About

Waltonchain is a public distributed ledger created for enterprise use case with a focus on Internet of Things (IoT).

History

The Waltonchain Foundation initiated the project in November, 2016 and the main net launched March 31, 2018. The project is named after Charlie Walton, the inventor of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and is also an acronym for Wisdom Alters Label Trade Organization Network. Waltonchain uses RFID to track products along the supply chain and store the accompanying data in a trust reduced public ledger. Waltonchain competes with another Chinese company, VeChain, that is looking to solve similar issues in supply chain management.

Waltonchain uses an ERC-20 token WTC, that is used to create side chains, provide dividend interest and to operate as a credit instrument. These side chains can operate independently of the main chain with their own consensus mechanism to improve scalability while retaining security of the main chain. Dividends are paid to Masternodes whose main function is to validate transactions, secure the network and enable governance mechanisms. In order to operate a masternode, 5,000 WTC are needed to be posted as collateral to disincentives attacking the network. In addition to regular masternodes, there are Guardian Masternodes that provide proof-of-work to the system and then share the rewards from a separate pool of token rewards. The amount of WTC distributed to these masternodes is a function of the amount of work that is contributed, and there is a maximum of 15 Guardian Masternodes on the network. Waltonchain foundation also recruited 99 Super Master Nodes worldwide to “mobilize the global community for incubation and selection of high quality child chains.” The Foundation invested 10 million WTC to establish the Waltonchain Global Ecosystem Incubation Fund to be used for child chain incubation and Super Master Node recruiting. [1]