Last Updated on November 28th, 2024
This is a quick summary of the most relevant info for the community of the XX Network. The Foundation don’t always announce everything since various original teams decentralised in 2023, so some of the updates here are found by keeping a close ear to all available channels.
Bounties have been awarded for work completed during Hacktoberfest. You can read about them here. Further awards in XX have been proposed, specifically for an xxDK C Library, a Haven browser extension and a Matrix to XX Network Chat Bridge.
A change to the minimum staking requirements for validators (nodes) is underway. This will raise the minimum from 1,000XX to 15,000XX starting in January 2025 followed by increments of 5,000XX per month. There is a forum post about it for more detail.
David has spoken in a video to commemorate the third anniversary of the launch of the XX Network. You can watch it here.
The 2024 Q4 Roadmap has been released by the Foundation on 15th October.
XX Network is participating in Hacktoberfest. Various repositories in the XX Network codebase have been tagged to encourage contributions from developers throughout October. A forum post has been written to elaborate and there is a pot of 500,000XX in bounties available.
The Foundation have been releasing a recap of Q3 over several days on X and on Haven.
One of the Worldcoin grant projects (Network Anonymizer) has been completed and presented to the Worldcoin Foundation. You can read more about that here.
David spoke in a keynote and panel in Tokyo at Plasmacon on July 31st, alongside Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin on the subject of privacy and David’s work in the field since the early days all the way to his current focus with the XX Network.
WXX centralised markets and the ETH bridge have resumed operation after temporarily being paused following a social engineering incident at the Foundation.
David has been confirmed as a speaker at this December’s Global Blockchain Show in Dubai. He presented a keynote there in April of this year. You see more info about it here.
The XX African community are hosting a web3 summit in Uyo, Nigeria on July 26th. You can read more about that here.
The XX Network Bridge has gone live as of 16th July 2024. It enables the changing of native XX coins into wrapped WXX tokens on the Ethereum network. You can read about it here.
A set of upgrades to the XX Network has now rolled out. Called the runtime upgrade 206, it enables the XX->WXX bridge, allows for NFTs and reallocates some liquidity reward coins. You can read more about it here.
Keith continues to do crucial reorganising work, with the official wiki now being superseded by this new documentation website.
XX Blogger ArmchairAncap wrote a brilliant piece on June 6th about an update to the quantum resistant tech employed in XX’s code base and the trials of trying to extol the virtues of being at the cutting edge with entrenched ecosystems (and ultimately why XX Messenger was superceded by other development priorities).
More international community Telegram groups have been springing up in early June, including ones for Africa, Japan, Vietnam and Russia. You can browse to them all here.
A contingent from the Foundation and wider project attended Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas from 29th May – June 1st. Aaron, Mario, Jim, Rick, Bernie, Baltasar and Ramona went along. Rick won a hackathon demonstrating multi-party computation on cMixx in a project called ‘Homeless Holdem’. The other folks talked to plenty of other projects and investors also. More info will emerge when the Foundation makes it public.
Echoexx has rebranded to Phoenixx. You can read about the change on this page.
The Turkish community hosted the first of a series of educational events in Istanbul on May 16th.
Keith has announced on 2nd May the schedule for the planned wind-down of the Team Multiplier programme.
David and Mário are quoted talking about XX technology in a piece on Cointelegraph about Ethereum’s recent proposed action should a quantum attack occur on their network. It was published on April 26th.
Coinstore has listed the native XX Coin alongside the existing WXX wrapped version for ease of ‘indirect’ bridging across the two chains. An announcement was made by the Foundation about it on 24th April. Biconomy will follow.
Crypto Eri has interviewed Mário Yaksetig (an XX Network developer), and published the full video on 23rd April after a series of clips as teasers were posted on X.
David spoke at the Coinstore event at Token2049 in Dubai, mentioning XX Network as the mixing element of his life’s work. You can see the video here.
The Fearless wallet have integrated native XX Coin (XX) on 17th April.
David has headlined at the Global Blockchain Show in Dubai on the morning of the 17th April and is due to speak at the PWR Summit Token side event on 20th April, also in Dubai.
Coinstore have now listed WXX and trading began on 16th April. They plan to list the Native XX alongside WXX soon (along with Biconomy).
WXX is listed on Uniswap from 13th April 2024.
David was in Amsterdam for ETHDam and presented a keynote on Friday 12th April. He also appeared in a different keynote on the main stage at Paris Blockchain Week on the evening of 9th April. His talk was entitled “Now we can disrupt mobile, money and identification with compelling use cases.” The XX Network account tweeted a quote and later pictured him alongside Tim Draper.
David and Jim spoke in an X Space on April 8th hosted by Turkish crypto personality Burak Kesmeci about the origins of the network and about the latest developments. There is an approx. 36 minute English edit and transcript available on this page.
The XX Q2 roadmap came out on 4th April. I interviewed Aaron from the Foundation about his Q1 highlights and the future from Q2 and beyond.
A riddle-turned-giveaway occurred, starting on March 25th in the Telegram, instigated by Bernie Cardoso, a developer who has something to do with its origins. The prize pot became large but still has a good amount of XX in it! Read more about that here.
The Foundation released an interim Q1 update as the quarter came to a close, detailing the successes and achievements. If you’ve read this site, you’ll know all about them!
Keith has done an excellent job of revamping the node handbook, away from the old Wiki style instructions. Anyone can be an integral part of the XX Network by running a node and you can read about doing so here.
An integration with the in-browser Talisman wallet has been announced on March 20th, which is a popular browser wallet of the Polkadot and Ethereum ecosystems. I wrote a short guide on setting it up to receive some XX which you can read here.
FlowerTree, the Network’s principle India Community Leader and council member put together a Hackathon which took place at a university in Delhi between March 16-17th. Developers used XX Network tools to create cool new things and won prizes. Rick Carback presented a webinar he put together to demonstrate how to use the xxDK to the students in advance. You can read more about the event here and watch the webinar here.
A video has been produced by Keith Millette to guide anyone to submit a proposal to the Treasury to fund a project, idea or initiative. The use of the treasury is a sustainable way of funding community projects. You can watch the instructions and read about it here.
David spoke in an online session at the second Blockchain Days conference on March 10th, which you can watch here. The Turkish XX Network community had a stand at the in-person event in Ankara on 9th March, you can see some photos also on that page.
In a Generation Infinity X Space on Thursday 7th March 2024, Rick Carback from XX spoke with a host of other projects on the subject of safe custody of cryptoassets, the state of tech in that regard, key rotation, quantum wallets, AI and more. You can listen to it here.
Mário Yaksetig attended the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2024 conference in Curaçao from March 4-8th. In attendance were major thinkers and investors in the space, including Whitfield Diffie, a hero of Mário Yaksetig and inspiration to David Chaum. Mário had a fanboy moment in the Telegram after meeting him and shared some conclusions upon his return. Mário also recently started a cryptography blog which might interest more technical readers.
Some perhaps more personal news – on Wednesday 6th March 2024, I (Patcrypt) was elected to the XX Council after an extremely short election – a complete coincidence of when I timed my candidacy. I am extremely grateful for everyone who backed me so quickly with their stake and will strive to serve the council and any community proposals with fair consideration and diligence. This also means I feel somewhat more close to the goings on within XX so I can prepare updates to this site and get good news on here as fast as possible!
The Carbon Browser has announced several key integrations to XX Network projects including hosting the wrapped token and including Phoenixx in its dApp store.
Three grants were awarded to the XX Network to integrate cMixx, VoteXX and cMixx+ into the Worldcoin ecosystem to further enhance privacy in users’ interactions and governance.
BitFashioned announced the first Alpha release of Echoexx (now Phoenixx) at the end of January 2024 and then a public Alpha in February. They recently extolled its virtues in an X thread on 7th March 2024. It is a web/wasm app so that it can run in any browser and provides a private messaging service whilst using a web3 identity. BitFashioned consists of Bernardo Cardoso, Baltasar Aroso and Mário Yaksetig.
Updating the xxDK (the development kit for the cMixx network) has been another recent priority, with more languages being integrated to reach a wider skills base / preference of developer. Rick has been spotted through the Discord’s development section making updates and in February 2024 described some of the work in an X space. Libraries are now available for iOS via CocoaPods, for Android via a Maven package, and for the web via an NPM package. Having more teams creating more tools and products is an ongoing goal which this seeks to aid. Rick presented some example apps for multiple platforms as part of a webinar for a hackathon in March. Grants are still available for any wannabe XX dev or group of devs to undertake projects that utilise the network.
A proposed update to cMixx (entitled cMixx+) was published by David Chaum and Mário Yaksetig which appears to suit specific applications for the mixnet whereby the availability and use of secret codes can be sped up and made more private, by introducing a different type of message. This is especially relevant in the realms of the recent CBDC trials and David’s new “Better than Money” initiative, as well for integration in one of the three Worldcoin grant projects recently announced.
A series of community AMAs are taking place, the first one of which happened in conjunction with the Turkish Telegram community on Sunday November 26th, 2023. Use cases for cMixx+ were one of a number of prevalent topics. You can read and listen to the whole thing on this page.
The grants programme has been revamped and simplified. Bernie from Bitfashioned queried the community to flesh out various aspects of the programme in December and it launched in January 2024. Building more and useful dApps is key to getting use from the network and raising its profile and this has been stated as a key priority with the Foundation.
The official Telegram channel has now been taken over by the community after the council and some community members lobbied the Foundation and original team. Now the community can at least talk about price in there!
The BitFashioned Team and David are apparently continuing work on what was once known as xxBFT – the consensus model for the future – which is now called Phoenixx. It will eventually be a candidate to replace XX’s current consensus. Mário and Bernie responded after a beady-eyed community member pointed out the paper’s publication in the main Telegram group. Here’s a bit more detail.
Bridges are a top priority. Community and council member Bulldog successfully acquired an XX development grant to complete the work on an EVM bridge in January 2024. With the development might of BitFashioned, this will enable a wrapped XX Coin to appear on more DEXs which raises visibility, volume and the potential to have XX Coin listed on more CEXs. This work will also allow the previously wrapped XXC token on the XRPL to be bridged not long thereafter so those holding can frictionlessly go back the native XX Coin.
Postage, which is akin to ‘gas’ in Ethereum is another top priority. The Foundation have found a way to catalyse this being brought into existence by initially being custodian – whereby those wanting to use cMixx in bulk would buy XX coin (which powers the postage) directly from the Foundation to start with, and the proceeds compensating the nodes who commit resources to the network. This requires development of a blockchain/cMixx integration of postage which is apparently now underway.
A big push to make all the current documentation more accessible and up to date is underway with Keith Millette leading the charge. Docusaurus is the platform of choice.
Project Tourbillon, a CBDC project actively piloted with the Bank of International Settlements and the Swiss National Bank has published their results in November 2023. The design incorporates cMixx as part of David’s eCash 2.0 design, which he is also using to produce his new ‘Better than Money’ idea, both of which would ultimately be a huge use case for Postage and the XX Coin.
The Rumour Mill
Here are some things you should take with a relative grain of salt – however they have been uttered in public channels by people within various teams inside XX Network but may amount to nothing.
- Community building is a big priority and avenues such as coin-earning platforms to help engage and retain users are being negotiated with.
- More wallet integrations are rumoured to be nearing completion. The more the merrier!
- Mário Yaksetig has been seen in the Telegram talking about an “XXVPN” and “Private XX Cash (eCash 3.0)” initiatives that he plans to flesh out soon.
- Interviews with prominent figures in the privacy and wider crypto space are always in various stages of discussion/organisation/execution.
- What is the XX Network?
- What’s New in the XX Network?
- Is XX Coin a Privacy Coin?
- How Much and When Were the Original XX Coin Sales?
- What is cMixx? Is it Different From cMix?
- Is David Chaum Still Part of the XX Network?
- What is Project Tourbillon?
- What is the Circulating Supply and Market Cap of XX Coin?
- How Can I Buy XX Coin?
- How do I Stake XX Coins?
- When Will XX Be Listed on Another Exchange?
- Is The XX Network a Polkadot Parachain?
- How Do I Get XX Coin Funding for a Project, Initiative or Idea?
- Can I Run a Node in the XX Network?