As of November 2020, the core members of the Reddcoin project are Jay Laurence, John Nash, David Faust and Michael Kirlew. Jay Laurence, an experienced IT professional and consultant and early cryptocurrency adopter is listed as the project leader, whereas John "CryptoGnasher" Nash, a heavily experienced project manager and IT expert, is its solutions architect. Meanwhile, David Faust and Michael Kirlew handle operations and branding/development at Redd respectively.

The team consists entirely of volunteers, ranging from developers to designers, social media mavericks, and more. The Reddcoin company currently lists 20 employees on LinkedIn, all volunteers.

Reddcoin is designed primarily for tipping, sharing and donating to others around the world. To help facilitate this, it has eliminated several of the major barriers that have hindered the adoption of some other cryptocurrencies — such as slow transactions and high transaction fees.

With Reddcoin, transactions are confirmed in just seconds. Since it is a Litecoin fork, it benefits from extremely short block times, with a new block created every minute. As a result, transactions rarely take more than a minute to finalize. On top of this, transactions are free. This means no gas wars or transaction fee hikes when the network load increases, making Reddcoin ideal for micropayments and donations.

From a consumer’s perspective, Reddcoin represents an opportunity to easily monetize content and seek funding for charitable causes via a wide variety of social media platforms. As a currency backed by a social cause, Reddcoin provides content creators and activists with a platform they can use to advocate for social campaigns while being rewarded for their time and energy.

RDD holders, on the other hand, can stake their tokens for a dynamic return, currently at approx 10% annually, to help secure the network and earn a yield while doing so.

As of August 2022, there are just over 31.1 billion RDD in circulation, representing 100% of the total supply at the time. Due to the rewards distributed via the proof-of-sake-velocity (PoSVv2) consensus mechanism, the total supply of Reddcoin increases by around 5% per year.

The platform rolled out an updated version of its POSV algorithm in October 2019 as part of a major platform upgrade. This update aimed to "provide enhanced network growth stability, strengthen staking incentives, and provide funding support for development teams."

The update introduced a developer funding reward, which sees 8% of newly minted tokens derived from the inflation rewards distributed to the developer wallet — to ensure the continued development of the project.

The rest of the rewards are distributed to stakers. As of December 2020, a total of 15.46% of RDD tokens were staked, representing an expected yield of 32.3% — though these figures are likely to change as the staked supply varies with time.

As with most major cryptocurrencies, Reddcoin is built on a decentralized network, and information is stored on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. As a result, there is no middleman handling user data, making Reddcoin a privacy-preserving alternative to fiat.

The network is built on top of a novel consensus algorithm known as proof-of-stake-velocity (PoSV), which is a modified version of proof-of-stake (POS). This intends to boost network activity by introducing additional rewards for users that stake their coins, sign blocks and interact with their assets on a regular basis.

The process of staking helps keep the Reddcoin network secured against attacks by disincentivizing dishonest behavior while incentivizing participation.

Reddcoin is currently available to trade on just a handful of exchange platforms, the most prominent of which is Bittrex. As of November 2020, Reddcoin can be traded against Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and USD Coin (USDC), or again fiat currencies like the Euro (EUR) and US dollar (USD).

To learn more about buying ReddCoin, see our current list of exchanges here: https://wiki.reddcoin.com/Exchanges or on our Market tab above here on CoinmarketCap

Learn more about ReddCoin's technology and staking at https://www.reddcoin.com Read the ReddPaper at: https://redd.love/assets/doc/Redd-Paper.pdf Read the FAQ for the ReddPaper at: https://redd.love/assets/doc/PoSV-v2-FAQ.pdf

Learn more about Redd's social movement and altruistic efforts at https://redd.love Read the ReddBook, the summary document of the Project Redd social movement here: https://redd.love/assets/doc/Redd-Book.pdf

Read articles from the team at https://techadept.medium.com and https://www.reddit.com/r/reddcoin

Find out the difference between proof-of-work (POW) and proof-of-stake (POS) at CoinMarketCap Alexandria.