Good Morning

As of April 15th, 2024, the Stargate coins from the Atlantis swap will be burned. Any pending swaps will be completed before the burn and no further requests to swap coins will be accepted. It is far past the deadline window and many courtesy requests for late swaps have been granted already.

Any requests to swap after this time will be rejected so, please take the necessary steps to ensure that your DERO Coins are on the Stargate chain and not Atlantis.

Thanks

Greetings from $DERO!

Please visit the link below to view the latest update from our team.

https://docs.dero.io/rtd_pages/basic_cntohe.html

The DERO Stargate RC2 testnet is now live and open for testing. There have been many improved features from our previous releases. For more information about this update, medium.com/deroproject/stargate-rc2-testnet-update-3b2b9207b830

What are we testing?

New Σ-Mining protocol
Explore features and the limits of our BlockDAG (750+ transactions per second)
Ensure that the included software (wallet, daemon, etc.) functions correctly.
Continued testing of smart contracts and services

In order to participate in this public release, please find all necessary information here: forum.dero.io/t/stargate-rc2-testnet-updated/1575

As always, thank you for your continued support and happy testing!

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DERO Team

The $DERO Stargate RC2 testnet will be updated next week. See some of the changes that are coming:

https://medium.com/deroproject/stargate-rc2-testnet-update-3b2b9207b830

The DERO team is pleased to announce public testing of Stargate RC2, our private decentralized application platform. https://medium.com/deroproject/stargate-release-candidate-2-d0628956d76a

f you want to pool mine with 0% fees feel free to use the $DERO community operated pool.

It has been donated by Nelbert442 for our community to use free of charge.

pool.dero.network

Greetings,

The DERO team is pleased to announce the release of a unique homomorphic encryption scheme (DERO-HE) and the complete blockchain protocol (DHEBP) for public testing. DERO will migrate from the existing CryptoNote protocol to its own DERO Homomorphic Encryption Blockchain Protocol (DHEBP).


What Is Homomorphic Encryption?
Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption allowing one to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. The result of the computation is in an encrypted form, when decrypted the output is the same as if the operations had been performed on the unencrypted data.
Homomorphic encryption can be used for privacy-preserving outsourced storage and computation. This allows data to be encrypted and out-sourced to commercial cloud environments for processing, all while encrypted. In highly regulated industries, such as health care, homomorphic encryption can be used to enable new services by removing privacy barriers inhibiting data sharing. For example, predictive analytics in health care can be hard to apply via a third party service provider due to medical data privacy concerns, but if the predictive analytics service provider can operate on encrypted data instead, these privacy concerns are diminished.

About DERO Project

The DERO Project is aiming to create a platform for developers to deploy secure, open, scalable, and privacy-preserving decentralized applications. DERO is unique because we value security and privacy above all else; as a result, users are able to transact privately over our network without fear of common protocol-level and network attacks. Additionally, our technology preserves transparency where required and scales with network load, which provides an ideal environment for business-class applications.



First to implement Bulletproofs

TLS-encrypted network

Proof-of-Work DAG based Blockchain

Fully anonymous transactions based on Homomorphic Encryption

Secure against majority hashrate attacks

Homomorphic Encryption blockchain protocol with native and base-layer Smart Contracts

Competitive CPU mining based on the DERO AstroBWT algorithm

Public Testing

As with our previous releases, the full source code will be available for anyone wishing to build their own binaries. The public testnet will consist of two phases:

Phase 1: DHEBP

The initial testing phase will introduce the base layer protocol, DERO-HE, and many new features new to the blockchain space. Our aim is to extensively test the following:

Homomorphic account based model, a first for privacy-focused blockchains.

Instant account balances (only 66 bytes of data need to be read from the blockchain).

No more chain scanning or wallet scanning to detect funds, or the need for key images, etc.

Truly light-weight and efficient wallets.

Massive scalability improvements (fixed account cost of 66 bytes in the blockchain).

Perfectly anonymous transactions with Many-out-of-Many Proofs (Bulletproofs and Sigma Protocol) to support deniability.

Fixed transaction sizes of ~2.5KB (ring size or ~3.4 KB (ring size 16) based on chosen anonymity group size (in powers of 2), which have logarithmic growth.
+-----------+----------------+
| Ring Size |     TX Size    |
+-----------+----------------+
|     2     |   1553 bytes   |
|     4     |   2013 bytes   |
|     8     |   2605 bytes   |
|     16    |   3461 bytes   |
|     32    |   4825 bytes   |
|     64    |   7285 bytes   |
|     128   |   11839 bytes  |
|     512   |   ~35000 bytes |
+-----------+----------------+
Allows chain pruning on daemons to control data retention, while remaining secure using Merkle Proofs.

An example of disk requirements of 1 billion accounts (assuming one does not want to keep history of transactions, but retain all proofs to prove that the node is in sync with all other nodes).

Requirement of 1 account = 66 bytes

Assuming storage overhead per account of 128 bytes (constant)

Total requirements = (66 + 128) GB ~200 GB (assuming we are off by factor of 4 = 800GB)

Note: Even after 1 trillion transactions, 1 billion accounts will consume only 800 GB, and if history is not maintained, everything will be in proved state using Merkle Roots. As a result, even a Raspberry Pi can host the entire chain.

Transaction generation takes less than 25 ms.

No trusted setup, no hidden parameters.

Senders can prove to receiver what amount they have sent (without revealing themselves).

The entire chain is resyncable while in operation.

Phase 2: Stargate RC2

The next phase will include the DERO Virtual Machine (DVM) and Smart Contracts execution.

Allows homomorphic assets (programmable Smart Contracts with fixed overhead per asset), which will remain open, but any data within is encrypted (internal testing/implementation not included in this current testnet branch).

Testnet Participation

In order to participate in this public release, please find all necessary information below:

Download the binaries: https://github.com/deroproject/derohe/releases

Source Code: https://github.com/deroproject/derohe

Testnet Explorer: https://testnetexplorer.dero.io/

Note: This testnet will only support CPU solo mining (use the included dero-miner), but third-party mining software should only require minor modifications for mainnet compatibility.

Testnet Ports
P2P Default Port: 40401
RPC Default Port: 40402
Wallet RPC Default Port: 40403

Happy testing!

Privacy together.

Good Afternoon, Please see Dero homomorphic encryption blockchain protocol updates https://forum.dero.io/t/dero-homomorphic-encryption-blockchain-protocol-updates/1270

DERO Homomorphic Encryption Blockchain Protocol (DHEBP)

 We are happy to publicly release the initial proof of concept code for DERO Homomorphic Encryption Blockchain Protocol (DHEBP). Our current focus is to bring Stargate RC 2 to a public testnet, so please stay tuned.

Build and Test:
https://git.dero.io/Captain/DHEBP

Greetings everyone,

Please see the monthly update for June 2020.

https://twitter.com/DERO_Foundation/status/1277801954081529856?s=20

https://t.co/BLUFeMNkDI

Please see DERO Monthly update for March 2020 - https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-monthly-update-7ea482378a50

Please see the DERO Monthly Update for February 2020:

https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-monthly-update-4f133012baa0

How to mine DERO with CPU on Windows - https://medium.com/@coordinator_76173/how-to-mine-dero-with-cpu-on-windows-2ebdeaeae6a

‪Welcome to a decentralized DERO. @DeroProject @DERO_Foundation $DERO‬

‪https://medium.com/deroproject/release-astrobwt-acab338884aa‬

Welcome to the AstroBWT testnet! Please see our $DERO announcement:

https://t.co/1AMYklpdrP

#cryptocurrency #golang #mining #astroBWT

Good Evening all, Please see DERO Monthly Update for Jan 2020. https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-monthly-update-32e139a8b85b

Good Afternoon All, Please see DERO Annual Recap for 2019. Wishing every day of the new year to be filled with success, happiness and prosperity for you, happy new year from the DERO team. https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-annual-recap-67e3ab97bec9

Apologies in the delay, please see DERO monthly update for November 2019 https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-monthly-update-3eec0370741c

Release of DERO testnet to test GPU-CPU mining.

We are testing the removal of ASIC mining from the DERO network, which we plan to deploy in coming days. Several CPU mining algorithms were tested, but none were found to be usable. Currently, there is just a minor tweak in our existing Cryptonight algorithm. Our plan is to continiously alter the mining algorithm to prevent ASIC mining until a solution is discovered.

To test your GPU-CPU for mining, please see the following:

Download or build testnet and run DERO daemon with --testnet option.

Ex:
./derod-linux-amd64 --testnet

For CPU mining In Dero daemon console:

 start_mining DERO_WALLET_ADDRESS No._of_threads

Code:
 https://git.dero.io/DeroProject/derosuite_NonAsic_testnet

Binaries releases :
 https://git.dero.io/DeroProject/Dero_NonAsic_testnet_binaries

Pools and other GPU mining software will be updated in coming days to support these changes.

To self implement these changes see:
b[0] is just XORed with 10555428962492473492.

https://git.dero.io/DeroProject/derosuite_NonAsic_testnet/src/branch/master/cryptonight/cryptonight.go#L123
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        switch version {
        case 0 : // default is nothing
        case 1 : b[0] ^= 10555428962492473492
        }

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Block time is changed to 21 seconds from 12 seconds. This will settle blocktime to somewhere between 13-16 seconds with sideblocks. It will also help to limit blockchain size.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Please see DERO monthly update for October. https://medium.com/deroproject/dero-monthly-update-e198cd48b585