Neutron Research Hub | NTRN information, history and analysis

Neutron (NTRN) is an intelligent contract platform developed using Tendermint and Cosmos SDK, designed to facilitate cross-chain smart contract distribution.

Neutron allows developers to easily build cross-chain applications over Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) and provides DeFi dApps with the full economic security of the Cosmos Hub. Neutron is the first blockchain secured by Interchain Security (RS), a feature that secures communication between chains in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Neutron’s features:

• Security: Neutron provides applications with a higher degree of security at a lower cost through Interchain Security. CosmWasm, its virtual machine, prevents most attack vectors commonly used against Solidity smart-contracts. 
• Cross-chain interoperability: smart-contracts applications can trustlessly and securely own accounts on other blockchains, execute transactions, receive acknowledgements and execute callbacks, as well as retrieve data from other blockchains. 
• Reduced overhead: CosmWasm developers benefit from standardized tooling, an established compiler and numerous libraries for Rust, a secure and high performance programming language widely used outside of web3. 

NTRN is a native coin of the Neutron ecosystem, operating on Cosmos and can be used to: 

• Network Fees: Pay for transaction fees on the network.
• Governance: NTRN token holders control the network parameters and treasury through governance. 
• DeFi: NTRN can be used throughout its DeFi ecosystem as liquidity, collateral and reward token.