Fundamentals, no marketing fluff.
Three short reads that cover what Ravencoin is, how its asset layer works, and how to keep a wallet secure long-term.
Ravencoin basics
What Ravencoin is, how it differs from Bitcoin, and why the asset layer matters.
Assets 101
Named assets, sub-assets, unique items, restricted/qualifier — what they are at the protocol level.
Wallet security guide
Practical habits for keeping seed phrases, devices, and backups safe over years, not days.
Three reads, in the order most people need them.
The Learn section exists to answer the questions that come up before, during, and after the first month of holding RVN. Read it in order if you are new to Ravencoin; jump to whichever piece matches your current question if you are not.
The basics read covers what Ravencoin actually is: a Bitcoin-derived proof-of-work chain with a native asset layer and a deliberately small protocol surface. Twenty minutes, and the rest of the ecosystem stops feeling like jargon.
If you have used Bitcoin before, most of it will already be familiar. The differences (1-minute blocks, KAWPOW, asset opcodes, 21-billion supply cap) are small in number and consequential in effect. Skim the section, take the asset layer seriously, and the rest of this site reads more cleanly.
Then assets, if you intend to issue or hold them
Ravencoin's asset layer is the chain's defining feature, and it is genuinely small: four kinds of asset, a handful of rules each. The Assets 101 read walks through named assets, sub-assets, unique assets, and the restricted/qualifier pattern — what each is for, how the naming convention works, and where the rules live (consensus, not contracts).
- Named assets — standard top-level tokens with global unique names.
- Sub-assets — PARENT/CHILD, scoped under an asset you own.
- Unique assets — PARENT#UNIQUE, one-of-one items.
- Restricted + qualifier — policy-gated transfers enforced by the chain.
The security guide is the most boring and most valuable read in the section. It covers the things that genuinely keep people's coins safe across five-year horizons: a written seed backup stored like cash, a verified download (fetch from the download page and check the hash), a hardware signer for non-trivial balances, and inheritance planning. None of it is exciting; all of it works.
Price predictions, "best coin to buy" lists, yield-farming schemes, and anything else where the answer changes by the week. This section is for things that are still true in five years — protocol mechanics, asset shapes, and security habits that work even when the rest of the industry shifts underneath them.
Who this section is written for
Someone who has decided to actually use Ravencoin — to hold RVN long-term, to issue or transfer assets, to mine on a consumer GPU, or to pair a hardware wallet for cold storage. Not someone who wants a five-line "what is RVN" blurb to copy into a portfolio tracker, and not someone looking for price commentary. The pages are short and opinionated on purpose: each one answers a specific question and stops.
- Read the basics first if you are new to Ravencoin.
- Read the assets primer before issuing or holding RVN tokens.
- Read the security guide before depositing meaningful balances.
- Skip anything that does not match your current question.
The Learn section is the conceptual layer; the rest of the site is the operational layer. Once you've read the basics, the get-started flow walks through the first-run setup; the security page documents the wallet's threat model in detail; the recovery page covers restoring from a seed. Each Learn read explains the "why"; the operational pages explain the "how".
The three Learn pages together come to about thirty minutes of focused reading. Basics is the longest because it has the most ground to cover; Assets 101 is the densest because the rules are precise and worth getting right the first time; the security guide is the shortest because the answer is mostly "do a few boring things consistently for years". None of the three requires prior crypto knowledge — they assume you can install a desktop application and follow a checklist, and that's about it.
Reading order if you already know Bitcoin
Skim Basics for the diffs (1-minute blocks, KAWPOW, 21B supply cap, asset opcodes) and skip the rest. Read Assets 101 in full — it is the part that has no Bitcoin analogue and is the entire reason Ravencoin exists as a separate chain. Skim the security guide for the Ravencoin-specific notes (derivation path, asset balances at the same addresses) and rely on your existing Bitcoin habits for the rest.
After Learn, the natural next stops are the first-run guide for hands-on setup, the features overview for what the wallet can actually do, and the cold-storage guide once you're ready to move balances off a single hot machine. Each of those pages assumes the conceptual ground covered here and skips re-explaining it.
Frequently asked
Continue with Electrum RVN
- what is Ravencoin — chain, supply, KAWPOW, and assets
- what are Ravencoin assets — named assets, sub-assets, restricted tokens
- wallet security best practices — what to harden and what to ignore
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Open-source, lightweight, and built for the desktop user who wants real control over keys and assets. Download the wallet directly from our download page — signed installers for every operating system.