Vocabulary

Main Mysterium Network Terms

Node

Software which represents Mysterium Network element responsible for either providing or consuming network service. Such node can be run on your raspberry, desktop, mobile, docker or on any debian server using debian package. On mobile only service consumption is possible.

Consumer

Node using Mysterium Network services is called a Consumer.

Provider

Node providing service inside Mysterium Network is called a Provider. Currently node can operate either as a Provider or as a Consumer at the same time.

Payment subsystem

Mysterium Network smart contracts

Mysterium Network smart contracts are deployed on Ethereum blockchain network with sources available here.

MYST token

MYST token is ERC20 token deployed as smart contract on Ethereum blockchain. We aim to use this token as a means to pay for services on Mysterium Network.

Accountant

Transactor

Registrar

Payment channel