December’s highlights: Bison Relay was introduced and launched, this innovative privacy-enhancing and spam-resistant messaging network uses Decred Lightning Network to attach costs to messages and deter spam, and is now open for use. The Lightning Network node count and capacity increased significantly following Bison Relay launch, as new users opened…

November’s highlights: There were new bug-fixing releases of Decrediton (v1.7.6) and DCRDEX (v0.5.7). The big crypto news in Nov 2022 was the unwinding of the FTX fraud, with their ceasing to process withdrawals leading to a wave of contagion which affected a number of high profile exchanges and funds. These…

Highlights of October: Decred Core software v1.7.5 and DCRDEX v0.5.4 patches were released. The Decred timestamping service (timestamp.decred.org) was used to timestamp political campaign documents for candidates in the Brazilian elections. decred.org has received another round of updates, including the new News page where you can find all the latest…

Treasury balance: 823,037 DCR (approx +8,629 DCR/month) — $22.3 million (+$234K/month) based on $27.11 DCR price New proposals DCR-Timestamp_bot Published Oct 19 by coinshuffle_bot | 4 comments This proposal requests $1,955 for work which has been done on reviving the @dcrtimestampbot Twitter bot which archives tweets where it is mentioned in IPFS…

Highlights of September: DCRDEX v0.5 public release made permissionless self-custodial trading more accessible with numerous improvements, including more wallet options that don’t require full blockchain download. LTC trading pairs went live on dex.decred.org. decred.org website received a batch of updates including 4 updated translations. Decred Lightning Network node count and…

Highlights of August: An overhaul of the decred.org website has been proposed, passed and deployed. Politeia v1.4.0 has been released, new features include a 5 minute window to edit one’s comments. DCRDEX v0.5.2 is out and can be run already by impatient traders who don’t want to wait for the…

Highlights for July: DCRDEX has added support for a new type of Bitcoin wallet, support for the Electrum SPV wallet has been merged Politeia is getting close to a new release with legacy proposals imported and a new GUI plugin architecture After the rejection of a proposal to continue funding…

Treasury balance: 809,345 DCR (approx +8,890 DCR/month) — $26.5 million (+$291K/month) based on $32.75 DCR price New proposals D.R.E.A.M. 2: Dream Harder Published 4 August by jy-p | edited 11 August | 28 comments This proposal presents a new look and messaging for decred.org, showcased on a staging server by @jholdstock. Some…

Highlights for June: The Ethereum smart contract used in DCRDEX passed its first audit with great results. Politeia was busy with 3 proposals approved, 1 rejected and 3 new proposals submitted. First treasury spend transaction approved under the corrected spend policy (DCP-7). DCR listed on 2 exchanges, Guardarian and BitPanda. …