Aurora Chain is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications. Their goal is to create fast contracts to link a variety of industry applications such as gaming, big data, AI, and IOT. Aurora Chain aims to resolve the issues that lie with current smart contract platforms (scalability, and upgradeability) through the implementation of DPOS and BFT consensus mechanisms.

Aurora (AOA) is an Ethereum-based token that powers the platform.

The official Aurora ticker is “AOA” and trades under that name on all the exchanges where it has been listed. The designation “AURO” is for CryptoCompare.com only.