Crypto Academy Season 4 Beginners' course - Task 1: Tron Ecosystem

Hello fellow steemians, I'm delighted to write this wonderful post on Tron Ecosystem. This is task 1 of the home beginner's fixed courses (season 4). I will be writing the assignment task given by professor @sapwood.

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Question

What is TronLink and what is Tronscan? What are its uses? How do you verify a transaction status(including timestamp, resource consumption(bandwidth & energy), nos of confirmations) using Tronscan-- Examples, Screenshot? What are the different dApps can you explore using the TronLink wallet? Make a transaction(a micro-transaction) with Justswap or JustLend using TronLink wallet?Screenshot?

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TronLink

TronLink is a well-known blockchain wallet that serves as a channel to access to all TRX tokens such as TRC-20, TRC-10 and interact with the Tron ecosysystem. It can be accessed using Android, iOS, Chrome and a host of others.

The existence of Tron can be traced to as far back as 2017 by developer Justin Sun. With the use of decentralised apps like JustLend, JustSwap, TronLink is a flexible wallet that gives users the ability to interact

TronScan

TronScan on the otherhand is the established explorer of the TRON blockchain network. Its official website is https://tronscan.org. It is also a decentralized exchange platform that is used for different activities such as trading and exchange of other tokens.

It features the following components;

• A built-in web wallet for transferring and managing the TRX tokens
• The dApp interactions around the blockchain.

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Uses of TronLink and TronScan

Uses	TronLink	TronScan
Freeze tokens	Yes	No
Unfreeze tokens	Yes	No
Send tokens	Yes	No
Receive tokens	Yes	No
Track tokens	Yes	Yes
Dapps interaction	Yes	Yes
Smart Contract	Yes	Yes
Confirms transactions	Yes	Yes

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How to verify a transaction status including timestamp, resource consumption (bandwidth & energy), number of confirmations using Tronscan-- Show Examples and Screenshot.

• First of all, I logged into the tronscan website; https://tronscan.org/#/

• I chose a random transaction and confirmed it. Here are the relevant transaction details;

Screenshot taken from tronscan.org

Transaction	Details
Txn Hash	dbca6fc1dc2f6ff1a23bf6dfdf10129fb1ef2dfcdee27a495c6996d6fe093f3d
Status	Confirmed
Number of confirmations	19
Block Number	340212338
Time Stamp	1min 26secs, 2021-09-25, 14;51;51
Sender Address	TSvB3WcBgq39NjZ3RQ7JC7ZL4ivmvshPdj
Receiver Address	TR7NHqjeKQxGTCi8q8ZY4pL8otSzgjLj6t
TRX Amount	412.2
Bandwith	345
Energy	14,631

What are the different dApps can you explore using the TronLink wallet?

There are various Dapps available using the TronLink wallet. Just to mention a few are;

• SUN
• JustLend
• JustSwap
• JUST.... etc

Screenshot taken from my TronLink app

Make a transaction(a micro-transaction) with Justswap or JustLend using TronLink wallet with Screenshots.

• First of all, I logged into my TronLink App and selected the JustSwap exchange as a transaction study.

• Having about 41 trx, I decided to swap 10 trx to NFT as shown below;

• Comfirm Swap

Conclusion

Its worthy to note the glaring difference between the TronLink and TronScan. Tronlink is a safe wallet to store coins of various types especially all TRX tokens, Tronscan is a blockchain explorer that houses all the transactions done in the tron ecosystem.

Thank you for reading, and thank you professor @sapwood for the lecture.