Nomination window for the Firo Community Fund Committee member is closing in 7 days!

If you're interested in guiding Firo's investment into its community and infrastructure and feel that you have what it takes, please do put yourself up for nomination!

Currently we have 10 nominations for 7 positions!

https://forum.firo.org/t/nomination-for-community-fund-committee/2380

The Firo Community has Spoken!

Introduction of the Community Funds Block Rewards and a faster block time!

We are empowering our community more than before! 🤝

Read about it more here: https://firo.org/2022/05/08/firo-upcoming-tokenomics-change.html

Firo Android Mobile Wallet Release v0.1.18

❗️ You MUST backup your mnemonics/seed phrase. You will need to restore your wallet when installing the new version.
✅ You can safely uninstall the older version if mnemonics were saved. Do not uninstall the old version if you have not saved your mnemonics!

This release improves UI and fixed few bugs.

https://github.com/firoorg/mobile/releases/tag/v0.1.18
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.firo.wallet

The reason behind the rebrand is to avoid confusion between zcash.

We have a video explaining behind the rebrand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W433zQ61YEM

Firo v0.14.9.5 Maintenance Release

This maintenance release is optional but highly recommended. It fixes various bugs and improves performance and user experience.

Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.9.5

The Firo Hummingbot Liquidity mining program is back!

🤝 Earn $FIRO and $HBOT tokens when providing liquidity to the following pairs:

✅FIRO/USDT on Binance
✅FIRO/USDT on Gate.io

📖 Read more about it here: https://firo.org/2022/04/06/hummingbot-campaign-binance-gateio.html

We are pleased to announce the release of FiroDEX 0.5.5-beta!

Download here: https://github.com/firoorg/FiroDEX-Desktop/releases

Want privacy on BEP20-Firo and earn liquidity rewards? Incognito is offering liquidity incentives for their $FIRO-$PRV pair. This combined with swap fees is returning a 20% APR currently.

Providing liquidity to the FIRO-PRV pair also allows routing to all other coins paired with PRV such as USDT, ETH, DAI etc.

Find out how here: https://we.incognito.org/t/how-to-contribute-liquidity-and-earn-rewards/15254/4

The vote seeking community feedback on Firo's block reward allocation is now open!
You can vote up to 3 options. Poll will be open for one month!

Please vote responsibly! Firo's future is in your hands!

https://forum.firo.org/t/poll-on-firo-block-reward-division/2150

Campfire, an open source private by default FIRO wallet is now available on Apple's App Store! Again thanks to CypherStack, Arcadia Group and Rasikh Morani for making this! Firofam the best!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/campfire-firo-wallet/id1613267898

Revealing Spats that extends Lelantus Spark technology to support confidential tokens/assets. With Spats, not only the sender, receiver, amount are hidden but also the asset being transferred! Spats will form the base of Firo's privacy ecosystem layer.

https://firo.org/2022/03/07/spats-confidential-assets-lelantus-spark.html

Campfire, an open source, private by default Firo wallet is now available on Google PlayStore!

We are happy to welcome Campfire to the Firo ecosystem. Special thanks to Cypher Stack and Arcadia for building an amazing wallet!

https://firo.org/2022/03/01/campfire-firo-wallet.html

FiroDEX has now been released allowing trustless cross-chain atomic swaps on decentralized infrastructure! No smart contract risk with greater capital efficiency using an order book style. Give it a whirl and provide some liquidity to support the DEX!

https://firo.org/2022/02/22/firodex-released.html

Happy Chinese New Year to our #firofam! 恭喜发财! 财源滚滚!

Firo will be listed on BitMart with a USDT pair starting 1 February 2022!

BitMart is supported in 180+ countries and is registered as a MSB with FinCEN in the US.

https://support.bmx.fund/hc/en-us/articles/4417099265051

We present Helsing, Private Firo masternodes in Lelantus Spark.

Helsing allows users to stake their FIRO collateral in Spark and also direct payouts to Spark addresses directly anonymizing them. This improves privacy of Firo masternode hosters, increases the anonymity set and also reduces the need for transparent addresses.

We welcome feedback!

Read more here:
https://firo.org/2022/01/28/helsing-private-firo-masternode.html

Discuss it here:
https://forum.firo.org/t/helsing-private-masternode-staking-in-lelantus-spark/2049

We have moved to FiroPoW since October last year https://firo.org/2021/10/01/firopow-and-instantsend-release.html

We at FIRO are excited to partner with DoTOracle to bridge tokens across multiple chains into our upcoming privacy tokenization layer Elysium.

This allows FIRO to serve as a privacy infrastructure layer across all chains that DoTOracle supports.

Read more here: https://firo.org/2022/01/18/dotoracle-partnership.html

Firo v0.14.9.4 released

This patches a bug concerning ProRegTx transactions.
Mandatory upgrade for all node operators to ensure network stability.

Please update before block 446,040. Updating after this block will require you to reindex.

If you are trying to update from 0.14.9.2 to 0.14.9.3 now, you'll need to reindex. This release fixes that, but you must update before the block number.

Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

Read more here: https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.9.4

We are happy to announce that FIRO now has a USDT pair on Bittrex and is now open for trading!

FIRO/BTC will be deprecated to concentrate liquidity on FIRO/USDT pair.

Read more here: https://firo.org/2022/01/11/usdt-bittrex.html