January 31, 2025

Firo Frontier Newsletter - Vol. 2 No. 2

Firo Frontier · January 31, 2025

Firo Frontier provides a brief summary of what's been happening in Firo over the past two weeks.

Happy Lunar New Year, FiroFam!

Wishing you a year full of prosperity, good health, and financial privacy. Thank you for being part of our journey—here’s to an amazing year ahead!

Ross Ulbricht pardoned! Free Roger!

Ross Ulbricht has been granted a full pardon by Donald Trump. We have been a long time supporter of his cause and have made steady donations over the years to his legal fund. We wish him all the best in restarting his life!

We now turn our attention to one of our project’s seed investors and earliest supporters, Roger Ver who is now facing charges that may lead to a 109 years prison sentence. Do sign the letter or spread the word!

Spark Names - easy to remember addresses coming soon

Simplify crypto with Spark Names — your easy-to-remember address for seamless private transactions! Coming soon to testnet!
Discover how Spark Names make Firo even more accessible: https://firo.org/2025/01/28/spark-names.html

Help Shape Firo’s Mining Future: Weigh In on FiroPoW’s VRAM Requirements

FiroPOW’s DAG size has now exceeded 7.7 GB, making GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM unable to mine Firo which has prompted discussions about the VRAM requirements for mining Firo. We’d like the community’s input on how to proceed.

Vote on what Firo's mining VRAM requirement should be! More info here:

https://firo.org/2025/01/30/firopow-vram-requirement

Forum Poll can be found here: https://forum.firo.org/t/poll-what-should-the-vram-requirement-for-mining-firo-be/3877

It’s been 1 year since Lelantus Spark went live on the Firo mainnet!

Over the past year, we’ve seen around 100,000 Spark transactions and more than 5 million FIRO has been moved into Spark-shielded privacy pools.
Thank you, FiroFam!

Firo Fortnight Ep6 is here!

The 6th episode of Firo Fortnight is here!
We covered exciting updates, including Firo's development progress, ongoing work, Firo Futures now available on MEXC & KCEX, and much more.
This episode covers recent project growth, including increased trading volume and the listing of futures on exchanges like MEXC and KCEX. The team also highlights upcoming developments, such as Spark Names, improvements to the Campfire and light wallets, and ongoing work on Spark Asset integration. Additionally, Firo's team is actively researching and planning for quantum-resistant cryptography to future-proof FIRO’s privacy features.

Watch the episode here:

WEEX Exchange launches FIRO/USDT perpetual futures trading pairs

WEEX Futures launched FIRO/USDT perpetual futures trading pairs on Jan 20th. Do your own research and trade responsibly. More info can be found at:
https://www.weex.com/futures/FIRO-USDT

Qutrade Exchange creates a new liquidity pool with their exchange token

Qutrade, a small exchange that has supported Firo for sometime has created a new liquidity pool with their exchange token. As always DYOR!

For more info look at:
https://qutrade.io/en/?market=firo_s11

Updates from the developers

The $FIRO developers continue to actively work towards having $FIRO’s infrastructure become the best privacy preserving technology in the crypto space.

Current work includes:

Spark Names - Work on this new feature continues and will allow people to be able to send and receive Firo through human readable names. Spark Names are expected to launch on testnet soon.

Spark Assets (Spats) - this feature allows all assets on the tokenization layer to share the same anonymity pool, vastly improving privacy. Work on this feature continues and is progressing well.

Spark support for newly created $FIRO coins - work continues on enabling newly created $FIRO coins (as part of the mining or Master Node rewards process) to be created as Spark assets rather than the current transparent coins - thus allowing privacy for all coins created as part of the $FIRO ecosystem.

Work required on FiroDex - With Komodo making changes to their DEX (FiroDex is based on their DEX), new seed nodes had to be added to FiroDEX to re-enable Market Maker (MM) functionality. Additional work is required and continues.

Normal Firo maintenance continues - this includes performance improvements, preparation work for implementation of new $FIRO features, and normal bug fixes.

Development details can be found in this Firo Forum post: https://forum.firo.org/t/weekly-firo-development-meeting-minutes/2337/113

Reuben on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast with Vlad Costea!

Reuben, the Project Steward of Firo had a 4 hour long interview on the popular Bitcoin Takeover Podcast with Vlad Costea!

Listen to it here or watch it in video on X below:

Other News

• Masternode numbers: Masternode (enabled) numbers continue to steadily grow every month showing long term holder growth.
  1 November 2024: 4031
  1 December 2024: 4168
  1 January 2025: 4376
  31 January 2025: 4553

• Missed the last Privacy Roundtable? We've got you covered!

  The latest Privacy Roundtable happened at 9 AM EST / 2 PM GMT on X Spaces on Jan 22, 2025!
  This session was a special wrap-up of the past shows and highlights from 2024.
  Link: https://x.com/i/spaces/1lDGLlPnQkaGm
  The recording will also be available on our YouTube channel.

• Reminder - FiroFam! Beware of Scammers!
  Just a reminder to be vigilant of all the scammers working hard to steal your coins. More new scams every week - note that our official site is firo.org. We do NOT offer cloud mining, deposits, or any investment schemes. Anyone using Firo's Telegram or Discord channels please beware of scammers and impersonators! Our admins and team members will NEVER DM you first. All support questions are answered publicly to keep you safe.
  Stay safe and always verify!

Did you know?

• More information about Firo is available at: https://firo.org

• Firo Telegram news channel: https://t.me/fironews

• Archive copies of previous newsletters can be found at:
  https://newsletter.firo.org/archive