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Harbinger V4 Launch Announcement

The launch of v0.4.0 (V4) of the Koinos testnet (Harbinger) will take place on August 23rd at 1:00 PM EST! In our last developer update we announced that Koinos is now feature complete which means all of the features that will make it the most accessible...

Koinos Dev Update: V4 Here We Come!

We made a lot of progress last sprint so this sprint we were able to quickly close the remaining 13 story points needed to complete version 0.4.0 of the Harbinger testnet! Our goal with V4 was for it to be a feature complete version of mainnet to make mainnet testing...

Koinos Development August Update

Last sprint we announced that proof of burn, mana, and governance were all complete and that we were now primarily working on optimizations and token claiming logic in preparation for a relaunch of the testnet! We also completed 21 points which was twice our target...

Koinos July Update

As of this sprint proof-of-burn, mana, and governance are all complete! We are now primarily working on optimizations and token claiming in preparation for a relaunch of the testnet! As an open source project we value openness and transparency which is why we use...

Koinos Unified Whitepaper: The evolving blockchain with free-to-use dApps and proof-of-burn decentralization

Now that the evolution of testnet into mainnet is nearly complete, we felt that the time was right to deliver one whitepaper to rule them all which would serve as a single source of truth for anyone looking to understand Koinos at the most fundamental level. Koinos Group is excited to announce the release of that new, unified whitepaper, today! 

Koinos Development Progress Chart

As an open source project we value openness and transparency which is why I am very excited about today’s announcement. We’ve always wanted to give our community members better insight into the work we’re doing which is why nearly all of our work is already open...

The World’s Simplest DAO

The core innovation of the Koinos blockchain framework is its ability to evolve; to rapidly adapt to the ever-changing needs of developers and their end-users. Practically any upgrade can be made to the blockchain without a hard fork because everything is done in...

Verifiable Randomness, DEXs, and tutorials

I’m Andrew Levine, the CEO of Koinos Group, and today I’d like to update you all on the progress we are making on randomness! Satoshi’s Vision In addition to making the KOIN token fast and truly fee-less, we want it to deliver on Satoshi’s original vision of a truly...

Koinos Update: Governance, Randomness, New CTO!

Summary We have a lot of exciting updates! AssemblyScript is now first-party software on KoinosThe governance smart contract is nearly completeThe randomness work is completeSteve Gerbino is now the CTO of Koinos Group! AssemblyScript We cannot overstate how impressed...

Koinos Update: Announcing LABS Program!

I’m Andrew Levine, CEO of Koinos Group, the creators of Koinos. In the last update I focused on important changes we are making to proof of burn and a brief update on Harbinger (the Koinos testnet). You can find that update here. In today’s update I’ll...