Ignis is a child chain of the Ardor platform that is used for everyday transactions with low fees. It has all the features of the Ardor platform and includes account specific functions such as multi-signature configurations and privacy mechanisms like coin shuffling and encrypted messages. It was created to demonstrate the ease of creating tokens based on the Ardor platform and was launched in 2018 by the same authors of Nxt coin NXT and Ardor. The advantages of Ignis include the ability for businesses to create their own cryptocurrency, simple smart contract creation with a basic understanding of programming, and autonomous payments with the option for personal confirmations and privacy control. Ignis allows users to experiment and build public applications with all the features of the Ardor platform.