Nano — Digital Money is Here!

It’s secure, accessible, green and available on the platforms we visit everyday.

Edit: Updated January 2020.

Nano is evolving alongside the world’s changing attitude towards money and payments. Providing an accessible platform for efficient transactions, Nano can be easily integrated into existing established services, which paves the way for the early adoption of digital currencies.

Driven by the desire to create a genuinely scalable cryptocurrency, Nano founder Colin LeMahieu focused on developing the most efficient decentralized transfer of value possible. Launched in 2015 as an already working protocol, Nano has been improved upon extensively throughout 2018 and early 2019, resulting in an ultrafast, fee-less protocol that the developer community has warmly embraced.

The lightweight protocol allows integrations to bring true microtransaction capabilities onto the world’s favorite applications. Nano’s ability to be embedded on many different levels across varying social media and communication platforms, products, and games, shows the very first glimpse of the real utility of a pure cryptocurrency. The following highlighted services are all utilizing Nano in different ways, but collectively they offer a teaser at the potential of a digital peer to peer transfer of value. Hopefully, they will help you understand its potential and inspire you to interact yourself — the future is bright

Send Nano on your favorite platforms

Twitter

As one of the most active platforms in the world, and a popular hotbed of cryptocurrency discussion, Twitter represents an incredible opportunity to spread the word about the functionality and intuitive nature of Nano.

Created in September 2018, The Nano Tip Bot on Twitter (@NanoTipBot) is an outstanding example of Nano integration, allowing users to quickly and easily send and receive Nano tips back and forth on the platform. The Nano Tip Bot (which shares a remarkable likeness to R2D2) was an instant hit in the Nano community and is an original and seamless application of the protocol into an already well-established medium.

“I wanted to give a tool to people who could introduce new users to Nano. On Twitter, there are 336 million active users. Anyone of them can now receive a tip without leaving the website, which I think is pretty powerful. Every tip mentions the $NANO cash tag, so anyone searching for it could stumble upon the bot and get some publicity through that as well. And now, anyone can reward or introduce someone to Nano without the hassle of setting up a wallet,” said Andrew Mitchell.

The recent addition of a Chrome extension dramatically improves the user experience, making it extremely easy to start tipping and managing your tipbot account. All in all a fantastic addition to an already stellar utilization of the Nano currency.

Reddit

The Reddit Nano Tipbot is a recent addition to the Nano ecosystem and it allows any Reddit user to tip Nano across the entirety of the Reddit environment at any time they want!

While replying to any comment users can send a !ntip <amount> or !nano_tip <amount> to send Nano to the designated Redditor. Additionally, the Reddit Nano Tipbot (u/nano_tipper) can be tagged in a reply to any user across Reddit if you wish to send Nano to a user on an untracked subreddit.

“ Writing this bot for any other currency isn’t close to as easy as it is with Nano,..For Bitcoin, fees are high so you need to make a whole centralized database to handle microtransactions. For other coins, you need to calculate fees and account minimums. For Nano, just send it. Nothing more,” said u/Zily88.

Considering the enormity of the platform and its content-focused nature, this tool offers an exciting opportunity for users to start rewarding their favorite content directly!

Twitch

The ability to tip your favorite streamers on Twitch started back in February of 2018. Nano, integrated with Streamlabs, allows fans to tip their favorite streamers via the Brainblocks payment processor. Tying your streamer account with the Nano tip system is a breeze — just go to https://nanotwit.ch/ and follow the instructions!

Discord

The Nano Discord tip bot was developed in 2017 to allow all Discord users to easily send and receive Nano tips on the popular communications platform. Continually evolving to give the community more commands and options when tipping, the Discord tip bot has been a mainstay within the Discord community since creation.

If you haven’t interacted with it before, send Graham Nano TipBot

#0877 the message “!help” and it will start up your journey of Nano Discord tipping!

Nano Gaming

NanoQuake

Large and ambitious strides have been made in recent months by the teams behind ‘NanoQuake’ and ‘Player Killers Exchange.’ Showcasing the seamless nature of Nano microtransaction integration, both games have integrated light wallets and Nano reward structures into their base games!

NanoQuake, the playable proof-of-concept created by James Coxon, integrates Nano into the old gamers’ favorite ‘Quake 2’. The team over at The Nano Center continues to update and upgrade the game client, refining the implementation and performing crucial development work for the future of gaming integrations.

“Everyone talks about microtransactions as a theory, but Nano Quake shows this in action. We’ve had some other folks that have popped in the channel asking about how to integrate into their favorite games, and that is really exciting to me!,” said Andrew Mitchell.

Player Killers Exchange

Following the exposure of NanoQuake, other game developers have begun using the Nano protocol to integrate microtransactions into games of their own. One such example is a new game, Player Killers Exchange. PKE is a free online game with a Nano integrated light wallet and microtransaction system, gamers can eliminate NPCs (nonplayer characters) for weapons and upgrades as well as a small percentage of the game’s Nano faucet supply. No Nano deposits are necessary, but you have the option to bid Nano at the start of the game for increased starting lives, gear, and the ability to retain your inventory upon death. PKE gives the Nano community another flawless integration of Nano within a working game and yet another fun way to win some free Nano!

Unreal Engine Plugin

Developers using Unreal Engine can now utilize Nano and allow gamers to earn through completing game quests, spend in-game, use faucets, and anything else cunning developers can conjure up.

We are excited to see how game developers experiment with leveraging fee-less and instant cryptocurrency transactions in their projects. Read the full announcement for more information

Discord

The Nano Discord tip bot was developed in 2017 to allow all Discord users to easily send and receive Nano tips on the popular communications platform. Continually evolving to give the community more commands and options when tipping, the Discord tip bot has been a mainstay within the Discord community since creation. If you haven’t interacted with it before, send Nano-Tip-Bot #5753 the message “!help” and it will start up your journey of Nano Discord tipping!

The ease of integrating Nano microtransactions into services has become an open secret and the numbers of exciting projects are growing all the time. The goal of being a simple, light, and efficient cryptocurrency remains the focus of the Nano Foundation, and we are inspired by the brilliantly innovative developers solving real-world problems with the Nano protocol.

We want to thank all the developers from around the world that comprise the Nano community, we are proud to share this journey with such enthusiastic and talented visionaries.