HEX is like a notepad showing everyones' HEX balance, but requiring their passwords to spend. It is the first high interest Blockchain Certificate of Deposit (CD). HEX virtually lends value from Stakers to non-Stakers, as staking reduces supply, causing positive price pressure on unstaked coins. You mint shares by time-locking ("Staking") HEX, with bonuses of 20% per year, up to 3x for longer and 1.1x for larger. The HEX needed to create a share (share price) goes up every day, simulating compounding interest. Shareholders profit from the 3.69% annual inflation and early & late end stake penalties.
HEX is a hybrid Proof of Work (POW) and Proof of Stake (POS) system. Stakers are paid inflation in HEX while ETH miners receive small amounts of ETH to perform your HEX transaction. HEX conforms to the ERC20 standard to maximize interoperability and security. HEX is easily extensible because smart contracts can be built on top of it or reference it. HEX works with distributed exchanges like Uniswap and atomic swaps easily. Every 1 HEX consists of 100,000,000 Hearts (1 with 8 zeroes or 100 million).
Hardware wallet support: Trezor and Ledger are integrated via MetaMask. Your private keys stay safe inside your hardware device this way.