Carbon (CUSD)

Carbon is a standalone cryptocurrency with the ticker CUSD that operates on its own blockchain rather than riding on Ethereum or another network. Unlike many tokens, it uses a Proof-of-Work consensus model, the same general approach Bitcoin pioneered. The key difference from Bitcoin lies in the project's design goals and technical choices, which you can review in the official documentation at carbon.money.

Proof-of-Work means miners compete to solve a cryptographic puzzle, and whoever finds the solution first gets to add the next block of transactions to the chain. This makes the network extremely hard to tamper with, since rewriting history would require redoing all the computational work. It's a battle-tested security model, though it does consume real computing power to run.

New CUSD coins enter circulation as mining rewards — payments to miners for securing the network and processing transactions. Because it's Proof-of-Work, the issuance schedule is set by the protocol itself and can't be changed on a whim. For the exact reward structure and any supply limits, check the official documentation on carbon.money.

CUSD is stored in a cryptocurrency wallet that supports the Carbon blockchain — ideally an official wallet listed on the project's site. You use it like any crypto: send and receive coins via your wallet address, and each transaction is recorded on the public blockchain. Always download wallets from the official carbon.money site to avoid fakes.