Basics

Technology inspired by nature

In this chapter you will learn what "cells" are, how they work and how to use the different cell types efficiently to achieve your personal mission on haelp

In this chapter you will learn the basic ideas behind cells — the most fundamental building blocks of haelp.

What are Cells?

To better understand the definition and the function of a cell in the haelp-context, it is worth taking a quick excursion into biology — the study of living organisms.

In biology, a cell is the basic membrane-bound unit that contains the fundamental molecules of life and of which all living things are composed. A single cell is often a complete organism in itself. Other cells acquire specialized functions as they mature. These cells cooperate with other specialized cells and become the building blocks of large multicellular organisms.

As an individual unit, the cell is capable of metabolizing its own nutrients, synthesizing many types of molecules, providing its own energy, and replicating itself in order to produce succeeding generations. It can be viewed as an enclosed vessel, within which innumerable chemical reactions take place simultaneously. These reactions are under very precise control so that they contribute to the life and procreation of the cell. In a multicellular organism, cells become specialized to perform different functions through the process of differentiation. In order to do this, each cell keeps in constant communication with its neighbours. As it receives nutrients from its surroundings, it adheres to and cooperates with other cells.

Just like in biology, a Cell is a membrane-bound unit that contains the fundamental molecules of which the entire haelp-network is composed. On haelp, every single cell is both a complete organism in itself as well as it has specialized functions which they offer to cooperate with other cells to form larger and more powerful, multicellular organisms.

What can Cells do?

As of today, we have discovered 3 different categories that help us distinguish cell from each other: there are 1) agent-cells, 2) host-cells and 3) execute-cells.

Agent-Cells

An „agent-cell“ is the smallest cell-unit in the network. It represents 1 user - or in our language 1 helper - and equals to 1 full-node of the network.

Although agent-cells are the smallest cells in the network, they are nevertheless the strongest ones: as an agent-centric network, everything on haelp revolves around agents and without them, nothing would work.

The super-power of an agent-cell is the ability to bring other cells in the two categories "Host" and "Execute" into existence, define their purpose of existence and steward them towards their fulfillment.

Host- & Execute-Cells

A „host-cell“ has the primary power to host other cells and provide context while an „execute-cell“ has the primary power to perform a certain action on another cell which then has a certain impact and outcome.

Within both of these cell-categories, there are a growing variety of different cell types — such as a community-cell as an example of a host-cell and a task-cell as an example of an execute-cell — which we are still exploring and experimenting with.

What all host- and execute-cells have in common, however, is that they all have 1) a clear purpose of existence which is 2) stewarded by 1-n agents and can be joined by 3) 1-n agents as cell-members who help fulfill its purpose and benefit from its contents and rewards upon fulfillment.