What are tokens and coins?

– Simply put, a token represents what a person owns, while a coin denotes what they’re capable to own . Additionally, everyone has used a token at least once in their life even if not in this form. For example, your car title is a token. When you sell the car, you transfer the value of the title to another person.

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Does every blockchain need a token?

No but in general, public permissionless blockchains prefer tokens for some real benefits : One is that tokens can be utilized to prevent network attacks. If you have to spend some tokens for each transaction, than it is very unlikely that you’d spend millions of tokens for attacking the honest nodes to fail them.

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