INTRODUCTION

Greetings everyone in steemit cryptoacademy and my best regards to professor @sapwood for this awesome lesson. Am very glad to participate in this task which talks about the Tron ecosystem. For the sake of this homework task, I will Like to answer question number one.

QUESTION NO 1

WHAT IS TRONLINK AND WHAT IS TRONSCAN? WHAT ARE IT'S 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?

WHAT IS TRONLINK?

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Tronlink is a wallet (Tron wallet) which has been officially recognized,approved and accepted on the Tron blockchain which simplifies links on the Tron blockchain and ecosystem. It is also a chrome extension that connects websites to a safe platform where transactions (sending, recieving and confirmation of transaction) are carried out.

Tronlink was created in the year 2017 by the CEO of Tron Justin Sun. Tron acquired BitTorrent in 2018, Polonies in 2019, and Steemit inc in the 2020, Tronlink opereates under TRX, TRC-10 and TRC-20 networks.

WHAT IS TRONSCAN??

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Tron scan is a block explorer and it's the first official and recognized blockchain explorer of the Tron Ecosystem which provides a built-in web wallet basically for Tron token transactions (sending,recieving,managing and confirming) as well as grants access to DAPPS across the network.

It can also be a search engine for the Tron ecosystem with a well organized database used for transaction authentication in the system.

USES OF TRONLINK???

• Tronlink allows users to users to carry out transactions (sending and recieving) using the TRX,TRC-10 and TRC-20 networks.

• Tronlink can serves as storage platform and enables users to import their already existing wallet and also create new accounts with assurance of their funds being secured.

•Tronlink runs on a wide range of encryptions and it is decentralized and for that reason it has the ability of keeping all your guns secured.

• Tronlink as the first Tron wallet allows it's users to interact with DAPPS like JustSwap,juatlend etc.

• It also works with chrome and brave browsers and it comes in different number of variants like the iOS,Android,chrome extension Etc.

USES OF TRONSCAN???

• Tronscan is used for validating wallet,verifying transactions,verifying hash of a transaction and also verifying the date and time of a transaction.

• It can serve as an online tool which the users by people to view all cryptocurrency transactions.

• It serves as a block explorer which is used in exploring the Genesis block which is the first block of the Tron network,explore the foundation of Tron and also check the latest block and it's transactions.

• The Tronscan has a public ledger of the Tron blockchain where informations are gotten and displayed through the Tronscan website which promotes transparency in the Tron ecosystem.

• Tronscan functions as a search engine for the Tron blockchain and it can also be used in searing for information.

HOW DO YOU VERIFY A TRANSACTION STATUS(INCLUDING TIMESTAMP, RESOURCE CONSUMPTION [BANDWIDTH & ENERGY], NOS OF CONFIRMATION) USING TRONSCAN?

In order to verify a transaction status,the following steps are required;

• visit the website tronscan.org.

• When the site opens I saw different transactions so to search for any transaction, I had to enter the address or hash of that transaction in the search option and it gave me access to the status of the transaction and all of its details related to Txn

Choosing a random Txn to verify on Tronscan,the screenshot is below;

The timestamp, resources consumed, number of confirmations, blocks, sender's and reciever's address, status etc of the transaction are all indicated in the screenshot above.
Screenshot from tronscan.org