[ANN] Firo (FIRO) - Implementing ZKP privacy without trusted setup

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[mistercashking]

Catching up now, So Zcoin rebranded to Firo. I've been under a rock. 

[tbearhere]

Yes and I wish the dev would have left the name as Zcoin... but that's history now.

[Texacha]

Yes and I wish the dev would have left the name as Zcoin... but that's history now.

+1
Big mistake. Biggest.
Good old times when we mined ZCoin using Lyra2Z algo, very power-friendly at that time.

[zcoinofficial]

Yes and I wish the dev would have left the name as Zcoin... but that's history now.

+1
Big mistake. Biggest.
Good old times when we mined ZCoin using Lyra2Z algo, very power-friendly at that time.

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

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

[zcoinofficial]

There will be a Firo project update and AMA session tomorrow on YouTube and Facebook Live!

This will go on the state of development, budgeting, the community fund and future plans!

Date/Time:
0930 UTC+8 13 May
2130 Eastern Time 12 May
1830 Pacific Time 12 May
0130 UTC time 13 May

Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel and Facebook!

https://youtube.com/c/firoorg
https://facebook.com/firoorg

We look forward to seeing you there!

[zcoinofficial]

New Firo Rich GUI Client Released! (Electron v2.2.0)

Now with built-in Coinswap function and no KYC needed!
Choose any of the 4 providers for swapping your coins.
ChangeNow, StealthEX, Swapzone and Exolix.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo-client/releases/tag/v2.2.0

[zcoinofficial]

Firo v0.14.10.0 mandatory update

This is a mandatory release that implements the new block reward division as voted on and creates the community fund. It also reduces the block time to 2.5 minutes.

Update before the hard fork on 16 June. Please backup your wallet prior to updating for safety.

https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases/tag/v0.14.10.0