📄️ Fundamentals
Started in 2018 with an announcement on the bitcointalk forum and no free coins, no funding and no insiders, lead developer Mike Toutonghi launched Verus Coin.
📄️ Smart Transactions
Smart transactions happen at the consensus layer. All the network agrees the transactions are valid. This is quite different to smart contracts, where the contract layer inherits no security features of the consensus layer.
📄️ Currencies
Currencies in the Verus protocol are simple tokens, fraction reserve (basket currency or liquidity pools) tokens, NFTs or coins.
📄️ Identity Primitive (VerusID)
Preface: The lead engineer behind VerusID, a pioneer in technology with a background at Microsoft, social networks, cryptography, and virtualization, considers this their magnum opus.
📄️ MEV solution
The problems of unfair pricing in blockchains (& real world):