Ergo Foundation has been established (https://ergoplatform.org/en/foundation/)
Security audit of most critical parts of the reference protocol client is done, report is available (https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_01_12_security_audit/)
New paper is out, “Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts” (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/044.pdf). This paper describes how to build a pool for Ergo based on smart contracts with collaterals.
Public Discord server has been created (https://discordapp.com/invite/gYrVrjS), please join!
Ergo Platform reference protocol client 3.2.0 released (https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/releases/tag/v3.2.0). Updates are coming reguralry!
CoinBarn wallet is still under review in ChromeStore, but released a desktop version (https://twitter.com/coinbarn/status/1211026427686064133). CoinBarn is the simplest wallet for Ergo, and it is supporting custom tokens!
Ergo now has a command-line wallet also, called ErgoTool. An introductory article on the ErgoTool: https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2019_12_31_ergo_tool/
ErgoCast #2 published: https://ergocast.io/
Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - January 2020
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New Ergo Smart DEX Orders with buyback guarantees
The novel smart contract will trustlessly enable users to participate in token sales without the downside risks of regular ICOs. 2020 is shaping up to look …
Guy Brandon
2 December, 2020
An introduction to ‘Headless’ dApps
This new approach offers a streamlined interface for interacting with on-chain contracts, enabling anyone to build dApps using simple building blocks. …
Robert Kornacki
27 November, 2020
Ergo Foundation Makes Key dApp Infrastructure …
The Ergo Foundation will consider proposals for grants towards projects that will support significant ecosystem developments. Ergo is a community-oriented …
Guy Brandon
17 November, 2020
Introducing the ‘Ergonaut’: the Ergo Foundation …
This major auction will help fund the dev work carried out by our anons, and offers the opportunity for anyone to get their hands on a piece of Ergo …
Guy Brandon
17 November, 2020
Magnum Wallet to be Suspended – Transfer Your ERG …
Magnum, a popular lite wallet for ERG and other currencies, will cease to operate at the end of the month. Many of the Ergo community use Magnum, a lite …
Guy Brandon
11 November, 2020
First steps towards interoperability with Cardano …
The oracle solution for Cardano will post data from Ergo’s oracle pools, treating the pre-processed data as a trusted source for its own records to the …
Guy Brandon
9 November, 2020
The US Election and Blockchain: the Risk of Hard …
What happens in an election has many parallels to the governance of blockchain platforms. Ergo, though, has a better way to deal with differences and the …
Guy Brandon
3 November, 2020
The First Ergo NFT Auction Is Under Way!
The first ever PoW-backed NFT was generated by Ergo developer anon_real, and is being sold to help fund creation of the new Ergo DEX. Ergo recently …
Guy Brandon
19 October, 2020
Announcing the Auction House, NFT Marketplace on …
The platform allows users to sell Ergo’s NFTs – an important development in the growing DeFi movement – securely and easily. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, …
Guy Brandon
16 October, 2020
Learn ErgoScript by Example
The new resources provide a powerful but simple way to learn UTXO-based smart contracts. Since its mainnet launch in July 2019, Ergo has steadily been …
Guy Brandon
12 October, 2020
Yoroi: your gateway to Ergo dapps
Yoroi, the flagship lite wallet app for the Cardano ecosystem developed by Emurgo, now supports Ergo! This development follows directly from the …
Guy Brandon
9 October, 2020
What will DeFi look like in 10 years?
This is the first in a series of articles speculating on how the fast-emerging DeFi sector might evolve in the coming years. The DeFi movement as it …
Guy Brandon
4 October, 2020
NFTs on Ergo
As with almost every other area of DeFi, Ergo Platform takes a different approach to NFTs that offers some interesting and unique use cases and benefits. …
Guy Brandon
25 September, 2020
DeFi: Finance, but not always Decentralised?
As a recent blog post explored, DeFi – decentralised finance – can and will be used in whatever ways developers and the market see fit. This is the nature …
Guy Brandon
17 September, 2020
Announcing the ZK Treasury on Ergo!
Ergo’s Zero-Knowledge Treasury enables users to easily create joint digital signatures, with bespoke conditions for spending funds, while ensuring the …
Guy Brandon
4 September, 2020
Some thoughts about DeFi, Yield Farming and how …
At the risk of stating the obvious, decentralisation is the hallmark of DeFi. It is decentralisation that brings the benefits of transparency, …
Alex Chepurnoy
3 September, 2020
Ergo’s Oracle Pools, and what they mean for the …
The new scheme developed through the Emurgo-Ergo partnership will see oracle pools – core blockchain infrastructure – run as a public service, accessible …
Guy Brandon
31 August, 2020
The Evolution of Programmable Money
Ergo is building the most effective programmable currency in history. Money is changing. It’s interesting that, at a time when money is increasingly being …
Guy Brandon
20 August, 2020
Ergo’s Vision for DeFi: Ergo vs CBDCs
As blockchain technology gains traction, central bank digital currencies are among the most significant applications being developed. But these will …
Guy Brandon
17 August, 2020
Building Ergo: Our Vision for DeFi
Everyone is talking about DeFi. Few people are asking what DeFi should look like. Ergo has a vision for what the sector can become. 2020 is shaping up to …
Guy Brandon
13 August, 2020
Ergo roadmap for 2020
Future dates at time of publication are subject to change March 2020: Command-line version of decentralised trustless mixer, ErgoMixer, launched April …
Guy Brandon
4 August, 2020
Decentralized Exchange Contracts on Ergo
Ergo has expressive smart contracts and transactional model which allows for an implementation of trustless DEX protocol, in which signed buy and sell …
Denys Zadorozhnyi
31 July, 2020
Ergo and the explosion of DeFi
DeFi is the next major frontier for blockchain technology – but what does the current surge of interest mean for Ergo? The narrative around blockchain …
Guy Brandon
2 July, 2020
Ergo-Emurgo partnership yields new model for …
The joint research on oracle pools will be implemented in the Ergo stablecoin project. Oracles are one of the critical elements of DeFi, providing a link …
Guy Brandon
30 June, 2020
The opportunities of the Ergo/Emurgo partnership
Cardano and Ergo take quite different approaches to DeFi and blockchain development, but there are specific areas in which they significantly overlap. This …
Guy Brandon
11 June, 2020
Press release: Ergo Foundation partners with …
The collaboration will encompass a range of objectives – including exploration of a decentralised stablecoin solution. Ergo, the smart contracts platform …
Guy Brandon
9 June, 2020
Building Ergo: Lite full nodes
Ergo allows any user to run a full node with low resources – meaning you can help maintain the network with a device as simple as a Raspberry Pi. In a …
Guy Brandon
8 May, 2020
Introduction to stablecoins
Stablecoins are a major use case for DeFi but come in various different forms. The stablecoin space is still relatively young and underserved – but that’s …
Guy Brandon
5 May, 2020
Building Ergo: SPV security
There’s often a tension in the crypto world between security and convenience. That trade-off is unacceptable if we want these technologies to be widely …
Guy Brandon
1 May, 2020
FlowCards: A Declarative Framework for Development …
With thanks to Robert Kornacki for polishing of the draft. Introduction ErgoScript is the smart contract language used by the Ergo blockchain. While it …
Alexander Slesarenko
29 April, 2020
Building Ergo: Atomic Swaps
Because a blockchain is a siloed, self-contained system by design, interacting with other blockchain protocols is challenging. Atomic Swaps enable …
Guy Brandon
24 April, 2020
Building Ergo: Oracles
Blockchains are siloed systems that can only reference their own data, established by consensus. Oracles are the solution to the problem of working with …
Guy Brandon
23 April, 2020
Building Ergo: Storage rent
We’ve designed Ergo with long-term economic sustainability in mind, and storage rent is one of the ways we’re ensuring miners stay profitable well into the …
Guy Brandon
21 April, 2020
Ergo use case: ‘hot potato’ monetary policy
As the next financial crisis takes hold, it’s clear that conventional monetary policy is at its limit. Smart contract platforms like Ergo enable more …
Guy Brandon
2 April, 2020
Ergo use cases: safe, simple financial contracts
Ergo enables new models of financial interaction, underpinned by smart contracts built on flexible and powerful Sigma protocols but easily accessible to …
Ergo Team
29 March, 2020
Building Ergo: Sigma protocols
Ergo’s smart contracts and DeFi functionality are built on Sigma protocols – a powerful, flexible class of zero-knowledge proofs. Find out more about why …
Ergo Team
16 March, 2020
Introducing Σ3 – ErgoMixer
The project uses Ergo’s Sigma protocols to enable efficient, trustless mixing of funds, enabling a high degree of privacy while ensuring security is not …
Ergo Team
16 March, 2020
Building Ergo: UTXO vs Account
Ergo takes the most secure and best-established features of Bitcoin and implements advanced new cryptographic features on its rock-solid foundations. This …
Ergo Team
3 March, 2020
Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - February 2020
Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020 has been released, the plan is minimum and very realistic https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2020_02_02/ Miners tested …
Ergo Team
3 March, 2020
Welcome to Smart Money
It’s the smartest crypto you’ve never heard of. Ergo takes the best of Bitcoin and integrates Sigma protocols so powerful they make Ethereum look like it …
Ergo Team
12 February, 2020
Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020
Ergo community made a lot in 2019: Very stressful but successful mainnet launch A lot of updates for Ergo protocol reference client to improve its …
Ergo Team
2 February, 2020
Security Audit (by Jean Philippe Aumasson)
We would like to announce that Ergo has successfully passed security audit of certain (most critical) parts of the code. This time the audit was done by …
Ergo Team
12 January, 2020
Make Your Own Ergo Wallet: Managing Ergo Coins …
Introduction ErgoTool is a command line interface (CLI) for Ergo blockchain. You can use ErgoTool without running your own Ergo node. Even though running a …
Alexander Slesarenko
31 December, 2019
Mining Ergo for Fun and Profit
Ergo GPU Mining This article will help you start mining Ergo using a GPU. Ergo mining is based on Autolykos, a Proof-of-Work algorithm designed to be ASIC …
Ergo Team
28 December, 2019
The Ergo Cast: Understanding Ergo One Episode At A …
Since the launch of the Ergo mainnet half a year ago, there has been an incredible amount of development and progress in the Ergo ecosystem. Auction smart …
Robert Kornacki
16 December, 2019
A New Quest for Decentralization, Part I: …
While most active conversations today in the space are about wider adoption of the blockchain technology (which often means selling out to the Wall St.) …
Alex Chepurnoy
12 December, 2019
5 Ways Ergo Application Development Is Changed …
With thanks to Robert Kornacki and Denys Zadorozhnyi. Ergo Appkit is a library for polyglot development of Ergo Applications based on GraalVM. GraalVM has …
Alexander Slesarenko
3 December, 2019
How to set up and configure a full Ergo node
This tutorial explains how to install and run a full Ergo node. It does not cover mining. Node security There are a few important aspects of node usage …
Ergo Team
2 December, 2019
Ergo and crowdfunding
What is Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital through the collective efforts of individuals. The campaigns are mostly started via the …
Robert Wolf
6 September, 2019
Mining ERGO on AMD Cards
This tutorial will provide you with the information needed to get your AMD cards mining ERGO on either Windows or Linux. Developer MH Samadani published …
Robert Wolf
7 August, 2019
Ergo Addresses
In today’s article, we will have a closer look into the Ergo address formatting. In addition to that we are going to explain how they work …
Robert Wolf
24 July, 2019
After-Launch Thoughts and Ergo Roadmap
Firstly, we would like to thank many enthusiasts, developers, miners, other folks, and our families for measureless help with Ergo development and …
Alex Chepurnoy
9 July, 2019
Ergo Withdrawal
Spending mining reward This text is to help miners to withdraw funds mined. A lot of folks launched a node and also a miner, with pubkeyHex from the miner …
Alex Chepurnoy
3 July, 2019
Joining the Ergo main network at the very …
Joining the Ergo main network at the very beginning In order to join the network at its very beginning and compete to mine the genesis block, you need to …
Ilya Oskin
28 June, 2019
Wallet documentation
An Ergo node provides a built-in wallet for storing private keys and signing transactions. The following describes how to set up and protect your Ergo …
Ilya Oskin
4 June, 2019
A Trustless Local Exchange Trading System
A Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) is aimed at developing local economy and is usually used by people of a locality in the vicinity of each other. For …
Amitabh Saxena
29 May, 2019
The Ergo Emission Schedule
Overview Ergo’s native token is called Erg and its emission schedule may be of keen interest to users and miners of the platform. Ergs also have some …
Justin Simpson
20 May, 2019
How to mine Ergo on Windows(x64)
Step 1: Tools Visual Studio Choose free community version, you will need to select desktop development with C++ package during install. CUDA toolkit Choose …
Martin Spodymek
7 May, 2019
A Local Exchange Trading System On Top Of Ergo
A local exchange trading system (LETS) is a local mutual credit association which members are allowed to create common credit money individually, with all …
Alex Chepurnoy
22 April, 2019
An ICO Example On Top Of Ergo
This article describes a full featured ICO (Initial Coin Offering) implemented in ErgoScript. The example covers several important and novel features of …
Alex Chepurnoy
10 April, 2019