What Is a dApp?

What you’ll learn

• •A dApp's core logic runs on smart contracts rather than a single company's private servers.
• •The 'front end' is the familiar website or app layer sitting on top of that contract logic.
• •You connect your own wallet to a dApp instead of creating a username and password.
• •Benefits: no single company can arbitrarily freeze funds, change rules, or shut down the underlying contract.
• •A dApp's front end can go offline even while its underlying contract keeps running independently.
• •Trade-offs include no customer support and irreversible transactions, so stick to well-known, audited dApps as a newcomer.