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Updates on our activities and progress.
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Introducing Receiver Address Privacy for Recurring Firo Payments
Published on June 10, 2021 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
We are proud to announce the launch of Receiver Address Privacy (RAP) on Firo’s mainnet! RAP allows users to post their RAP address publicly without compromising on privacy. You can share your RAP address in the same way you share an email...
Firo Research Update May 2021
Published on May 18, 2021 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
An update on Firo's research in the past few months. Privacy preserving light wallets, security analysis of Lelantus v2, improved batched verification, proof of concept code for hierarchical one-out-of-many proofs, anonymous and end to end...
Firo: 2020 in Review
Published on January 9, 2021 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Now that the dust has settled, we can reflect back on all that happened with Firo in 2020. What a year it was. We completed a rebrand, had our first halving, completely upgraded our core wallet, and released our long awaited privacy protoco...
Lelantus activating on Firo
Published on January 6, 2021 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
The activation of Lelantus on Firo’s (formerly Zcoin) mainnet is only a few days away and will occur on block 336888 — approximately 14 January 2021. Please ensure you’re on the...
Firo Partners with Travel Booking Marketplace LockTrip
Published on December 8, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Firo (formerly known as Zcoin) has partnered with LockTrip.com, a blockchain-based travel website which offers up to 60% discounts on mo...
We are now Firo!
Published on November 30, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Our rebrand is complete. After following a phased approach to rebranding, our team is happy to announce that our rebrand to Firo is finally complete! As of today, users visiting zcoin.io will be redirected to firo.org. During the past few w...
Lelantus Testnet Is Now Open
Published on October 20, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
We are happy to open our Lelantus testnet to the public! We would like to thank Mintpond for all their assistance and for provi...
Zcoin’s first halving approaches
Published on September 14, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Zcoin is undergoing its first block halving on block 302438 (approximately 15 September 2020) as planned. As long as you are on Zcoin v.0.14.0.5 and above, you ar...
Zcoin Community Meeting #8 5th September 2020
Published on September 9, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Lelantus Cryptographic Library Audit ResultsRaised (5827.5 XZC) about over USD 20,000+ for the Trail of Bits Audit cost.All fixes to the issues have been incorporated and...
Lelantus Cryptographic Library Audit Results
Published on August 13, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
We are pleased to share the results of the Lelantus cryptographic library audit by Trail of Bits that was substantially funded by com...
Zcoin v14.0.3 and Zcoin Client 1.1.1 Release
Published on July 22, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Zcoin v14.0.3 is now released together with our Electron client update 1.1.1! You can get it here. This version is primarily a maint...
Zcoin Development Update 29 June 2020
Published on July 1, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
Deterministic masternodes and LLMQ has been released. Lelantus is approaching fully working status.This month will be cleaning up some remaining bugs in the Deterministic Masternodes, finishing up Lelantus for audit and cleaning up code in...
Zcoin v14.0.0 Release with Deterministic Znodes and LLMQ
Published on June 8, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
We are proud to release Zcoin v14.0.0. This is a mandatory upgrade and a major release with 14,296 commits touching over 2,831 files since the v1...
Zcoin Development Update 7 May 2020
Published on May 7, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
The past month has been very productive with major headway being made on Lelantus and also polishing and preparing Deterministic Masternodes and LLMQ for release. We finally finished all work on our privacy on by default mobile wallet Si...
Zcoin Block Reward Allocation and Development Fund for the next 4 years
Published on May 4, 2020 by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt
We are pleased to announce the division of Zcoin’s block reward for the next 4 years, which will take effect upon the upcoming halving in September 2020. The halving also marks the end of the founder and seed investors’ rewards and allow...
Zcoin Development Update 17 April 2020
Published on April 17, 2020 by Reuben Yap
Core Upgrade, Deterministic Masternodes and LLMQ Core upgrade is complete.Huge improvement in sync time (almost cut in hal...