Four weeks ago, Tangram released Cypher Open Beta. We advertised to the community that anyone can start running a node and setting up a wallet to familiarise themselves with the process. After several key fixes and enhancements to Cypher, such as: Mitigating spam whereas prior a ‘locked fund’ mechanism was…

As we progress with Tangram and begin preparations for releasing Cypher Open Beta testing to the community; updates are in order. Team Updates As we move closer to the release of Tangram Mainnet, we’re focusing on finding contributors who are able to dedicate time to development across Tangram’s core functionalities such as…

Cypher closed testnet will continue throughout the month of May in preparation for open testing in June (date to be announced). Cypher is Tangram’s final testnet before Tangram’s mainnet release. The reason for the continuation of Cypher closed testnet throughout the month of May is three-fold for cypnodeand bamboo : Serf only serves for node discovery and has several drawbacks and that blocks Tangram in enhancing the network communication protocol —…

As we get closer to the Open Beta release of Cypher after its many iterations and upgrades, this article will serve as a high-level overview of where we are today, while providing some status updates. Here are some of the key accomplishments and insights. March Review — Technical Improvements Refactoring, new features and test scripts…

Cypher is an unaudited and unrefined release of Tangram. It is intended to serve as a proving ground, allowing developers and teams to build and deploy nodes, send and receive transactions, and test and evaluate the consensus and privacy. Warning: this is a pre-production environment of an experimental network —…

Vector node — Core concepts — In this article we will highlight some further details of the Tangram implementation. An important design pattern in Tangram will be highlighted, and some core concepts covered.

A proposal for an extended distribution model — Distribution models are challenging, especially when creating something new. Discussions around the best way to disseminate a new cryptocurrency follow very researchable short and long-term strategies. These strategies usually fall into two categories: Genesis distribution; Ongoing distribution. If we look at mining, ultimately it contributes heavily to two very simple…

26th January 2020 — This has been a long awaited project and development update. It is also a new year, twice over within a month (unlike our updates), so Happy Chinese New Year! 🐀. Now a major project alignment piece has been on the front burner for quite some time. …

Development Update — 24th December — Bug Bounty Moving forward, the bug bounty program scope and rewards will grow and continue to be actively updated as we extend and expand the Tangram network, hit important development milestones, and ship new features into the wild. As the network evolves, so will the bug bounties. …