Interviews

A 17-question deep dive with the DragonX team: fair launch, customized RandomX CPU mining, zk-SNARKs by default, Hush Arrakis Chains, Sietch metadata padding, and a privacy-first stance rooted in cypherpunk values.

Slixe, lead developer of Xelis, walks us through a from-scratch L1 combining BlockDAG, Twisted ElGamal homomorphic encryption, smart contracts via XELIS-VM, and an ASIC-resistant ChaCha8/Blake3 PoW — all under a fair launch with a transparent dev-fee.

A detailed AMA with the Salvium team on Confidential Transactions, anonymous refundable transactions, view keys for compliance, Asynchronous Transactions, Transactional Imbalances and the Protocol_Tx mechanism.

Long-time GRIN core developer John Tromp on Cuckoo Cycle, MimbleWimble’s elegance, the case for linear emission against capped-supply FOMO, ZK-proof accelerated sync, and a contributor philosophy rooted in simplicity rather than profit.

Reuben Yap, Project Steward of Firo, on the privacy stakes of CBDCs, Lelantus Spark vs zk-SNARKs, the Elysium tokenization layer, surviving a targeted 51% attack and a malicious seed investor, and the case for L1 privacy over L2 mixers.

Captain Draeth on how Pirate Chain combines mandatory shielded zk-SNARKs transactions with delayed Proof-of-Work, the largest anonymity set in the industry, no premine and no dev fee, and a roadmap built on real revenue rather than mining taxes.