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…
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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…
XX Community AMAs Part 1 – Full Meeting Audio and Transcript
On 26th November 2023, at 14:00 UTC, members of the XX Foundation along with David Chaum, Jim Dolbear and members of the Turkish XX Community gathered in the Turkish XX Telegram Group to discuss the project and answer some questions from the Community. The discussion took place over more than two hours and covered various…
XX Network Community AMAs, Part 1 Announced
On Sunday 26th November at 2pm UTC, there will be an AMA hosted by the vibrant Turkish XX Community with David Chaum, Jim Dolbear, Aaron Welwood and Robbie Schubert in attendance to discuss the activities of the Foundation and other entities contributing to the network since the last update. The meeting will be in English…
David Chaum Unveils ‘Better than Money’, Utilising XX’s cMixx+
In a video posted on November 19th 2023 to YouTube, David talks to David Lin at length about a topic he presented at the Singapore Fintech Festival on November 16th , namely his idea of ‘Better than Money‘, dubbed ‘cCash’ in this video, later described as ‘cMoney’ in a written paper. The ‘c’ standing for…
‘cMixx+’ – Enhanced Privacy & Speed in Various Use Cases
On November 17th 2023, a paper was published by the Foundation, authored by David Chaum and Mário Yaksetig, which is a proposed update to the cMixx mix network currently employed by the XX Network, called cMixx+. The update would give the network the ability to mix batch sizes other than 1,000 messages (potentially much more)…
Demo: Private Polkadot Transaction via Proxxy
On 13th November, Robbie from the XX Foundation posted a video showing the new WebAssembly implementation of Proxxy interacting with Subwallet to send a Polkadot transaction over cMixx: This demo was not only to show this is possible but also that other Substrate-based networks can be an easy shoe-in, so long as they have an…
Echoexx – Web3 Identities, Comms, Payments and More
Update: On 24th May 2024, Echoexx rebranded to Phoenixx. On November 7th 2023, Bitfashioned revealed Echoexx – a comprehensive Web3 platform for individuals to manage their identities, payments, communication and more, fully integrated into XX Network’s cMixx network, making it the most fully featured, secure and private experience that exists for folks looking to flex…