Raptoreum is a POW (Proof Of Work) blockchain and asset platform that will feature NFT/NFTS, Smart Contracts, and futures. It is being developed to address problems seen on other blockchains as well as bring in new and innovative ways of addressing these problems. Raptoreum development began in November of 2018 and was originally a code fork of RVN (Ravencoin). After multiple bugs, exploits, and security concerns with RVN, the Raptoreum team decided to drop the Ravencoin codebase and move to a code fork of Dash (August 2020). Raptoreum is now a code fork of Dash and inherits current and optionally future features such as chain locks, oracles etc. It is further expanding capabilities by adding the following features:  A) The deployment of a unique asset layer.   B) The option to lock X amount of coins or assets into a special transaction. Coins are unlocked at a block number of choice or timestamp.  C) Trustless on chain transfers of assets and native coins VIA Smart Contracts.  D) Integrating, developing and deploying a VM protocol that would allow for smart contracts in 4 major programming languages as opposed to the situation with Ethereum being limited to solidity. These additional features open up the power and ease of use of Raptoreum’s features to a greater variety of industries under the Distributed Application umbrella. DAPP's are a critical part of driving widespread adoption as recently seen with DEFI and Raptoreum hopes to help provide further alternatives and possibilities for DAPP developers particularly in the field of opening up new programming languages for DAPP and contract development. Raptoreum created an algorithm code named GhostRider. This algorithm was designed to keep ASICS and FPGAs off of the network by making entry cost prohibitive and risky. This allows anybody to mine Raptoreum with their CPU and earn a reasonable amount of RTM coins. Raptoreum will also be mineable with GPU when a miner has been released.  The total supply of RTM coin is 21 billion. It’s used for network fees and staking rewards. In order to make the emission of the coins smooth and unique, the block reward decreases slowly every full moon.