Zano Blog (Page 3)

Confidential Assets and Ionic Swaps—Benefits and Applications

In our previous blog post [link] we introduced Zano Confidential Assets (CA's)—secondary assets that will live on the Zano chain and benefit from the same enterprise-grade security features as Zano itself: hidden addresses, hidden amounts, and IP obfuscation. Additionally, all tokens will be completely indistinguishable to outside

Development

Dev Update. May 2023

As we delve into the month of June, it's time to reflect on the progress made in May and share some exciting developments and accomplishments from our Zano team. One of the highlights of May was our team's visit to the Monerotopia event. We had the

Development

Dev Update. April 2023

Hi everyone! As the Zano team has arrived at Monerotopia, where we will be speaking on various topics, I found myself with an extra hour and decided to put together this development update for our dedicated community, this time for the month of April. Our team has been diligently working

Development

Dev Update. March 2023 (Delayed)

Dear Community, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to apologize for the delay in providing our March development update, as I was unwell and unable to deliver it on time. However, I am now back on my feet and excited to share the progress our team

Education

Zano: The perfect P2P digital cash

What is money Money is a widely accepted medium of exchange that enables the buying and selling of goods and services. It serves as a measure of value, simplifies trade and allows for the efficient allocation of resources. Money has three primary functions: * Medium of exchange: Money allows people to

Privacy in DeFi for real-world usage explained

Education

How privacy is necessary in DeFi for real-world usage

Non-explicit transparency in DeFi is a bug Finding bugs in software is a critical aspect of software development, as it helps ensure the reliability, security, and overall quality of the end product. The process of bug hunting involves rigorous testing, systematic evaluation, and constant vigilance on the part of developers

Education

The Power of Private Tokens

What are Tokens Tokens are digital assets that are built and created on top of Layer 1 blockchains. Tokens can represent assets or act as cryptocurrencies in their own right, which can be traded or exchanged on the blockchain. Tokens can represent anything from traditional currencies, like the US dollar

Education

What are Aliases?

We would like to thank you for supporting Zano as we work hard to become the project that is the most scalable, secure and easy to use. Since some community queries have been around what aliases are and how do they work, we decided to make an article to elaborate

How to add liquidity to Zano pair on CoinEx

Education

How to add liquidity to Zano's pair on CoinEx

Zano's orderbooks haven't always been as pretty due to the lack of trading and availability on exchanges. However, over the past months we are happy to say this has improved drastically, especially due to our recent listing on CoinEx. In order to continue improving our liquidity

Community

Community update: Zano's growth plan for 2023

Hey there zAnons! Today we've got to bring you the exciting news that Zano will be moving forward from now on with a marketing strategy alongside all the efforts the dev team makes with the development of Zano. The Zano team has been developing for many years with

Development

Dev update: February 2023

Hi everyone, We hope this message finds you well. The Zano development team has been busy working on a number of exciting projects, and we wanted to share a brief update with our community. We'll keep it short but rest assured that we're working hard to

Development

Dev update: January 2023

Hello, everyone! This is the first dev update of the new year. We hope you all had a great holiday with your loved ones and are ready to keep up the momentum. Since our last update in December, we've been working hard on a number of issues, and

Development

Dev update: December 2022#2

Hey, everyone! The past two weeks have been very busy for us, as we continue to make progress on Confidential Assets upgrade. In this update, we will provide an overview of the work that has been completed over the last two weeks and highlight achievements or challenges that we have

Zano Confidential Assets

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

Dev update: December 2022 #1

There's been quite a bit of work recently on the Zano project, mostly involving changes to core and GUI wallet code, as well as launching a Zarcanum-enabled testnet. The focus is currently on integrating multi-asset stealth addresses and confidential transactions into the blockchain and improving the way they

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,

Zano rebrand announcement new look same mission

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

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

Zano hard fork success and development focus update

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