Firo has evolved significantly since its inception as Zcoin, pioneering the use of modern zero-knowledge proofs for privacy. Our technology has matured through steady innovation resulting in influential privacy protocols such as Lelantus and Lelantus Spark—protocols whose design and concepts have influenced and been adopted in other privacy projects.
Our updated roadmap recognizes the growing maturity of Firo and its tech stack and focuses on usability, utility, and upgrades:
- Usability: Enhanced user experience through additional wallet integrations and support for light clients.
- Utility: Expand privacy-preserving use cases, including private token issuance.
- Upgrades: Continuously refine and strengthen protocol features, maintaining leadership in privacy technology.
NEAR-TERM
Spark Names
Allow users to create easy-to-remember, human-readable addresses linked to Spark addresses, enabling convenient sharing and decentralized digital identity
Spark Coinbase
Enable miners and masternodes to send rewards directly to private Spark addresses, further enhancing user privacy and Spark adoption.
View Key Tooling
Develop user-friendly methods for sharing and utilizing Spark view keys, enabling watch-only wallets and selectively disclosing Spark-based funds for compliance purposes.
MID-TERM
Spark Assets
Allow users to issue their own privacy-preserving assets. These assets enjoy the same privacy features as Spark, including the ability to hide asset types. All assets (including Firo) contribute to a shared anonymity set, and the protocol can also support privacy-preserving NFTs.
Spark Swap
Enable atomic swaps between Spark assets and/or Firo, ensuring trustless and private exchanges without using transparent addresses.
Curve Trees
Adopt Curve Trees, an innovative technique for efficient membership proofs that supports a global anonymity set. This upgrade will substantially improve privacy, scalability, verification speed, and proof size.
LONG-TERM
Improved Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Infrastructure
Reduce reliance on customized SPV servers, giving users more private and decentralized light wallet options.
Quantum-Resistant Spark
Explore paths to transition Spark into a quantum-resistant protocol, as well as potential interim mitigations to safeguard against future quantum threats.
Tail Emission Consensus Mechanism
Firo’s current hybrid masternode–Proof-of-Work model may evolve once tail emission is reached. We are investigating alternative incentive or consensus mechanisms to secure the chain in the long run.
Governance
Develop clear, decentralized governance structures to reduce reliance on Firo’s core team. The aim is to align all project stakeholders without focusing solely on coin holdings.
INTEGRATIONS
Enkrypt Wallet Integration
Seamless access to Spark privacy directly in Enkrypt, a popular Web3 wallet, simplifying secure asset management for users.
Layerswap v8 Integration
Leverage Layerswap v8, a peer-to-peer protocol for bridging and swapping crypto assets across different blockchains. By using pre-HTLCs, it addresses many limitations of traditional atomic swaps (e.g., both parties needing to be online) and supports multi-hop transactions.
Serai Integration
Collaborate with Serai, a cross-chain DEX focusing on AMM liquidity for Bitcoin, Ethereum, DAI, and Monero. Integrating Firo expands its cross-chain liquidity options and user base.
ITERATIVE IMPROVEMENTS
Campfire
Continue building out Campfire desktop and mobile wallets to provide full-featured support for masternodes, Spark Assets, and Spark Names.
FiroDEX
Rework FiroDEX to be more resilient, ensuring its infrastructure—both nodes and front ends—is operated by a decentralized network of volunteers and community members.
ONWARDS
Our ongoing development is powered by our passionate community and crucially supported by privacy-aligned partners such as Power Up Privacy and Arcadia Group, who make many of these initiatives possible. We remain committed to decentralization, community-driven growth, and privacy without VC interference. Thank you for your continuous support.