During the early part of August 2024, the XX Network team headed up by Rick Carback completed and presented one of the three grant projects awarded by the Worldcoin Foundation which utilises XX Network technology. The Network Traffic Anonymizer was something the Worldcoin Foundation had specifically made a request for to enhance the level of…
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David Speaks on the X Space for the BTC Olympics 2024 Launch
On 5th August 2024, David Chaum was invited to speak in what became a 6 hour X space in his capacity as a judge for forthcoming hackathons. The Bitcoin Olympics is a series of online hackathons taking place over a few weeks during the summer of 2024, with multiple networks being involved. Below is David’s…
XX Foundation Clarifies Recent Social Engineering Incident
In a document released on July 31st 2024, the XX Foundation explains the series of events that led to 1.5m wrapped XX (WXX) tokens to be sent to an individual or group originally posing as a legitimate investor on Friday 26th July 2024.. To sum up: On a personal note, I was extremely disappointed to…
David Chaum Spoke at PlasmaCon in Tokyo on July 31st
David spoke along with key figures in the Ethereum ecosystem at this conference at the United Nations University in Tokyo on July 31st. Plasma is a proposed scaling solution for Ethereum first discussed over 6 years ago which made a resurgence after Vitalik Buterin wrote about the future in his recent blog post “Exit games…
XX Network African Community Hosted Web3 Summit, July 26th
The XX Network African community have been extremely busy since the inception of their telegram group with various promotional initiatives. As well as nurturing the growth of their community with competitions and creative campaigns, they recently announced their first ‘offline’ event which took place at the E3 Events and Banquets Centre in the Tropicana Mall…
David Chaum at the Global Blockchain Show, Dec 11-12th
On 17th July 2024, the Global Blockchain Show confirmed David as a speaker at this year’s event in Dubai: The conference’s speaker info describes David: “David Chaum pioneered privacy in modern communication as the inventor of mix nets, blind signatures, and multiparty computation that laid the foundation for enabling secure voting systems, anonymous internet surfing…
The XX Network Bridge is Live!
On 16th July 2024, the XX Network Bridge went live to the public. You can now bridge from native XX coin into the ETH WXX token and back again without using an exchange at: https://bridge.xx.network/ Available for desktop browsers, the site allows you to connect both your XX and ETH wallets at the same time…
XX Network Q3 Roadmap Released
On 10th July 2024, the XX Foundation released their intentions for the three months ahead in the usual quarterly roadmap. Within the roadmap there are 11 key stated aims: There are, as ever, some items that didn’t make the main roadmap but will be revealed and/or discussed as they happen.
Watch David and Mário’s Keynote, Blockchain Expo World, July 2024
The Turkish XX Network community announced back in May that Mário Yaksetig was joining them in person in Istanbul for the Blockchain Expo World conference in Istanbul, with David Chaum making a remote appearance. The event took place over July 4th – 7th and the Turkish XX Network delivered a great event including an after…
XX Network Runtime Upgrade ‘206’ Complete
On 28th June 2024, preparations began for the XX Network’s blockchain to receive a suite of upgrades for the first time in almost two years. This has now happened. Upgrade Schedule The highly anticipated software update that XX Network’s nodes now run was prepared by original team member Bernie Cardoso, with further support in documentation…