BANANO started as a joke between a devoted group of NANO contributors and resulted in a coin being the product of a considerable amount of effort (without taking itself too seriously). While it's true that BANANO kept big portions of the original node code to keep cross-chain compatibility between existing code libraries, many parameters have been fine-tuned, such as work requirements and units. As it progresses, the node code will likely diverge further. NANO has the mantra of ‘do one thing and do it well’. BANANO, however, is more open to feature additions, e.g. on-chain messaging or privacy. BANANO doesn’t aim for drastic modifications of the reference implementation of the node at this early stage: it’s more about improving the ecosystem and ensuring we have the best developers to do so!
It’s hard to overlook the exceptional tools and utilities that our hard working developers monkeys have contributed thus far. Take a peek at BANANO’s mobile wallet, Kalium. It’s a modern mobile wallet designed to be efficient and effective when transferring BANANO between you and your banfam - that is to say, your BANANO Family. With it, you can send instant transactions to anyone, anywhere, for free! On top of this and in line with the overall philosophy behind BANANO, Kalium is easy-to-use to ensure anyone will be able to get started with BANANO in minutes, without requiring any crypto-related knowledge whatsoever.
BANANO prides itself in its active development and pro-active community. BANANO community members have created fascinating projects, such as an implementation of BANANO into Minecraft, guild rewards in mobile games and apps, and even faucet bots on popular streaming platforms and highly used tipbots on major social media platforms such as Telegram, Twitter, Discord and Reddit.
One of the most impactful differences between NANO and BANANO is that we started with billions of newly minted coins, 3.4 billion to be exact, that we use to continually run faucets that propagate DAG technology, fuel the tipping economy, and fund community projects. In that way, our objectives are similar to those of the NanoCenter—a community of NANO fans, investors, and contributors who operate parallel to NANO core.
BANANO follows a gamification approach and strives to also get into the hands of people who have never interacted with crypto before. Given its (apparently) silly and potassium-rich nature, BANANO is friendly and somewhat forgiving to new users. Let’s be real, losing “some memecoins earned from sh*tposting” is not half as bad as “suffering a stolen” on a large investment. After all, making the start with cryptocurrency as easy as possible through a fun attitude, gamification, and education is a main aim of the project, finally enabling everyone to finally handle crypto assets in general in a responsible way.
