VeChain (VET) is a versatile enterprise-grade
L1 smart contract platform.
VeChain began in 2015 as a private consortium chain, working with a host of enterprises to explore applications of blockchain. VeChain would begin their transition to public blockchain in
2017 with the ERC-20
token VEN, before launching a mainnet of their own in 2018 using the ticker VET.
VeChain aims to use distributed governance and
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to create an ecosystem which solves major
data hurdles for multiple global industries from medical to energy,
food & beverage to sustainability and SDG goals. By leveraging the
power of trustless
data, VeChain is building the digital backbone that will underpin the fourth industrial revolution, which demands real-
time and trustless
data sharing between many participants.
The platform uses two tokens, VET and VTHO, to manage and create value based on its VeChainThor public blockchain. VET generates VTHO and acts as the store of value and value transfer medium. VTHO is used to pay for
GAS costs, separating the need to expend VET when writing data. This has the additional benefit of ensuring costs of using the network can be kept stable by tweaking certain variables such as the amount of VTHO required to service a transaction, or by increasing the VTHO generation rate. Such actions first require all-stakeholder community votes.