We are excited to announce today that Fedimint 0.2 has landed! 🛬
This release is a huge milestone for Fedimint as it is now a mostly feature-complete federated e-cash system. Development will be focused on backwards compatible improvements and bug fixes from now on. (1/5)
Fedimint v0.3.0 has landed! 🎉
Since our last release 3 months ago, 26 developers contributed over 400 PRs, implementing countless features and bug fixes. A big thank you to everyone who helped us achieve this milestone!
Big news! We got a brand new logo 🔅🚀 Designed by
@skyler_fs
, it captures the essence of collaboration and security in our mission 🎯 Inspired by the 🔅emoji chosen by the community, it represents multiple people working together to create security for their community 💪
We just went live with our new website! 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks to
@Pete_Winn
and
@kodylow
we now got a comprehensive knowledge base explaining Fedimint on different levels of detail and with some awesome diagrams.
Check it out at 😃
No software is ever perfect, so we invite you to review and test Fedimint. If you run it on mainnet, please don't risk more than you are willing to lose. Think of it as the early days of mainnet Lightning – it's still
#reckless
! ✊(5/5)
Looking to get started with Fedimint or know awesome related projects and resources?
We now have a curated link list about all things Fedimint! Check it out and contribute!
We want to thank the many past and present contributors and sponsors without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Also a big thanks to
@fedibtc
and
@MutinyWallet
for helping test and debug Fedimint and giving valuable feedback about their integration journeys. 🙏 (4/5)
However, Fedimint will be anything but stagnant! Having reached a stable MVP stage, we are now excited to see what else can be built with Fedimint as a federated application framework. 🛠️ (2/5)
In 1 hour at 3pm UTC we have a call about the Schnorr threshold signature scheme FROST and how it could be integrated into Fedimint.
Join us! If will be recorded if you can't.
We got a new minor release on the v0.2 track: v0.2.2. It contains some performance improvements and bug fixes, so if you are running a federation you should upgrade.
Big thanks to
@btcplusplus
supporters! We received half the hackathon prize money donated by the winners
@EricSirion
and
@n1ckler
who wrote an experimental nix-bitcoin fedimint module.
We made huge progress on automated testing of version compatibility. Thanks to that v0.3.0 federations and clients should be fully backwards and forwards compatible with their v0.2.x versions.
For upgrading instructions please refer to the release page.
Weekly Fedimint dev call in 3 hours at 3pm UTC.
In addition to reviewing issues and pull requests, we'll do a tutorial on Fedimint's module system.
Join us ->