Our blockchain’s approach to transactions and rules is unique to AIN network and unlike any other commercial blockchain implementation currently in use. In their simplest form transactions merely update values in a simple key-value tree-structured database, which is being maintained by the blockchain. Rules determine whether a given user has permission to execute a transaction, given information such as the user’s publicKey, the time of transaction, and other data in the database. Through these transactions and rules, the AIN Network achieves the following characteristic features: