While investors mind keeping the $ tab on sight if digital assets are the main topic. It is how to be more secure that makes developers and designers of these cryptocurrencies feel compelled . Its operation does not rely on a server alone. The strength of peer to peer (p2p) connectivity is its reliability of one's node . But what if a part of it is not as reliable as the others? This in effect, would cast doubts as to the validity of a transaction is concerned.

NEM took a different approach to ensure the reliability of a p2p connectivity by implementing Eigentrust algorithm.
In a p2p environment, a node must have integrity to what data it has and for it to have a communication as well as transaction to be considered just to deliver a valid transaction to another node.

Transactions carried by nodes over the p2p network are executed in a distributed manner. This is the reason why it is hard to get it compromised or being attacked. There is no central point of failure and it will take a huge amount of time to even attempt to hack such system. But the problem with this is, anonymous (one of the essence of a p2p network) participants can easily be a part of. A poison fruit that may cause problems to the operation. Thus, trust is compromised. So NEM injects Eigentrust++ algorithm in a way to monitor such activities.

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Eigentrust++ functions as a reputation manager. It sees every single peer or node within the peer-to-peer network as truthful, trustworthy, not malicious and valid. As a way to illustrate, node A trusts each of the node Hand node I respectively, then also trusts any node that is trusted by node H in this case, is the node F. Thus each node should be reliable and transactions are validated correctly, making the network highly secured.

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This verification process is what makes NEM efficiently implemented and it fits how Eigentrust algorithm manages each node to its highest possible security and reliability tests. Managing node in a self-sufficient manner will definitely decrease the processing time. Transfer of data from one node to another will be faster. Trusting node from one another is never been easier .

In effect, a node would have a higher reputation and transactions from this node are considered valid and can be trusted by other nodes. One word mostly associated with blockchain technologies is trustless. For it to be a trustless network, it must establish or implement within its peers how trust is to obtained. So if and when each node does a transaction, the reputation of that node is trusted and no malicious process would appear.

NEM is designed for real world application . With the way people transact business, finance should have a proven tool to seriously being considered and adapted. Connected tools are what bring people closer and make a faster and valid transaction. Backing NEM with Eigentrust algorithm will try to minimize the doubts and the misconceptions of transactions being done digitally. For in-depth information about Eigentrust algorithm visit the wiki page.