The story was like this:
1. When ASICs were anounced by Bitmain, Serena, as a representative of Dero devs, promised to spend her personal 20000$ to buy 3 ASICs to disassemble them in order to understand, how they are functioning and to release ASIC-resistant algo as soon as possible.
https://forum.dero.io/t/deros-official-position-on-asics/281"
I will personally drop the $20,000 USD to buy the 3 well advertised ASICs to let our developers literally tear them apart and you can hold me to that."
2. "
We are going to combat ASICs dont worry" (Serena)
https://forum.dero.io/t/deros-official-position-on-asics/281/102. After Monero team switched to Cryptonight-V7, Serena said that it is not a problem to switch to ASIC-resistant algo. They can even generate and switch the algo every few seconds. "
Our devs even built an asic-resistant algo generator that can produce hundreds of new algos/second."
But at the same time Serena refused to release a new mining soft, which can mine with this kind changing algo. "
Were not planning to release our own mining program at this time or push our own updates for mining software. The algo generator is possible but it will require more time/resources and our team is currently focused on other things for the time being."
https://forum.dero.io/t/about-anonymous-hashrate-and-pools/343/173. Recently Serena said "
We have confirmed that we are using a new algorithm that isn't ASIC friendly. ... For now though, we are moving to a brand new algo and it takes quite a while to develop an ASIC for any algo." The possible name of the algo is
Dero-DAG ? Note that at the moment the mining soft for this
band-new algo does not exist (otherwise it is not a
brand-new), and as it is stated just before, there are no plans to release it.
4. The conclusion is that: even if some day (
devs never announced the exact date) the Dero will switch to a new Asic-resistant algo, it will be only once, after that Bitmain is welcome to develop a brand new ASIC for it.
"
ASIC technology is advancing, and perhaps it's inevitable that mining/network security" (Serena) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525508.3120
6. The devs are focused to create "
robust, secure, energy efficient and decentralized blockchain network". Note, that ASICs are the most energy efficient devices ever.
https://forum.dero.io/t/creating-robust-secure-energy-efficient-and-decentralized-blockchain-network/405