delegates on the network, standalone blockchains running on ARK technology with independent node operators, business entities that develop products powered by ARK as well as assist in maintaining the code base, an enterprise division driving adoption as well as a community of users, developers and service providers.

The ARK Public Network supports special transaction types such as multi-payment, multisignature, many various registration transactions, and IPFS hash transactions. ARK’s Launcher product, allows fully customizable interoperable blockchain creation using a graphical user interface. This plug and play creation method allows developers to fully utilize ARK’s consensus model, technology stack, product line and custom transactions.

aelf

Tellor is a decentralized oracle protocol.

Oracles are a key part of blockchain infrastructure that update valuable off-chain data, making it available for on-chain smart contracts.

Tellor’s oracle supplies data that can be requested, validated and put on-chain permissionlessly with data reporters competing for incentives of TRB. Data reporters bring valuable information on-chain for a wide range of DeFi applications.

Tellor

Qtum (pronounced ‘“quantum”)  is a proof-of-stake (PoS) smart contract open-source blockchain platform and value transfer protocol. It aims to bring together the strengths of Bitcoinand Ethereumin one chain. Qtum is built on Bitcoin's UTXO transaction model, with the added functionality of smart contract execution and DApps. Recently, the platform added support for DeFi applications. As of March 2021, there are more than 20 tokens created on the Qtum blockchain.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Qtum.

The project was announced in March 2016 and held an ICO a year after, in March 2017, which brought its founders $15 million USD. The Qtum main chain was released on Sept.13, 2017. Initially, the Qtum coin was issued as a ETH-20 token, but with the launch of the mainnet, it was converted to native blockchain.

Qtum

Metal DAO

Aragon

Loom Network is a platform as a service that is built on top of Ethereum and allows developers to run large-scale decentralized applications. This platform was released on October 1st, 2017.

The goal of this is to allow application developers to have smart contracts that can access much more computing power when it is required, or maintain the same power at lower costs for tasks such as trials for onboarding new users or applications that simply do not need the full security of blockchain to begin with.

In this system you have the ability to interact with APIs developed by third parties which are not on chain. Loom attempts to be the ultimate platform that allows smart contract developers to create applications without the need to switch to another programming language.

As such, they can easily integrate their applications with the outside world.

The Loom Network runs on Plasma, which is a scaling solution that allows for faster transactions throughout the network.

Loom Network

Ontology Gas

Storj, pronounced as “storage,” is an open-source cloud storage platform. Basically, it uses a decentralized network of nodes to host user data. The platform also secures hosted data using advanced encryption.

In a white paper published in December,2014, Storj was first introduced to the world as a concept. It was to be a decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted cloud storage platform.

Two years later, an updated white paper was published. Here, a decentralized network  — connecting users who need cloud storage space with those who have hard drive space to sell — was described. The platform was launched in late 2018.

People with hard drive space and good internet connectivity can participate in the network. They become a unit in the network, called a node. Space providers are rewarded by Storj tokens.

Storj

Lisk is striving to on-board 100,000,000 users into crypto and web3 by offering an accessible blockchain application platform and an industry leading JavaScript SDK.

Released in 2019, the Lisk SDK enables developers to build application-specific blockchains entirely in JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world. To get a deep-dive into the Lisk SDK, please visit the Lisk SDK documentation or watch Lisk.js 2019 and Lisk.js 2022.

To be released in 2022, the Lisk blockchain application platform allows interoperability between all application-specific blockchains built with the Lisk SDK. With other words, users will be able to use DeFi, NFT or Metaverse blockchain applications on Lisk.

To better understand why Lisk is important watch the following videos: The Case for Lisk and The Ultimate Vision for Lisk.

If you are curious about Lisk’s history and journey, watch Looking Back on Lisk.

The Lisk project is managed by the Lisk Foundation, a non-profit entity based in Zug, Switzerland. A local team of experts specialized in law and finance, as well as yearly audits, ensure the proper handling of funds and regulatory compliance under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority (ESA, Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht).

The Lisk products are developed by the Lightcurve GmbH, a Berlin based blockchain studio. With a team of over 40 blockchain experts, Lightcurve is researching, developing and promoting the Lisk SDK and the Lisk blockchain application platform.

Lisk

Ontology is a project designed to bring trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. It is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.

The Ontology blockchain is a high speed, low cost public blockchain. It is designed to bring decentralized identity and data solutions to Web3, with the goal of increasing privacy, transparency, and trust. To achieve this, users and enterprises are provided with the flexibility to build blockchain-based solutions that suit their needs, while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Through Ontology’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Ontology ensures frictionless compatibility with Ethereum, the first step in the creation of the Ontology Multi-Virtual Machine and further interoperability for the chain.

At its launch, Ontology chose to forego the popular initial coin offering (ICO) model in favor of a series of community distributions and airdrops of its ONT cryptocurrency.

This helped to quickly establish both organic price discovery and a passionate community and helped the project to avoid subsequent regulatory scrutiny.

For example, for a brief period any person who signed up for the Ontology newsletter received an airdrop of free 1,000 ONT, which reached a value of $10 per token soon after the token became listed on major exchanges like Binance.

Ontology launched its own MainNet on June 30, 2018 and has been up and running smoothly since.

Ontology

0x is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the many different blockchains (including Ethereum) without relying on centralized intermediaries. It is a protocol for decentralized exchange.

0x achieves this decentralized exchange functionality using a collection of open-source, publicly auditable smart contracts that work together to produce a flexible, low-friction trading protocol that developers can easily weave into their products.

The protocol is used by companies building web3 apps such as wallets, DEXes, portfolio trackes, and others. It is a used by hundreds of developers for their projects. The protocol has facilitates over $200B in trading volume since its inception. One can track its usage in its dedicated https://explorer.0x.org/.

The protocol is powered by an ERC20 governance token known as ZRX. ZRX holders can participate in protocol governance, having direct power over protocol changes and its community treasury.

0x Protocol

Gnosis (GNO) builds decentralized infrastructure on Ethereum. Its mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. Gnosis Safe, for example, was born of necessity.

Gnosis operates as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) which provides infrastructure for various types of decentralized applications (dApps), and builds products to transparently guide decisions on the development, support and governance of its ecosystem.

In November 2021, both the xDAI and GnosisDAO community voted to combine their vibrant ecosystems to create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner-companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering.

Gnosis

JUST is a popular new decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built for the TRON blockchain. It is an entire suite of products that are mostly centered around a decentralized stablecoin lending platform known as JustStable.

The platform launched in August 2020 following an initial exchange offering (IEO) on the Poloniex LaunchBase platform earlier that same year, but the native governance token of the platform (JST) has been circulating since May 2020.

It is a two-token ecosystem built around the USDJ and JUST (JST) tokens. USDJ is a multi-collateral stablecoin that has its value pegged to the value of the US dollar (USD), whereas JST has a variety of functions on the platform — paying interest, helping maintain the platform and participating in its governance, helping to set parameters like interest rates (stability fees) and the minimum collateralization ratio.

To obtain USDJ on JUST, traders need to deposit collateral in the form of supported collateral tokens — including TRON (TRX), which are exchanged to PTRX tokens and locked as collateral forming a collateralized debt position (CDP). Depending on the amount of collateral deposited, users can then mint and withdraw USDJ, which must later be repaid to retrieve the initial collateral.

The platform is designed to provide a fair and borderless hub of DeFi products, that any TRON user can access.

JUST

Apps use ICON to operate cross-chain seamlessly, build momentum and gain reputation. ICON's Cross-Chain Framework simplifies cross-chain development with its easy-to-use xCall messaging standard and connections to secure bridging protocols.

ICON

Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that is able to take real-world data and supply it to on-chain applications, while also connecting APIs to smart-contracts to facilitate the exchange of information between on-chain and off-chain data sources.

By supplying reputable, verifiable real-world data to blockchains, Band Protocol unlocks a range of new use cases for developers to explore — since they can now use any type of real-world data as part of their decentralized application (DApp) logic, including sports, weather, random numbers, price feed data and more.

Band Protocol initially launched as an ERC-20 project on the Ethereum blockchain in September 2019, but transitioned to the Cosmos network in June 2020 with the release of Band Protocol 2.0. The new protocol is built on BandChain using the Cosmos SDK. Oracle nodes on BandChain not only relay data but are also involved in block production/validation, giving them a dual role.

BAND is the native token of the Band Protocol ecosystem and is used as collateral by validators involved in fulfilling data requests, as well as the main medium of exchange on BandChain — being used to paying for private data.

Band Protocol

UMA was founded in 2018 by Allison Lu and Hart Lambur, two ex Goldman Sachs traders, with the goal of making global markets universally fair, accessible, secure and decentralized.

The team drew inspiration from traditional finance derivatives to define an open-source protocol to allow anyone, anywhere, to design and build trustless financial contracts.

Mask Network is a protocol that allows its users to send encrypted messages over Twitter and Facebook. It essentially acts as a bridge between the internet and a decentralized network running on top.

Mask Network was initially launched in July 2019, with its first use case of allowing Facebook and Twitter users to encrypt posts on the social media platforms. It then raised $2 million in a funding round in November 2020, co-led by HashKey and Hash Global, and a further $3 million funding round in February 2021 with participation from Digital Currency Group and Fundamental Labs.

Now, Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plans to offer peer-to-peer payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem.

Mask Network

Waves is a multi-purpose blockchain platform which supports various use cases including decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts.

Launched in June 2016 following one of the cryptocurrency industry’s earliest initial coin offerings (ICO), Waves initially set out to improve on the first blockchain platforms by increasing speed, utility and user-friendliness.

The platform has undergone various changes and added new spin-off features to build on its original design.

Waves’ native token is WAVES, an uncapped supply token used for standard payments such as block rewards.