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Ergo AMA Wrap-Up, December 24

During last week’s AMA, Dan, Armeanio and Kushti answered questions on Ergo’s soft fork proposal, Sigma Protocols, tokens on ErgoDEX, YouTube influencers, and the comparisons between Ergo and Bitcoin. Dan also updated the community on exchange listings, marketing and new partnerships. Check out the Ergo AMA Wrap-Up from December 24th:

Announcing ErgoHACK III!

The Ergo Platform is teeming with activity from previous ErgoHack’s and we are pleased to announce the next event, ErgoHack III: Privacy and Security. The event will take place in February 2022 as a virtual event on the Ergo Discord and will be broadcast across our communication channels. Are you a developer, coder, or entrepreneur? Then join us for ErogHack III! Application deadline: January 31, 2022

Ergo AMA Wrap-Up, December 17

Last week’s AMA with Dan and Kushti discussed exchange listing updates, developer updates, emission schedule, marketing in Africa, identity services on blockchain, business adoption, the UTXO alliance and much more! Catch up on all the details below in our AMA Wrap-Up!

Ergo Foundation Announces Official Incorporation

Announced today, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) has approved Ergo Foundation Ltd as a corporate entity in Singapore. With this news, the Ergo Foundation establishes a clear pathway towards forming new official partnerships and listings on Tier 1 exchanges.

Ergo Watch is now live!

This tool allows users to access useful metrics about Ergo! You can view data on $ERG emission, developer and user growth, oracle pools and SigUSD. Check out the latest blog for details.

Ergo Protocol Overview

Here you can find an overview of frequently asked questions about Ergo Protocol. All the relevant information to-date is described in this long post by Joseph Armeanio. -Intentions -Security -Team -Technology

The Proposal Regarding Emission Soft-Fork

Alex (kushti) Chepurnoy has recently submitted a proposal on ErgoForum for a soft fork to adjust the $ERG emission schedule. Please drop by to bit.ly/33asP7f and offer your feedback!

Ergo Pulse Episode 1 - ErgoDex

The first episode of ErgoPulse, a monthly talk show all about Ergo, is here! This episode's featured project is ErgoDex! Check it out and tell us what you think.

Raffle User Interface v2

There is a new UI and the ability to add pictures to each raffle as well as an impressive amount of developer work that further improves the user experience.

Ergo & Kairon Labs Partnership

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with industry-leading crypto market maker, Kairon Labs. Kairon will focus on Ergo's liquidity and trading volume as we work towards future exchange listings.

Ergo and Waves Enterprise Partnership

The future of business will undoubtedly work with smart contracts, and oracles are a key piece of infrastructure. Through our partnership with Waves Entreprise, we are working hard today to build the oracle pools of tomorrow.

Roadmap

Ergo Ecosystem continues to grow and build with new developers. For interoperability, bridges to Waves, Solana, Ethereum, BSC are on the way. New wallets and dApps are coming from ErgoHack participants. See the updated Roadmap of Ergo Platform:

Developer Update 21 Nov 2021

The first of Ergo's new weekly technical update videos. Huge thanks to Armeanio for making this happen. From now on, these updates will come out every Sunday.

IOHK Business Developer Appointed Advisor to Ergo Foundation Board

Announced today, Ergo appoints IOHK Business Developer, Dan Friedman, as Strategic Advisor for Marketing and Business Development to the Ergo Foundation Board.

Good Whale’s Grant Fund

Do you have an idea for the Ergo Ecosystem? If yes, there are grants to develop that idea into a dApp on the Ergo blockchain! See all the details below and learn about the Good Whale Fund! Spread the word, Ergonauts!

Ergo Interview On NiceTalk

NiceTalk is a cryptocurrency talk show from NiceHash featuring expert insight and commentary on the latest events in crypto! Join us as we talk with special guests Alex (Kushti) Chepurnoy, Joseph Armeanio, and Mark Glasgow from ERGO about Autolykos algorithm, privacy features, stablecoins, and what's next for mining after ETH 2.0. Ergo links are below to learn more.

ETH/USD Oracle Pool Now on Ergo!

ErgoHack II Results

Congrats to all the winners and a huge round of applause for all the participants! We can’t wait for the next ErgoHack!

Ergo Cold Wallet

The Ergo Android Wallet can now be used as a cold wallet for your ERG! This new update brings even more security and functionality to this already popular wallet for Ergonauts!

Ergo Cold Wallet

The Ergo Android Wallet can now be used as a cold wallet for your ERG! This new update brings even more security and functionality to this already popular wallet for Ergonauts!

Ergo Cold Wallet

The Ergo Android Wallet can now be used as a cold wallet for your ERG! This new update brings even more security and functionality to this already popular wallet for Ergonauts!

What’s Going On Behind the Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update October 13th

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:

ERGOHACK II - Closing video

Ergo's business manager Armeanio gives a round-up of ErgoHack 2.0 and closes the event. Thanks to all those who participated in this event, who are part of building the future of the Ergo ecosystem. We look forward to hearing what the ErgoHack judges have to say about everyone's efforts! See you all again at ErgoHack 3

Ergo Weekly Dev Update October 6th

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:

Auctionhouse V2 On the Way!

The Ergo Auction House V2 may be launching in the next week or two. (Depends on development and testing) It's going to have some unique features that we hope it will assist in both attracting more artists and building a larger NFT community.

Ergo Weekly Dev Update September 29th

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:

What’s Going On Behind the Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update September 22nd

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:

Ergo NFT AuctionHouse Update

NFTs issued on Ergo Auction House and ErgoUtils will be uploaded directly to IPFS from now on! These NFT’s will be stored on a peer-to-peer distributed file storage network forever.

What is ERGO + ErgoDEX Concurrency Solution For Cardano?

Armeanio, Kushti and Ilya interviewed with Paul about what Ergo is all about and specifically the ErgoDEX they are building which will run for Ergo and Cardano. We go through lots of the features of ERGO everything from the eUtxo model, to the Ergo mixer, nfts, oracles and the Ergo DEX.

What’s Going On Behind the Screens: Ergo Weekly Dev Update September 8th

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:

ERG/SigUSD and ERG/SigRSV Pairs!

ErgoDEX liquidity pairs are now live for ERG/SigUSD and ERG/SigRSV! While the UI is still in beta, the core AMM protocol is ready to take whatever you can throw at it!

Ergo<>Graviton Partnership

Ergo and Graviton partner up to foster multichain expansion of the two ecosystems. The two projects are teaming up for enhancing the cross-chain experience, providing wider liquidity mining opportunities and expanding the global reach and utility of both Ergo Platform and Graviton.

An Interview With ErgoDEX Developer

What is Ergo's uniqueness? What is UTXO based financial contracts? Who is the team behind Ergo? What is the relation with Cardano? What is ErgoDEX, and why it's built on UTXO model?

ErgoDEX Beta!

We’re please to announce that the ErgoDEX team have launched their first beta! (and the first eUTXO DEX!!) To access the ErgoDEX beta, you’ll need to follow the steps in this blog post and install Yoroi Nightly, the dApp connector - and get your hands on some test tokens.

AMA with Bitcoin.com

On Tuesday next week, August 10th, at 16:00 UTC, bitcoin.com team is hosting the Ergo Platform team for the next AMA in their telegram channel. Armeanio, Kushti and Glasgow will be there! Join us to ask anything you've always wanted to know about Ergo.

ERG is listed on Bitcoin.com!

ERG/USDT and ERG/BTC pairs are now open for trading on Bitcoin.com Exchange! Armeanio, Ergo’s Business Manager expressed his enthusiasm when listing the ERG token on the exchange, by stating: “Ergo is excited to join the Bitcoin.com Exchange family. It is our honor to collaborate with Bitcoin.com Exchange as it has a history of being a good actor in the crypto space. They offer a wide variety of crypto products, services, educational content and user tools. We are looking forward to a long and prosperous partnership.”

KuCoin Listing!

Ergo (ERG) is now available on KuCoin! Supported trading pair is ERG/USDT. -- Please take note of the following schedule: Deposits Effective Immediately (Supported Network: Mainnet) / Trading: 10:00 on August 5, 2021 (UTC) / Withdrawal: 10:00 on August 6, 2021 (UTC)

Ergo Team is Hiring!

Work with Ergo core developers who delivered Ergo blockchai! Ergo is looking for an experienced compiler developer to help us build the future of blockchain. Details in link. Spread the word, Ergonauts!!

Happy to announce that an Android wallet is now available on the Google Play store!

Generate wallets and restore wallets (compatible to node wallets) - Add read-only wallets without entering your secrets - No need to make a full sync, this is a lightweight client - Request ERGs by showing QR code or sharing a link - Send ERGs manually or by scanning a QR code - Show wallet balance denominated in fiat curency. Your secrets are stored password-encrypted or authentication-protected and never leave your device. This app does not log any information, does not track you and does not profile you.

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!

Ergo Swags!

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!

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!

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

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!

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Check out about lates updates on Ergo Platform development!

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.

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.

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/

BitMart has listed Ergo

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

Ergo explorer backend 7.0.0 released

Support for detailed UTXO queries

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)

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!

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

ErgoMixer Tutorial - Taking Fire - Version 3.0.1 & Above

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

ERGO ($ERG) is listed on TradeOgre

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

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

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

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

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

Windows and Linux version

“Hardening” Hard Fork Post-Mortem

Description of what happened today during the hard fork

Ergo Mainnet 4.0.4 Release

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

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

Join Nanopool

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"

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.

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

Mining guide

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

How to mine Ergo by Hero Miners

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

Have a good weekend!

Mining Ergo before and after the Hardening Upgrade by Mhs_sam

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

Ergo JS Template

Entry Point to Ergo dApp Development

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.

Ergo Summit 2021 - Full video

Links to chapters included

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

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

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.

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

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

Urlwallet

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.

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

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

Unblocked with Robert Kornacki

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

Ergo Platform Ecosystem Digest - December 2020

A summary of the news surrounding Ergo in December

HeroMiners - "We opened testnet ERGO pool"

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