The Lelantus Spark Cryptography Audit by Hashcloak has been completed! Thank you to the firofam and those who contributed via the FCS to make this happen. 👏🏻

Read more about it here: https://firo.org/2022/01/04/lelantus-spark-audit-complete.html

The #Firo team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! We also look back on everything we have achieved in 2021. Thank you for being part of the #firofam

https://firo.org/2021/12/31/happy-new-year-2022-recap.html

On the 4th day of #7daysofFiro, MTP stripping is now live on $FIRO, dropping the size of the blockchain on disk from over 60 GB to under 4 GB making it much more friendly to store on your device.

https://firo.org/2021/12/19/mtp-stripping-live-on-firo.html



On the 5th day of #7daysofFiro, we're excited to announce that Firo is now available on Bitrefill via Binance Pay. Use Firo to buy gift cards for all of your favorite retailers, including Steam, Uber, and Twitch.

https://firo.org/2021/12/20/bitrefill-binancepay.html



On the 6th day of #7daysofFiro, we're happy to announce the completion of the Lelantus Spark cryptography audit by Hashcloak! No major issues were found and a full report will be made available soon. Thanks once again to the FiroFam who contributed to this audit via the Firo Crowdfunding System!



For the last day of #7DaysofFiro, we have launched the testnet for Elysium, our tokenization layer that allows anyone to build their own tokens with Lelantus privacy! Stay tuned on how we're turning Elysium into privacy infrastructure for crypto! https://firo.org/2021/12/22/elysium-testnet-and-gui.html

For the first day of #7daysofFiro, we're announcing the long awaited release of our Firo mobile wallet with Lelantus privacy on by default! https://firo.org/2021/12/16/firo-mobile-wallet-release-with-lelantus.html



On the 2nd day of #7daysofFiro, we're announcing the release of our refreshed interface of our Firo QT wallet in Firo v14.9.2 which has some exciting improvements inside it! Stay tuned!
https://firo.org/2021/12/17/firo-wallet-gui-refresh.html



On the 3rd day of #7daysofFiro, we're proud to announce the acceptance of Firo by MAGIC Grants, a public charity that supports cryptocurrency networks that are public payment infrastructure!
As a a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, donations to MAGIC are tax deductible and we will be soon announcing details of our first collaboration together!
https://firo.org/2021/12/18/magic-grants-firo.html

Firo integration into Binance Pay

Firo has been integrated to Binance Pay allowing existing Binance users to send, receive and pay each other using Firo direct from their app. Existing merchants using Binance Pay also can now easily add Firo as a payment option.

Read more here: https://firo.org/2021/11/25/firo-binance-pay.html

Firo's Core team lays out its upcoming plans and project direction with a focus on Lelantus Spark, interoperability and becoming privacy infrastructure for the cryptocurrency ecosystem with Elysium.

Read more here: https://firo.org/2021/11/22/firo-future-direction-2022.html

Firo introduces MTP data stripping that brings down the storage size of Firo's blockchain from 60GB to 3.5GB. Coming soon!

https://firo.org/2021/11/08/mtp-data-stripping.html

Railgun Project and Firo Development Team are proud to announce a partnership!  Firo developers will use RAILGUN private transfer for all ERC20 grant payments and donations beginning next month.

Firo's expert team will provide collaboration with user flow for the RAILGUN Ethereum privacy system and will be given access to RAILGUN resources.

This is a highly recommended maintenance release that resolves a crash that can happen during FiroPoW validation in certain rare circumstances.

Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.9.1

Firo launches Firo Crowdfunding System (FCS)

FCS is the new and improved crowdfunding system that replaces the previous CCS.

The FCS greatly simplifies proposal creation and community members are able to seek funding for valuable contributions to the Firo ecosystem.

Read more here: https://firo.org/2021/10/18/firo-crowdfunding-system-launch.html

We have partnered with Finstreet as our Official Education Partner for India.

Finstreet is the largest cryptocurrency education platform in India and will be creating educational and awareness content for Firo over the next few months!

Read more here: https://firo.org/2021/10/15/firo-finstreet.html

We are proud to announce the release of Firo v0.14.9.0 that will enable FiroPoW and Instant Send.

This is a mandatory update that will come into force on mainnet on October 26th, 6:00 UTC so you must update your wallet and nodes to v0.14.9.0 prior to this date for a seamless transition.

Read more here.

We are pleased to share the latest development updates from Firo. Highlights:
• FiroPoW
• InstantSend
• Lelantus Spark
• Mobile wallet
and more!

Read in detail here: https://firo.org/2021/09/15/dev-update.html

📢 New Firo Client V2.1.0 (Electron Client) has been released!

🔧Incorporates mandatory upgrade Firo v14.8.0
✨New clean look
🤝Integrated no-KYC Coin Swap feature
🌚Dark mode

https://firo.org/2021/08/27/firo-client-release-210.html

New mandatory update Firo v0.14.8.0

This is a mandatory release that moves the Lelantus joinsplit payload into the vExtrapayload section and allows Trezor support to be re-enabled.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.8.0

Please update before the hard fork scheduled at block 401580 (approximately August 26, 2021).

Backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

Introducing Lelantus Spark, Firo's new privacy protocol

Today we talk a bit about our upcoming privacy protocol Lelantus Spark that is the successor of Lelantus v1/v2 and how it further adds privacy and new features!

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZC1fTYRZk

Firo v0.14.7.1

New maintenance release (optional) with bug fixes. Please backup your wallet before updating.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.7.1

Salam Eid al-Adha to our Muslim FiroFam!

Firo now is listed on Polarity (https://polarity.exchange), a popular DEX for many privacy coins. Check out the launch trading competition too!

https://medium.com/polarity-exchange/firo-is-now-listed-trading-on-polarity-exchange-ce81cc5071c6

We are pleased to partner with runonflux.io to further decentralize our node network! $FIRO #FIRO

https://fluxofficial.medium.com/firo-coming-to-fluxnodes-25cfc9adf0f6