Internal currency in DApps
For a centralized application to sustain for a long time, the owner of the app needs to make a profit in order to keep it running. DApps don't have an owner, but still, like any other centralized app, the nodes of a DApp need hardware and network resources to keep it running. So the nodes of a DApp need something useful in return to keep the DApp running. That's where internal currency comes into play. Most DApps have a built-in internal currency, or we can say that most successful DApps have a built-in internal currency.
The consensus protocol is what decides how much currency a node receives. Depending on the consensus protocol, only certain kinds of nodes earn currency. We can also say that the nodes that contribute ...
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