Harmony’s open, decentralized network is enabled through the use of the native protocol token - Harmony ONE. The token incentivizes and rewards a variety of participants including developers, validators/stakers, investors, and community members who develop, secure and govern the network. In order to use the network, users pay a small transaction fee denominated in the native Harmony token. Harmony’s scalable, high-throughput protocol is powered by a native token which is used for various forms of payment and participation in the protocol (staking, transaction fees, voting & governance). Harmony uses blockchain to align incentives of different stakeholders, developers and businesses while allowing them to build open marketplaces of fungible and non-fungible tokens and assets. Furthermore, the upcoming application of zero-knowledge proofs will allow Harmony to become a data sharing platform that can overcome the conflicting problem plaguing many information and data markets: that individual market participants’ have mutual distrust to share data but strong desire to acquire data themselves. The Harmony token will function in the following aspects of the protocol: The token is used for staking, which is necessary to participate in the POS consensus & earn block rewards and transaction fees. The token is used to pay for transaction fees, gas and storage fees. The token is used in voting for on-chain governance of the protocol.
IPchain is a block chain product for the application in the field of intellectual property. Launched in October, 2016, after months of market analysis, technical solutions research, and communication with experts in the field of intellectual property, the technical basis of IP Chain was determined to be the block chain technology based on the model of UTXO, which is similar to Bitcoin network. Through adopting Consensus Mechanism of DPOC (one of the improved solutions of DPOS) and with reference to the transaction model for the characteristic of products in the field of intellectual property, IPC Chain aims at providing a flexible and rigorous solution of intellectual property block chain.