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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

The Coinswap Has Concluded

The Zano coinswap has officially concluded. Congrats to everyone who participated, we’re excited to see how many people decided to support us and join Zano. Some numbers and proofs Over 30 days of the swap 7782192.31 Boolberry coins have been swapped to Zano at a ratio of 1

Zano Development Fund Breakdown

Our plans for funding ongoing development Being actively involved into crypto space since 2014, the Zano team has been studying every financial model in the crypto market. Some of them are more sustainable than others but in the end they all come down to burning through reserves if the project

Coinswap launch

It’s time for the coinswap We are very excited to announce the official beginning of the Zano coinswap. Starting today, June 30th, 2019 at 12pm UTC, all Boolberry (BBR) holders will be able to swap any portion of your BBR holdings to Zano for a 1:1 exchange. The

Coinswap announcement

We are excited to announce the beginning of the coinswap, starting on June 30th. However, we’d also like to share some changes to that plan that will be implemented along with our reasoning behind them. The reasons behind these changes are twofold; primarily this is a response to valuable

Zano Bounty Program

The Hyle team is working day and nights on our latest project, Zano blockchain and infrastructure. Meanwhile, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to earn Zano coins while simultaneously increasing its value by fulfilling crucial tasks. Each task or bounty has different terms and reward, please read careful

Escrow contracts

In this post we’re going to talk about one of the most interesting of Zano’s features, Escrow contracts. Our goals for ecommerce Zano as a project aims to make anonymous p2p transaction as simple as they can be. One of the most practical use cases for this is

A week into mainnet

Mainnet launch First of all, thanks for following our progress over this last week. We’ve just launched mainnet, and now that we’re a week in, we’d like to send out a little recap of how it’s gone along with an FAQ regarding the upcoming coin swap.

Zano Proof of Work: Our motivation for using ProgPoW

Hello everyone, as you may already know, Zano employs a Hybrid PoW/PoS algorithm. In this post, we’ll be talking about our reasoning behind the PoW algorithm (algo) we’ve chosen, ProgPoW. Boolberry roots & the ASIC resistance narrative Projects coming to market after bitcoin matured witnessed ASICs arrival and

Zano mainnet announcement

We want to take this opportunity to announce our new project, Zano — a privacy coin designed for P2P ecommerce. Zano is a crypto project built upon the Boolberry [https://boolberry.com/] protocol, making it an ideal solution for secure, private, and easy to use transactions. Our primary goal is to

Zano Testnet

Hello everyone, this is our first medium and we’d like to dedicate it to the public testnet launch announcement. Wallet download links: * Windows https://github.com/zano-project/zano/releases/download/1.0.8/zano-win-x64-v1.0.8.2822fa5.-installer.exe * MacOS https://github.com/zano-project/zano/releases/download/1.0.