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13 July, 2021

Updated 2021 RoadMap From Kushti

Kushti updated Ergonauts on the 2021 Roadmap during his video address at the 2nd ErgoVersary. Check out the article below for an overview of his discussion and what to expect from all the exciting projects going forward!

13 July, 2021

Hey Ergonauts! Our friends at Moonboy Merch are the first business to accept $ERG as payment for their products! Head on over to their website and check out all the cool Ergo swag you can own!

10 July, 2021

Giveaway Event!

Hey Ergonauts! Show us your mining rigs for a chance to win $ERG and NFT’s! Check out the link below for all the details on how to enter and win!

8 July, 2021

What’s Going on Behind the Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update July 7th

Focusing on the moon is great, but the truth is a rocket takes an incredible amount of engineering. Designing and building systems that are subject to immense pressure is not an easy task. Check the latest updates on Ergo Ecosystem

7 July, 2021

2nd ErgoVersary Wrap-Up

During our Second ErgoVersary, Kushti updated Ergonauts on what to expect going forward with an updated roadmap and Armeanio dropped some pretty big news about new exchange listings for Ergo!

24 June, 2021

ErgoHack Results

We wanted to thank all of the participants in the first ErgoHack event. This was something that Kushti had wanted to put together. It was thrown together pretty quickly, but the end result was a group that proposed and implemented some interesting concepts or ideas.

27 May, 2021

Youtube Video Competition Winners!

Thank you for joining the Video Competition! There was a lot of helpful and informative contributions, yet we needed to choose the winners. So we evaluated the videos with the amount of information provided and also the ease of understanding. Here are the winners:

17 May, 2021

Ergo Integration With Gravity Network

After months of hard work, we’re happy to announce that we’ve completed the cross-chain tests and the Gravity-Ergo-Proxy contracts are almost complete. This partnership will help Ergo access different chains like the Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum, NEO, Solana, thanks to the use of Gravity Network. At the same time, other platforms will use the complex and rich design of Ergo to take new dApp ideas to their chains.

10 May, 2021

The Opolo Hardware Wallet Becomes The New BPSAA Partner

The BPSAA is excited to officially announce it’s newest partner, Opolo. It is the latest and one of the most exciting partnerships for the BPSAA. Not least because of the interoperability opportunities it brings. Opolo is primed to be the most secure hardware wallet in crypto, allowing users to safely store their funds on their custom hardware.

7 May, 2021

Ledger Network integrates Ergo Network

We’re happy to announce our collaboration with Tesseract Systems through our grants program that is going to provide full integration with the Ledger hardware wallet. This integration will allow Ergonauts to safely store their ERG tokens with the world’s most secure hardware wallet.

7 May, 2021

Use ERG To Make/Receive Payments Worldwide

Now you can accept $ERG #cryptocurrency on your website & store platforms like #Shopify #Bigcommerce #WHMCS #Woocommerce, #Wordpress, & as donations on #Streamlabs #Twitch #Twitter & more!

7 May, 2021

Use SigUSD To Make/Receive Payments Worldwide

Running a business is a matter of managing costs. Accepting ERG as payment is great… but isn’t crypto volatile? If you want to run a crypto gateway and require predictability, we now have you covered.

30 April, 2021

What’s Going On Behind The Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update April 28th

The Ergo weekly Dev update is not the sexiest crypto blog. Focusing on the moon is great but the truth is, a rocket takes an incredible amount of engineering. Designing and building systems that are subject to immense pressure is not an easy task.

22 April, 2021

What’s Going On Behind The Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update April 21st

Check out about lates updates on Ergo Platform development!

22 April, 2021

What’s Going On Behind The Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update April 21st

I might miss a few updates, if that’s the case don’t think it’s not appreciated by the community. Busy week for Erg devs, as always, thanks for putting in work.

22 April, 2021

WrapAssets announces integration with ErgoDEX!

ErgoDEX team recently published Plutus Port proposal on Cardano’s Project Catalyst platform. It offers a cross-chain exchange built on top of Ergo Blockchain for Cardano Ecosystem. WrapAssets is a service provider for wrapped assets (like waBTC, waETH, waDOT) on top of Cardano Ecosystem. This integration will help ErgoDEX to achieve high liquidity and ADA holders can benefit from a secure cross-chain DEX with a variety of ready-to-use assets.

26 February, 2021

SigmaUSD - Ergo’s Community Deployed Stablecoin Is Live!

The SigmaUSD stablecoin has been deployed by the community and is live and ready for all Ergonauts to use at https://sigmausd.io/

24 February, 2021

BitMart has listed Ergo

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on BitMart Exchange

21 February, 2021

Ergo explorer backend 7.0.0 released

Support for detailed UTXO queries

19 February, 2021

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.7 released

#1296 : Docker container description reworked implementation for #856 : box selector settings moved to config re-announcing of new blocks reverted (it may cause node being banned by most of its peers)

18 February, 2021

2020, Year in Review - Ergo Cast Episode #6

Following the short hiatus for the Summit, the Ergo Cast has returned to pass-down all fruitful news which Ergo has to offer!

18 February, 2021

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.5 released

#1281 : description for wallet/boxes/collect added #1289 : the node is re-announcing new blocks received from other peers #1288: API method to get Merkle proof for a transaction added more log output for wallet failures fix for #1294

16 February, 2021

ErgoMixer Tutorial - Taking Fire - Version 3.0.1 & Above

Join us in another hands-on of wrestling the beast, with Anon2020's attuned ErgoMixer.

16 February, 2021

Ergo will be listed on BitMart on Feb, 24th

BitMart will list Ergo (ERG) on our digital assets platform on February 24, 2021. The following trading pairs will be available: ERG/BTC, ERG/USDT

12 February, 2021

2000 ERG in Prizes to be Won in the Ergo Digital Art Competition!

Create an original piece of digital art and list it for sale on the Ergo NFT Marketplace. The winning entry will receive 1000 ERG, with two further prizes of 500 ERG.

11 February, 2021

Building Ergo: How the AgeUSD stablecoin works

The elegant design avoids some of the complexity and potential problems of other approaches to creating decentralised, collateralised stablecoins.

9 February, 2021

Lots of improvements and fixes for AMD GPU & CPU miner for Autolykos v2

SRBMiner-MULTI CPU & AMD GPU Miner 0.6.6 Win64 & Linux

8 February, 2021

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on TradeOgre

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on TradeOgre Exchange

6 February, 2021

Nanominer v3.2.0 / release 05.02.21

Added Autolykos algorithm support for Ergo coin. Fee is 5%. Needs at least 3 GB GPU. Suppports Nvidia and AMD

5 February, 2021

Huge performance increase on Autolykos v.2 algorithm on AMD GPU and CPU

SRBMiner-MULTI CPU & AMD GPU Miner 0.6.5 Win64 & Linux

4 February, 2021

NVMiner 1.1.0 with improved hashrate(3-4x) by Mhs_sam

Windows and Linux version

3 February, 2021

“Hardening” Hard Fork Post-Mortem

Description of what happened today during the hard fork

2 February, 2021

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.4 Release

MANDATORY UPDATE! This version contains fixes for protocol version 2 initial difficulty value and recalculation rule.

2 February, 2021

"You can mine ERGO coin with us after "The Hardening" protocol upgrade at block 417,792 around 16:00 February 2th"

1 February, 2021

Ergo added to https://666pool.cn mining pool

"Our Ergo pool is online, testnet for now, will switch to mainnet right after the hard fork. Pool link: www.666pool.cn, mining endpoint is ergo.666pool.cn:9556"

1 February, 2021

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.3 released

#1248 /node/shutdown method to shut the node down #1246 API method to collect the boxes for external applications (/wallet/boxes/collect) #991 API methods for fee estimation (/transactions/poolHistogram, /transactions/getFee, /transactions/waitTime) #1263 API method to get scan-related transactions (/wallet/transactionsByScanId) #1259 Node panel updated Also, mining rewards can be recognized and be added to the wallet now with wallet being locked.

1 February, 2021

Ergo is on https://WoolyPooly.com mining pool!

31 January, 2021

Autolykos v.2 added to SRBMiner-Multi CPU & GPU Miner

How to mine Ergo by Hero Miners

29 January, 2021

The AgeUSD protocol specifications/smart contracts/off-chain code

Have a good weekend!

29 January, 2021

Mining Ergo before and after the Hardening Upgrade by Mhs_sam

Reminder, The Hardening Upgrade is coming on block 417,792

27 January, 2021

Ergo JS Template

Entry Point to Ergo dApp Development

25 January, 2021

AgeUSD instantiation will be launched in about two weeks by Ergo community!

AgeUSD is a novel crypto-backed algorithmic stablecoin protocol that has been created in joint partnership by the Ergo Foundation, EMURGO, and IOG on top of the Ergo Blockchain.

24 January, 2021

Ergo Summit 2021 - Full video

Links to chapters included

23 January, 2021

Robert Kornacki announcing The Release Of The AgeUSD Stablecoin Protocol!

AgeUSD is a novel crypto-backed stablecoin protocol that has been created in joint partnership by the Ergo Foundation, EMURGO, and IOG on top of the Ergo Blockchain

23 January, 2021

We’ve just released the Ergo Summit Schedule! Check it out and get ready for the most Ergo-packed day of 2021

Ergo Summit 2021 - Entering The New Era - Announcing AgeUSD & The Hardening Upgrade

17 January, 2021

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.0 Release - Please update your nodes

This 4.0.0 release represents "The Hardening" protocol upgrade and thus contains breaking changes!. The Hardening protocol upgrade will be activated on block # 417,792. Initial difficulty for the block is set to "6f98d5555555" (in hex), which is corresponding to ~ 1TH/s hashrate.

15 January, 2021

We're holding the 2021 Ergo Summit!

To help spread the word we're giving away 100 ERG for the best tweet about Ergo Summit. Result on next friday. All the necessary information on the website

14 January, 2021

Instant Ergo web wallet for experiments and temporary usage (not HODL)

14 January, 2021

If you want to help the project with promotion, then join our special chat room on Telegram

Telegram channel for sharing links where anyone can advertise Ergo. Make threads, tweets, tell about Ergo on different forums. Help each other to reach a common marketing goal.

9 January, 2021

Here are our winners of articles contest - Verium fellow, JAGO and Can Degen

Articles were very good, we are very proud of our community.

8 January, 2021

Unblocked with Robert Kornacki

Robert Kornacki - R&D head at Emurgo and long-term EF member - making an appearance on the Unblocked podcast

3 January, 2021

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - December 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in December

2 January, 2021

HeroMiners - "We opened testnet ERGO pool"

"Until the Mainnet starts, you can test your miners here."

31 December, 2020

Happy New Year Ergonauts!

Ergo team wishes you an amazing 2021

30 December, 2020

A new tutorial on ErgoMixer by Anon2020s and Sakata

ErgoMixer Tutorial - Windows, Mac, JVM & Docker - Version 3.0.1 & Above

29 December, 2020

A tool for airdrops added to ErgoUtils by Anon_real

The aim of https://ergoutils.org/ is to provide useful utilities to be used by any wallet in a safe and trustless manner using the assembler service.

27 December, 2020

ErgoMixer v3.2.0, ZeroJoin for ERG and tokens on Ergo released by Anon2020s

The very first programmable and non-interactive mixer in the cryptocurrency space where final receiving point can`t be distinguished with covert address.

24 December, 2020

Details on updated Proof-of-Work scheme Autolykos v.2

The goal of this post is to explain and discuss upcoming proof-of-work function change.

23 December, 2020

From the family at Ergo, we present The Sigmaverse

Your portal to the Ergo universe

23 December, 2020

The Hardening protocol upgrade activation is set to block 414,720

(around January, 27th, 2021)

23 December, 2020

Ergo protocol reference client 4.0.0 (The Hardening Upgrade) pre-release

The Hardening Upgrade client & Stratum support

23 December, 2020

Ergo Summit 2021 - Entering The New Era, Announcing AgeUSD & The Hardening Upgrade

FREE online event on Ergo's YouTube - January 23, Saturday 2pm UTC [9am EST]

18 December, 2020

"Tutorial #3 for the Headless dApp Framework is out" by Emurgo

Continue developing your own Headless dApp. Check out the new tutorial now.

18 December, 2020

Love Ergo Platform? Want to share your knowledge and earn some ERG?

We're giving away 500, 300 and 200 ERG for the best articles explaining the different features that make Ergo so awesome!

18 December, 2020

2021: The Next Battlegrounds for DeFi

The challenge for Ergo and all DeFi platforms over the next year is to work towards the complete set of features that will enable DeFi to take on the conventional financial sector: decentralised atomic composability at scale with opt-in auditable privacy.

16 December, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.3.7 released

Distributed signatures API, improvements in scans and wallet API, support for tokens in inbuilt wallet UI, bugfixes

15 December, 2020

Understanding Headless dApps with Robert Kornacki

Robert discusses the concept behind the new "Headless dApp" model and why this novel approach to decentralizing the development process is the way of the future for building dApps

15 December, 2020

In less time it takes to make cereal, launch your NFT artwork auction on Ergo with any wallet

Follow the guide attached! Kudos to Anon-real for dev & video, thanks to Yeti for vocals!

14 December, 2020

Welcome to a new era of Ergo ecosystem development!

One day event of online presentations!

11 December, 2020

Ergo Bootstrap, Streamlining Ergo dApp Infrastructure With One Simple Tool

The Ergo ecosystem is quickly growing with new design patterns, tools, dApps, and more every single month. This is an exciting point in time for developers to jump in and get started.

9 December, 2020

Ergo Headless dApp Framework Now Available

This new development will have a number of implications for the Ergo ecosystem and developers, making it far easier to build applications on Ergo.

4 December, 2020

Ergo/Emurgo Stable Coin, NFT, Mixer, and more! | The Cardano Aura #9

Livestream with Alex Chepurnoy, the core developer of the Ergo Platform

1 December, 2020

Ergo "Headless dApp Framework" just released by Emurgo

This new Rust framework flips the dApp development model on it's head by providing developers the very first library for UTXO-based Headless dApps on any blockchain.

1 December, 2020

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.3 Release

Added missing code coverage tests, new benchmarks and optimizations

27 November, 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.

19 November, 2020

DarkFund0 - ZK Fund for privacy applications

New privacy-preserving designs, instructional and promotional materials for the mixer, zk treasury, different Ergo tools and financial privacy in general. All are welcome

19 November, 2020

Autolykos v.2 details

The goal of this post is to explain and discuss upcoming proof-of-work function change.

18 November, 2020

Ergo Foundation Makes Key dApp Infrastructure Grant

The Ergo Foundation will consider proposals for grants towards projects that will support significant ecosystem developments.

17 November, 2020

Introducing the ‘Ergonaut’: the Ergo Foundation NFT sale!

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 history, thanks to the updated Auction House working with any Ergo wallet!

13 November, 2020

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.2 released

More memory and performance optimizations (#693), the Protocol and Requirements to replace AOT with JIT via soft-fork (#695)

12 November, 2020

Updated Roadmap 2020 - 2021

Blockchain Auctions - Stablecoin Integration - Ledger Integration - Atomic Swaps - ErgoDEX

11 November, 2020

Magnum Wallet Closing in 20 days!

Please use wallet in-built in full node, Yoroi or Coinbarn https://ergoplatform.org/en/wallets/

10 November, 2020

Ergo Explained: Episode 01 - Basics & Forking

New series of videos by Alex Chepurnoy about the state of development and principles the Ergo Platform is based on.

10 November, 2020

First steps towards interoperability with Cardano oracles

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 blockchain.

6 November, 2020

Ergo Foundation is welcoming its new member Mohammad Hassan Samadani

Mohammad Hassan Samadani is a founder of https://ergopool.io and released first ERG miner for AMD cards!

6 November, 2020

Ergo Explorer 4.0.1 released

Features: Assets order preservation, synchronization nodes ranking

5 November, 2020

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.6 released

#1231 : fix for peers discovery, #1234 : fix for docker build failing because of sbt-1458

3 November, 2020

Single-Chain Swap Contracts (DEX basis) by Alex Chepurnoy

Learn ErgoScript by reading example smart contracts powered by the Ergo Playground

2 November, 2020

"EMURGO is happy to release it's Ergo Node Interface for the Ergo dev community"

You can find this new Rust based library on EMURGO's github

28 October, 2020

Ergo Cast Episode #4 - Yoroi Wallet

In today’s show we have the pleasure of being accompanied by two core members of Emurgo, who will be walking us through all of the specifics relating to the latest substantial release for the Ergo ecosystem – Yoroi

26 October, 2020

“Waves partners with Ergo to foster interoperability solutions via Gravity”

"We are excited to announce Waves’ new partnership agreement with the Ergo Foundation. The agreement stipulates integration of Ergo as a Gravity target chain, as well as collaborative R&D on cross-chain solutions with a focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized oracles."

24 October, 2020

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.5 released

#1224 : inactive connections being dropped, fix for #1165 : double-spending transactions not allowed in mempool (with RBF replacement strategy) #1220, fix for panel issues during wallet init/restore (issue #1212 )

20 October, 2020

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on BTCNEXT Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on BTCNEXT Exchange

16 October, 2020

Announcing the Auction House, NFT Marketplace on Ergo

The platform allows users to sell Ergo’s NFTs – an important development in the growing DeFi movement – securely and easily.

11 October, 2020

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Gate.io Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Gate.io Exchange

8 October, 2020

Yoroi Wallet now supports Ergo!

Store, Send and Receive $ERG in Yoroi Wallet

8 October, 2020

Learn ErgoScript By Example Via The Ergo Playground with Robert Kornacki

Enjoy the video and jump straight to this repo https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergoscript-by-example

6 October, 2020

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.4 released

Improvementss and fixes. Details in the description of the release.

6 October, 2020

Ergo explorer backend 3.3.0 released

Features: New fields added to an unconfirmed transaction API endpoint

5 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.

2 October, 2020

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - September 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in September

30 September, 2020

Ergo Utilities - General utilities to make writing off-chain Ergo code in Rust simpler

his library was born from abstracting out reusable components from the Oracle Core.

29 September, 2020

ErgoTree & ErgoScript 3.3.1 released

Improvementss and fixes. Details in the description of the release.

28 September, 2020

Ergo Cast is now back online, now with a new co-host Sakata

Oracle Pools, Smart Contracts, DeFi, Ergo, Chainlink, Cardano. All in one podcast.

28 September, 2020

Ergo explorer backend 3.2.1 released

Index field added to TransactionInfo / TransactionSummary

25 September, 2020

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.

21 September, 2020

“Emurgo is connected to Cardano. Both are connected to Ergo. How come & what’s Emurgo doing with Ergo Platform?”

Crpyto Rich interviews Robert Kornacki, Head of Research about the work that Emurgo are doing with Ergo.

17 September, 2020

Ergo explorer backend 3.2.0 released

Index, outputIndex fields added to InputInfo, DataInputInfo, inclusionHeight field added to TransactionInfo. Optimizations: /addresses/balances API endpoint now returns only first 100 addresses.

17 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 of open, decentralised systems. You can’t stop it, and there’s a very strong argument for saying we shouldn’t try.

16 September, 2020

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.3 released

#1186 : fix for #1185: command-line parameters support back for docker containers #1184 : Accept to the mempool and propagate locally generated transactions in the digest mode (also, do not download transactions in this mode)

14 September, 2020

"Unlocking The Potential Of The UTXO Model" by Emurgo Research

The extended UTXO model empowers smart contract writers with a robust and flexible base to build on top of. In contrast to the account model, UTXO-based smart contracts have no concept of a function which you call within a transaction in order for state transitions to take place.

14 September, 2020

Explorer backend 3.1.0 released

Enhancements: Mempool chained transactions support and output info enriched

13 September, 2020

Oracle Pools and Interoperability of Cardano and Ergo with Robert Kornacki | TCE 105

The Cardano Effect - EP105

11 September, 2020

Ergo Platform Mainnet 3.3.2 released

Dockerfile: configurable java heap.Wallet/boxes fix - this API method now correctly returns all the wallet boxes, spent or not. Wallet scan has been reworked to have improved efficiency and memory footprint

4 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 signatories to the created address remain hidden.

3 September, 2020

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - August 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in August

3 September, 2020

Some thoughts about DeFi, Yield Farming and how open systems ‘should’ be used

At the risk of stating the obvious, decentralisation is the hallmark of DeFi. It is decentralisation that brings the benefits of transparency, accessibility, security, immutability, composability, efficiency and more besides to these new financial initiatives.

1 September, 2020

"ZeroJoin: Combining ZeroCoin and CoinJoin" has been accepted to CBT2020 workshop

4th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2020

31 August, 2020

Ergo’s Oracle Pools, and what they mean for the ecosystem

The new scheme developed through the Emurgo-Ergo partnership will see oracle pools – core blockchain infrastructure – run as a public service, accessible by any dApp and developer, free at the point of use.

28 August, 2020

"Today EMURGO and Ergo platform mark a historic moment for UTXO based dApps and DeFi applications"

Developers may now build and run Oracle Pools on the Ergo blockchain with the joint release of our smart contracts & off-chain "Oracle Core"

28 August, 2020

Transcript of the Oracle Pools Q&A session with Robert Kornacki

"Robert Kornacki: I'd like to officially announce that Oracle Pools are live, running on mainnet, with all the code + detailed instructions available for you to start/run your own, and we have a beautiful frontend created by DeadIT now implemented in the explorer https://explorer.ergoplatform.com/en/oracle-pools-list"

22 August, 2020

Ergo Explorer 2.0.0 released

Fixed grabber bug causing chain statuses corruption in some cases, fixed bug causing inconsistent mempool view in some cases, data inputs support and inputs indexing

20 August, 2020

The Evolution of Programmable Money

Ergo is building the most effective programmable currency in history.

20 August, 2020

"App on Distributed Signatures"

"Dear Ergo Community, in this post, I would like to explain a project on top of Ergo’s Distributed Signatures capability."

20 August, 2020

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.3.1 has been released

If you're running 3.2.x node, just remove wallet/registry subfolder in your ergo data folder (e.g. ~/.ergo). Unlock the wallet after running the node (you can lock it a minute later).

18 August, 2020

"EMURGO is pleased to officially announce that EMURGO’s Head of R&D and smart contract developer Robert Kornacki was appointed as a new board member of the Ergo Foundation."

"This board appointment serves to further strengthen EMURGO’s recently announced partnership with Ergo...and strategically positions EMURGO at the forefront of development of this emerging industry area of UTXO-based smart contracts that is being worked on by Cardano and Ergo."

18 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 inevitably fall far short of the ideal, for one simple reason: control.

16 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.

8 August, 2020

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.3.0 has been released

If you're running 3.2.x node, just remove wallet/registry subfolder in your ergo data folder (e.g. ~/.ergo). Unlock the wallet after running the node (you can lock it a minute later). If you had only one key in your wallet, lock it and unlock again to have the master key unlocked.

3 August, 2020

"New Video: Robert Kornacki of EMURGO does a deep dive into the ground breaking research behind the Oracle Pools Smart Contract Specification."

This is the very first UTXO based DApp specification to be released.

31 July, 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 orders can be put into the blockchain independently by buyers and sellers.

28 July, 2020

Blog Update: We've new Foundation members and contests!

We've got some more ERG to give back to the community: Miners & Writers, this one is for you!

28 July, 2020

Ergo AppKit 3.2.2 has been released

It includes: Support for multi ProveDHTuple and ProveDLog, FlowCard blog post, upgrade to ergo-wallet v3.2.3, support for data-inputs to TxBuilder

26 July, 2020

Ergo Explorer Backend 1.1.0 has been released

It includes: Fixed grabber bug causing chain statuses corruption in some cases, ResultSet deduplication enabled for search queries, more precise confirmations calculation

24 July, 2020

Video: How to set up and configure a full Ergo node on Windows

Great video made by a community member on setting up an Ergo full node on Windows

24 July, 2020

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinex Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinex Exchange

23 July, 2020

"New EMURGO Research: This week we bring you the official Oracle Pools Smart Contract Spec!"

"This is the first UTXO dApp specification ever released and is an exciting step forward in the Emurgo Ergo DeFi-focused partnership"

15 July, 2020

"Ergo Contracts"

A repository of the Ergo smart contracts with compilation, testing, and formal verification tooling

11 July, 2020

"Summary of the AMA with Ergo Platform"

AMA with GAINS community

3 July, 2020

"Ergopool is live on mainnet"

The Mining Hub for Self-Sovereign Ergo Miners!

26 June, 2020

"New EMURGO Research: We present a brand new model, Oracle Pools, which reimagines oracles from the ground up. This research is part of the Emurgo Ergo partnership"

24 June, 2020

"Let’s sign collectively! Distributed signatures API"

Another step to unveil real threshold on-chain signatures to the masses!

22 June, 2020

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.2.7 has been released

It contains: Generation of block candidate with certain transactions included ( #929 ) Fix for #1035 (incorrect cost computation on signer side) Double-checks for inputs and outputs of generated transaction.

19 June, 2020

"Ergomixer v1.0.0 is available for download"

Big thanks to team of anons!

18 June, 2020

ERGO with Founder Alex Chepurnoy - The Daily Chain

"Ergo is 'Bitcoin-like', but brings with it the latest in blockchain technology and research"

17 June, 2020

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Sistemkoin Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Sistemkoin Exchange

9 June, 2020

EMURGO to Partner with Ergo and Build Blockchain-Based Decentralized Financial Solutions

EMURGO, a global blockchain solutions firm & a founding entity of the globally recognized Cardano protocol, announces today a strategic partnership with Ergo - a proof-of-work blockchain protocol built to be a platform for applications with a main focus on providing simple solutions for financial contracts with its UTXO-based smart contracts.

31 May, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.6 released

This release is fixing a problem from 3.2.5 with possibility of duplicate inputs for transaction assembler, see ( #1126 ) for details

26 May, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.5 released

Support for offchain boxes spending ( #1032 ), downloading logic fix for the case when best full block is not on the best header-chain

18 May, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.4 released

Build transaction with token burning (PR #1101), default transaction complexity limit raised to 250K (PR #1104) and fixes

15 May, 2020

ZeroJoin: Combining ZeroCoin and CoinJoin (Alexander Chepurnoy and Amitabh Saxena)

We present ZeroJoin, a practical privacy-enhancing protocol for blockchain transactions.

14 May, 2020

Ergo update, 14 May 2020: New exchange, wallet and first mining pool with collaterals!

Integration with Cypra wallet, Coinsbit listing and censorhip resistant mining pool

13 May, 2020

"Team" page is replaced with "Hall of Fame"

Ergo Platform moving towards being true community-driven Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency

13 May, 2020

Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinsbit Exchange

We're happy to announce that Ergo ($ERG) is listed on Coinsbit Exchange

13 May, 2020

Ergo joins BPSAA thinktank

Ergo is a smart contracts and DeFi platform that offers powerful but safe smart contracts, with Sigma protocols enabling flexible, highly composable applications out of the box.

12 May, 2020

Ergo Platform Reference Client 3.2.3 released

Fixes and improvements. Details in the description of the release

8 May, 2020

Building Ergo: Lite full nodes

The extension section contains certain mandatory fields including links for NiPoPoW and parameters for miner voting, such as current block size.

1 May, 2020

Building Ergo: SPV security

Ergo implements NiPoPoWs, or Non-interactive Proof-of-Proof-of-Work. This technology can be explored in full on this dedicated website: https://nipopows.com/

29 April, 2020

FlowCards: A Declarative Framework for Development of Ergo dApps

Ergo is pioneering the declarative model as a better and safer alternative to the now popular imperative model of smart contracts.

24 April, 2020

Building Ergo: Atomic Swaps

Ergo allows partial swaps. Just like on a regular exchange, orders can be partially filled, if that’s what the trader wants.

23 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 external information, which is vital for many everyday use cases.

21 April, 2020

Building Ergo: Storage rent

One community member, Robert, describes this function as ‘on-chain garbage collection’ that reduces the problem of blockchain bloat – and even makes it profitable.

3 April, 2020

Ergo use case: Local Exchange Trading System (LETS)

The need to reform the global financial system has been clear since the last crisis in 2008. Now, COVID-19 has forced our hands. We cannot delay, and the best way to start is from the grassroots.

3 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 innovative, targeted implementations of economic stimulation that the conventional banking sector cannot achieve.

24 March, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.2 released

Fixes and improvements. Details in the description of the release

23 March, 2020

Introducing Σ3 - ErgoMixer

A powerful mixer that works by pooling funds and enabling participants to spend them without anyone knowing who made the transactions

3 March, 2020

Building Ergo: UTXO vs Account

This series explores the choices we have made in creating Ergo, with the first article unpacking the advantages of the UTXO model

26 February, 2020

Coinbarn, a simple wallet for Ergo has been published in Chrome store

Desktop versions can be found here https://github.com/coinbarn/coinbarn-extension/releases/

19 February, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.1 released

Mempool and miner made friendly to transactions spending outputs of offchain transactions, parameter for syncing detection during headers-chain download and more

4 February, 2020

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest

2 February, 2020

Ergo Platform Roadmap for 2020

Please note that this plan is minimum and very realistic

23 January, 2020

Ergo Platform Discord Server has been created

You are welcome to join us

17 January, 2020

Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts

In this work, we propose a concrete example of such a mechanism which is using collateralized smart contracts

17 January, 2020

Introducing the Ergo Foundation, a community-driven entity

Join us and help build the decentralized future

12 January, 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

8 January, 2020

Alexander Chepurnoy: "your paper Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts has been accepted for publication at WTSC@FC20"

7 January, 2020

Ergo Mainnet 3.2.0 released

This release introduces breaking changes and improvements, ~3-4x faster-bootstrapping 👍 Resync needed, more details in the description of the release 🔥

4 January, 2020

Coinbarn wallet now has its desktop version

Download binaries for MacOS, Windows and Linux

4 January, 2020

Make Your Own Ergo Wallet: Managing Ergo Coins with ErgoTool

ErgoTool is a command line interface (CLI) for Ergo blockchain

24 December, 2019

ErgoTool: A Command Line Interface for Ergo blockchain

24 December, 2019

Universal dApp Interface & Package Standard

https://github.com/robkorn/blockchain-ruminations/blob/master/universal_dApp_interface.md

23 December, 2019

Early description of Ergo contractual approach

(combining cryptographic sigma-protocols with predicates on blockchain state and spending transaction)

23 December, 2019

Ergo is using highly efficient AVL+ tree

Ergo is using highly efficient AVL+ tree implementation for authenticating the state, proof size is few times smaller than in Ethereum! details: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/994

23 December, 2019

New tutorial: 'Mining Ergo for Fun and Profit'

https://github.com/ergoplatform/ergo/wiki/Mining-Ergo-for-Fun-and-Profit

19 December, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.5 released

Node UI (/panel) updated, cross-build for Scala 2.11 and few fixes. Details in the description of the release

12 December, 2019

A New Quest for Decentralization

Part I: Technical Aspects

4 December, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.4 released

This minor release includes new API method /script/executeWithContext and new integration tests.

4 December, 2019

Typescript library for Ergo with the support of custom tokens and complex transactions

The library for Ergo platform, written in TypeScript, and compiled to JavaScript

3 December, 2019

5 Ways Ergo Application Development Is Changed Forever Thanks To Appkit and GraalVM

Appkit: A Library for Polyglot Development of Ergo Applications

3 December, 2019

How to set up and configure a full Ergo node

Simplified tutorial for new users

30 October, 2019

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Probit Exchange

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Probit Exchange

29 October, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.3 released

This release includes simplified wallet UI, improved memory footprint due to more efficient ErgoTree interpreter, and some bugfixes

14 October, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.2 released

This release includes rebroadcasting of mempool transactions. API route to generate P2SH address disabled

8 October, 2019

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on HOTBIT Exchange

Deposits and trading open at: 2019-10-09 15:00（UTC+8）

8 October, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.1 released

New UI available(e.g. 127.0.0.1/panel). A simplified wallet UI will be added in next versions. New API methods to get wallet status and address from a script

16 September, 2019

BISQ has officially added ERG

BISQ, the decentralized P2P exchange network, added support for ERG

14 September, 2019

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on P2PB2B Exchange

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) is listed on P2PB2B Exchange

6 September, 2019

Ergo will be listed on Hotbit exchange

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) will be listed on Hotbit exchange

27 August, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.1.0 released

This release is introducing an improved database layer - faster bootstrap, reduced storage size and memory footprint. Full resync is needed

20 August, 2019

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Vgate Exchange

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Vgate Exchange

20 August, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.7 released

This release includes fixes and introduces new API methods. Details in the description of the release

6 August, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.6 released

This release is introducing a filter for cumulative transaction input scripts complexity for the miners. Wallet, API methods and Swagger UI updated

30 July, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.5 released

This release is introducing an improved box selector aka transaction assembler and memory footprint reduction thanks to optimized (de)serialization 🔥

19 July, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.4 released

This release is introducing a timestamp bugfix in block candidate generation algorithm. Highly recommended for miners

18 July, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.3 released

This release includes fixes and introduces new API methods. Details in the description of the release

11 July, 2019

ERG is available in Magnum Wallet

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) is integrated with Magnum Wallet

9 July, 2019

After-Launch Thoughts and Ergo Roadmap

Big thank you to all enthusiasts, developers, miners, other folks, and our families for measureless help with Ergo development and launching.

4 July, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.2 released

This release includes API improvements.

3 July, 2019

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Tidex Exchange

We're happy to announce that ERGO ($ERG) is listed on Tidex Exchange

3 July, 2019

Ergo Withdrawal Instructions

This guide will help miners to withdraw mined funds.

1 July, 2019

Ergo mainnet is launched

Ergo mainnet is launced. Check here - https://explorer.ergoplatform.com

1 July, 2019

Ergo explorer released

The Ergo explorer provides detailed information about addresses, blocks and transactions on the Ergo network

1 July, 2019

Ergo Mainnet 3.0.1 released

This release includes hard-coded proof-of-no-premine and genesis state root hash. Thanks to all who made it for mainnet launch

28 June, 2019

Ergo will be listed on P2PB2B exchange

Ergo native token (ERG) will be listed soon after the mainnet launch.

28 June, 2019

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 follow the steps included in this guide.

27 June, 2019

Testnet 2.2.0 released

Sigma-State language updated, new API methods

26 June, 2019

Mainnet launch - Monday, July 1, 10:00 AM UTC

Instructions on how to join mainnet right after launch is coming shortly.

24 June, 2019

Ergo Mining Telegram group is now open

Both CPU and GPU miners are welcome to join

14 June, 2019

EFYT (Ergo First Year Token) is listed on Tidex Exchange

Ergo native token (ERG) will be listed right after the mainnet launch.

13 June, 2019

Mainnet launch postponed

Due to delays with exchange listings and new issues found we've decided to postpone the mainnet launch till June 28. Thank you for your patience and continued support!

13 June, 2019

The Bad Crypto Podcast featuring Ergo

Episode 276: Crypto for Good with The Giving Block

12 June, 2019

Testnet 2.1.2 released

Support of coordinated network bootstrapping. Fixes of multiple genesis processing and network byte in addresses.

11 June, 2019

Interview with Ergo, a platform who's building the framework for contractual money

Bitcoin | The Next Evolution of Money by DataDash

5 June, 2019

Agreement with SWFT Blockchain

ERG will be listed soon after mainnet launch and will be available for payment and swap with over 170 crypto!

5 June, 2019

New Bitcointalk thread

Following up the PRE-ANN thread on Bitcointalk which was started almost two years ago, the Ergo team would like to announce the upcoming launch of Ergo, a resilient platform for contractual money.

5 June, 2019

Testnet 2.1.0 released

Voting for soft-forkability feature implemented, Sigma-State language updated. More details in the description of the release.

3 June, 2019

Ergo whitepaper(Chinese)

We continue to reach out to the Chinese crypto community. Chinese website coming soon.

30 May, 2019

A Trustless Local Exchange Trading System on top of Ergo

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.

20 May, 2019

The Ergo Emission Schedule

Ergo’s native token is called Erg and its emission schedule may be of keen interest to users and miners of the platform.

17 May, 2019

Testnet 2.0.5 released

Wallet persistence added. Stateful validation of transactions via API.

15 May, 2019

Ergo whitepaper

A deep general-purpose overview of the Ergo platform.

7 May, 2019

Release postponed

Due to delays in (mostly) testing and the security audit, we've decided to postpone the mainnet launch until June 20.

24 April, 2019

High-level overview of the vision, consensus, clients, survivability, economy, and applicability.

3 April, 2019

Ergo mining tutorial

Mining is the process of adding new blocks into the Ergo blockchain by performing resource-intensive computations.

2 April, 2019

Testnet 2.0.3 released

Testnet 2.0.3 released with various bug fixes and GPU mining support.

19 March, 2019

Q&A session transcript. Mainnet launch is planned for May 26

Transcript of Q&A session with Alex Chepurnoy and Dmitry Meshkov

17 March, 2019

How to set up and configure full Ergo node

Tutorial explaining how to install and configure Ergo node.

14 March, 2019

Testnet 2.0 is live! Smart contracts language updated

The super big step towards Ergo Platform launch! All the major features are implemented, just optimization, testing and security audit remain. It should be binary compatible with the mainnet, time to integrate and write your DApps!

12 March, 2019

ErgoScript, a Cryptocurrency Scripting Language Supporting Noninteractive Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Paper published, we would be happy to get feedback!