examples of these cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Ether, Cardano,

Polkadot, XRP etc.

Please note that the native tokens are not the same as general

tokens (fungible or non-fungible) that you might have heard of. The

latter can be created and utilized on a Blockchain platform with the

help of programming. We shall discuss more on them in Chapter 18.

1.5.10 Gossip Network for Message Propagation

Figure 1.4 illustrates how most Blockchain networks consist of a

huge number of untrusting nodes who receive the data updates

through a gossip network, as shown as follows:

Figure 1.4: Gossip Network

This network purely relies on peer-to-peer messaging, and hence,

any data gets communicated just like a forest fire or how an

epidemic spreads itself.