What is Nano (XNO)?

Nano is a cryptocurrency designed purely for payments. Sending Nano is confirmed in under a second, costs absolutely no transaction fee, and doesn't require mining. Its ticker symbol is XNO.

Most cryptocurrencies use a single shared blockchain, where every transaction competes for space and miners charge fees to include it. Nano instead gives every account its own individual chain — a structure called a block-lattice. Sending Nano only touches the sender's and receiver's own chains, so transactions confirm independently and don't queue behind anyone else's activity.

Because there's no mining and no proof-of-work race for block rewards, Nano also uses a tiny fraction of the energy of proof-of-work coins.

There is no protocol-level fee to send Nano — the amount you send is the amount that arrives. Confirmation typically happens in well under a second thanks to Nano's Open Representative Voting consensus, where a network of representatives vote to confirm transactions instead of racing to mine blocks.

Nano works well for anything where fees or delays would be a problem: tipping, small everyday payments, remittances, gifts, or simply moving value between wallets and exchanges without losing a cut to fees.

You can try a real Nano transaction for free right now with the faucet on the home page, send some to a friend as a Nano gift card, then explore where to store it or trade it.

For technical details, the whitepaper, and the full ecosystem of tools, the official site is nano.org, and the community-maintained Nano Hub tracks the current ecosystem of wallets and services.