What is a Distributed Application (DApp)?

Distributed Application (DApps) is an application running on the distributed computing system, that is, the blockchain network. Although there are many ways to define DApp, they are usually described as applications with the following characteristics:

DApps tries to solve many problems in legacy applications. Compared with traditional applications, the main advantage of choosing DApp is that it uses a centralized architecture to store data on a server controlled by a single entity. This means that they have a single point of failure and are vulnerable to technical problems and malicious attacks.

The infected central server may shut down the entire network of the application, making it temporarily or permanently unavailable. In addition, centralized systems often suffer from data leakage or theft, which puts companies and individual users at risk.

DApp with various use cases. They may include games, social media platforms, cryptocurrency wallets and financial applications (DeFi).

Distributed applications promote their activities through token systems (digital tokens created using smart contracts). Tokens can be specific to a specific DApp (for example, Steem token), or they can be local tokens hosting the DApp blockchain, such as CryptoKitties using Ethereum (ETH).

In a word, DApp is designed as an open source project running on the blockchain network. In turn, the distributed nature of these networks provides transparency, decentralization and resistance to attacks.

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