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Introducing the Sigmaverse

Your portal to Ergo’s dApp universe is opening. Ergo has some amazing tech and some talented developers.

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 .

Ergo Bootstrap, Streamlining Ergo dApp Infrastructure With One Simple Tool

The Ergo ecosystem is quickly growing with new design patterns, tools, dApps, and more every single month.

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 app.

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.

An introduction to ‘Headless’ dApps

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

Ergo Foundation Makes Key dApp Infrastructure Grant

The Ergo Foundation will consider proposals for grants towards projects that will support significant ecosystem developments.

Introducing the ‘Ergonaut’: the Ergo Foundation NFT sale!

This major auction will help fund the dev work carried out by our anons, and offers the opportunity for anyone to get their hand.

Magnum Wallet to be Suspended – Transfer Your ERG to Yoroi

Magnum, a popular lite wallet for ERG and other currencies, will cease to operate at the end of the month.

First steps towards interoperability with Cardano oracles

The oracle solution for Cardano will post data from Ergo’s oracle pools, treating the pre-processed data as a trusted source for.

The US Election and Blockchain: the Risk of Hard Forks

What happens in an election has many parallels to the governance of blockchain platforms.

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.

Announcing the Auction House, NFT Marketplace on Ergo

The platform allows users to sell Ergo’s NFTs – an important development in the growing DeFi movement – securely and easily.

Learn ErgoScript by Example

The new resources provide a powerful but simple way to learn UTXO-based smart contracts.

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 d.

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.

NFTs on Ergo

As with almost every other area of DeFi, Ergo Platform takes a different approach to NFTs that offers some interesting and uniqu.

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 s.

Announcing the ZK Treasury on Ergo!

Ergo’s Zero-Knowledge Treasury enables users to easily create joint digital signatures, with bespoke conditions for spending fun.

Some thoughts about DeFi, Yield Farming and how open systems ‘should’ be used

At the risk of stating the obvious, decentralisation is the hallmark of DeFi.

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

The new scheme developed through the Emurgo-Ergo partnership will see oracle pools – core blockchain infrastructure – run as a p.

Transcript of the Oracle Pools Q&A session with Robert Kornacki

Robert Kornacki I'd like to officially announce that Oracle Pools are live, running on mainnet, with all the code + detailed inst.

The Evolution of Programmable Money

Ergo is building the most effective programmable currency in history. Money is changing.

Ergo’s Vision for DeFi: Ergo vs CBDCs

As blockchain technology gains traction, central bank digital currencies are among the most significant applications being devel.

Building Ergo: Our Vision for DeFi

Everyone is talking about DeFi. Few people are asking what DeFi should look like.

Ergo roadmap for 2020

Future dates at time of publication are subject to change March 2020: Command-line version of decentralised trustless mixer, Er.

Decentralized Exchange Contracts on Ergo

Ergo has expressive smart contracts and transactional model which allows for an implementation of trustless DEX protocol, in which.

Ergo Foundation - New members and contests

Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity, is welcoming its new member Robert Kornacki, head of research and development engine.

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 narrat.

Ergo-Emurgo partnership yields new model for oracles

The joint research on oracle pools will be implemented in the Ergo stablecoin project.

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 s.

Press release: Ergo Foundation partners with Emurgo to research and develop new DeFi solutions

The collaboration will encompass a range of objectives – including exploration of a decentralised stablecoin solution.

Ergo update, 14 May 2020: New exchange, wallet and first mining pool with collaterals!

We have three great new developments to announce to the Ergo community, all of which will boost our user base and decentralisatio.

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.

Introduction to stablecoins

Stablecoins are a major use case for DeFi but come in various different forms.

Building Ergo: SPV security

There’s often a tension in the crypto world between security and convenience.

FlowCards: A Declarative Framework for Development of Ergo dApps

With thanks to Robert Kornacki for polishing of the draft.

Building Ergo: Atomic Swaps

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

Building Ergo: Oracles

Blockchains are siloed systems that can only reference their own data, established by consensus.

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 sta.

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.

Ergo use case: Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)

The need to reform the global financial system has been clear since the last crisis in 2008. Now, COVID-19 has forced our hands.

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 b.

Building Ergo: Sigma protocols

Ergo’s smart contracts and DeFi functionality are built on Sigma protocols – a powerful, flexible class of zero-knowledge proofs.

Introducing Σ3 – ErgoMixer

The project uses Ergo’s Sigma protocols to enable efficient, trustless mixing of funds, enabling a high degree of privacy while e.

Building Ergo: UTXO vs Account

Ergo takes the most secure and best-established features of Bitcoin and implements advanced new cryptographic features on its roc.

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - February 2020

Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020 has been released, the plan is minimum and very realistic https://ergoplatform.

Welcome to Smart Money

It’s the smartest crypto you’ve never heard of.

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - January 2020

Ergo Foundation has been established (https://ergoplatform.

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 cli.

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.