On 18th November, the XX Network X account posted the following video. Narrated by David Chaum, the XX Network’s Founder, the video looks at how the network has developed, what is happening now, and likely to be seen in the near future as well as thanking all its supporters along the way. The XX Network…
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Hacktoberfest 2024: 230,000 XX Awarded
As announced on the XX Forums on 16th October 2024, developer Rick Carback introduced bounties for development work to be carried out as part of Hacktoberfest 2024, mostly around the newly revitalised Haven private group messenger platform, which is fast becoming a flagship application for the XX Network’s mix network, cMixx. Funded by the XX…
XX Foundation Releases Q4 2024 Roadmap
On 15th October 2024, the XX Network’s Foundation released a graphic to illustrate the plans for the rest of the year. The message written by Aaron (Foundation director) to accompany the above read as follows: 👀 Exciting News! Our Q4 2024 Roadmap is Here! 🥳 We’re moving forward with the xx network Q4 2024 roadmap,…
XX Foundation Releases Q3 Recap
In a series of posts on X, and in full on Haven, the XX Foundation has gone over many of the items within the Q3 Roadmap and their progression, plus mention some other initiatives in the pipeline. It is republished below in full: We’re excited to share the milestones from Q3 2024 and highlight the…
XX Network Delivers Worldcoin Network Anonymizer Application
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…
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…