It’s time for sharing what you know about Ergo and win prizes in return! We are conducting a video competition to show what Ergo …
19 April, 2021
Smart contracts are the backbone of decentralized finance. Through smart contracts, users can interact with dApps without middlemen. Blockchain design has …
16 April, 2021
Blockchain interoperability refers to the ability of different blockchain protocols to become compatible with one another. Achieving true blockchain …
8 April, 2021
Trustless Exchange models vary in their use cases e.g AMMs for low liquidity pairs and Order Books for high liquidity pairs. But you don’t have to choose …
6 April, 2021
It is no secret that the Ethereum ecosystem is broken, especially with the platform being plagued with rising congestion and gas fee issues on a near-daily …
26 March, 2021
The competition prompted some great entries. 2,000 ERG in prizes were ultimately distributed via bids to the winners. Just over a month ago we announced …
18 March, 2021
With the recent launch of the bootstrap period of the SigUSD stablecoin, the Ergo community participation rates have exceeded our expectation. This can be …
4 March, 2021
The SigmaUSD stablecoin has been deployed by the community and is live and ready for all Ergonauts to use at https://sigmausd.io/ After several months of …
26 February, 2021
Create an original piece of digital art and list it for sale on the Ergo NFT Marketplace. The winning entry will receive 1000 ERG, with two further prizes …
12 February, 2021
The elegant design avoids some of the complexity and potential problems of other approaches to creating decentralised, collateralised stablecoins. As part …
5 February, 2021
The concept of ‘marginal gains’ enables Ergo to push the capacity of first-generation blockchain technology further than other platforms. With the …
20 January, 2021
Most users won’t care about the underlying blockchain they’re using – they will just want its functionality. That means DeFi interoperability will be …
5 January, 2021
Your portal to Ergo’s dApp universe is opening. Ergo has some amazing tech and some talented developers. However, as a decentralised and community-powered …
27 December, 2020
The challenge for Ergo and all DeFi platforms over the next year is to work towards the complete set of features that will enable DeFi to take on the …
18 December, 2020
The Ergo ecosystem is quickly growing with new design patterns, tools, dApps, and more every single month. This is an exciting point in time for developers …
11 December, 2020
This new development will have a number of implications for the Ergo ecosystem and developers, making it far easier to build applications on Ergo. In a …
8 December, 2020
The novel smart contract will trustlessly enable users to participate in token sales without the downside risks of regular ICOs. 2020 is shaping up to look …
2 December, 2020
This new approach offers a streamlined interface for interacting with on-chain contracts, enabling anyone to build dApps using simple building blocks. …
27 November, 2020
The Ergo Foundation will consider proposals for grants towards projects that will support significant ecosystem developments. Ergo is a community-oriented …
17 November, 2020
This major auction will help fund the dev work carried out by our anons, and offers the opportunity for anyone to get their hands on a piece of Ergo …
Magnum, a popular lite wallet for ERG and other currencies, will cease to operate at the end of the month. Many of the Ergo community use Magnum, a lite …
11 November, 2020
The oracle solution for Cardano will post data from Ergo’s oracle pools, treating the pre-processed data as a trusted source for its own records to the …
9 November, 2020
What happens in an election has many parallels to the governance of blockchain platforms. Ergo, though, has a better way to deal with differences and the …
3 November, 2020
The first ever PoW-backed NFT was generated by Ergo developer anon_real, and is being sold to help fund creation of the new Ergo DEX. Ergo recently …
19 October, 2020
The platform allows users to sell Ergo’s NFTs – an important development in the growing DeFi movement – securely and easily. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, …
16 October, 2020
The new resources provide a powerful but simple way to learn UTXO-based smart contracts. Since its mainnet launch in July 2019, Ergo has steadily been …
12 October, 2020
Yoroi, the flagship lite wallet app for the Cardano ecosystem developed by Emurgo, now supports Ergo! This development follows directly from the …
9 October, 2020
This is the first in a series of articles speculating on how the fast-emerging DeFi sector might evolve in the coming years. The DeFi movement as it …
4 October, 2020
As with almost every other area of DeFi, Ergo Platform takes a different approach to NFTs that offers some interesting and unique use cases and benefits. …
25 September, 2020
As a recent blog post explored, DeFi – decentralised finance – can and will be used in whatever ways developers and the market see fit. This is the nature …
17 September, 2020
Ergo’s Zero-Knowledge Treasury enables users to easily create joint digital signatures, with bespoke conditions for spending funds, while ensuring the …
4 September, 2020
At the risk of stating the obvious, decentralisation is the hallmark of DeFi. It is decentralisation that brings the benefits of transparency, …
3 September, 2020
The new scheme developed through the Emurgo-Ergo partnership will see oracle pools – core blockchain infrastructure – run as a public service, accessible …
31 August, 2020
Robert Kornacki I’d like to officially announce that Oracle Pools are live, running on mainnet, with all the code + detailed instructions available …
28 August, 2020
Ergo is building the most effective programmable currency in history. Money is changing. It’s interesting that, at a time when money is increasingly being …
20 August, 2020
As blockchain technology gains traction, central bank digital currencies are among the most significant applications being developed. But these will …
17 August, 2020
Everyone is talking about DeFi. Few people are asking what DeFi should look like. Ergo has a vision for what the sector can become. 2020 is shaping up to …
13 August, 2020
Future dates at time of publication are subject to change March 2020: Command-line version of decentralised trustless mixer, ErgoMixer, launched April …
4 August, 2020
Ergo has expressive smart contracts and transactional model which allows for an implementation of trustless DEX protocol, in which signed buy and sell …
31 July, 2020
Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity, is welcoming its new member Robert Kornacki, head of research and development engineer at EMURGO …
27 July, 2020
DeFi is the next major frontier for blockchain technology – but what does the current surge of interest mean for Ergo? The narrative around blockchain …
2 July, 2020
The joint research on oracle pools will be implemented in the Ergo stablecoin project. Oracles are one of the critical elements of DeFi, providing a link …
30 June, 2020
Cardano and Ergo take quite different approaches to DeFi and blockchain development, but there are specific areas in which they significantly overlap. This …
11 June, 2020
The collaboration will encompass a range of objectives – including exploration of a decentralised stablecoin solution. Ergo, the smart contracts platform …
9 June, 2020
We have three great new developments to announce to the Ergo community, all of which will boost our user base and decentralisation! We have not just one …
14 May, 2020
Ergo allows any user to run a full node with low resources – meaning you can help maintain the network with a device as simple as a Raspberry Pi. In a …
8 May, 2020
Stablecoins are a major use case for DeFi but come in various different forms. The stablecoin space is still relatively young and underserved – but that’s …
5 May, 2020
There’s often a tension in the crypto world between security and convenience. That trade-off is unacceptable if we want these technologies to be widely …
1 May, 2020
With thanks to Robert Kornacki for polishing of the draft. Introduction ErgoScript is the smart contract language used by the Ergo blockchain. While it …
29 April, 2020
Because a blockchain is a siloed, self-contained system by design, interacting with other blockchain protocols is challenging. Atomic Swaps enable …
24 April, 2020
Blockchains are siloed systems that can only reference their own data, established by consensus. Oracles are the solution to the problem of working with …
23 April, 2020
We’ve designed Ergo with long-term economic sustainability in mind, and storage rent is one of the ways we’re ensuring miners stay profitable well into the …
21 April, 2020
As the next financial crisis takes hold, it’s clear that conventional monetary policy is at its limit. Smart contract platforms like Ergo enable more …
2 April, 2020
The need to reform the global financial system has been clear since the last crisis in 2008. Now, COVID-19 has forced our hands. We cannot delay, and the …
Ergo enables new models of financial interaction, underpinned by smart contracts built on flexible and powerful Sigma protocols but easily accessible to …
29 March, 2020
The project uses Ergo’s Sigma protocols to enable efficient, trustless mixing of funds, enabling a high degree of privacy while ensuring security is not …
16 March, 2020
Ergo’s smart contracts and DeFi functionality are built on Sigma protocols – a powerful, flexible class of zero-knowledge proofs. Find out more about why …
Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020 has been released, the plan is minimum and very realistic https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_02_02/ Miners tested …
3 March, 2020
Ergo takes the most secure and best-established features of Bitcoin and implements advanced new cryptographic features on its rock-solid foundations. This …
It’s the smartest crypto you’ve never heard of. Ergo takes the best of Bitcoin and integrates Sigma protocols so powerful they make Ethereum look like it …
12 February, 2020
Ergo Foundation has been established (https://ergoplatform.org/en/foundation/) Security audit of most critical parts of the reference protocol client is …
4 February, 2020
Ergo community made a lot in 2019: Very stressful but successful mainnet launch A lot of updates for Ergo protocol reference client to improve its …
2 February, 2020
We would like to announce that Ergo has successfully passed security audit of certain (most critical) parts of the code. This time the audit was done by …
12 January, 2020
Introduction ErgoTool is a command line interface (CLI) for Ergo blockchain. You can use ErgoTool without running your own Ergo node. Even though running a …
31 December, 2019
Ergo GPU Mining This article will help you start mining Ergo using a GPU. Ergo mining is based on Autolykos, a Proof-of-Work algorithm designed to be ASIC …
28 December, 2019
Since the launch of the Ergo mainnet half a year ago, there has been an incredible amount of development and progress in the Ergo ecosystem. Auction smart …
16 December, 2019
While most active conversations today in the space are about wider adoption of the blockchain technology (which often means selling out to the Wall St.) …
12 December, 2019
With thanks to Robert Kornacki and Denys Zadorozhnyi. Ergo Appkit is a library for polyglot development of Ergo Applications based on GraalVM. GraalVM has …
3 December, 2019
This tutorial explains how to install and run a full Ergo node. It does not cover mining. Node security There are a few important aspects of node usage …
2 December, 2019
What is Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital through the collective efforts of individuals. The campaigns are mostly started via the …
6 September, 2019
This tutorial will provide you with the information needed to get your AMD cards mining ERGO on either Windows or Linux. Developer MH Samadani published …
7 August, 2019
In today’s article, we will have a closer look into the Ergo address formatting. In addition to that we are going to explain how they work …
24 July, 2019
Firstly, we would like to thank many enthusiasts, developers, miners, other folks, and our families for measureless help with Ergo development and …
9 July, 2019
Spending mining reward This text is to help miners to withdraw funds mined. A lot of folks launched a node and also a miner, with pubkeyHex from the miner …
3 July, 2019
Joining the Ergo main network at the very beginning In order to join the network at its very beginning and compete to mine the genesis block, you need to …
28 June, 2019
An Ergo node provides a built-in wallet for storing private keys and signing transactions. The following describes how to set up and protect your Ergo …
4 June, 2019
A Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is aimed at developing local economy and is usually used by people of a locality in the vicinity of each other. For …
29 May, 2019
Overview Ergo’s native token is called Erg and its emission schedule may be of keen interest to users and miners of the platform. Ergs also have some …
20 May, 2019
Step 1: Tools Visual Studio Choose free community version, you will need to select desktop development with C++ package during install. CUDA toolkit Choose …
7 May, 2019
A local exchange trading system (LETS) is a local mutual credit association which members are allowed to create common credit money individually, with all …
22 April, 2019
This article describes a full featured ICO (Initial Coin Offering) implemented in ErgoScript. The example covers several important and novel features of …
10 April, 2019
First, we have a major announcement - Ergo mainnet launch is planned for May 26 if no security vulnerabilities will be found during audit process! What are …
19 March, 2019
A lot of blockchain-related news these days are saying us that a bank X or a corporation Y is going to use a “blockchain” to “reduce …
19 October, 2018
