Where to start?

If you’re still trying to figure out what BLOCKCHAIN is and the difference between a token and a coin, don’t worry. You don’t have to be a cryptocurrency expert to join the Expanse.Tech journey.

UNDERSTAND SOME CONCEPTS FIRST

What is Expanse?

Expanse is an open blockchain platform forked from Ethereum that lets anyone build and use decentralized applications that run on blockchain technology. Like Bitcoin and Ethereum, no one controls or owns Expanse – it is an open-source project built by many people around the world. But unlike the Bitcoin protocol, Expanse was designed to be adaptable and flexible. It is easy to create new applications on the Expanse platform.

Expanse Virtual Machine

Expanse is a programmable blockchain. Rather than give users a set of pre-defined operations (e.g. bitcoin transactions), Expanse allows users to create their own operations of any complexity they wish. In this way, it serves as a platform for many different types of decentralized blockchain applications, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies.

How does Expanse work?

Expanse incorporates many features and technologies that will be familiar to users of Bitcoin, while also introducing many modifications and innovations of its own. Whereas the Bitcoin blockchain was purely a list of transactions, Expanse’s basic unit is the account. The Expanse blockchain tracks the state of every account, and all state transitions on the Expanse blockchain are transfers of value and information between accounts.

Mining

The word mining originates in the context of the gold analogy for crypto currencies. Gold or precious metals are scarce, so are digital tokens, and the only way to increase the total volume is through mining. This is appropriate to the extent that in Expanse too, the only mode of issuance post launch is via mining. Unlike these examples however, mining is also the way to secure the network by creating, verifying, publishing and propagating blocks in the blockchain. Mining Expanse = Securing the Network = Verifying Computation

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You are invited

You are invited to become a part of the Expanse community! Here are a few ways you can participate:

• Follow all Expanse social media accounts.

• Talk about the project and share it with friends and family on your social networks to help spread awareness (organic growth).

• Join the Expanse Discord or Telegram channels.

If you’re a developer, feel free to reach out to the Expanse team if interested in building on top of