Those special tokens

The advent of blockchain technology and Bitcoin has spawns a lot of member in the tokens’ family. According to citicoin.com, there are about  1622 circulating right now in the crytocurrency market.Someone may be confused by the large amount of tokens and wonder does it necessary to launch that much crytotokens? The truth? Almost every single token has its role to play in the community, for most of them are launched aiming to fit in certain fields. This article is going to find out those tokens which has special identity.

 

1. Oyster Pearl: safeguard of website users

We may share the same experience in disturbing by the website advertisement when watching videos or surfing the internet. Here comes Oyster Pearl, which acts as a killer of website advertising. Someone may say this may not be so friendly to those content publishers, for it actually prevent them from promoting their product and also cut the website’s revenue from online advertisement. To some extent, that’s true. However, this Oyster Pearl,or Oyster protocol actually help the website to gain revenue in a different way by creating a new ecosystem in the website, where both the users and website owner could profit from it, without the need to post advertisement.

 

Therefore, how does oyster make pearl? First, the protocol provide data storage service for users. When processing data, it needs computing power, so the system will solve it by rewarding users who contribute part of their computing power in their CPU or GPU with the token：PLR. Then the owner also gain the tokens for uploading ad-free content. Both part of the system can benefit from this mechanism.

 

Then according to data from citicoin.com, the price of Oyster Pearl is $0.663696 by the time of 19:36 (beijing)

 

2. Stellar: a across-industry roamer

As we mention in the previous article, we called Stellar as a protocol to reduce the fee caused by cross-board money transfer service. Then, according to the news on social media, Stellar teams together with its partner IBM to explore in environmental protection field by provide technical support for a program created to tokenize carbon credit. However, when it comes to XLM coin today, the Stellar coin is experiencing changeable fluctuation in its price.