Glossary

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Account

an agent/ actor within the Ethereum blockchain, identified with a 20 digit hex key, has a currency balance, can be an externally controlled account or a contract account

AuthorityNode

a registered evan.network member, has to provide a number of services and resources to the network, most notably a blockchain client and IPFS storage

BMail

a message exchanged via the blockchain

Blockchain

a cryptographically verified distributed global single consensus data record store

Contract Account

an account that has its behavior and actions controlled by a contract, i.e. an EVN program

DAO

Decentralized Autonomous Organization

ÐAPP

a Distributed Application utilizing blockchain contracts

ENS

Ethereum Name Service

EOA

Externally Owned Account, usually controlled by a person, has no EVM code associated with it

Ethereum

a fully programmable blockchain

EVAN Network

European Verified Application Node Network

EVE

Transaction costs have been a significant cause for concern in the past. Unforeseeable price changes provide no basis for any business to operate with and have deterred many ventures into blockchain projects.

Hence, evan.network ensures stable transaction costs by issuing the EVE token. The EVE token serves as the network's currency and is pegged 1:1 with the Euro. Tokens can be acquired by exchanging Ethereum(ETH) to EVE.

For every transaction you conduct, you spend a certain amount of EVE tokens. Fetching data does not consume any tokens, merely the creation of new assets and uploads to the network consume tokens.

EVM

Ethereum Virtual Machine, the execution environment for SmartContracts

Gas

the cost of doing transactions in the blockchain, generally deducted from the balance of the account that initiates the transaction

IPFS

the Interplanetary File System, a distributed file system, evan.network uses its own private instance

SmartAgent

just a fancy name for a webservice without UI that connects to the blockchain in some way

Smart Contract

a program that runs cryptographically secure on the Ethereum virtual machine

Solidity

A high level language to write Ethereum programs, often called Smart Contracts

Transaction

any write or change to the global blockchain records, can be a simple transfer of funds, or an executed Smart Contract

Truffle

the de-facto standard Ethereum application framework

web3

an API collection to work with Ethereum contracts