diff --git a/docs/learn/what-is-zano.md b/docs/learn/what-is-zano.md index 1a85a37..2e155fd 100644 --- a/docs/learn/what-is-zano.md +++ b/docs/learn/what-is-zano.md @@ -4,20 +4,34 @@ sidebar_position: 1 # What is Zano -In today's digital landscape, where the value of privacy is ever-increasing, Zano stands out by offering a dedicated platform focused on confidentiality and security. As an open-source cryptocurrency and ecosystem, Zano blends enterprise-grade privacy with top-tier security and scalability. Crafted for mass adoption, Zano is not just another name in the blockchain space but a robust foundation for the next generation of confidential assets and decentralized applications. +Zano is an open-source cryptocurrency (layer-1) and ecosystem with enterprise-grade privacy, security, and scalability that operates as a robust foundation for confidential assets and decentralized applications (dApps). In short, people can build all kinds of privacy-focused dApps on Zano utilizing our unique features such as Confidential Assets, Escrow Contracts, Aliases, and more. -**Privacy Pioneers**: Originating from the Cryptonote protocol, Zano is its advanced evolution, emphasizing unparalleled privacy. +On Zano everything is private by default, meaning people can’t see the amount transacted, the addresses involved, and not even the asset type transacted. -**Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus**: By uniting the strengths of both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake processes, Zano delivers enhanced security, curbing double-spend vulnerabilities. +As illustrated in the image below, all you can see is that a transaction happened. Transactions are verifiable for the sender/receiver through transaction ID’s. -**Core Performance**: Zano's asynchronous core is a testament to computational efficiency, ensuring forward/backward compatibility and a modular approach ready for the crypto realm's challenges. + + +### Technologies + +Zano’s lead developer Andrey Sabelnikov created the first-ever privacy coin protocol code base named CryptoNote. Today, this protocol is used by Monero and hundreds of other projects. + +Zano is the advanced evolution of Cryptonote, emphasizing unparalleled privacy and adopting a wide variety of technologies that can be used to create all kinds of privacy-focused decentralized applications (dApps) and other projects. + +Here are they summed up: **Zarcanum**: A hallmark of Zano, introducing the world's first hidden amounts Proof of Stake scheme, shaping a novel benchmark in blockchain consensus. -**Confidential Assets**: Beyond the Zano coin, our platform enables tokens that carry the weight of complete privacy, mirroring all the functionalities of the Zano coin itself. +**Confidential Assets**: Beyond the Zano coin, our platform enables user-creatable privacy tokens that possess all the features and functionalities of the native coin, ensuring complete transactional privacy. -**Ionic Swaps**: In Zano's ecosystem, users can smoothly switch between different crypto assets, all while maintaining the essence of privacy. +**Ionic Swaps**: In Zano's ecosystem, users can smoothly trade between different crypto assets, all while maintaining the essence of privacy. -Additionally, with features like the dynamic [Marketplace API](https://docs.zano.org/docs/build/marketplace/marketplace-api-guide), adaptable Escrow/P2P Contracts, and an array of projects nurtured on Zano's foundation, our platform offers diverse opportunities for developers, traders, and all who value privacy in the digital age. +**Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus**: By uniting the strengths of both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake processes, Zano delivers enhanced security, curbing double-spend vulnerabilities. -Discover Zano, where digital privacy isn't just an idea but a tangible reality. +**Auditable Wallets:** An opt-in feature that enables people and organizations to create transparent wallets for situations where we would rather verify than trust. Creating auditable wallets doesn’t affect the privacy of the Zano network in any way. + +**Core Performance**: Zano's asynchronous core is a testament to computational efficiency, ensuring forward/backward compatibility and a modular approach ready for the crypto realm's challenges. + +Additionally, with features like the dynamic [Marketplace API](https://docs.zano.org/docs/build/marketplace/marketplace-api-guide), adaptable [Escrow/P2P Contracts](https://docs.zano.org/docs/use/escrow-contracts/), and an array of projects nurtured on Zano's foundation, our platform offers diverse opportunities for developers, traders, and all who value privacy in the digital age. + +Zano is constantly innovating, so make sure to check our [roadmap](https://zano.org/roadmap) as well as our [Frequent Asked Questions](https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/frequently-asked-questions) page. diff --git a/docs/learn/zano-features/overview.md b/docs/learn/zano-features/overview.md index f144234..17bc453 100644 --- a/docs/learn/zano-features/overview.md +++ b/docs/learn/zano-features/overview.md @@ -1,60 +1,103 @@ # Overview +## Zano’s Values + ### Privacy -Zano is completely private by default, making use of stealth -addresses, ring signatures, and from the moment we perform our Zarcanum -hardfork, also RingCT. +Zano has privacy by default throughout its entire network at the base layer (protocol level) ensuring your data remains secure. Only you decide what you’d like to reveal. ### Security -Our blockchain is protected by our custom hybrid PoW/PoS -consensus algorithm, pairing the advantages of each process to create a -highly secure platform. This makes the system less prone to double-spend -attacks, improving overall security. +Our hybrid PoW/PoS consensus algorithm makes attacks on Zano infeasible, ensuring the highest security standard for launching your asset or dApp on Zano’s ecosystem. -### Scalability +### Stability -Achieving computational excellence with forward/backward -compatibility, modular design, and an asynchronous core. This makes our -blockchain scalable and ready to handle high volumes of traffic. +The extensive amount of testing that our blockchain has undergone minimizes the issues often encountered in the early days of any project. This makes the Zano network stable and release-ready from day 1. Our decade of experience with both Boolberry and Zano commences this. -### Zarcanum +### Decentralization -World’s first Proof of Stake scheme that enhances traditional PoS with untraceability and hidden amounts, revolutionising blockchain consensus. +When we say decentralization we mean it, Zano is truly decentralized as anyone can participate in the network, and nobody has an unfair advantage. There are no validator nodes (master nodes), no minimum staking amounts, and no lock-up times. Whether you are a miner, a staker, or a user, **Zano is for everyone**. -### Confidential Assets +### Easy-to-Use -Anyone can easily issue their own currencies and digital tokens on the Zano chain; assets secured by the same mechanisms -that make Zano so much more secure than first-generation cryptocurrencies, -namely hidden addresses, hidden amounts and IP obfuscation. +From our wide variety of wallets to our documentation and to our products, we always keep the end user in mind ensuring a good user experience to drive adoption of the Zano blockchain. -### Ionic Swaps +## Technologies -An improvement on Atomic Swaps, innovating seamless cryptocurrency exchanges while preserving user privacy. +Zano has developed and adopted a wide variety of technologies that can be used to create all kinds of privacy-focused decentralized applications (dApps) and other projects. These technologies make Zano truly different from other projects and are summed below. -### Marketplace API +Zano hasn’t forked from any project and has been built from scratch, all of our technologies are backed by research papers that you can find [here](https://docs.zano.org/docs/learn/whitepaper). -Explore our dynamic API, facilitating a seamless integration into the marketplace ecosystem. This feature allows anyone to spin up their own decentralized marketplace. +### Network Security: Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus Algorithm + +Zano uses a hybrid consensus algorithm that alternates between Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blocks. It incorporates the world’s first Proof-of-Stake scheme with hidden amounts. This approach combines the benefits of both mechanisms to enhance blockchain security and decentralization. If performing a 51% attack on Zano, one would need the majority of the hash rate **and** a significant amount of the total amount of staked coins, making the cost of an attack incredibly high, resulting in the attack becoming infeasible. + +### Untraceable Transactions + +The transactions between Zano network members are made untraceable with the help of several technologies, most importantly **d/v-CLSAG Ring Signatures** and **Stealth Addresses.** Also, the way transaction data is stored on the blockchain allows access by parties who authorized the transactions only, and none of the private data is ever publicly published. + +### Amount Privacy + +A secure scheme with a set of proofs allows for the concealment of the amount of coins transferred. The **Bulletproofs+** technology is used for these proofs, enabling the creation of both performance-effective and size-effective proofs. These ensure that the sum and type of the inputs match the sum and type of the outputs, without revealing the actual details. ### Escrow Contracts -Our escrow service empowers users with customizable contracts in a trustless environment, secured by deposits to deter -malfeasance. - -### Staking - -Our implementation of Proof of Stake is as egalitarian as it can be. There is no minimum staking amount, so anyone can participate, contributing -to our vision of having a highly decentralized ecosystem that anyone can use. +With Zano’s Escrow Contracts, users can create fully customizable contracts, which essentially allow for any agreement conditions to be followed by all parties in a trustless way without any intermediary involvement. When using escrow contracts, a deposit is required from all parties involved as a financial incentive to alleviate any malicious activity—peer-to-peer settlements in its purest form. ### Aliases -All Zano network users can create aliases, for example: @username. These aliases can be linked to a payment address, which makes -our network more user friendly. In the long run, aliases will be used in a -dedicated messenger, a user reputation service, and an alias-based -authentication system. +All Zano network users can create aliases, for example: @username. These aliases provide a short, easy-to-remember name rather than a long string of characters that form a blockchain address. Aliases will be used in a dedicated messenger, a user reputation service, and an alias-based authentication system that can connect to the dApps running on Zano’s ecosystem. -### Auditable wallets +### Marketplace API -Auditable wallets give people and organizations the option to create transparent wallets for situations where we would rather verify than -trust. +You create, update, or deactivate on-chain offers with the Zano Marketplace API. Offers contain information about a user who is selling or buying something. As soon as an offer is published in the blockchain it is visible to everyone. This feature allows anyone to spin up their own decentralized online stores. + +### Ionic Swaps + +Ionic Swaps are an improvement on Atomic Swaps, innovating seamless cryptocurrency exchanges while preserving user privacy. Ionic Swaps are a safe and consistent way to perform peer-to-peer swaps in which neither party has an unfair advantage. This technology is used by the DEX and for instant swaps. + +### Zarcanum: Anonymous Proof of Stake + +Zano incorporates the world’s first Proof of Stake scheme that enhances traditional PoS with untraceability and hidden amounts, revolutionizing blockchain consensus. Thanks to this innovative approach our stakers can stake in complete anonymity. A first in all of crypto. + +### Auditable Wallets + +Auditable wallets allow people and organizations to create transparent wallets for situations where we would rather verify than trust. Creating auditable wallets doesn’t affect the privacy of the Zano network in any way. + +### Confıdential Assets + +Anyone can easily issue user-creatable privacy tokens on the Zano chain; assets secured by the same mechanisms that make Zano so much more secure than + +first-generation cryptocurrencies, namely because of hidden addresses and hidden amounts. This unique technology can be used to create private stablecoins, shielded versions of existing assets, and much more, without the overhead of having to create, manage, and secure your own blockchain. + +## Products + +All of the above-named technologies can be used to create all kinds of privacy-focused, decentralized applications (dApps). Below you can find examples of the products we created with these technologies, but of course, others can use these technologies as well to develop on Zano. + +### Zano Trade: P2P Cryptocurrency Trading Platform + +The Localbitcoins-like trading app will utilize Zano's built-in escrow contracts to eliminate the need for a third party in the trade settlement process. The escrow contract will require both parties to lock up collateral until the trade is concluded, thereby creating a financial incentive for both sides to cooperate. Any crypto, and even fiat, can be traded natively on this platform. + +### Zano Trade: Decentralized Exchange + +A decentralized exchange to trade native Zano and all the Confidential Assets launched on Zano’s ecosystem. Zano Trade requires no user registration and uses an on-chain order matching system to facilitate Ionic Swaps between native Zano and the Confidential Assets. It is impossible to see what asset type, amount, or address was involved in the transaction. + +### Zano Governance System + +Zano Governance is an anonymous on-chain voting system where our stakers who secure the network can vote on major decisions regarding the Zano blockchain, further decentralizing the Zano ecosystem. + +### Zano Wallets + +Zano has a variety of wallets available for every type of user: + +- Desktop Wallet: A full-node wallet that gives you access to all of our features, including staking. + +- Mobile Wallet: A remote-node wallet that supports all of our features except stak- ing, ready for instant use that fits in your pocket. + +- Lite Wallet \[IN PROGRESS]: A lightweight, easy-to-use wallet that is ideal for daily usage of small transactions and uses a remote node. + +- Third-Party Wallets \[IN PROGRESS]: Zano is getting integrated into various popular multi-asset wallets such as Cake Wallet and the [Bitcoin.com](file:///C:/Users/gonbat/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml) wallet. + +### Zano Companion + +A Metamask-like browser extension that enables authentication and connects the Zano desktop wallet to the web applications built on Zano. Zano Companion is your gateway to the broader Zano ecosystem! diff --git a/docs/mine/overview.md b/docs/mine/overview.md index 3d23a9a..b253aaa 100644 --- a/docs/mine/overview.md +++ b/docs/mine/overview.md @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ sidebar_position: 1 Zano uses ProgPoWZ for its mining algorithm, it's ASIC-resistant which means that it can only be mined using graphics cards. -The best way to support and further decentralize the network is to solo-mine it, we have prepared a guides to help you get started. +The best way to support and further decentralize the network is to solo-mine it, we have prepared guides to help you get started. diff --git a/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo-mining-windows.md b/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo-mining-windows.md index 0fec38f..6936ed7 100644 --- a/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo-mining-windows.md +++ b/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo-mining-windows.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ A 2GB graphic card is required for GPU mining. ::: -## Windows Solo Mining guide +## Solo Mining in Windows (AMD & NVIDIA) ### Step 1: Set up the Zano node diff --git a/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo_mining_amd.md b/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo_mining_amd.md index 77d9eac..5a52ff6 100644 --- a/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo_mining_amd.md +++ b/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo_mining_amd.md @@ -1,11 +1,8 @@ # Linux (AMD) -
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