In somewhat of a first for myself, with perhaps more to come if this sort of thing appeals, I (Patcrypt) sat down to talk to Mário from BitFashioned about the three grants that the Worldcoin project has awarded for development projects within the XX Network. In the chat, Mário fleshes out the detail of each…
XX Network News
XX Network Partners with Worldcoin to Further Enhance User Privacy
In an announcement as part of an X space on 9th February 2024 from the Worldcoin project, and a subsequent announcement from the XX Network, several grants (1, 2, 3) have been issued by Worldcoin to development teams of the XX Network to introduce unique privacy technology for use within the Worldcoin ecosystem. Worldcoin’s Wave0…
Stunning XX Artwork from 3D Graphics Guru StrobFX
Over time, watching what goes on within the XX Network ecosystem, you start to notice some community members acting relentlessly and selflessly to promote and enhance the image of the project and it’s way past time that community member (and current two times PatCrypt giveaway puzzle winner!) StrobFX gets that recognition from me here. If…
David Chaum Speaking at BlockShow x BlockDown, May 8-9th
In an X post from the BlockDown conference’s account on February 5th 2024, it was confirmed David will be a speaker at the event in Hong Kong – in fact putting him to the top of the list in the image attached to the post! Elixxir.io is the founding company previous to being combined with…
Initial Alpha of echoexx Released to Mailing List Invitees
Update: On 24th May 2024, Echoexx rebranded to Phoenixx. On the evening of January 29th 2024, BitFashioned pushed out the first release of echoexx to those on their website mailing list. As a decentralised web app, echoexx provides completely private messaging using XX Network’s mixnet cMixx, whilst connected to a web3 identity. In this early…
First New XX Grant Awarded for Development of EVM Bridge
On 26th January 2024, the XX Foundation announced the first awardee of the new grants programme, that being community leader and XX Council member Bulldog who has engaged the services of BitFashioned to produce the much anticipated EVM bridge for XX. The bridge will allow for on and off-ramping XX into the Ethereum ecosystem, including…
XX Foundation Releases Q1 2024 Roadmap
A much anticipated roadmap for the first quarter of the year was released on the 17th January from the XX Foundation, giving hints at what we can expect to be released over the coming weeks and months. The highlights appear to include: It’s also been hinted that along the way will be further announcements of…
XX Network Foundation Announces Rebooted Grants Programme
On 8th January 2024, the XX Foundation announced the reboot of the XX Network Grants programme. Previously aimed mainly at developers, this new initiative is set to reinvigorate research and development applications from appropriate teams and individuals to receive up to 2,000,000 XX Coins (double the previous allocation) from a pool of 20,000,000 to produce…
A Glimpse of Current XX Network Research
Cryptographer and developer Mário Yaksetig posted a tantalising image to the Telegram group on December 15th, 2023 showing the ‘current pipeline’ of research internally: Mário added: “I wanted to give everyone an update regarding what’s in the ongoing Research pipeline. As a curiosity, I’d like to hear from you (the community) what you think the…
BIS Publish Project Tourbillon Trial Results
On November 29th 2023, The Bank for International Settlements published a paper describing the piloting of a retail Central Bank Digital Currency created by IBM in collaboration with Swiss National Bank under the name ‘Project Tourbillion’ (Read more about it here). These trails lasted throughout 2023 and proved that a cash-like CBDC with privacy features…