Balances

There are three holding balances that are stored in an account i.e.

Coin Balances

Totem Balances

Currency Balances

Balances are found in two states, Confirmed Balance or Unconfirmed Balance. Confirmed Balances are balances which have been 'settled' by the blockchain and are available for transactions whereas Unconfirmed Balances are balances attributed to an account but are currently not available for transacting.

Chain Coin Balances

Chain coin balances are accounts holdings of coins with respect to each particular chain on Munhumutapa.

Effective Balance

An account's effective balance is its confirmed balance of MUTAPA coins that has been static (held by the account) for more than 1440 blocks.

Totem Balances

These are balances of totems issued through the digital assets distributed application.

Digital Assets

Currency Balances

These are balances of currencies issued and distributed through the Shamwari betaChain.

Digital Currencies

Controls

Accounts can be set such that they can only transact under certain conditions and instructions.

Account controls can set based on either one or both of the following models.:

Accounts-based Approvals

Vote-based Approvals

Accounts Approvals

Accounts-based approval controls are restrictions placed on an account such that any transaction originating from account can only be submitted to the blockchain if the set approving accounts endorse the transaction. Furthermore, approvals of this model can be set to work on a majority i.e. if the greater number of the approving accounts either endorse or reject a transaction, that resolution is the one that is taken. In brief, this model is similar to a multi-signatory control.

Vote-based Approvals

For this model, an account's transactions are subject to approvals based on a poll outcome. Approval accounts are set based on the balances of any of currencies, coins or assets meaning a set holding balance determines whether or not an account has the power to endorse or reject approval of a transaction by the controlled account. Like account-based approvals, the majority of votes determine the fate of the transaction.

Account Control API

Services

Account services are processes that an account undertakes for or on behalf of other accounts on the blockchain.

Binding

Binding is the process of collecting betaTransactions and grouping them into single transactions before submitting them to the blockchain for inclusion in blocks. For an account to be eligible for binding, it needs to have an effective balance of at least 1 000 MUTAPA.

Binding

Forging

Forging is the process of collecting transactions and adding them in blocks which are added to the blockchain. For an account to be eligible for forging, it needs to have an effective balance of at least 10 000 MUTAPA.

Forging

Properties

Account properties are tags on an account which are set by other accounts on a particular account or byan account on itself. These tags may be used to identify accounts with a certain attribute or value e.g. verified accounts, accounts belonging to a particular organization or accounts with certain privileges on other platforms and services.

Account properties can be deleted to allow for dynamic tagging and untagging.

Account Properties API

Information

Information about an account can be added to it by its owner through a ReadME format feature. The added information can be anything from a description, owner bio, or a one-pager to a general overview. The feature supports Markdown syntax.

Account information can also be edited to allow for more or new information to be added meaning accounts are not permanently branded.

Account Info API

History

The history of an account is a collection of transactions that have been made by the account in the past as well as transactions incoming into the account such as transfers and references to the account.