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Tiny, negligible amounts of cryptocurrency that are not practical to spend due to transaction fees.
Tiny, negligible amounts of cryptocurrency that are not practical to spend due to transaction fees. Dust can accumulate in wallets over time and may be consolidated or swept to reduce clutter.
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Building DeFi on Ergo starts with understanding the eUTXO model and ErgoScript. Unlike account-based chains, Ergo's box model provides deterministic execution, strong MEV-resistance, and predictable fee construction. Use Oracle Pools for price feeds, and study existing patterns from Spectrum Finance and SigmaUSD.
eUTXO (Extended Unspent Transaction Output) is Ergo's smart contract model that extends Bitcoin's UTXO with programmable logic. Each 'box' contains ERG, tokens, data registers, and a guarding script. Transactions consume boxes and create new ones, enabling deterministic execution, parallel processing, and no protocol-level reentrancy by construction.
MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) is profit extracted by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions - think front-running and sandwich attacks. Ergo's eUTXO model provides structural MEV resistance: transactions reference specific boxes (UTXOs), making reordering attacks much harder. There's no shared global state to exploit like in account-based chains.
Ergo supports a broad ecosystem: use SigmaUSD, explore historical and current DeFi references, mix transactions with ErgoMixer where lawful, collect NFTs, mine with GPUs, bridge to other chains via Rosen, and build dApps with ErgoScript. Always verify current project status before sending funds to a third-party app.