January 1, 2018
All blockchains are in essence decentralized databases that are distributed among the machines of a network. Transactions are grouped into “blocks” and processed sequentially to form a chain of events.
Ethereum is one of the most popular blockchains. What sets it apart from others, such as Bitcoin, is that it uses the blockchain as storage for more than just a record of currency transactions. Ethereum can store more complex information to distinguish different kinds of tokens or even handle unique tokens with specific characteristics.
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February 17, 2020
What is Polygon? # As stated in the the official Polygon website, Polygon is a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. Aggregating scalable solutions on Ethereum supporting a multi-chain Ethereum ecosystem.”
What is Matic? # MATIC is Polygon’s native token. It is a cryptocurrency used to cover gas fees in the Polygon network, among other use cases. MATIC is to Polygon as ETH is to Ethereum.
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January 1, 2018
You can create your own decentralized apps (dApps) to interface with Decentraland’s smart contracts and expose their functionality in more elaborate and friendlier ways.
What is a dApp # A decentralized application, or dApp, is one that runs on a distributed peer to peer network rather than from a central server.
In the context of blockchain, a dApp uses smart contracts and possibly a P2P network, instead of a Web API service.
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February 17, 2022
Integrating Decentraland’s Estate in your Marketplace # The Decentraland’s Estate is an ERC721 compliant NFT and runs in Ethereum Mainnet. Therefore a lot of third party marketplaces can trade them. In order to do so, this marketplace must follow certain rules in order to make keep trades secure for the users.
As you may know, each Estate is a group of LANDs and it have a bytes hash associated to the group that it call fingerprint.
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