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Horizen DAO Treasury and Voting System – Prototype Delivered

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Horizen’s research and development partner, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), collaborated with Lancaster University to develop a prototype version of an on-chain decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) treasury system. Horizen is working with IOHK to set up a treasury system like this onto the Horizen network to engage and involve the community in its funding decisions.

The prototype implemented features laid out in IOHK’s research paper, “A Treasury System for Cryptocurrencies: Enabling Better Collaborative Intelligence.” The DAO features include proposal submission, committee selection, randomness generation, reward payments, and deposit paybacks.

Horizen treasury model DAOA Decentralized Treasury System

IOHK points out that while cryptocurrencies are touted to be decentralized, much of the time there is one core entity that runs the effort and makes funding decisions. If you look at the funding workflow of many cryptocurrencies, their treasury system is centralized and controlled by one core team.

Horizen values privacy and decentralization, and that’s why the team is implementing a decentralized decision-making process. The community will be able to play an active role in our funding decisions. 

IOHK developed a universal treasury system that can be adopted by any cryptocurrency. The treasury system aims to solve decentralization by establishing a mechanism and platform for collaborative consensus backed by anonymous voting on the blockchain. The main idea is to provide the tools for the community to control the funding for projects.

Watch IOHK’s presentation on their prototype implementation with Lancaster University.

How it Works

Anyone in the community can submit a proposal for consideration. Stakeholders can review the proposals that get passed on, and then they get sent to the next stage where ZEN holders can vote on where funding gets placed. Each holder would stake a deposit of ZEN, which will allow them to participate in this voting process.

This method would provide full verifiability, secrecy, and fairness. Voting results are recorded on the blockchain and identities are kept secret. The results are then decrypted by community members and voting results are revealed after the results are announced.

“When Horizen DAO”

The Horizen team is evaluating the framework to implement the treasury voting system. The Horizen engineering team will likely use Scorex, the framework used to develop the voting system. By using the same framework, the Horizen team will prevent rewriting the crypto library into another language and reducing errors in translation and potentially saving time.

The Horizen engineering team is architecting the treasury implementation. Initial plans are to integrate the voting prototype into the sidechain architecture and modify the treasury to use a SDK, which will likely be written in Java. In parallel, the Horizen engineering team will use the SDK for the on-chain Secure Node and Super Node implementation.

The Horizen team is excited about for the R&D and engineering progress and the potential the voting system can have for other blockchain projects, nation-states or small governments, or even corporate voting!

horizen roadmap 2018

The Horizen and IOHK partnership entails an exciting series of research and development led by Prof. Roman Oliynykov, a cryptographer, IT security researcher, lecturer, and IOHK Research Fellow.

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Horizen Partners With Infopulse To Stay On The Leading Edge Of Research And Development

Horizen Treasury And Voting Model Update

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ZenCash DAO 财政和投票系统 – 原型已出！

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ZenCash 的研发合作伙伴，IOHK 与兰开斯特大学合作开发出了一个链上去中心化自治组织（DAO）储备金系统的原型版本。 ZenCash 正在与 IOHK 合作，在 Zen 网络上建立这样的资金管理系统，让社区参与其资金决策。

该原型落实了 IOHK 的研究论文 “负债联邦的财务系统：实现更好的协作智能”中提出的功能. DAO 功能包括提案提交，委员会选择，随机性的生成，奖励支付和存款回报。

zencash dao 储备金系统一个去中心化的储备金系统

IOHK 指出，虽然加密货币被吹捧为去中心化，但大多数时候，则有一个核心实体负责运营并做出资金决策。如果你看一下业内许多加密货币的融资工作流程，他们的财务系统是由一个核心团队集中控制的。

ZenCash 重视隐私和权力下放，这就是团队实施去中心化决策程序的原因。通过这个储备金系统，社区成员将能够在我们的资金决策中发挥积极作用。 

IOHK开发了一个可以被任何加密货币采用的通用资金管理系统。储备金系统的目的在于通过建立一个区块链匿名投票支持的协作共识机制和平台，来解决权力下放问题。主要出发点是为社区提供控制项目资金的工具。 

请观看财政资金系统的原型实施演示 

运作原理

社区中的任何人都可以提交提案以供考虑。利益相关者可以审查递上的提案，然后将它们发送到下一个阶段。在这个阶段，Zen 持有人可以对资金的分配进行投票。每个持有人将存入一笔Zen作为注金，这将允许他们参与这个投票过程。

这个方法将提供完全的可验证性，保密性和公平性。投票结果记录在区块链上，投票者身份保密。然后结果由社区成员解密，结果公布后才将显示票数结果。

“ZenCash DAO 什么时候才到来？”

Zen 团队正在评估实施财政投票系统的框架。 Zen 工程团队可能会使用Scorex，这是用于开发投票系统的框架。通过使用相同的框架，Zen 团队将防止将加密库重写为另一种语言，从而减少翻译错误，并有节省时间的可能性。

Zen 工程团队正在构建这个财政实施。最初的计划是将投票原型集成到侧链架构中，并修改财政系统使得以使用SDK （这可能会用java编写）。与此同时，Zen工程团队将使用 SDK 在链上落实安全节点和超级节点。

Zen 团队对于研发和工程进展以及投票系统的潜力感到十分振奋，这些潜力包括能应用到其他区块链项目、民族国家或小型政府，还有公司企业投票！

ZenCash Roadmap 2018

ZenCash 与 IOHK 的合作伙伴关系正在带来一系列激动人心的研发活动。这些活动由 Prof. Roman Oliynykov 教授负责领导 — 他是知名的密码学家、IT 安全研究者、讲师及 IOHK 研究员。

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ZenCash トレジャリーおよび投票モデルに関するアップデート

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ZenCash におけるトレジャリーおよび投票モデルは、業界随一の洗練さを兼ね備えた自律分散型組織（DAO）です。私たち Zen チームは、ZenCash トレジャリーシステム実現にあたって、精巧かつ系統立てられたソリューションの提供を行うべく、IOHK および InfoPulse とともに研究に従事できることに対して、大変嬉しく思っています。

これらが実現するまでは、一時的な手段として、ZenCash により運営される法人によりマイニング報酬の 8.5 % が管理されることとなります。これは、インテグレーション、エンジニアリング、マーケティング、研究開発などに使用されます。

この資金供給モデルによって、たとえ市場が下がり気味であっても、ZenCash が成長し続けることができるようになります。

公正さと透明さを追求した DAO

以前 ZenCash と IOHK のパートナーシップ について紹介しましたが、ここでは2つの重要プロジェクトがありました。

  1. プログラムに沿ったリソースの分配を可能にする DAO トレジャリーおよび投票モデルの概念実証 （POC）。
  2. 次世代型のブロックチェーンソリューションを検討するスケーラビリティ研究。ZenCash の将来的な規模拡大に対応することを目的とする。

ZenCash における DAO トレジャリーおよび投票モデルの主な目的は、ZenCash の開発・維持における、非中央集権的で検閲耐性のある資金供給モデルを形成することです。

本モデルで採用されている、経済理論および暗号学における長年にわたる研究成果を活用することで、投票者の無関心を軽減することが期待されています。

投票者の無関心とは何でしょうか？アメリカにおける二大政党制を考えてみてください。仮に、伝統的な共和党、民主党の方針に対して必ずしも賛成する訳ではなく、むしろそれ以外の第三党で応援したい政党があるとします。しかしながら、こうした第三党には勝ち目がないと判断したならば、投票にあたっては共和党あるいは民主党に投票するか、投票に行かないということになってしまうでしょう。

ここにおいて、改ざん不能で、投票することで金銭的報酬を受け取ることができ、投票結果が最後まで決してわからないように秘密にされるという投票システムを考えてみてください。あるいは、投票することで、自らが応援したいプロジェクトに資金提供を行うことができるような投票システムをイメージしてください。こうしたシステムは、私たちの生活にどのような影響を及ぼすと思いますか？私たち Zen チームとしては、この ZenCash DAO トレジャリー・投票モデルは世界をより良いものとする上で役立つツールであり、様々なタイプの組織、ひいては国レベルにおいても応用可能であると考えています！

ZenCash Treasury Model Infographic

ZenCash DAO の仕組み

ZenCashのトレジャリーモデルは、インクルーシブで透明性が高く、その公正さが証明された経済システムです。また、システム内の活動に参加する上でのインセンティブが存在します。

  1. プロポーザル（提案・企画）に対する資金プールを用意。資金提供は、固定された数のブロック（およそ１ヶ月分）において行われます。これを、トレジャリー期間と呼びます。投票を行うためには、Zen のステークホルダーは、各トレジャリー期間の最初に一定量の ZEN を担保として差し出す必要があります。このステークとしての ZEN は専用のスマートコントラクトのアドレスに保管され、トレジャリー期間終了時に返却されることになります。ステークホルダーは担保として差し出した ZEN に応じた投票数を取得することができます。なお、ステークに基づく投票数の相対的規模に関しては、ステークホルダー自身知ることはできません。
  2. 誰でもプロポーザルを提出することができます。なお、スパム防止のため、提出に際してはわずかな費用が必要となります。
  3. Zen ステークホルダーによって、プロポーザルに関するレビューおよび投票が行われます。投票結果については、zk-SNARKS 技術によって秘密となります。
  4. 票はステークに基づいて計算され、投票内容が他人に公開されることはありません。
  5. 信頼できるユーザーに対し、投票権を委任することが可能です。
  6. 公正さを保つために、当選提案・企画が決定するまで投票 (途中) 結果は公開されません
  7. 票計数が行われます。ここでは、当選したプロポーザルに関して、得票数の多いものから順に並べ替えを行い、この順番に従って、各プロジェクトに対して資金を分配していきます。これは、資金プールの90％を使用するまで行われます。
  8. 資金プールの残り10％については、投票者への報酬として分配されます。トレジャリー期間が終了すると、担保としてのステークおよびステークに応じた報酬が、投票プロセス参加への対価として支払われます。

ZenCash DAO の公開時期について

ZenCash DAO のトレジャリーおよび投票システムの概念実証に関しては、IOHK が 2018 年第二四半期までに発表することになっています。Zen チームとしては、ここにおける数学的概念をプログラムとして実装していくべく、取り組んでいきます。また、先日ウクライナのキエフにおいて、ZenCash ソフトウェアアーキテクトである Alberto Garoffolo が、パートナーである IOHK および InfoPulse と直接セッションを設け、IOHK の研究内容に関して議論を行なってきました。非中央集権的な組織としては、技術的な詳細事項などに関するチーム全体の理解を確認すべく、実際にお互いが顔を合わせて話し合うということは重要なのです。

議論の内容をまとめると以下のようになります。：

  • ZenCash のトレジャリーモデルに関して IOHK が行なっている研究開発は、エレガントなソリューションを提供するものである。
  • 数学的コンセプトから技術的実装への移行は複雑なプロセスを伴うものであり、ZenCash が計画しているその他のプロジェクト（サイドチェーンなど）との相互依存関係も考慮する必要がある。
  • トレジャリーモデル実装にあたっては、今回のようなセッションを再度行なっていく必要がある。
  • ZenCash のトレジャリーモデルは、ZenCash が他のプロジェクトとの差別化を行う上でのユニークな特徴である

最先端の技術開発を行いながら、パブリックブロックチェーン上で公正なシステムを実現するという機会に携わることができ、私たち Zen チームは非常にワクワクしています！

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Horizen Treasury and Voting Model Update

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zencash treasury and voting model work group in kiev ukraine with infopulse and iohk

The ZenCash Treasury and Voting model is the most elegant Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) model in the market.  We are very excited to work with IOHK and InfoPulse to deliver a highly complex programmatic solution to the ZenCash Treasury system.

As an interim solution, the legal entity for ZenCash, allocates 8.5% of mining rewards to fund integrations, engineering, marketing, research and development, and more. 

This funding model enables ZenCash to continue growing…even in a down-market.

No human-in-the-loop: A DAO for fairness & transparency

I previously described the ZenCash and IOHK Partnership that is set to deliver two important projects:

  1. DAO Treasury and Voting proof-of-concept that enables a programmatic approach to allocate resources.
  2. A Scalability Study to evaluate next generation blockchain solution to ensure ZenCash is able to scale.

The main purpose of the ZenCash DAO Treasury and Voting model is to establish a decentralized and censorship-resistant funding mechanism for development and maintenance of the ZenCash platform.

This model mixes years worth of economic theory and cryptography to alleviate voter apathy.

Voter apathy? Think about the U.S. two-party system.  At times, you may or may not agree with the Republican and/or Democrat parties, but you don’t believe a third-party has a chance to win.  Therefore, you vote for one of the two instead or abstain from voting.

Think of a voting system that cannot be manipulated, where individuals are paid to vote, and voting results are kept secret until the end.  Or a voting system where you can vote to fund projects you value.  How will this type of system impact our lives?  We believe the ZenCash DAO Treasury and Voting model will change the world and be implemented in various types of organizations or even countries!

ZenCash Treasury Model Infographic

How does the ZenCash DAO work?

The ZenCash Treasury Model is an inclusive, provably fair, and transparent economic system with incentives to participate.
  1. A funding pool is available for proposals.  The funding process occurs during a fixed amount of blocks (approximately one month).  We’ll define this period as a treasury epoch.   In order to vote, Zen stakeholders will have to lock an amount of ZEN as collateral at the beginning of each epoch.  The stake will be kept on a special smart contract address that returns the funds at the end of the treasury epoch.  Stakeholders will receive X amount of ballots, proportionally to the stake they have locked up.  Stakeholders will not know the value of their stake.
  2. Anyone can submit a proposal, there will be a small submission fee to discourage spam.
  3. Eligible Zen stakeholders review and vote on proposals. Results are hidden using zk-SNARKS cryptography.
  4. Votes are weighted according to stake and is not public.
  5. Zen stakeholders can delegate voting responsibilities to trusted users.
  6. Ballot results are secret until the winner is announced to ensure fairness.
  7. Votes are counted. Approved proposals are sorted out in descending order, from the highest positive vote count to the least. The system will fund every proposal in this order until it reaches 90% of the funding pool.
  8. The remaining 10% of the funding pool is allocated to reward voters. At the end of the treasury epoch, the locked funds (stake) is returned to the voters along with their respective compensation (proportional to their stake) for participating in the voting process.

When is the ZenCash DAO going live?

IOHK is delivering the ZenCash DAO Treasury and Voting proof of concept in 2Q 2018. We are working together to ensure we can translate the mathematical concepts into a programmatic implementation.

This last week, the ZenCash Software Architect, Alberto Garoffolo, met with IOHK and InfoPulse partners to discuss IOHK’s research in Kiev, Ukraine. As a decentralized organization, it’s helpful to have onsite working sessions to ensure our teams understand the technical intricacies.

Some takeaways from the working sessions:

  • IOHK’s research and development for ZenCash Treasury Model is an elegant solution
  • The mathematical-to-technical implementation is complex and has dependencies on other projects ZenCash has in the pipeline, i.e. sidechaining
  • Additional working sessions are required prior to scoping the Treasury implementation from the R&D proof-of-concept to backlog items
  • Our Treasury model is a unique feature that differentiates us from other projects

We are excited to be in the forefront of development and bringing fairness to public blockchain governance! Let us know what you think about this research!

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The Horizen Treasury And Voting Model

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The Horizen Treasury and Voting model is one of the most elegant Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) models in the market.  We are very excited to work with IOHK and InfoPulse to deliver a highly complex programmatic solution to the Horizen Treasury System.

As an interim solution, the legal entity for Horizen, allocates 20% of mining rewards to fund integrations, engineering, marketing, research and development, and more. This funding model enables us to continue growing even in a down-market.

No human-in-the-loop: A DAO for fairness & transparency

We previously described the Horizen and IOHK Partnership that is set to deliver two important projects:

  1. DAO Treasury and Voting proof-of-concept that enables a programmatic approach to allocate resources.
  2. Horizen Sidechains and Sidechain SDK

The main purpose of the Horizen DAO Treasury and Voting model is to establish a decentralized and censorship-resistant funding mechanism for development and maintenance of the Horizen platform.

This model combines years worth of economic theory and cryptography to alleviate voter apathy. What is voter apathy? Think about the U.S. two-party system.  At times, you may or may not agree with the Republican and/or Democrat parties, but you don’t believe a third-party has a chance to win.  Therefore, you vote for one of the two instead or abstain from voting.

Think of a voting system that cannot be manipulated, where individuals are paid to vote, and voting results are kept secret until the end.  Or a voting system where you can vote to fund projects you value.  How will this type of system impact our lives?  We believe the Horizen DAO Treasury and Voting model will change the world and be implemented in various types of organizations or even countries!

How does the Horizen DAO work?

  1. A funding pool is available for proposals.  The funding process occurs during a fixed amount of blocks (approximately one month).  We’ll define this period as a treasury epoch.   In order to vote, Horizen stakeholders will have to lock an amount of ZEN as collateral at the beginning of each epoch.  The stake will be kept on a special smart contract address that returns the funds at the end of the treasury epoch.  Stakeholders will receive X amount of ballots, proportionally to the stake they have locked up.  Stakeholders will not know the value of their stake.
  2. Anyone can submit a proposal, there will be a small submission fee to discourage spam.
  3. Eligible Horizen stakeholders review and vote on proposals. Results are hidden using zk-SNARKS cryptography.
  4. Votes are weighted according to stake and are not public.
  5. ZEN stakeholders can delegate voting responsibilities to trusted users.
  6. Ballot results are secret until the winner is announced to ensure fairness.
  7. Votes are counted. Approved proposals are sorted out in descending order, from the highest positive vote count to the least. The system will fund every proposal in this order until it reaches 90% of the funding pool.
  8. The remaining 10% of the funding pool is allocated to reward voters. At the end of the treasury epoch, the locked funds (stake) is returned to the voters along with their respective compensation (proportional to their stake) for participating in the voting process.

When is the ZenDAO going live?

IOHK delivered the Horizen DAO Treasury and Voting proof of concept in 2Q 2018. We are working together to ensure we can translate the mathematical concepts into a programmatic implementation.
 
Horizen’s Software Architect, Alberto Garoffolo, meets with IOHK and InfoPulse partners quarterly to discuss IOHK’s research in Kiev, Ukraine. As a decentralized organization, it’s helpful to have onsite working sessions to ensure our teams understand the technical intricacies.

The team is evaluating the framework to implement the treasury voting system. The Horizen engineering team will likely use Scorex, the framework used to develop the voting system. By using the same framework, the Horizen team will prevent rewriting the crypto library into another language and reducing errors in translation and potentially saving time.

Our engineering team is architecting the treasury implementation. Initial plans are to integrate the voting prototype into the sidechain architecture and modify the treasury to use an SDK, which will likely be written in Java. In parallel, the Horizen engineering team will use the SDK for the on-chain Secure Node and Super Node implementation.

We are excited to be in the forefront of development and bringing fairness to public blockchain governance! Let us know what you think about this research!

Understanding The ZenDAO

Learn more about the design of the Horizen DAO from Prof. Roman Oliynykov, Team Veritas manager for IOHK. 

Learn more about the ZenDAO

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Thank You for A Terrific Year! Horizen 2018 Year End Review

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horizen 2018 commitment review2018 was quite a wild ride for Horizen and the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry as a whole!  Our theme for 2018 was an expansion with a focus on radical usability, transparency, and innovation. All while sculpting our team into a full-stack professional organization.  We are building a distributed-network alternative to the public “internet” and we are inviting you to be a part of it!

The cryptocurrency market experienced a significant correction in 2018 but Horizen remains fully committed to shaping both technological and social innovations while bringing privacy to everyday users.

Horizen’s Vision

  • Privacy is a fundamental human right
  • Individuals should own their digital footprints

Horizen’s Mission

  • Create a secure and private blockchain ecosystem built on the best privacy technology
    • Creating the infrastructure that makes this blockchain possible
    • Enabling a rich application environment
    • Securing the blockchain from 51% attacks
    • Ensuring efficient transaction processing speeds
    • Designing an unfederated (fully decentralized) sidechain system
  • Another key part of our mission is empowering individuals to make decisions within the ecosystem. The treasury DAO that we have in prototype is our first major step in this direction

To bring the mission together, Horizen reorganized into seven professional divisions to efficiently and effectively work on our aggressive roadmap… Our aim is to prepare both our technology and the supporting organization for rapid scaling!

Part of our professionalization was “discovering” our brand in a way that reflects our vision and our technology transition from ZenCash, the currency, to Horizen, the platform.

One of the biggest challenges presented this year was overcoming a 51% attack. We are proud of our team and processes kicked in gear to contain the damage. While the experience was negative, our engineering team devised an innovation for all proof-of-work blockchains by dynamically modifying the bitcoin consensus mechanism to make it much more expensive to conduct future attacks. We are proud of our bitcoin consensus enhancement as stability of the blockchain industry will allow the entire ecosystem to continue growing.

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We kicked-off 2018 announcing Horizen’s partnership with IOHK to work on two important deliveries:

  1. A programmatic DAO Treasury and Voting system prototype
    • Horizen was founded with decentralization as a cornerstone. A DAO Treasury and Voting system designed with economic game-theory will expand the Horizen ecosystem through an incentive-based voting system.
    • IOHK delivered a working DAO prototype in Q2 2018.
    • During Horizen’s evaluation of IOHK’s prototype, we determined an on-chain Treasury and Voting system was not necessary and would clog the network.
    • Our R&D Director, Alberto Garoffolo, designed an innovative generalizable sidechain solution to host Horizen’s DAO and other applications and services. Sidechains became a predecessor to DAO delivery.
    • With the sidechain concept, a new incentivized node class, Super Nodes, was introduced to further decentralize the network and host sidechains, services, and dApps.
  2. A scaling study to evaluate next-generation blockchain solutions
    • Scaling is a massive issue in the blockchain industry. The result of IOHK’s scaling study was a recommendation to move to a BlockDAG structure, which will require a complete rewrite of Horizen’s code base.

Radical Usability

Horizen’s focus on usability was highly evident in 2018 with the continuous improvement of community created products:

  1. ZenCash Full Node Wallet (Swing)
  2. Arizen Lite Wallet
  3. Paper wallet
  4. Web wallet

We also integrated with Ledger, Cool Wallets and Xeeda to provide users the ability to safely cold-store their ZEN.

zenhelpIn 2018, we launched one of the first 24/7 support system in the blockchain industry that’s manned by actual humans!

Our awesome team later expanded ZenHelp to include a Wiki to assist with frequently asked questions.  Our ZenHelp support system was crafted with our users in mind!

We professionalized our brand and focused on product consistency to allow our users to have a seamless, easy experience with Horizen’s products. We proudly presented our first flagship product “Sphere by Horizen.”

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Radical Transparency

As a public blockchain project, we take transparency very seriously. We host recurring livestreams where project updates are shared with our community and team members actively engage with the community through live Q&A.

We’ve made a “working” Trello board available for community members to follow our progress and recently published our 2018 budget allocation alongside our 2019 forecasted expense allocations split by functional area.

Thank you for being part of the Horizen ecosystem and contributing to our mission to biring privacy to life.

2018 – Horizen by the Numbers:

  • Team: 15 to 35
  • Community growth: Jan 2018 (20,000 users) to Dec 2018 (103,000 users)
    • Telegram: 3,000 to 6,300 / 110% ↑
    • Discord: ~2,500 to ~9,800 / 292% ↑
    • Reddit: 4,300 to 1,400 (after transitioning from r/zensys to r/horizen)
    • Twitter: 12,342 to 25,000 / 103% ↑
    • Facebook: 1,503 to 3,859 / 157% ↑
    • Mailing list: 9,000 to 28,000 / 211% ↑
    • Blockfolio: 35,000 (no previous data)
  • Super Node   2.7K (intro’d in Q3)
  • Secure Node 5.3K to  21K / 298% ↑
  • Software releases – 3 ZEND core releases
  • 31 exchanges
  • 21 integrations and partnerships
  • Number of countries visited:
    • Q1: 9 countries, 14 cities, 14 events
    • Q2: 18 countries, 29 cities, 37 events
    • Q3: 20 countries, 32 cities, 38 events
    • Q4: 11 countries,  23 cities, 32 events

Related articles:

Q1 Review

Q2 Review

Q3 Review

 

 

 

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Merci pour cette année exceptionnelle ! Bilan de fin d’année Horizen 2018

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2018 a été une année mouvementée pour Horizen et pour l’ensemble de l’industrie blockchain et de la cryptomonnaie!  Notre thème pour 2018 était une expansion axée sur la convivialité, la transparence et l’innovation. Tout en transformant notre équipe en une organisation professionnelle à part entière.  Nous construisons un réseau décentralisé alternatif à l’Internet public et nous vous invitons à en faire partie !

Le marché de la cryptomonnaie a connu une correction significative en 2018, mais Horizen reste pleinement engagé à façonner les innovations technologiques et sociales tout en apportant la confidentialité aux utilisateurs quotidiens. 

MISSION D’HORIZEN

  • Créer un écosystème sécurisé et privé de la blockchain basé sur la meilleure technologie en matière de protection de la vie privée.
    • Créer l’infrastructure qui rend cette blockchain possible.
    • Activation d’un environnement applicatif riche
    • Sécuriser la blockchain contre 51% des attaques
    • Garantir l’efficacité du traitement des transactions
    • Concevoir un système de sidechain non fédéré (entièrement décentralisé)
  • Un autre élément clé de notre mission consiste à donner aux individus les moyens de prendre des décisions au sein de l’écosystème. Le système DAO de la Trésorerie que nous avons en prototype est notre premier grand pas dans cette direction.

Pour mener à bien cette mission, Horizen s’est réorganisé en sept divisions professionnelles afin de travailler de manière efficace et efficiente sur roadmap ambitieuse… Notre objectif est de préparer notre technologie et l’organisation support à une évolution rapide !

Une partie de notre professionnalisation a consisté à ” découvrir ” notre marque d’une manière qui reflète notre vision et notre transition technologique de ZenCash, la monnaie, à Horizen, la plate-forme.

L’un des plus grands défis présentés cette année a été de surmonter une attaque de 51%. Nous sommes fiers de notre équipe et des processus mis en œuvre pour limiter les dégâts. Bien que l’expérience ait été négative, notre équipe d’ingénieurs a conçu une innovation pour toutes les blockhain de preuve du travail en modifiant dynamiquement le mécanisme de consensus bitcoin pour qu’il soit beaucoup plus coûteux de mener de futures attaques. Nous sommes fiers de l’amélioration de notre consensus bitcoin, car la stabilité de l’industrie de la blockchain permettra à l’écosystème tout entier de continuer à croître.

Innovations radicales

  • Prototype Trésorerie & Vote
  • Étude de scalabilité (BlockDAG)
  • Consensus Bitcoin Modifié
  • Conception sidechain généralisable
  1. Un prototype de système de vote à la Trésorerie, le DAO
  • Horizen a été fondée avec la décentralisation comme pierre fondatrice. Un système de trésorerie et de vote DAO conçu selon la théorie économique des jeux élargira l’écosystème Horizen grâce à un système de vote incitatif.
  • IOHK a livré un prototype fonctionnel de DAO au deuxième trimestre de 2018.
  • Au cours de l’évaluation par Horizen du prototype de l’IOHK, nous avons déterminé qu’un système de trésorerie et de vote sur chaîne n’était pas nécessaire et qu’il engorgeait le réseau.
  • Notre directeur R&D, Alberto Garoffolo, a conçu une solution de sidechain généralisable innovante pour héberger les DAO et autres applications et services de Horizen. Les sidechains sont devenues un prédécesseur de la prestation DAO.
  • Avec le concept de sidechain, une nouvelle classe de Nodes incitatifs, les Super Nodes, a été introduite pour décentraliser davantage le réseau et héberger les sidechains, services et dApps.

 2. Une étude de scalabilité pour évaluer les solutions de la prochaine génération de blockchain.

  • La scalabilité est un problème massif dans l’industrie de la blockchain. Le résultat de l’étude de scalabilité de l’IOHK a été la recommandation de passer à une structure BlockDAG, ce qui nécessitera une réécriture complète de la base de code d’Horizen.

Facilité d’utilisation radicale

  • Standardisation de la marque
  • Consistance du produit
  • Cadre du code principal
  • Service d’assistance
  • Wiki
  • Application phare → Sphere by Horizen

L’accent mis par Horizen sur la convivialité était très évident en 2018 avec l’amélioration continue des produits créés par la communauté :

  1. Wallet ZenCash Full Node (Swing)
  2. Wallet Arizen Lite
  3. Paper wallet
  4. Wallet électronique

Nous avons également intégré Ledger, Cool Wallets et Xeeda pour offrir aux utilisateurs la possibilité de stocker leur ZEN en toute sécurité.

horizen zenhelpEn 2018, nous avons lancé l’un des premiers systèmes d’assistance 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7 dans l’industrie de la blockchain, qui est géré par de vrais humains !

Notre équipe formidable a par la suite élargi ZenHelp pour inclure un wiki afin de répondre aux questions les plus fréquemment posées.  Notre système de support ZenHelp a été conçu pour nos utilisateurs !

Nous avons professionnalisé notre marque et mis l’accent sur l’uniformité des produits pour permettre à nos utilisateurs d’avoir une expérience facile et transparente avec les produits Horizen. Nous avons fièrement présenté notre premier produit phare “Sphere by Horizen”.

horizen zendaoTransparence radicale

  • Livestreams avec questions/réponses (biweekly (toutes les deux semaines), maintenant mensuel)
  • Accès à l’équipe par AMA, Discord, Télégramme
  • Trello publique
  • Répartition comptable publique (décembre 2018)

En tant que projet public, nous prenons la transparence très au sérieux. Nous organisons des streamings en direct réguliers où les dernières nouvelles du projet sont partagées avec notre communauté et pendant lesquels les membres de l’équipe s’engagent avec notre communauté en direct.

Nous avons mis à la disposition des membres de la communauté un tableau Trello ” fonctionnel ” pour suivre nos progrès et nous avons récemment publié notre allocation budgétaire 2018 ainsi que nos allocations de dépenses prévues pour 2019, réparties par secteur fonctionnel.

Merci de faire partie de l’écosystème Horizen et de contribuer à notre mission qui a pour but de donner vie à la vie privée.

 

2018 – HORIZEN PAR LES CHIFFRES

    • L’équipe : 15 à 35
      • Croissance de la communauté : Janvier 2018 (20 000 utilisateurs) à décembre 2018 (103 000 utilisateurs)
      • Telegram : 3 000 à 6 300 / 110 % ↑
      • Discord : ~2 500 à ~9 800 / 292% ↑
      • Reddit : 4 300 à 1 400 (après la transition de r/zensys à r/horizen)
      • Twitter : 12 342 à 25 000 / 103 % ↑
      • Facebook : 1 503 à 3 859 / 157% ↑
      • Liste de diffusion : 9 000 à 28 000 / 211 % ↑
      • Nombre de blocs : 35 000 (aucune donnée antérieure)
    • Super Nœud 2.7K (introduit au T3)
    • Secure Node 5,3K à 21K / 298% ↑
    • Sorties logicielles – 3 versions de base de ZEND
    • 31 exchanges (plateforme d’échanges)
    • 21 intégrations et partenariats
    • Nombre de pays visités :
      • T1 : 9 pays, 14 villes, 14 événements
      • T2 : 18 pays, 29 villes, 37 événements
      • T3 : 20 pays, 32 villes, 38 événements
      • T4 : 11 pays, 23 villes, 32 événements

 

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ZenCash is Launching as a Harmonious Split with ZClassic at Consensus May 23

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When ZClassic began, it quickly attracted a large community. There was clearly a desire for a privacy focused cryptocurrency with no corporate ties. As a clone of Zcash, ZClassic brought together a vision of a secure coin with no investors or businesses making the decisions on where to take development.

The Zclassic vision has resonated, and with more than 800 members in the ZClassic RocketChat/Slack, there is always active discussion on promotion, development, and continued support and differentiation from Zcash. Members of the community provide assistance for miners, help users of the wallets for different platforms, and coordinate marketing and social media efforts. The volunteer activity from the ZClassic community is noticeable in its effect on the cryptocurrency world.

Zcash is a Strong Foundation

The launch of Zcash as a fork of Bitcoin that adds zk-SNARKS and stealth addresses for completely secure transactions is revolutionary. By having the option of transparent or shielded transactions, Zcash enables cryptocurrency use by anyone for any purpose. It is a big improvement on Bitcoin, and the Zcash developers are talented and productive.

While recognizing and supporting the development direction of Zcash, one of the concerns raised by the members of the Zclasssic community is the potential for the Zcash development direction to be influenced by the Zcash investors. These investors funded the Zcash team and expect a return on that investment.

This return comes in the form of a redirection of a percentage of the mining reward to the Zcash Foundation, as well as a price appreciation of the coin as it becomes more used. Furthermore, the investors have the opportunity to influence the direction of Zcash development to increase the value of their other cryptocurrency investments, to the potential detriment of the use of Zcash as private cryptocurrency.

ZClassic is a community project

That corporate and investor influence is not present in ZClassic, which is strictly a community and volunteer effort project. There are many successful examples of open-source community projects that have come to dominate their respective fields, and ZClassic aims to be one of them. People who use ZClassic know that its continued development direction will be from the community, will continue to leverage the development efforts of the Zcash project, and will not be influenced by corporate or investor desires.

ZClassic has brought together a strong group of developers, who have created additional open-source projects in support of the coin. This includes Z-NOMP, an up-to date mining pool application for both ZClassic and Zcash, and the ZClassic Windows wallet. The developers of the Windows wallet also made it available for Zcash.

The ZClassic vision of a community supported version of Zcash with continued development and enhancement is clear and compelling. This is a cryptocurrency that will continue to see growth and further support.

ZenCash adds resiliency to security with governance

The idea for ZenCash grew out of discussions among the ZClassic community. Some of the team wanted to enable even more capability for the cryptocurrency. These additional features and capabilities led to the idea of a cryptocurrency that was something new and different, borrowing from other successful currencies like Dash and Decred, and then adding something more.

Realizing that many members of the ZClassic community are strong believers in the existing ZClassic vision, and many members want to support ZenCash, the new platform, the team realized they could do both. ZenCash could be launched as a fork of ZClassic, developers could work on both, then over time existing and new developers would gravitate toward one or the other.

ZenCash brings together many of the successful ideas proven in the existing cryptocurrencies:

  1. Transparent and shielded transactions, like Zcash and ZClassic.
  2. Secure messaging through shielded transactions.
  3. A focus on encryption of network traffic, node resiliency, and application security.
  4. Miners receive 88% of block reward. The rest is redirected for:
    1. 5% to the ZenCash DAO to fund growth of ZenCash through projects.
    2. 3.5% of the mining reward to publicly verified secure full nodes.
    3. 3.5% to the core team for ZenCash operations expenses.
  5. Governance of the DAO through a voting process encompassing the ZenCash stakeholders, similar to Decred.

The features of ZenCash address some of the potential weaknesses of many of the older cryptocurrencies, and have the potential to make ZenCash the strongest and most capable coin available.

Redirection of a Portion of Miner Reward for Long Term Viability

By maintaining 88% of the mining reward with ZenCash miners, this ensures the network will gain significant mining hashpower, helping to process transactions, and protecting against a 51% attack.

Creating a ZenCash Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) helps to prioritize development projects, pay for marketing, integration, and complex development projects, and ensures fund available for aspects of the coin improvement that require payment. The governance of the DAO will bring in different elements of the ZenCash community, ensuring many different voices are heard, and helping to finance projects the community finds valuable.

Paying active nodes, and making sure they maintain a basic standard of security and performance will make ZenCash distributed, resilient, and secure. By enforcing encrypted communication between nodes, and between nodes and wallets, protects against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks.

As ZenCash grows in ability, the node operators who want to get paid will continue to keep their nodes up to date, will keep them secure, and will make sure they support the network as a whole. This payment adds a layer of resilience lacking in most other cryptocurrencies.

ZenCash also addresses a metadata weakness of other cryptocurrencies. By communicating in a potentially compromised fashion, then sending Bitcoin, transaction correlators have the ability to identify the participants of a Bitcoin transaction. ZenCash will incorporate secure messaging within shielded transactions, so users can first agree on the transaction, send it, then verify receipt. Fully anonymously and securely.

For more complex secure communication, ZenCash will integrate with distributed storage to the Inter-Planetary File System.

ZenCash Launches During Consensus NYC on May 23

ZenCash will launch as a fork of ZClassic. Inspired by Ethereum Classic’s fork from Ethereum, all existing ZClassic holders will receive an equal amount of ZenCash at launch. This is a demonstration of the support of the community for both coins going forward. The ZenCash team is working with select Exchanges to assist in this process, and will announce the specific ways to make sure ZenCash coins are awarded 1-for-1 with existing ZClassic.

ZenCash launches on Tuesday, May 23nd at 10 pm Eastern. By that time there will be many other elements of the launch in place. This includes:

  • Verified exchange support
  • Linux wallet and roadmap for other wallets
  • Node specifications and configuration instructions
  • Mining pool applications

This is an exciting time! Bitcoin has shown everyone what is possible with cryptocurrency, Zcash developed truly secure transactions, Dash demonstrated how developers and node operators should be rewarded with funding along with the miners, Decred showed a sustainable model for governance.

ZenCash is a truly revolutionary platform that takes the best from other crypto-currencies and adds secure communications, secure resilient nodes, and a governance organization to enable continued improvement forever!

If you would like to be part of the ZenCash movement, come find out more and become part of the community at zencash.io.

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Horizen Leadership Q&A Ep.2 – Sidechains And Sidechain SDK

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Horizen is designing Sidechains and a Sidechain SDK to allow developers and enterprises to quickly and affordably spin up their own blockchains. Our next sidechain engineering milestone is just days away!

 

About this Sidechain Q&A

The Q&A you are reading today was sparked by Telegram community member Joker. Horizen co-founders, Rob and Rolf, and Rowan our Director of Business Development took turns answering his questions. 

The questions and answers were so interesting, we wanted the entire community to be able to read them! This is the 2nd part of the conversation. Read the 1st part here

The Q&A

QRegarding sidechains, I think it’s a matter of achieving sufficient decentralization for each sidechain depending on each use case. How many nodes on average will do consensus for a sidechain? Or is that sidechain specific?

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Part of what goes into the design of the different aspects of the platform is to work to achieve an economic incentive. For the two main Horizen system sidechain applications that are designed to run on the supernodes, which are compensated to operate. This is not happening yet, but the expectation has always been there. Supernode operators will not be surprised if that becomes a requirement.

For third party sidechains, there will be a payment to the node operators who choose to run the third-party application designed into the system. It is with ZEN whenever a transfer to/from the mainchain to sidechain takes place.

 

QWhat smart contract languages will be supported on the sidechains? Will they be Turing complete?

AThe great thing is that we can build any and all smart contracting languages because there’s no constraint; the system is fully generalizable.

from a second perspective, a great characteristic of doing the system architecture this way is that each sidechain is its own container and we can have Turing complete systems behind their own firewalls… if something breaks, it’s contained to its own system. The same is true of ZK or other crypto systems we deploy via sidechain.

 

QWhat’s on the mainchain?

AThe main chain is a ledger for ZEN, a currency that can be sent either transparently or privately, as well as a source of truth for whatever users use it for.

 

QWhat is included in the SDK?

AThe first version of the SDK will have basic tools to initialize a blockchain that communicates with the mainchain, such that ZEN can go forward/backward, and sidechain blocks are validated/secured by the mainchain. The next version (what we’ll call beta) will have tools that allow devs to build app-specific functionality on sidechain consensus. First blockchain consensus will be an IOHK R&D framework we’ve beefed up to work in production called Scorex.

 

QDoesn’t your sidechain SDK standardize the framework of the sidechain? This would include the consensus mechanism. 

ANo, the SDK will allow you to use whatever programming language and consensus mechanism best suits your application. 

 

QAny timeline for a functioning DAO?

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No definitive timeline yet as the entire engineering team is currently laser-focused on the SDK release which is the culmination of well over a year’s work. The sidechain SDK makes a scalable DAO possible so we’re one step closer.

Seems to me a well-working DAO really ignites a community around a project. A working DAO essentially decentralizing ZEN will be a large evolution for the project and will be a game changer.

 

QSo, secure nodes are like the gateways between the mainchain and sidechains? Do secure nodes get to participate in governance?

A

Secure nodes would be the ones running the sidechain node applications, as well as the mainchain node application. So in a manner, yes, they would be gateways between the two.

The governance model as designed originally would have people buy voting tickets with ZEN, it would get locked up during the voting period (1-2 months), then the ZEN would be returned at the end of the voting period. This part is not yet fleshed out and is subject to change.

 

Learn more about Horizen Sidechains

This blog is part of our Horizen Sidechains Series. To learn more about our sidechains, please read:

Please keep following us on Twitter and Facebook, as more exciting news is coming soon!

 

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Prosperare in un’industria in rapida crescita

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Il mondo cripto è un’industria con una crescita rapida ed inesorabile, piena di estremizzazioni…Estrema competizione, estrema innovazione e progetti truffa che promettono di far diventare ricchi in modo estremamente veloce. È molto difficile distinguere gli uni dagli altri tra montature, pump e rumors.

A ZenCash, diamo l’esempio. La nostra etica è semplice: vogliamo rendere il mondo un posto migliore e più inclusivo livellando la concorrenza attraverso la tecnologia. La privacy è un diritto umano e gli individui sono i possessori dei loro dati privati. Siamo trasparenti nelle nostre comunicazioni e sviluppi e la nostra community è appassionata e autentica.

Provare per credere.

In soli sei mesi, il team di ZenCash ha consegnato circa l’80% del White Paper e portato sul mercato una tecnologia critica e concetti come crittografia dei nodi con i Secure Nodes e il sistema di messaggistica più sicuro al mondo. Il focus del team di ZenCash è portare sul mercato prodotti innovativi puntando rapidamente e costantemente alla perfezione.

Convogliare informazioni complesse agli utenti in modo semplice e accattivante è importante ma si dovrebbe andare oltre una visione tutta rosa e fiori e valutare i risultati reali.  Quindi, vediamo da dove siamo partiti, che cosa abbiamo raggiunto finora e verso dove siamo diretti.

Traguardi di ZenCash: 2017

Sulla base dei traguardi qui sotto, vedo sviluppi costanti e innovativi… ZenCash è bravo con la sostanza. Cosa ne pensi?

Q2 2017

  • Lancio di ZenCash 30/05/17
  • Negoziazione su Bittrex

Q3 2017 – Consegnato

  • Pagate 24 vittime di replay protection
  • Risolte le replay transactions BIP-115
  • Integrazione Open SSL
  • Integrazione TLS (certificati SSL per la crittografia dei nodi)
  • Miglioramenti alla Blockchain
  • Rilasciati i Nodi ZenCash per Tor
  • ZenChat integrato nello Swing Wallet 1:1 | 1:Many
  • Iniziato lo sviluppo dei Secure Node
  • Negoziazione su Evercoin
  • Negoziazione su Coss.io
  • Integrazioni commerciali: cointopay.com e coinpayments.net
  • Rilasciata l’App Android
  • Rilasciato il sito web in russo

Q4 2017 – Consegnato

  • Contest nella Community per il nuovo Logo
  • Rilascio dei Secure Nodes con pagamento alla Produzione
  • Rilasciato il Desktop Wallet Arizen – lite blockchain
  • Contratti in Ricerca e Sviluppo
  • Negoziazione su Cryptopia
  • Negoziazione su UpBit
  • Iniziato un soft rebrand
  • Contratto con il team di sviluppo Code Particle

Per un dettaglio sugli obbiettivi del 2018, controlla la Roadmap Pubblica di ZenCash sugli Sviluppi

2018 – Anno dell’Espansione

  • Espandere i gruppi del team di sviluppo
  • Negoziazione su nuovi exchange
  • Iniziare R&S sulla DAO Treasury e sulla Scalabilità
  • Integrazione per gli Hardware Wallet
  • Sistema di Presentazione delle Proposte e di Voto con interfaccia grafica
  • Integrazione OpenBazaar
  • App iOS via AppStore
  • Domain Fronting
  • DAO Treasury proof-of-concept
  • Prototipo del Sistema di Voto basato sul protocollo di DAO Treasury
  • Sistema di Secure Node costruito sullo studio del protocollo blockchain
  • Prototipo del Software sulle Raccomandazioni dello Studio sulla Scalabilità
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