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Introduction

Overview

This page describes the standard terminology that Iagon is using throughout this documentation:

Storage provider

A person or company that participates in the marketplace by sharing their storage.

Storage consumer

A person or company that uses the storage available from the storage providers.

Marketplace for storage

Allows storage providers and storage consumers to trade storage without any involvement of intermediaries.

Sharding

A method for splitting and distributing files across multiple resource providers in a decentralized network.

IAG token

The native token of the Iagon protocol, used for staking towards device connections and to earn dividends.

Subnetwork

A subset of nodes such as nodes only in a specific country or having a specific bandwidth.

SME

Small and medium enterprise.