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Happy New Year Ergonauts!

Ergo team wishes you an amazing 2021

A new tutorial on ErgoMixer by Anon2020s and Sakata

ErgoMixer Tutorial - Windows, Mac, JVM & Docker - Version 3.0.1 & Above

A tool for airdrops added to ErgoUtils by Anon_real

The aim of https://ergoutils.org/ is to provide useful utilities to be used by any wallet in a safe and trustless manner using the assembler service.

ErgoMixer v3.2.0, ZeroJoin for ERG and tokens on Ergo released by Anon2020s

The very first programmable and non-interactive mixer in the cryptocurrency space where final receiving point can`t be distinguished with covert address.

Details on updated Proof-of-Work scheme Autolykos v.2

The goal of this post is to explain and discuss upcoming proof-of-work function change.

From the family at Ergo, we present The Sigmaverse

Your portal to the Ergo universe

The Hardening protocol upgrade activation is set to block 414,720

(around January, 27th, 2021)

Ergo protocol reference client 4.0.0 (The Hardening Upgrade) pre-release

The Hardening Upgrade client & Stratum support

Ergo Summit 2021 - Entering The New Era, Announcing AgeUSD & The Hardening Upgrade

FREE online event on Ergo's YouTube - January 23, Saturday 2pm UTC [9am EST]

"Tutorial #3 for the Headless dApp Framework is out" by Emurgo

Continue developing your own Headless dApp. Check out the new tutorial now.

Love Ergo Platform? Want to share your knowledge and earn some ERG?

We're giving away 500, 300 and 200 ERG for the best articles explaining the different features that make Ergo so awesome!

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 conventional financial sector: decentralised atomic composability at scale with opt-in auditable privacy.

Ergo Mainnet 3.3.7 released

Distributed signatures API, improvements in scans and wallet API, support for tokens in inbuilt wallet UI, bugfixes

Understanding Headless dApps with Robert Kornacki

Robert discusses the concept behind the new "Headless dApp" model and why this novel approach to decentralizing the development process is the way of the future for building dApps

In less time it takes to make cereal, launch your NFT artwork auction on Ergo with any wallet

Follow the guide attached! Kudos to Anon-real for dev & video, thanks to Yeti for vocals!

Welcome to a new era of Ergo ecosystem development!

One day event of online presentations!

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. This is an exciting point in time for developers to jump in and get started.

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.

Ergo/Emurgo Stable Coin, NFT, Mixer, and more! | The Cardano Aura #9

Livestream with Alex Chepurnoy, the core developer of the Ergo Platform

Ergo "Headless dApp Framework" just released by Emurgo

This new Rust framework flips the dApp development model on it's head by providing developers the very first library for UTXO-based Headless dApps on any blockchain.

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.3 Release

Added missing code coverage tests, new benchmarks and optimizations

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.

DarkFund0 - ZK Fund for privacy applications

New privacy-preserving designs, instructional and promotional materials for the mixer, zk treasury, different Ergo tools and financial privacy in general. All are welcome

Autolykos v.2 details

The goal of this post is to explain and discuss upcoming proof-of-work function change.

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 hands on a piece of Ergo history, thanks to the updated Auction House working with any Ergo wallet!

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.2 released

More memory and performance optimizations (#693), the Protocol and Requirements to replace AOT with JIT via soft-fork (#695)

Updated Roadmap 2020 - 2021

Blockchain Auctions - Stablecoin Integration - Ledger Integration - Atomic Swaps - ErgoDEX

Magnum Wallet Closing in 20 days!

Please use wallet in-built in full node, Yoroi or Coinbarn https://ergoplatform.org/en/wallets/

Ergo Explained: Episode 01 - Basics & Forking

New series of videos by Alex Chepurnoy about the state of development and principles the Ergo Platform is based on.

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 its own records to the blockchain.

Ergo Foundation is welcoming its new member Mohammad Hassan Samadani

Mohammad Hassan Samadani is a founder of https://ergopool.io and released first ERG miner for AMD cards!

Ergo Explorer 4.0.1 released

Features: Assets order preservation, synchronization nodes ranking

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.6 released

#1231 : fix for peers discovery, #1234 : fix for docker build failing because of sbt-1458

Single-Chain Swap Contracts (DEX basis) by Alex Chepurnoy

Learn ErgoScript by reading example smart contracts powered by the Ergo Playground

"EMURGO is happy to release it's Ergo Node Interface for the Ergo dev community"

You can find this new Rust based library on EMURGO's github

Ergo Cast Episode #4 - Yoroi Wallet

In today’s show we have the pleasure of being accompanied by two core members of Emurgo, who will be walking us through all of the specifics relating to the latest substantial release for the Ergo ecosystem – Yoroi

“Waves partners with Ergo to foster interoperability solutions via Gravity”

"We are excited to announce Waves’ new partnership agreement with the Ergo Foundation. The agreement stipulates integration of Ergo as a Gravity target chain, as well as collaborative R&D on cross-chain solutions with a focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized oracles."

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.5 released

#1224 : inactive connections being dropped, fix for #1165 : double-spending transactions not allowed in mempool (with RBF replacement strategy) #1220, fix for panel issues during wallet init/restore (issue #1212 )

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on BTCNEXT Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on BTCNEXT Exchange

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.

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Gate.io Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Gate.io Exchange

Yoroi Wallet now supports Ergo!

Store, Send and Receive $ERG in Yoroi Wallet

Learn ErgoScript By Example Via The Ergo Playground with Robert Kornacki

Enjoy the video and jump straight to this repo https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergoscript-by-example

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.4 released

Improvementss and fixes. Details in the description of the release.

Ergo explorer backend 3.3.0 released

Features: New fields added to an unconfirmed transaction API endpoint

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.

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - September 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in September

Ergo Utilities - General utilities to make writing off-chain Ergo code in Rust simpler

his library was born from abstracting out reusable components from the Oracle Core.

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.1 released

Improvementss and fixes. Details in the description of the release.

Ergo Cast is now back online, now with a new co-host Sakata

Oracle Pools, Smart Contracts, DeFi, Ergo, Chainlink, Cardano. All in one podcast.

Ergo explorer backend 3.2.1 released

Index field added to TransactionInfo / TransactionSummary

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.

Ergo explorer backend 3.2.0 released

Index, outputIndex fields added to InputInfo, DataInputInfo, inclusionHeight field added to TransactionInfo. Optimizations: /addresses/balances API endpoint now returns only first 100 addresses.

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 of open, decentralised systems. You can’t stop it, and there’s a very strong argument for saying we shouldn’t try.

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.3 released

#1186 : fix for #1185: command-line parameters support back for docker containers #1184 : Accept to the mempool and propagate locally generated transactions in the digest mode (also, do not download transactions in this mode)

"Unlocking The Potential Of The UTXO Model" by Emurgo Research

The extended UTXO model empowers smart contract writers with a robust and flexible base to build on top of. In contrast to the account model, UTXO-based smart contracts have no concept of a function which you call within a transaction in order for state transitions to take place.

Explorer backend 3.1.0 released

Enhancements: Mempool chained transactions support and output info enriched

Oracle Pools and Interoperability of Cardano and Ergo with Robert Kornacki | TCE 105

The Cardano Effect - EP105

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.2 released

Dockerfile: configurable java heap.Wallet/boxes fix - this API method now correctly returns all the wallet boxes, spent or not. Wallet scan has been reworked to have improved efficiency and memory footprint

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 signatories to the created address remain hidden.

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - August 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in August

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. It is decentralisation that brings the benefits of transparency, accessibility, security, immutability, composability, efficiency and more besides to these new financial initiatives.

"ZeroJoin: Combining ZeroCoin and CoinJoin" has been accepted to CBT2020 workshop

4th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2020

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 public service, accessible by any dApp and developer, free at the point of use.

"Today EMURGO and Ergo platform mark a historic moment for UTXO based dApps and DeFi applications"

Developers may now build and run Oracle Pools on the Ergo blockchain with the joint release of our smart contracts & off-chain "Oracle Core"

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 instructions available for you to start/run your own, and we have a beautiful frontend created by DeadIT now implemented in the explorer https://explorer.ergoplatform.com/en/oracle-pools-list"

Ergo Explorer 2.0.0 released

Fixed grabber bug causing chain statuses corruption in some cases, fixed bug causing inconsistent mempool view in some cases, data inputs support and inputs indexing

The Evolution of Programmable Money

Ergo is building the most effective programmable currency in history.

"App on Distributed Signatures"

"Dear Ergo Community, in this post, I would like to explain a project on top of Ergo’s Distributed Signatures capability."

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.3.1 has been released

If you're running 3.2.x node, just remove wallet/registry subfolder in your ergo data folder (e.g. ~/.ergo). Unlock the wallet after running the node (you can lock it a minute later).

"EMURGO is pleased to officially announce that EMURGO’s Head of R&D and smart contract developer Robert Kornacki was appointed as a new board member of the Ergo Foundation."

"This board appointment serves to further strengthen EMURGO’s recently announced partnership with Ergo...and strategically positions EMURGO at the forefront of development of this emerging industry area of UTXO-based smart contracts that is being worked on by Cardano and Ergo."

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 inevitably fall far short of the ideal, for one simple reason: control.

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.

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.3.0 has been released

If you're running 3.2.x node, just remove wallet/registry subfolder in your ergo data folder (e.g. ~/.ergo). Unlock the wallet after running the node (you can lock it a minute later). If you had only one key in your wallet, lock it and unlock again to have the master key unlocked.

"New Video: Robert Kornacki of EMURGO does a deep dive into the ground breaking research behind the Oracle Pools Smart Contract Specification."

This is the very first UTXO based DApp specification to be released.

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 orders can be put into the blockchain independently by buyers and sellers.

Blog Update: We've new Foundation members and contests!

We've got some more ERG to give back to the community: Miners & Writers, this one is for you!

Ergo AppKit 3.2.2 has been released

It includes: Support for multi ProveDHTuple and ProveDLog, FlowCard blog post, upgrade to ergo-wallet v3.2.3, support for data-inputs to TxBuilder

Ergo Explorer Backend 1.1.0 has been released

It includes: Fixed grabber bug causing chain statuses corruption in some cases, ResultSet deduplication enabled for search queries, more precise confirmations calculation

Video: How to set up and configure a full Ergo node on Windows

Great video made by a community member on setting up an Ergo full node on Windows

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinex Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinex Exchange

"New EMURGO Research: This week we bring you the official Oracle Pools Smart Contract Spec!"

"This is the first UTXO dApp specification ever released and is an exciting step forward in the Emurgo Ergo DeFi-focused partnership"

"Ergo Contracts"

A repository of the Ergo smart contracts with compilation, testing, and formal verification tooling

"Summary of the AMA with Ergo Platform"

AMA with GAINS community

"Ergopool is live on mainnet"

The Mining Hub for Self-Sovereign Ergo Miners!

"New EMURGO Research: We present a brand new model, Oracle Pools, which reimagines oracles from the ground up. This research is part of the Emurgo Ergo partnership"

Oracle Pools

"Let’s sign collectively! Distributed signatures API"

Another step to unveil real threshold on-chain signatures to the masses!

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.2.7 has been released

It contains: Generation of block candidate with certain transactions included ( #929 ) Fix for #1035 (incorrect cost computation on signer side) Double-checks for inputs and outputs of generated transaction.

"Ergomixer v1.0.0 is available for download"

Big thanks to team of anons!

ERGO with Founder Alex Chepurnoy - The Daily Chain

"Ergo is 'Bitcoin-like', but brings with it the latest in blockchain technology and research"

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Sistemkoin Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Sistemkoin Exchange

EMURGO to Partner with Ergo and Build Blockchain-Based Decentralized Financial Solutions

EMURGO, a global blockchain solutions firm & a founding entity of the globally recognized Cardano protocol, announces today a strategic partnership with Ergo - a proof-of-work blockchain protocol built to be a platform for applications with a main focus on providing simple solutions for financial contracts with its UTXO-based smart contracts.

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.6 released

This release is fixing a problem from 3.2.5 with possibility of duplicate inputs for transaction assembler, see ( #1126 ) for details

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.5 released

Support for offchain boxes spending ( #1032 ), downloading logic fix for the case when best full block is not on the best header-chain

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.4 released

Build transaction with token burning (PR #1101), default transaction complexity limit raised to 250K (PR #1104) and fixes

ZeroJoin: Combining ZeroCoin and CoinJoin (Alexander Chepurnoy and Amitabh Saxena)

We present ZeroJoin, a practical privacy-enhancing protocol for blockchain transactions.

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

Integration with Cypra wallet, Coinsbit listing and censorhip resistant mining pool

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinsbit Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinsbit Exchange

"Team" page is replaced with "Hall of Fame"

Ergo Platform moving towards being true community-driven Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency

Ergo joins BPSAA thinktank

Ergo is a smart contracts and DeFi platform that offers powerful but safe smart contracts, with Sigma protocols enabling flexible, highly composable applications out of the box.

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.2.3 released

Fixes and improvements. Details in the description of the release

Building Ergo: Lite full nodes

The extension section contains certain mandatory fields including links for NiPoPoW and parameters for miner voting, such as current block size.

Building Ergo: SPV security

Ergo implements NiPoPoWs, or Non-interactive Proof-of-Proof-of-Work. This technology can be explored in full on this dedicated website: https://nipopows.com/

FlowCards: A Declarative Framework for Development of Ergo dApps

Ergo is pioneering the declarative model as a better and safer alternative to the now popular imperative model of smart contracts.

Building Ergo: Atomic Swaps

Ergo allows partial swaps. Just like on a regular exchange, orders can be partially filled, if that’s what the trader wants.

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 external information, which is vital for many everyday use cases.

Building Ergo: Storage rent

One community member, Robert, describes this function as ‘on-chain garbage collection’ that reduces the problem of blockchain bloat – and even makes it profitable.

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 innovative, targeted implementations of economic stimulation that the conventional banking sector cannot achieve.

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. We cannot delay, and the best way to start is from the grassroots.

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.2 released

Fixes and improvements. Details in the description of the release

Introducing Σ3 - ErgoMixer

A powerful mixer that works by pooling funds and enabling participants to spend them without anyone knowing who made the transactions

Building Ergo: UTXO vs Account

This series explores the choices we have made in creating Ergo, with the first article unpacking the advantages of the UTXO model

Coinbarn, a simple wallet for Ergo has been published in Chrome store

Desktop versions can be found here https://github.com/coinbarn/coinbarn-extension/releases/

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.1 released

Mempool and miner made friendly to transactions spending outputs of offchain transactions, parameter for syncing detection during headers-chain download and more

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest

January 2020

Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020

Please note that this plan is minimum and very realistic

Ergo Platform Discord Server has been created

You are welcome to join us

Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts

In this work, we propose a concrete example of such a mechanism which is using collateralized smart contracts

Introducing the Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity

Join us and help build the decentralized future

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

Alexander Chepurnoy: "your paper Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts has been accepted for publication at WTSC@FC20"

Make Your Own Ergo Wallet: Managing Ergo Coins with ErgoTool

ErgoTool is a command line interface (CLI) for Ergo blockchain

Coinbarn wallet now has its desktop version

Download binaries for MacOS, Windows and Linux