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Zano Confidential Assets—The Missing Security Layer for DeFi

With Zano Confidential Assets, anyone can easily issue their own currencies and digital tokens on the Zano chain; assets secured by the same mechanisms that make Zano itself so much more secure than first-generation cryptocurrencies, namely hidden addresses, hidden amounts and IP obfuscation...

Development Update

Zano Project Update (19th September 2022)

This post is based, almost entirely, on the update given by our Community Manager Gigabyted in the Zano Discord server on 9th September. First a quick apology for the recent lack of blog posts—our writer had a change of circumstances that left him unable to contribute. If you’ve

Zarcanum

Zarcanum (ZPoS) — First Private Proof of Stake Scheme with Confidential Transactions and Hidden Amounts

Introducing Zarcanum (ZPoS): a secure and private blockchain consensus scheme that enhances traditional Proof of Stake with untraceability and hidden amounts.

Biweekly

Zano Bi-weekly Report (18th November 2021)

Hello all! Your humble scribe is spread pretty thin so this update will be brief and written at great speed. Buckle up! Branding One or two people have asked why we still aren’t using the beautiful new branding anywhere yet. We decided to wait till we had all of

Biweekly

Zano Bi-weekly Report (19th October 2021)

Hey everyone. To punish the communications guy for taking a week off last week, the rest of the team worked twice as hard, so there’s lots to report! New Logo and Branding In our last update [https://blog.zano.org/new-blog-new-look-same-mission/] we revealed the new project logo. Since then,

Branding

Zano Evolving: New Look, New Blog, Same Mission

Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to the new home of the Zano blog! We believe this new, more flexible platform will let us further improve the frequency and quality of our communications as the project and community continue to grow. Posts will still be mirrored on medium.com,

Wrapped Zano [wZANO]

Wrapped ZANO — Bridging Privacy and Ethereum

Wrapped Zano (wZANO) is a token that lives on a decentralized network outside of Zano’s native blockchain. In the case of this first implementation, it’s an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum mainnet. Essentially, it represents a guarantee: at any moment, whenever you desire, you can exchange your wZANO

Biweekly

Zano Bi-weekly Report (23rd August 2021)

There’s a lot happening in the world of Zano, so let’s get straight to it. Wrapped Zano (wZANO) We mentioned in the last biweekly [https://medium.com/zano-news/zano-bi-weekly-report-3rd-august-2021-27b3561d1169] that testing on wZano had already begun. It helped us uncover some additional ways in which we could optimize

Biweekly

Zano Bi-weekly Report (3rd August 2021)

Welcome all! Time for another quick rundown of what the “Shadowy Super-Coders [https://decrypt.co/76997/elizabeth-warren-crypto-big-banks-shadowy-super-coders?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto] ” of Zano project have been busy building on our unstoppable climb to digital cash privacy nirvana. Wrapped Zano (wZANO) We’ve now entered the

Development Update

Zano Bi-weekly Report (17 July 2021)

Hello everyone! This is the first of what will be (roughly) bi-weekly reports to keep the community in the loop about what the Zano team is currently working on. They will be shorter than the in-depth project updates that accompany major releases. So let’s begin… Wrapped Zano Wrapped Zano

Development Update

Zano Project Update (21–06–21) — Hard Fork Success, Research Team Status and Current Development Focus

Atomic Swaps Hard Fork Hi everyone. We’re very happy to report that the hard fork at the start of this month to activate Atomic Swaps on the Zano network was — aside from a minor hiccup with one mining pool — a complete success. Thanks to everyone for updating in a

Happy 2nd Birthday Zano!

Today we have reason to celebrate, because today is the Zano project’s second birthday! We’ve been so wrapped up in the Atomic Swaps release that we almost forgot about it. As part of our Birthday Week celebrations we’ll be hosting a quiz with prizes on our Discord

Atomic Swaps — (Part 2)

If you’re not familiar with theory of Atomic Swaps, we suggest you take a look at Part 1 [https://blog.zano.org/atomic-swaps-taking-out-the-middleman-part-1/], before reading this article. In this part we’ll focus more on the technical details of Zano’s implementation. Zano implementation Compared to Bitcoin, Zano has

Atomic Swaps — Taking out the Middleman (Part 1)

Why go around when you can go through? You’ve probably heard of the Suez Canal. Before the artificial waterway’s creation, European ships bringing textiles and spices from India had to navigate the infamous Cape Route — a 40-something day trip covering some 10,000-plus nautical miles. The canal’s

Zano Development Update (17–12–2020) — Secure Seeds and Hidden Treasure

Season’s greetings all! Your hard-earned Zano can never be too well secured, so we're pleased to bring you news of the latest update to the Zano wallets (desktop and mobile) that adds an additional layer of protection for your funds. What is a Secure Seed? Seed phrases began their

How Much Rum Does it Take To Get a New Ring Signature?

A digital signature is a “virtual bond” of almost any blockchain project. The vast majority of projects use practically the same signature as used on the Bitcoin network (namely ECDSA on the curve secp256k1). However, for projects in which the privacy of users plays a significant role, the creation of

Zano Development Update (12–11–2020) — Auditable Wallets, Bug Fixes & Foundation Fund Transparency

We’re very excited to announce the latest Zano release and to give you all a little information on what’s new. Auditable Wallets and Foundation Fund Transparency In response to requests from our community, we’ve dedicated ourselves to the task of making the Zano Foundation Fund completely transparent.

Zano auditable wallets: What are they and how do they work?

Unlike traditional bitcoin-like blockchains, (where anyone can watch balances and track the movement of coins in any wallet) privacy blockchains are very difficult or even entirely impossible to view without special access keys. Nevertheless, there are cases in which someone needs to be able to disclose the balance and movement

Zano Development Update (27–7–2020) - Auditable wallets, mobile app release and new team member

Hello everyone! As you may have noticed the Zano team hasn’t had much news lately, but today we are excited to share three very important announcements! New release with Auditable Wallets First of all, we are excited to finally announce the release of the very important update, which implements

Auditing wallets in CryptoNote

Following an extensive few months of research by Valeriy Pisarkov aka Sowle [https://github.com/sowle] (Zano Core Developer), we are excited to release our findings on auditability in Cryptonote, with planned implementation to Zano. This blog post is just a short introduction to the research paper as it is

Development Update and New Release

Yesterday we released a new software build v1.1.5.82, in this version the most notable changes are some graphical changes and pre-downloading of the blockchain. The pre-downloading feature greatly reduces the sync time for fresh installs as it downloads a compiled image of the blockchain vs syncing block

Roadmap Update

As many know it was some time since the road map has been updated, you may have already seen we updated it several days ago shifting some goals around and moving some more urgent items up in the time frame. Today I will go over some of the changes and

Exchange Listing & Brief Update

Its been quite some time with any updates so today we have just a short post on the recent listing on TradeOgre [https://tradeogre.com/exchange/BTC-ZANO] TradeOgre has built a reputation of being one of the more functional and reliable exchanges for miners over the past several years, with

Core Updates & What’s Next

Hi Everyone, it’s been a while since our last update but today we want to give you a more in depth overview of developments that have been accomplished over the past few months. With the hard fork to upgrade the POS consensus on September 21st these are the major

The Value of a Hybrid PoW/PoS Algorithm

Hello everyone, as you may already know, Zano utilizes a Hybrid PoW/PoS algorithm. Previously we’ve been talking about the PoW half of that system and why we chose that particular algo. You can read more about that decision in this post “Zano Proof of Work: Our motivation for