New Testnet Esmeralda – We Ate’nt Dead

New testnet launched: Esmeralda
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 required a development heavy hardfork, and we’ve already successfully tested hardforks in
the development community decided to save time and create a new testnet instead.
Those features are now significant enough to start testing, and we’re proud to annouce a new testnet
Esmeralda
(Genesis Block is 30 August 2022). For those of you
Dibbler will continue to run, side-by-side with Esmeralda
. There are still two Lambos up for grabs in the
Tari Testnet Limited store
, which will continue to use
tXTR. Just a reminder, these are still testnet coins, and don’t have a market value.
To run
, you can either compile from source using the development branch, or
Github
or higher. (Dibbler binaries will still be available).
Some of the new features in
Esmeralda
– Bulletproofs, but better. Smaller than regular BPs, and with batch verification of range proofs, full-block validation times are something like 60% quicker. 😮
Stealth addresses
– Tari brought one-sided payments to Mimblewimble. Stealth addresses make the privacy trade-off much smaller. 🕶️
Tari 🔥 burn 🔥 transactions. Why would you want to do this?
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