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…
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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!
Note: The bridge is temporarily offline as a safety measure. The foundation will announce its return in due course. Whilst there was nothing compromised, the abundance of caution derives from a social engineering scam which is being assessed. On 16th July 2024, the XX Network Bridge went live to the public. You can now bridge…
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. A more in-depth retrospective interview…
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…
David Chaum Speaking at PlasmaCon in Tokyo on July 31st
David will be speaking 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 is making a resurgence after Vitalik Buterin wrote about the future in his recent blog…
Echoexx Is Now Phoenixx – A New Name With Cutting Edge Ambitions
Announced on May 24th, 2024, the Web3 messaging and payments platform Echoexx has rebranded to Phoenixx. Currently in Alpha, Phoenixx takes on a new look and feel to see it through a year ahead full of development before the full launch in 2025. Beta is coming soon and with that are some highly anticipated features…
Turkish XX Community Starts Series of Educational Sessions
On 16th May 2024, The Turkish XX Community posted on X, describing an event that took place that day in conjunction with Bau Blockchain Club, based at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul. Translated, it reads: 🚀 We held the first of our campus events hosted by @baublocktech and together with @agenzydigital.🎉 We talked about XX’s philosophy,…
XX Nodes: Countdown to the End of the Team Multiplier
When the XX Network entered main net back in November 2021, the team of the time were keen to incentivise the continued support of Betanet node runners and therefore encourage the network to be geographically diverse and resilient/strong with good quality people, hardware and connectivity, particularly as the network started out and matured. As part…