Blog

November 25, 2024

by Reuben Yap

MAGIC approves grant to develop Enkrypt wallet integration

Providing seamless and secure access privacy-focused financial solutions

October 17, 2024

by Reuben Yap

BEP20 FIRO Liquidity Injection

Power Up Privacy injects $200,000 into Firo's PancakeSwap Liquidity Pool

September 24, 2024

by Augustus Jong

Firo 24-Week Liquidity Mining Campaign

Total reward pool of up to US$19,200 up for grabs

September 18, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo Hardfork Completed Successfully

Changes to block distribution, emission model and sustainability

September 04, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo Mandatory Release v0.14.14.0

This release implements the tokenomics change voted on by community members

#community #dev #news

September 01, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo Finalized Tokenomics Results

The Firofam have voted and spoken.

#community #news #dev

August 19, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Together We Decide: Vote to Shape Firo's Future!

Vote on Firo's tokenomics

August 12, 2024

by LilKinggg

Firo Guardian Program

Protect, Promote, and Prosper: Be a Firo Guardian!

August 10, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo Core Team receives 345 XMR donation from Power Up Privacy

August 09, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo listed on Ascendex

Firo/USDT Pair

July 12, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Campfire Wallet Release

A fun and privacy-preserving Firo-only wallet

June 25, 2024

by Augustus Jong

Binance adds new cross margin pair for FIRO

FIRO/USDT Cross Margin

June 20, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Exchange Addresses live for FIRO on Binance

Deposit addresses are now EX-Addresses

June 19, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Firo Release 0.14.13.3 Mandatory Upgrade

With performance improvements and features

#community #news #dev

May 03, 2024

by Augustus Jong

The 3rd term of CFC members are formed!

Welcome old and new

March 24, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Nomination Thread for a New Community Fund Committee 2024

A new nomination thread for the 3rd CFC election

March 22, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Update on Binance Monitoring Tag Issue

An update on the monitoring tag status

March 19, 2024

by Augustus Jong

Hummingbot Firo Liquidity Campaign on Binance is back!

8-weeks FIRO Liquidity Mining Campaign

January 18, 2024

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus Spark is live on Firo

Lelantus Spark is live on Firo’s mainnet

#announcement #news #dev

December 15, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Firo x LetsExchange AMA Recap

AMA took place on Twitter/X

December 13, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Firo is Now Integrated into BasicSwap Installer (.exe)

Compatible with Bidirectional Adaptor Signature Atomic Swaps

November 27, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Lelantus Spark Binary Release

A Groundbreaking Advancement into Privacy

November 13, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Free Firo Masternode hosting on Flux Cloud

A promotional event

November 06, 2023

by Reuben Yap

Exchange Addresses

A Pragmatic Approach balancing privacy and adoption

November 02, 2023

by Reuben Yap

When is Lelantus Spark releasing on Firo's mainnet?

Release and Activation dates

October 23, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Firo now available on LetsExchange.io

Fast exchange, no registration, fixed and floating rates

October 11, 2023

by Reuben Yap

Update on Firo’s Security Retainer with HashCloak

HashCloak's Fuzzing Expands Firo's Code Coverage

September 05, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Hummingbot Firo Liquidity Campaign on Binance Extended

Earn $FIRO and $HBOT rewards!

#news #development #community

July 31, 2023

by Augustus Jong

Lelantus Spark Testnet Launched

Public launch for Spark testnet

July 15, 2023

by Reuben Yap

Building a Safer Firo: MAGIC approves Security Retainer with HashCloak

Testing infrastructure, expand unit test coverage, and improve the PR review process

#news #community #development

July 14, 2023

by Reuben Yap

Unveiling Spark: Public Testnet Launch Date confirmed

Spark testnet launching on 31st July 2023

#news #community #development

June 18, 2023

by Lucas Fullam

Firo: Empowering Privacy and Security

Newcomer-friendly blog post about Firo and its privacy technology!

June 13, 2023

by AJay

New FIRO Liquidity campaign on Binance

Liquidity mining campaign extended for another 12 weeks!

May 26, 2023

by AJay

Advancing Privacy: Aram Jivanyan advancing Lelantus Spark

Elliptic Curves Research

May 12, 2023

by Augustus Jong

FIRO added to Trocador

You can now make a standard swap or a payment in Firo

April 19, 2023

by Lucas Fullam

The 2nd Community Fund Committee Elected

Empowering the community

#announcement #development #news

March 24, 2023

by Reuben Yap

Firo v0.14.12.1 Rab13s Fix Release

Zero-day vulnerability found by Halborn

March 21, 2023

by AJay

FiroDEX beta v0.5.7 released

New version available

March 07, 2023

by AJay

New FIRO dMiner campaign on PancakeSwap

Participate in Firo's Liquidity Mining Campaign on PancakeSwap with Hummingbot's dMiner Platform

March 03, 2023

by Lucas Fullam

Community Fund Committee Election

CFC Election Begins

February 20, 2023

by AJay

FIRO to be Listed on Pexpay Exchange

Spot trading opens on the 22nd February 00:00 UTC

#announcement #news #communinity

February 02, 2023

by Lucas Fullam

Nomination Thread for a New Community Fund Committee

A new nomination thread for a new CFC election

January 12, 2023

by Reuben Yap

New mandatory update Firo v0.14.12.0

Please update your wallet, masternode and nodes

#announcement #development #news

December 20, 2022

by Reuben

Lelantus Spark Code Audit Completed

HashCloak has concluded the Lelantus Spark Audit

#announcement #news #Development

December 15, 2022

by AJay

Pay using FIRO with Guardarian Prepaid Card

Additional ways to use your FIRO

#announcement #news #development

November 11, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus Spark code audit begins

October 10, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Elysium Release Candidate is now Available

Firo's Tokenization layer

#announcement #news #development

September 28, 2022

by Reuben Yap

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIRO! WE ARE SIX!

A look at what have we done in the past year

September 10, 2022

by Reuben Yap

CFC grants 10% Block Reward Bonus to decentralize hashrate

Pools with <30% of total hashrate receive a bonus

#announcement #development #news

July 23, 2022

by Reuben Yap

New mandatory update Firo v0.14.11.1

Please update your wallet, masternode and nodes

July 04, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Community Fund Committee Elected

Empowering the community

#announcement #news #dev #community

May 28, 2022

by Lucas Fullam

Announcement of Firo's Acceptance into the BPSAA

Firo accepted into the BPSAA

May 08, 2022

by Andrei Rotariu

FIRO upcoming tokenomics change

Community Fund Block Rewards Incoming

April 06, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Hummingbot Firo Liquidity Campaign on Binance and Gate.io launched

Get $FIRO and $HBOT rewards!

April 01, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Firo rebrands to Shhh-iba $FIDO

March 07, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Spats: Confidential Assets powered by Spark

March 01, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Campfire, a private by default, open source Firo mobile wallet

February 22, 2022

by Reuben Yap

FiroDEX: Atomic swap powered DEX released

Trustless decentralized swaps using atomic swaps with FiroDEX!

February 16, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Firo Listed on TradeOrge

January 28, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Helsing: Private Firo masternodes in Lelantus Spark

January 18, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Firo & DotOracle Partnership

Bringing Crosschain Capability to Elysium

January 11, 2022

by Reuben Yap

Bittrex adds USDT pair to Firo

Newly added FIRO/USDT

January 04, 2022

by Diego 'rehrar' Salazar

Lelantus Spark Audit Complete

December 31, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Happy New Year and a Recap of 2021

December 22, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Elysium Testnet and GUI

December 20, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Use Firo on BitRefill via Binance Pay

December 19, 2021

by Reuben Yap

MTP stripping live on Firo

Smaller blockchain is here!

December 18, 2021

by Reuben Yap

MAGIC Grants Accepts Firo

Donations accepted in Firo

December 17, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Refresh of Firo QT wallet interface

Firo's QT wallet has been refreshed in line with Firo branding guidelines

December 16, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo Mobile Wallet Release

Native mobile wallet with Lelantus privacy technology

December 07, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Team Additions to Firo

Three new additions

November 25, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo integration into Binance Pay

Shop with Firo or send Firo to friends and family worldwide

November 22, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo's Future and Direction

Looking ahead to 2022

November 08, 2021

by Reuben Yap

A smaller FIRO blockchain: MTP Data Stripping

Reducing Firo's Blockchain Size

October 25, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo Research Update October 2021

An update about Lelantus Spark, MTP stripping and Light wallets

October 18, 2021

by Lucas Fullam

Launch of Firo Crowdfunding System

Launch of FCS to replace the original CCS

October 15, 2021

by Augustus Jong

Firo Partners with Finstreet, India’s Largest Crypto Education Platform

India's Largest Crypto Education Platform

October 01, 2021

by Reuben Yap

FiroPoW and InstantSend Release with Firo v0.14.9.0

Hard Fork scheduled October 26th

September 15, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo Dev Update - September 2021

An update on Firo's latest development.

August 30, 2021

by Reuben Yap

FiroPoW Testnet Launched

FiroPoW is our new mining algorithm targeted at GPUs that keeps mining accessible to everyone

August 27, 2021

by Reuben Yap

New Firo Client Released

With refreshed UI and dark mode

August 24, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Presenting Lelantus Spark, Firo’s Flexible New Privacy Protocol

Firo unveils a protocol that introduces several new privacy-preserving features.

August 18, 2021

by Reuben Yap

New mandatory update Firo v0.14.8.0

Hard Fork scheduled at block 401580

June 11, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Crypto Lender CoinRabbit Adds Support for Firo

Use Firo to get instant crypto loans with Coinrabbit!

June 09, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Introducing Receiver Address Privacy for Recurring Firo Payments

Firo launches RAP addresses on mainnet to provide on-chain recipient privacy.

May 17, 2021

by Reuben Yap

An update on Firo's research in the past few months. Privacy preserving light wallets, security analysis of Lelantus v2, improved batched verification, proof of concept code for hierarchical one-out-of-many proofs, anonymous and end to end verifiable and self tallying voting protocol using Lelantus

May 04, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Anonymize your Firo with Lelantus and Win!

To celebrate the reactivation of Lelantus and to encourage use of Lelantus anonymization transactions, we are holding a month long community event where anybody who anonymizes with Lelantus stands a chance to win Firo!

April 28, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Bridging the Fiat Gap: Payment Gateway Guardarian now offers Firo

Guardarian, a premier white-label payment gateway that bridges the gap between fiat and crypto has partnered with FIRO to allow enable fiat to Firo purchases via credit card and SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) EUR transfers.

April 26, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus reactivated on Firo

Lelantus reactivated on Firo with additional hardening measures after completion of the hard fork

April 19, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Announcing Firo's first incentivized liquidity pool on BSC

A vFarm liquidity farm for FIRO/BNB has been launched on ValueDefi to incentivize usage and liquidity of BEP20 Firo on Binance Smart Chain.

April 15, 2021

by Reuben Yap

New Mandatory Update: Firo v0.14.6.0

This is a mandatory update. Please update before 22 April.

April 10, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Accelerating Firo's privacy research

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Aaron Feickert will be joining the Firo research team.

April 01, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo and Binance Smart Chain integration

March 29, 2021

by Reuben Yap

stFiro on Sushiswap

March 27, 2021

by Augustus Jong

Community Meeting 27th March 2021

March 09, 2021

by Splineapple

Introducing The Firo Frontier

February 20, 2021

by Augustus Jong

New software update Firo v0.14.5.3

February 20, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Firo Liquidity Mining Campaign

January 29, 2021

by Reuben Yap

January 28, 2021

by Reuben Yap

ChainLocks activated on Firo, protects against 51% attacks

January 15, 2021

by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt

Lelantus Activated on Mainnet

January 09, 2021

by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt

Firo: 2020 in Review

January 06, 2021

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus activating on Firo

December 08, 2020

by Michael "Muggles" Bernhardt

Firo Partners with Travel Booking Marketplace LockTrip

November 30, 2020

by Reuben Yap

We are now Firo!

Our rebrand is complete.

#news #community #dev

November 12, 2020

by Noah Pierau

Firo Dev Update - November 2020

To give you an idea of what’s happening behind the scenes, here is an overview that the Firo development team has shared

October 30, 2020

by Firo Team

New DeFi Bridge For Zcoin via Stakehound

Zcoin is the first project to launch on Stakehound's liquidity bridge to DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum

October 29, 2020

by Noah Pierau

The exchange ticker for Firo

The ticker name we initially chose was XFR, but we are receiving community feedback that many prefer Firo's ticker to be FIRO.

October 27, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin is becoming Firo

Zcoin is rebranding to Firo

October 27, 2020

by Firo Team

Welcome to Firo

Zcoin has rebranded to Firo. Welcome to our new site! We invite everyone to join us in our rebirth. To the future!

October 20, 2020

by Michael Bernhardt

Lelantus testnet is now open

We are happy to open our Lelantus testnet to the public!

September 05, 2020

by Reuben Yap

First halving approaches

Zcoin is undergoing its first block halving on block 302438 (approximately 15 September 2020) as planned.

September 02, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Bridging Zcoin Znodes into DeFi with Stakehound partnership

We are proud to announce Zcoin’s partnership with Stakehound to unlock liquidity of Znodes and bridge them into DeFi

#announcement #news #development

August 20, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Disclosure of Bug in Zcoin

August 13, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus Cryptographic Library Audit Results

We are pleased to share the results of the Lelantus cryptographic library audit by Trail of Bits

August 04, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin team additions

We welcome two new developers to the team

June 18, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin joins Open Source Collective for sustainable funding

This supplements our Zcoin Crowdfunding System that is used to fund specific tasks and even third party development

June 11, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Paving the way to privacy on by default (with opt-out) with Lelantus

With this step, we foresee a big increase in take-up rate of anonymized funds

June 09, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus academic paper updated

We have significantly updated our Lelantus academic paper to contain security proofs for all cryptographic primitives

June 08, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin v14.0.0 Release with Deterministic Znodes and LLMQ

This is a mandatory upgrade and a major release

May 26, 2020

by Reuben Yap

What you need to know about Deterministic Znodes and LLMQ

As we near the release of deterministic Znodes and LLMQ support that comes together with a Bitcoin core upgrade, we wish to prepare Zcoin users and Znode owners on what to expect

May 04, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin Block Reward Allocation and Development Fund for the next 4 years

We are pleased to announce the division of Zcoin’s block reward for the next 4 years, which will take effect upon the upcoming halving in September 2020

April 16, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin releases paper on Hierarchical One-out-of-many Proofs

We are proud to publish from Zcoin’s research labs a new paper on hierarchical one-out-of-many proofs (HOOOMP) which improves proving time by an order of magnitude

March 06, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin Technical Roadmap 2020 and beyond

We are happy to lay out Zcoin’s plans for the year of 2020 and beyond

January 21, 2020

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin: 2019 in Review

As we enter 2020 and an exciting time in the cryptosphere, we wish to look back on what we have achieved

November 18, 2019

by Reuben Yap

New Wallet Beta Release

We are happy to launch a beta release of our new wallet interface

October 03, 2019

by Reuben Yap

Enabling Direct Untraceable Anonymous Payments in Lelantus

Direct anonymous payments which hide sender, recipient and value; only showing that a valid transaction has happened is the holy grail of privacy.

July 30, 2019

by Reuben Yap

Sigma is Live on Zcoin!

We are proud to announce that Zcoin’s Sigma privacy protocol is now live!

July 10, 2019

by Reuben Yap

Zcoin's Sigma is released

We are proud to finally release Zcoin 13.8.2 which will activate our Sigma privacy protocol

April 14, 2019

by Reuben Yap

Lelantus: Firo's next gen privacy protocol

We are proud to present Lelantus; the result of Firo's research with our cryptography advisor, Aram Jivanyan, with the assistance of Martun Karapetyan and Levon Petrosyan.

March 20, 2019

by Reuben Yap

What is Sigma and why is it replacing Zerocoin in Zcoin?

Sigma is Zcoin’s upcoming replacement to Zerocoin

December 05, 2018

by Sebastian M.

MTP FAQ: All You Need to Know

November 13, 2018

by Reuben Yap

World’s First Large-Scale Blockchain-Based Political Election Held on Zcoin’s Blockchain

October 24, 2018

by Reuben Yap

MTP – Zcoin's New Proof-of-Work Algorithm

Today we are announcing the release of MTP, our new Proof-of-Work algorithm

July 15, 2018

by Reuben Yap

Firo Vulnerability Bounty Program

We are happy to announce the official Firo vulnerability bounty program to encourage the developer/researcher community to review and contribute to our code.