What you need to know about Waves



Sasha Ivanov



What you need to know about Waves





Waves is an open blockchain platform designed for ease of use and mass adoption. Anyone can use Waves to launch, distribute and trade their own crypto token. The platform is fully decentralised, transparent and auditable.





Waves is creating a comprehensive blockchain ecosystem that will provide all the features necessary for business adoption, and the platform already has a number of powerful tools and services that make building user applications straightforward.





Highly accessible





Clean, familiar UX

Chrome app or html lite client

No blockchain download necessary





Fast, low-cost and scalable





One-minute blocks

Low (0.001 WAVES) transaction fees

Tx fees can be paid in tokens

Up to 1,000 txs/second





Fiat transfer





Fully compliant, licensed gateways into and out of the blockchain

EUR blockchain tokens, with USD and other currencies on the way

Tokens fully backed by fiat deposits

Bitcoin gateway and tokens also available





Easy token operations





Launch a new crypto token in under a minute

Tools for mass token distribution

Ideal for crowdfunding





Decentralised exchange (DEX)





Peer-to-peer trading from within the client

Trade any pair of Waves tokens

Near-realtime order matching

Blockchain settlement for security





Smart contracts





Non-Turing complete

Powerful but secure

Planned implementation Q4 2017





Waves has already attracted several major businesses and social programmes. These include a transparent venture capital organisation (Tokenomica); a political engagement initiative (Upcoin); a green manufacturing technology business (ZrCoin); a marketing drive for a mobile gaming platform (MobileGo); a secure VoIP and telecommunications infrastructure company (EncryptoTel); a blockchain loyalty scheme (Incent), and more.



