A few posts ago, I spoke about our intention to pivot the DAN's consensus algorithm from independent side-chains towards braided Hotstuff sharding (aka [Cerberus])]. In that post I hinted at how...

Development Update Audits The Tari development community has started engaging with companies to perform an audit of the code base and cryptography. Base Layer This week we ran another stress test on...

On Monday, 26 September, the Tari community held a meeting to discuss the idea of an "early" mainnet launch; i.e. one that does not have a fully-fledged DAN in place. The transcript of that...

I came across an article a few months ago by Dan Hughes, founder of a DeFi-focused proof-of-stake project, Radix, that opines that [blockchains can't scale]. It makes many points (all of them...

This week sees a number of stability improvements to the network and wallet. If you're running an Esmeralda testnet node, you will notice that there are significantly more transactions in the...

Introduction Tari has been running multiple testnets named after Discworld characters for over two years. We have had Weatherwax, Stibbons, Ridcully, Dibbler, and Igor, and with the new reset,...

New testnet launched: Esmeralda The testnet has been running since January 2022, but there are new features in the development branch that are not in . Because adding these features to would have...

Tari has supported one-sided payments for some time. This allows someone to send funds across the Tari network without needing the recipient to be online. The downside to this was the that receiver's...

Mimblewimble, the blockchain technology that Tari's base layer is based on, requires two parties to interactively negotiate a transaction together. For most use cases this works well. In fact, when...

Jumping into a new codebase can be daunting. Everything is new again, something that seems familiar has the sense of just being a little off. Getting your bearings can take time but you're a great...