Hey everyone ,

sorry for the delayed announcement.

First of all we have to tell you that we have to delay the release of Liberio.
I am going to explain why we have to go this way in the following sentences.

As we've published in the last weeks Liberio is using the "Liberio Protocol" based on the "ALQO-Net"-Protocol.
Both of those protocols are using End-To-End-Encryption and both of those protocols are communicating with the massive amount of masternodes out there.
That being said you might already know why we have to delay the release: The latest update we made including the Zerocoin-Implementation had some longer internal tests on our testnets as we had some issue with signing and verifying messages (specially transactions and masternode broadcast-messages).

To resolve those issues we've investigated the last couple of days and found a way to get rid of those failures in signing.
As I've already announced yesterday we've already got a running full-node with the upcoming protocol-version 70714 running on the main-net.

To check everything we set up a masternode on that given node and are still waiting for the first time it's going to show up in the "masternode winners" list.

Once our node is showing up in that list we are going to publish our 100%-finished commit of the new version.
We already applied for the Apple developer certification as well as the Google Playstore certification to be sure that there won't be any issue with our mobile-release of Liberio as well.

However - we are not able to provide a solution that is secure enough right now to release such a big thing like Liberio and decided to delay the Liberio-Release untill 51% of the network's masternodes are using the upcoming protocol-version.

Why do we think it's not secure enough to release Liberio right now?
- Our main goal is to be decentralized and with only one single full-node accepting the new protocol-version including the "Liberio Protocol" specially because that node is running on one of our servers it's not secure enough. We don't want to risk any loose, failures or connection issues as that single node might not be able to sustain all that traffic and is an easy target for DDOS which would kill our whole Liberio system.

Are the masternodes in any risk once Liberio is out? (I am scared as I heard DDOS)
- No. Masternodes are always publicly known. There is no risk of your node getting attacked randomly - at least not higher than it is right now. Liberio won't affect anything. The new version is even more secure and got an integrated DDOS-Protection.

When do you think we are able to see Liberio released?
- I don't want to tell a fixed date yet but as far as I know about 1000 masternodes are running on different hosting service like the Official Hosting Framework or any other. Those hosting-services might be faster updating all nodes which could get us those 51% of all masternodes using the new protocol-version in a very short period of time.

When is the deadline to update to the newest version?
- As always. Once we've released the new version (in the next couple of days) we are going to set exactly 14 days to update your node. After 14 days all nodes with the old protocol-version will be ignored and will not receive any rewards anymore.(bearbeitet)

When I update my node soon do I loose my masternode ranking?
- If you node is offline for less than 25 minutes your masternode rank won't get lost or reset. Most likely the update might only take about 1-2 minutes!

Are there still any bugs in the new version?
- For sure there are some visual bugs here and there - but everyone of the ALQO Dev Team can guarantee that the backend and core is working without any issues, exploits or anything that could harm the network or your funds.

If you have any question please do not hestitate to contact us at any time via support@alqo.org or https://support.alqo.org/

Greetings Kevin