Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - January 2020

Youtube Video Competition

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 provides to its …

Multi-Stage Contracts

Smart contracts are the backbone of decentralized finance. Through smart contracts, users can interact with dApps without middlemen. Blockchain design has …

Here’s how Ergo seeks to boost interoperability …

Blockchain interoperability refers to the ability of different blockchain protocols to become compatible with one another. Achieving true blockchain …

ErgoDEX Model - AMM and Order Book Type Exchange

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 …

Ergo seeks to fix what Ethereum can’t… Here’s how

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 …

Ergo art competition: Winners Announced!

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 …

Finding The Right Balance

With the recent launch of the bootstrap period of the SigUSD stablecoin, the Ergo community participation rates have exceeded our expectation. This can be …

SigmaUSD - Ergo’s Community Deployed Stablecoin Is …

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 …

2000 ERG in Prizes to be Won in the Ergo Digital …

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 …

Building Ergo: How the AgeUSD stablecoin works

The elegant design avoids some of the complexity and potential problems of other approaches to creating decentralised, collateralised stablecoins. As part …

How Ergo Makes the Most of Blockchain

The concept of ‘marginal gains’ enables Ergo to push the capacity of first-generation blockchain technology further than other platforms. With the …

What Ergo can contribute to DeFi interoperability

Most users won’t care about the underlying blockchain they’re using – they will just want its functionality. That means DeFi interoperability will be …

Introducing the Sigmaverse

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 …

2021: The Next Battlegrounds for DeFi

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 …

Ergo Bootstrap, Streamlining Ergo dApp …

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 …

Ergo Headless dApp Framework Now Available

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 …

New Ergo Smart DEX Orders with buyback guarantees

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 …

An introduction to ‘Headless’ dApps

This new approach offers a streamlined interface for interacting with on-chain contracts, enabling anyone to build dApps using simple building blocks. …

Ergo Foundation Makes Key dApp Infrastructure …

The Ergo Foundation will consider proposals for grants towards projects that will support significant ecosystem developments. Ergo is a community-oriented …

Introducing the ‘Ergonaut’: the Ergo Foundation …

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 Wallet to be Suspended – Transfer Your ERG …

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 …

First steps towards interoperability with Cardano …

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 …

The US Election and Blockchain: the Risk of Hard …

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 …

The First Ergo NFT Auction Is Under Way!

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 …

Announcing the Auction House, NFT Marketplace on …

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, …

Learn ErgoScript by Example

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 …

Yoroi: your gateway to Ergo dapps

Yoroi, the flagship lite wallet app for the Cardano ecosystem developed by Emurgo, now supports Ergo! This development follows directly from the …

What will DeFi look like in 10 years?

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 …

NFTs on Ergo

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. …

DeFi: Finance, but not always Decentralised?

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 …

Announcing the ZK Treasury on Ergo!

Ergo’s Zero-Knowledge Treasury enables users to easily create joint digital signatures, with bespoke conditions for spending funds, while ensuring the …

Some thoughts about DeFi, Yield Farming and how …

At the risk of stating the obvious, decentralisation is the hallmark of DeFi. It is decentralisation that brings the benefits of transparency, …

Ergo’s Oracle Pools, and what they mean for the …

The new scheme developed through the Emurgo-Ergo partnership will see oracle pools – core blockchain infrastructure – run as a public service, accessible …

Transcript of the Oracle Pools Q&A session with …

Robert Kornacki I’d like to officially announce that Oracle Pools are live, running on mainnet, with all the code + detailed instructions available …

The Evolution of Programmable Money

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 …

Ergo’s Vision for DeFi: Ergo vs CBDCs

As blockchain technology gains traction, central bank digital currencies are among the most significant applications being developed. But these will …

Building Ergo: Our Vision for DeFi

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 …

Ergo roadmap for 2020

Future dates at time of publication are subject to change March 2020: Command-line version of decentralised trustless mixer, ErgoMixer, launched April …

Decentralized Exchange Contracts on Ergo

Ergo has expressive smart contracts and transactional model which allows for an implementation of trustless DEX protocol, in which signed buy and sell …

Ergo Foundation - New members and contests

Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity, is welcoming its new member Robert Kornacki, head of research and development engineer at EMURGO …

Ergo and the explosion of DeFi

DeFi is the next major frontier for blockchain technology – but what does the current surge of interest mean for Ergo? The narrative around blockchain …

Ergo-Emurgo partnership yields new model for …

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 …

The opportunities of the Ergo/Emurgo partnership

Cardano and Ergo take quite different approaches to DeFi and blockchain development, but there are specific areas in which they significantly overlap. This …

Press release: Ergo Foundation partners with …

The collaboration will encompass a range of objectives – including exploration of a decentralised stablecoin solution. Ergo, the smart contracts platform …

Ergo update, 14 May 2020: New exchange, wallet and …

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 …

Building Ergo: Lite full nodes

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 …

Introduction to stablecoins

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 …

Building Ergo: SPV security

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 …

FlowCards: A Declarative Framework for Development …

With thanks to Robert Kornacki for polishing of the draft. Introduction ErgoScript is the smart contract language used by the Ergo blockchain. While it …

Building Ergo: Atomic Swaps

Because a blockchain is a siloed, self-contained system by design, interacting with other blockchain protocols is challenging. Atomic Swaps enable …

Building Ergo: Oracles

Blockchains are siloed systems that can only reference their own data, established by consensus. Oracles are the solution to the problem of working with …

Building Ergo: Storage rent

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 …

Ergo use case: Local Exchange Trading System …

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 use case: ‘hot potato’ monetary policy

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 …

Ergo use cases: safe, simple financial contracts

Ergo enables new models of financial interaction, underpinned by smart contracts built on flexible and powerful Sigma protocols but easily accessible to …

Building Ergo: Sigma protocols

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 …

Introducing Σ3 – ErgoMixer

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 …

Building Ergo: UTXO vs Account

Ergo takes the most secure and best-established features of Bitcoin and implements advanced new cryptographic features on its rock-solid foundations. This …

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - February 2020

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 …

Welcome to Smart Money

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 …

Ergo Platform Roadmap for 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 …

Security Audit (by Jean Philippe Aumasson)

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 …

Make Your Own Ergo Wallet: Managing Ergo Coins …

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 …

Mining Ergo for Fun and Profit

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 …

The Ergo Cast: Understanding Ergo One Episode At A …

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 …

A New Quest for Decentralization, Part I: …

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.) …

5 Ways Ergo Application Development Is Changed …

With thanks to Robert Kornacki and Denys Zadorozhnyi. Ergo Appkit is a library for polyglot development of Ergo Applications based on GraalVM. GraalVM has …

How to set up and configure a full Ergo node

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 …

Ergo and crowdfunding

What is Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital through the collective efforts of individuals. The campaigns are mostly started via the …

Mining ERGO on AMD Cards

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 …

Ergo Addresses

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 …

After-Launch Thoughts and Ergo Roadmap

Firstly, we would like to thank many enthusiasts, developers, miners, other folks, and our families for measureless help with Ergo development and …

Ergo Withdrawal

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 …

Joining the Ergo main network at the very …

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 …

Wallet documentation

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 …

A Trustless Local Exchange Trading System

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 …

The Ergo Emission Schedule

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 …

How to mine Ergo on Windows(x64)

Step 1: Tools Visual Studio Choose free community version, you will need to select desktop development with C++ package during install. CUDA toolkit Choose …

A Local Exchange Trading System On Top Of Ergo

A local exchange trading system (LETS) is a local mutual credit association which members are allowed to create common credit money individually, with all …

An ICO Example On Top Of Ergo

This article describes a full featured ICO (Initial Coin Offering) implemented in ErgoScript. The example covers several important and novel features of …

Q&A with Alex Chepurnoy and Dmitry Meshkov

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 …

Smart Contracts for the People

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 …