Felipe Rotilho

Engineers usually split into two camps on language choice.

One camp treats every problem as if it has a correct language. The other cares about what you can still understand when the system is under pressure.

I am closer to the second camp.

I would not write an embedded kernel in JavaScript, and I would not build a website in C++. Constraints matter. But a lot of real software lives in the middle: backend services, stateful systems, network protocols, APIs, queues, background workers, and data pipelines, etc.

A cryptocurrency node sounds exotic from the outside. From the inside, much of it is backend software with stricter consequences.

That is why Atto leans on a stack that looks more like practical backend infrastructure than fashionable crypto infrastructure: Kotlin, the JVM, Spring Boot, Micrometer, Kotlin Multiplatform, and MySQL.

This tutorial walks through how to stake Atto from the wallet.

Staking lets you earn daily rewards by delegating your balance to a voter. Your funds stay liquid, so you can still spend them whenever you need to.

Staking is live on Atto.

Most staking announcements rush toward the same place: the APY, the dashboard, the idea that coins should sit still and earn.

That is exactly the trap Atto had to avoid.

Atto is supposed to be cash. Digital cash, yes, but still cash in the important sense: it should move when you need it to move. If staking makes people afraid to spend, then staking has quietly worked against the whole point of the network.

So the most important part is simple:

When you stake Atto, your coins stay liquid.

You choose a voter. You delegate your balance. If you stay eligible, you receive daily rewards. But your coins do not leave your wallet, and you do not lock them. If you need to spend ATTO, you spend it.

That is the core design.

Digital money should work for everyone, but today’s payment systems often fall short. Whether we’re buying a coffee, reading an article or a machine is paying another machine to call an API, fees and delays can quietly exclude entire groups of users and use‑cases. This article explains why instant and feeless payment networks are crucial for real financial inclusion, how they unlock tiny micropayments and machine‑to‑machine interactions, and why projects like Atto and Nano show what a truly accessible payment network looks like.

ATTO is officially listed on XT with the ATTO/USDT pair and trading is open.

Atto’s protocol has a fixed supply of 18 billion coins (all pre-minted), so no new Atto can be created by consensus and there is “no inflation” built into the system. In practice, however, coins enter circulation through our various distribution programs (mining, faucet, contributions, etc.), so circulating supply rises over time. For example, Atto used to release 5,000 coins per minute via Folding@Home rewards, which equates to roughly 1.2% of total supply per month. At around 6% circulating today, the planned release pace (≈1.2% of total supply per month ≈ 15% annualized) implies a much larger increase relative to today’s circulating base —on the order of ~250–300% over a year—until circulation grows. In other words, distributing ~15% of total supply in year one is roughly 3× the current circulating supply. This practical “inflation” helps bootstrap use, but it also means many newly-rewarded users may immediately sell, creating downward price pressure.

ATTO is officially listed on CoinGecko.

ATTO is officially listed on LCX with the ATTO/EUR pair and trading is open.

Just a few weeks ago, we launched Atto’s integration with Folding@home – a way for our community to use their idle computers to help scientific research and earn Atto in return. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Atto’s Folding@home team has reached the #1 spot on the entire Folding@home network, less than a month after launch. This achievement is nothing short of incredible: our team has amassed a staggering 10,022,348,905 points and completed 37,941 work units (individual research tasks) to date. It’s an astonishing milestone that showcases what a passionate community can accomplish when united by a common goal.

Ever feel like waiting for a Bitcoin transaction is like standing in a long checkout line at the grocery store? In traditional blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum, every transaction from everyone lines up to be processed on one shared chain – essentially one checkout lane for the entire network. This one-lane design can get congested, limiting how fast transactions go through. But what if everyone could have their own checkout lane? In the blockchain world, that’s the idea behind account-chains and parallel ledgers. Instead of one single chain for all transactions, each user maintains their own mini-blockchain. This approach (pioneered by projects like Nano’s block-lattice and used in newer projects like Atto) promises to turbocharge speed and scalability by letting many transactions happen at once.

In this post, we’ll break down what account-chains are, how they differ from the classic blockchain model, and why having parallel personal ledgers can make a blockchain much faster and more scalable. We’ll use simple language and analogies – so grab a virtual shopping cart, and let’s explore this multi-lane approach to blockchains!