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Payments built for a phone first.
Electroneum was designed so people could use crypto from a basic smartphone, without deep technical knowledge. It moved off mining to an energy-light validator model and keeps the experience simple. Four ideas explain how it works.
Mobile-first by design
The network was built around an everyday phone app, so sending and receiving ETN works for people new to crypto. The app handled onboarding for hundreds of thousands of early users.
Proof of Responsibility
Since 2019 a limited set of approved validators, including partner organizations and NGOs, produce blocks. It is energy-light compared with Proof of Work, and a more permissioned validator set than open PoW or PoS chains.
Fixed maximum supply
Electroneum has a maximum supply of 21 billion ETN. The cap is fixed, so the total amount of ETN that can ever exist is known in advance.
Built for inclusion
The project focuses on financial inclusion for the unbanked and underbanked in emerging markets. Real-world uses like AnyTask and airtime top-ups put ETN to work for everyday earners.
Send
You send ETN from the app or wallet. The transaction is signed with your private key and broadcast to the network, where it waits to be picked up by a validator.
Validate
A small set of approved validators produces the next block under Proof of Responsibility. Because the validator set is limited and energy-light, there is no mining race for the block.
Confirm
The block is added at a steady cadence and your transfer is confirmed. The receiver sees the ETN arrive, and the balance updates on chain for anyone to verify.
- Payments & remittance for everyday, low-value transfers
- Microtransactions sized for emerging-market use
- AnyTask earnings for gig workers without a bank account
- Airtime & data top-ups in supported regions
Electroneum keeps its scope focused on payments and real-world earning, rather than smart contracts or DeFi, so the experience stays simple for mainstream mobile users.
Built for real earners.
What Electroneum is used for and how it is secured, the focus on mobile payments, the validator model behind it, and the reach into real-world earning, not the price.
Adoption built bottom-up. Electroneum onboarded mainstream mobile users from launch and grew real-world uses like AnyTask and airtime top-ups over time, with quieter and busier periods in between.
Electroneum launched in 2017 after one of the largest crowdsales of its time by participant count, with hundreds of thousands of contributors.
What Electroneum is used for.
The network is focused on payments and real-world earning in emerging markets. Here is where ETN is actually used, from the AnyTask marketplace to mobile top-ups.
Payments & remittance
Low-cost transfers and remittances are the network's original purpose, sized for everyday and microtransaction use in emerging markets.
AnyTask marketplace
AnyTask is the flagship app, a freelance marketplace where gig workers can earn ETN without needing a bank account, then spend or convert it.
Airtime & data top-ups
ETN can pay for mobile airtime and data top-ups in supported regions, turning crypto into something useful on an everyday phone.
Financial inclusion
The wider goal is reaching the unbanked and underbanked, giving people a way to earn, hold and spend value from a basic smartphone.
A chain with a real-world goal
Electroneum focuses on payments and earning rather than smart contracts or DeFi, aiming to reach people in emerging markets. Learn the basics in our crypto basics guides.
Hold, send and spend ETN.
Electroneum is integrated, and an official Zypto partner. Self-custody ETN, send it for a small fee, swap to any supported asset, and spend ETN through Zypto Pay.
Available in the Zypto App · native asset
Electroneum's native asset is ETN. Hold it in self-custody in the Zypto App, your keys, your coins, then send, swap or spend it through Zypto Pay.
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Accepted as Payment
Pay bills, top-ups and 24,000+ products with ETN through Zypto Pay. Transactions confirm at a steady cadence for a small network fee.
Swap & convert
Swap ETN to any supported asset in a few steps. Zypto routes the best path automatically across these providers.
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