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The ROAST technology being worked on at Peercoin not only makes it possible to form massive multisignature groups and distributed oracles, it also enables use on foreign blockchains like Ethereum.
This article describes how a cross-chain bridge between Peercoin and Ethereum can be created using ROAST: peerchemist.medium.com/roast…#Peercoin#Cryptocurrency
Peercoin blockchain has (soft) forked at block #801331. SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT (APO) is now activated. Please update to v0.15 if you did not already.
APO is a soft-fork that allows a transaction to be signed without reference to any specific previous output, such that any output with a matching signature can be dynamically added later.
Noosphere client, the Peercoin Foundation's implementation of ROAST (Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold) signatures, is now open sourced under a permissive BSD-3 license. Flutter developers can now easily include this library in their apps: github.com/peercoin/noospher…
Frosty is now public and open sourced under a very permissive BSD-3 licence.
This package makes FROST Taproot threshold signatures available to Dart/#Flutter apps and is used for the Noosphere ROAST implementation that makes it easy to coordinate and create these signatures (and will soon be integrated into the Peercoin Flutter wallet). We welcome all bug reports and pull requests.
Thanks to @ZcashFoundation for their hard work on FROST and splendid frost-secp256k1-tr cargo package!
pub.dev/packages/frosty
63.2% of the last 1,000 blocks signal that they are ready for the v0.15 "APO" fork. This protocol update is about making DLCs nicer to use, ANYPREVOUT (APO) ensures that all outcomes of a DLC are in place before it is funded so all the parties of the DLC don't need to trust one another. Update today!
Around 12.8% remains before Peercoin can fork to v0.15. If you are waiting for a stable release before you upgrade, that is not necessary. v0.15 uses the same codebase as v0.14, which has been stable for a while now, so there is no need to wait.
Peercoin v0.15 has been released! APO soft fork activation will occur once 75% of the last 1,000 blocks are version 6. Details about feature updates can be sampled in the below photos, or at the official announcement: talk.peercoin.net/t/peercoin…
The ROAST protocol can also support weighted threshold signatures, which allows a swarm of signers to have varying degrees of influence when producing a transaction, ensuring fair representation among groups that require investment. Learn more: peercoin.net/blog/weighted-t…
The Peercoin Foundation has a fundraising page setup at opencollective.com/peercoin to accept monthly recurring donations (similar to Patreon).
Unfortunately, the collective lost a number of its recurring contributors during a recent transition to a new fiscal host. We kindly ask you to check your status and resubscribe as a monthly donor if you are not.
Even if you were not previously subscribed, consider doing so. It helps the foundation pay for developers, new exchange listings, and other costs. There are a number of default donation options available, as well as a custom configurable option. Your financial support is appreciated.