Educational resources
A short primer on the ideas behind Earth Trust Coin — how blockchains work, what a cryptocurrency is, and how privacy techniques like stealth addresses and ring signatures protect users.
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Key terms, in plain language
EHTC
The ticker for Earth Trust Coin — one coin backed by 1 km² of land and 1 oz of carbon-neutral gold.
Trustee
The party that aggregates and allocates the land and gold reserves that back each new coin.
P2P DAO exchange
A peer-to-peer, distributed autonomous buy/sell exchange built into the wallet — the only place EHTC trades.
FIFO queue
First in, first out. Orders are filled in the sequence they were requested, subject to EHTC availability.
Risk Lending Wallet
An optional wallet that pays a fixed return for lending EHTC to absorb defined project liability, like a catastrophe bond.
Carbon-neutral gold
PAMP-certified physical gold whose production emissions have been verified and offset.
EEZ
Exclusive Economic Zone. EHTC transactions are hosted so they do not occur within any single nation's EEZ.
Whale transaction
An order larger than all currently available EHTC. It waits in the queue but keeps its time priority.
Redemption
Exchanging EHTC back through the P2P exchange; the gold reserve is vaulted in Switzerland and redeemable.
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