How Nano works
How Nano works: the block lattice, voting and units
The ideas first. Nano gives every account its own chain and settles transfers by vote, not by mining. Read these in order and the wallet, node and developer pages become easy.
3 pages in this section
- What is Nano (XNO)? Feeless protocol explainedWhat Nano is, who made it, and why transfers carry no network fee: one blockchain per account, representative voting and a small proof of work per block.
- How Nano (XNO) works, from block to confirmationHow Nano works: every account keeps its own chain, a payment is a send block plus a receive block, and representative votes confirm it without fees or mining.
- Nano block lattice explainedHow Nano's block lattice works: every account keeps its own chain, a transfer is a send block plus a receive block, and votes settle any fork.