Connect With DragonX
Website > https://dragonx.is/
Telegram > https://dragonx.is/tg
Twitter > https://twitter.com/DragonXchain
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Rowenta01 > https://x.com/CryptoRowenta01
The_Dowser > https://x.com/The_Dowser42
Q1 – CryptoLowcap Team
Today we’re delighted to welcome Dan, team member of the DragonX project. To begin with, tell us a little about yourself: what’s your background? Could you tell us your story and explain what motivated you to create DragonX? We look forward to learning more about the origins of this ambitious project?
A1 – DragonX Team
I got into crypto in 2013 on the heels of the 2012 Ron Paul run for president. For obvious reasons bitcoin appealed to me. Screw ending the fed we’ll simply opt out. I joined The Crypto Show in February 2014, a pirate radio show in Austin Tx that went on to air in 8 major cities on Bloomberg Radio. We were sponsored by Dash for several years and that was an awesome experience. Dash had a fantastic community. We leveraged the radio show to travel around the US and Mexico to respond to natural disasters giving aid and relief 100% in crypto. High water rescues and recovery aid during Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma and Ida. During the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, we rebuilt 4 homes and a community center with help from Dash and Roger Ver. As far as DragonX, it was a journey that started 3.5 years ago. After being a little disgusted by the Maxi mentality of not only Bitcoin but Monero as well. I started a little meme coin called Manure0 on an obscure chain called Aspire. It was centered around poop jokes and poop memes. It was a privacy shitcoin with zero privacy. I decided to make it as private as possible. After over a year of researching what chain to fork it from, I landed on Hush. Hush offered the tools to do it and I found the Hush Team to be hard core and uncompromising on privacy. Initially I looked at Komodo but z2z only transactions (default privacy) was reserved for Arrr on all asset chains. One feature I admired of Komodo was called Antara but it was never delivered on. We used the concept for Arrakis. It’s simply a plug and play tool to create your own chain by simply entering your parameters and connecting to a server. https://arrakis.hush.is/
Q2 – CryptoLowcap Team
DragonX presents itself as The World’s First CPU Mineable zk-SNARKs Cryptocurrency. Can you explain what your unique value proposition is, and what advantages it offers over existing projects, particularly in the Privacy sector? (Projects such as Salvium, ARRR, Zano). Being built on a completely independent Hush side-chain, how are you related to this project?
A2 – DragonX Team
Is DragonX the first CPU mineable ZK-SNARKS coin? Maybe not but it is intended to be ASICS resistant as long as possible. We use a custom flavor of RandomX that is different enough from Monero that their ASICS won’t work on DragonX. As far as the value proposition, our ease of use cpu mining has been very popular with our users. I feel this definitely increases decentralization when all users can so easily mine on a laptop vs ASICS mined projects. Our launch was 100% as fair as it possibly could be. We announced months in advance of the launch, to the minute of when it would happen. 2 years ago on November 5th at 11:05 am CST. We had no Premine no Dev Tax. The DragonX relationship to Hush. DragonX contributes to promotion and front end development of Hush, helps maintain servers and the git. The Hush technical developers work closely with us. Many of our community members help users navigate mining and wallet downloads as well multiple user questions. We have yet to have any toxic drama in the community. It’s been a great experience so far.
Q3 – CryptoLowcap Team
How did the team come together around the project? Can you tell us about your role within DragonX, the talents of your team and what motivates you on a daily basis?
A3 – DragonX Team
My role I would say is to delegate implementation of new updates. Bringing DragonX to live crypto events like Porcfest, Anarchapulco, Tumin Marketplaces. Videos, podcasts, etcetera. As for the team assembly I believe I touched on that above. I feel like Hush and DragonX is a family affair.
Q4 – CryptoLowcap Team
In your bold quest for privacy, DragonX seems to be pursuing Bitcoin’s original goal of a peer-to-peer electronic payment system. How does your team intend to meet these challenges and open the doors of Privacy to the general public?
A4 – DragonX Team
I think we stick to the basics. Bitcoin’s emission rate is genius and good enough for us. Our Sietch feature hits on the genius of Monero with multiple decoy outputs on top of zk-SNARKs.
Q5 – CryptoLowcap Team
The DragonX project was launched with no pre-mining and no block rewards. What motivated you to take this approach, and how do you think it’s influencing the development of the project?
A5 – DragonX Team
In the beginning it was a struggle to decide. A premine was planned but before the launch it was decided that a 100% fair launch would be best for the long term. It works for Bitcoin and Monero so once again it’s good enough for us too. If it fails at least we’re not a scam and failure.
Q6 – CryptoLowcap Team
The choice of tokenomics and the emission curve are very important for altcoins. Do you think the timing of the project launch and the tokenomics are well adjusted for DragonX?
A6 – DragonX Team
I touched on this a little bit above. Our emission is essentially exactly the same as bitcoin except for a faster block time. 3 coins every 36 seconds is equal to the 50 per 10 minutes Bitcoin used. Our block time was sped up to 36 seconds vs the 75 seconds Hush uses so our messaging would be faster. At the time of launch for DragonX, HushChat relied on the clearance of a transaction for the message to send. Now the message happens in the mempool so the block time is not an issue. Halving is scheduled for every 4 years just as BTC is as well.
Q7 – CryptoLowcap Team
DragonX uses a customized implementation of RandomX. Can you detail the specific modifications made to make this implementation incompatible with potential ASICs developed for other RandomX cryptocurrencies such as Monero?
A7 – DragonX Team
DragonX uses the official audited RandomX implementation with various configuration changes created by RandomX developers to allow for different « flavors » of RandomX. We do not have changes to audited RandomX internals which could compromise the security of the code. Specifically, DragonX uses 5 Argon2d iterations for cache initialization, where Monero uses 3 and DragonX also uses a custom « salt » for Argon2d. Our RandomX programs are twice the length, 512 vs 256 in Monero. Twice the number of VM executions are used, 4096 vs 2048. Twice the number of chained VM executions per hash are used, 16 vs 8. All these customizations together have the effect to make mining require more resources (both RAM and CPU) versus the default RandomX flavor . If a RandomX ASIC/FPGA/etc is created, it will be cheaper for it to target the default RandomX flavor (because it requires less RAM/CPU resources) and then DragonX will be tipped off that RandomX is « broken » before it makes financial sense to make hardware specifically for the RandomX flavor we use.
Q8 – CryptoLowcap Team
What is the process by which the “1-click” mining button works in the SilentDragonX portfolio? Could you describe how you manage technical aspects such as mining configuration and system resource optimization? This feature is rare in the ecosystem and offers a valuable opportunity for those unfamiliar with these procedures to get involved easily?
A8 – DragonX Team
The « 1-click » mining GUI attempts to make it as easy as possible for all DragonX users to mine with their CPU. It gives miners sensible defaults without too many confusing options. For example, all blocks are mined to a unique address instead of giving an option to mine all blocks to the same address, which leaks more metadata about who mined a block. It also only gives the option to mine with, at most, the number of physical cores in your CPU since mining with more than that is not a good idea, even though the internals allow it. 1-click mining does not attempt to change OS-level configuration at this time, so there is still some « fun » to be had by advanced users by customizing their OS and BIOS settings. There are various new features planned for 1-click mining, such as taking into account system RAM availability and automatic shielding of mined block rewards.
Q9 – CryptoLowcap Team
The concept of Hush Arrakis Chains is central to DragonX. How does this technology differ from traditional sidechains, and what advantages does it offer in terms of customization and independence from the main Hush blockchain?
A9 – DragonX Team
Hush Arrakis Chains (HACs) are not sidechains (L2s) because they do not depend on any other chain to exist. Each HAC is its own sovereign kingdom. This is very different from ETH, where L2s must pay fees denominated in ETH. Each HAC uses the same source code, which when run, uses various different options to create different independent networks. This is sometimes called a « run-time » fork, as opposed to a source-code fork. HACs share a huge amount of code which optimizes for developer time, since the code only needs to be written once and then it can be used on infinitely many different blockchains. HACs are also compatible in the sense that if you own an address on one HAC you own that address on every HAC. This allows for nice use cases such as sending your friend some funds on different HACs because you know there address on DragonX.
Q10 – CryptoLowcap Team
DragonX plans to implement “FireChat” based on HushChat. What methods are used to manage the technical challenges associated with “instant” messaging using mempool prior to transaction confirmation?
A10 – DragonX Team
FireChat is the DragonX-branded GUI which implements the HushChat Protocol. HushChat transactions transfer an amount equal to 0 coins, so there really is no concern about rendering chat data that is currently in the mempool and not yet confirmed into a block. They send amount=0 so there is no possibility of a double spend attack. There is the possibility that a 51% attacker could randomly censor HushChat messages or censor all HushChat messages but they cannot censor the particular chats of certain addresses because those addresses are private and unknown to a mining attacker. And since censoring transactions would reduce the transaction fees the miner earns, there is actually a negative financial incentive to do this random or complete censoring. Additionally, GUIs can choose to locally keep HushChats even though they were removed via a blockchain reorganization (they are really just data, with 0 financial value), so this type of attack just wastes a lot of resources of the attacker without accomplishing anything of value.
Q11 – CryptoLowcap Team
DragonX implements z2z transactions by default. What is the process by which these transactions work and how do they improve confidentiality compared with conventional transparent transactions?
A11 – DragonX Team
Conventional transparent transactions have no privacy at all, which is why networks which use them, such as Bitcoin, are called surveillance coins. Shielded (z2z) transactions have maximum privacy, which means the sender address, the receiver address, the amount and even which outputs are being spent are all private data, unavailable for analysis via public blockchain data. This exponentially increases privacy because it precludes the possibility of blockchain analysts using their most powerful techniques to study transactions by looking at certain addresses or amounts being transferred. Shielded transactions are mathematically « perfect » in the sense that they do not reveal a single bit of information about their contents, unlike current Monero transactions which offer probabilistic privacy, hiding the real data among many decoys. Full Chain Membership Proofs will bring this level of privacy to Monero transactions which Hush and DragonX have already enjoyed for years.
Q12 – CryptoLowcap Team
Sietch technology is mentioned as an additional layer of security. In what manner Sietch specifically prevents metadata leaks concerning the number of recipients of a transaction and on-chain analysis?
A12 – DragonX Team
Sietch protects some metadata which is not covered under the « perfect privacy » of the internals of shielded (z2z) transactions, specifically the number of outputs of a transaction, also called the « output arity ». This roughly corresponds to how many people are receiving funds in a transaction, except that often (but not always) one output of a transaction is the sender of the transaction receiving change back. On almost every blockchain, including Bitcoin, Zcash and Monero, most transactions have two outputs for a very simple reason. Most transactions are one party sending funds to one other party (Alice sending Bob some coins) and most likely Alice is not spending the funds exactly, so there is a change in output. For surveillance coins, which make everything public anyway, the number of outputs leaking is the least of their privacy problems. But for privacy coins, which leak very little metadata about any transaction, the number of outputs is a problem. For instance, in the past some Monero transactions have been more easily traced because they used more than the most common two outputs and hence really stand out on the blockchain. Sietch fixes this problem by padding the number of outputs of every transaction on the network. So when Alice sends funds to Craig and Dan on DragonX (and any HAC) it looks exactly the same as when she transacts with Bob.
Q13 – CryptoLowcap Team
TLS 1.3 encryption is used for connections between DragonX nodes. What are the implications of this implementation in terms of protection against traffic analysis, and how does it concretely improve user confidentiality?
A13 – DragonX Team
Most coins do not use TLS encryption for connections between peers. Bitcoin and Monero still do not encrypt peer connections by default. On surveillance coins, lack of TLS means that the IP address which makes a transaction can be correlated to which addresses are a source of funds in the transaction and ties IP addresses directly to blockchain addresses and estimates to the size of funds owned and sent to others. That is a lot of metadata leakage! Lack of TLS also means that « passive network spies » get all this information, which includes the ISP the user connects to the internet with and every network in between. So it is not even required to run a node to spy on this data, it is being stored and sold for profit by many companies with ease. For DragonX and all HACs, TLS forces an attacker to be an « active network spy » by running a full node on the network. Not only that, but to get reliable information an active network spy will need to run many nodes on the network and then they can only probabilistically correlate which IP address made a transaction, but not which addresses or amounts are involved. Additionally, DragonX and all HACs support Tor V3 and i2p nodes which remove the link between IP addresses and transactions. By requiring TLS connections to all peers (it cannot be disabled) DragonX and all HACs have drastically better transport-level privacy than almost every other blockchain.
Q14 – CryptoLowcap Team
Against the backdrop of a fair launch with no premine or block rewards for the founders, how is the DragonX team funding the ongoing development of the project, and what strategies have you put in place to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth of the DragonX ecosystem?
A14 – DragonX Team
So far I have funded the majority but several community members have funded servers and donated to bounties and so forth. When DragonX increases in value of course the community will step forward and assist more with development. We see this in other projects all the time. I used to think that the DAO model that Dash uses was a great idea but I don’t think so anymore. Eventually voting yourself a block reward is ripe for corruption.
Q15 – CryptoLowcap Team
Can you explain how the AgoraX marketplace works technically, and how DragonX as a currency will be integrated into it, in particular as regards the use of z2z transactions and zk-SNARKs to ensure the confidentiality of exchanges on the platform?
A15 – DragonX Team
Agorax.is is basically a crypto Craigslist. We took a copy of the Silk Road script and stripped out the wallets so we do not handle anyones crypto and do not profit from any transaction. We simply sell banner ads. Instead of wallets we have a list of multiple privacy coins you can add your address to for your profile. Sellers are added once they are approved as a trusted vendor. We don’t allow anything construed as illegal. We don’t want to end up in a cell next to Ross. Buyers leave ratings and bad actors get booted. AgoraX was originally intended to help an indigenous group in Mexico who created their own local currency called Tumin. I started working with them to help create a crypto to work alongside their existing paper currency. Digital Tumin is the 2nd Hush Arrakis Chain in existence. AgoraX will serve as the digital tool to link their communities together. Currently Tumin is in 6 different regions of Mexico. The Tumin community known as Tuministas is very successful on a local level. Hundreds of vendors gather weekly or biweekly in different cities to trade with each to strengthen their circular economy. There are over 3000 Tumin users across Mexico with 1.5 million paper Tumin in existence. Here’s a great example of one of the Tumin events I’ve attended. https://youtu.be/1ErBAwoWfmA?si=HUCWOxD1sIb-IEM0 Currently it’s the multiple privacy coins that are used most on the site. My next trip to Mexico I will spend a good deal of time visiting the 6 regions to help out with a hands on demo for the Tumin community.
Q16 – CryptoLowcap Team
Can you tell us about the evolution of DragonX? Where are you with the mainnet, and what are your main goals for 2025 and beyond? What aspects of these plans excite you most, and how do they align with your vision?
A16 – DragonX Team
As a p2p private crypto currency I think we’re doing well. We have a great GUI wallet with 1 click mining, an Android wallet and we just finished the lite wallet giving us the full functionality of HushChat. The Android wallet allows for messaging in the memo field. There are several ideas I would like to see implemented in the near future. Nicknames or something like aliases that Zano uses. There’s talk of ordinals style features and file sharing hacks and more.
Q17 – CryptoLowcap Team
Today, DragonX is among the very low-cap projects in the Privacy sector and, more broadly, on the market with a market cap of around 60K$. What are your ideas to improve the visibility, reach, and branding of the project among investors?
A17 – DragonX Team
We’ll be adding more videos, attending more crypto events, running X.com ads and trying to get listed on more exchanges including Basic Swap. Our team feels like Basic Swap is a better privacy preserving choice than a lot of other Dexs. Serai Dex would certainly be a goal as well.
Q18 – CryptoLowcap Team
Your recent participation in the Monerotopia event must have been an enriching experience. Did you have any opportunities to collaborate or synergize with other privacy-focused projects at the event?
A18 – DragonX Team
Monerotopia was awesome and yes I was able to make quite a few great contacts. DragonX was not a sponsor but I did volunteer for the event. I think it is one of, if not the best crypto event around right now. Doug does a fantastic job and I was happy to help. I also work with Anarchapulco. I coordinate the crypto stage for that event. Working with Anarchapulco gives me the opportunity to promote DragonX and different crypto charity functions I’m part of as well. We have raised a ton of money for a local Orphanage in the area of the Anarchapulco event for the past 8 years. Most recently during Hurricane Otis I along with another DragonX community “Henza” were able to work with the Anarchapulco Team to deliver thousands of meals to people in need and rebuild the home of a local resident who has helped us out with the conference for the last 5 years. To call these things rewarding is an understatement. https://youtu.be/NfXAMC3QVC0?si=aysZ7ZGTm8JEHYaO I’m just a crypto activist with a focus on privacy coins. I’m a fan of multiple privacy projects. I don’t feel like we’re competing with anyone other than fiat.
CLOSING WORDS
DragonX embodies the cypherpunk spirit, putting privacy and individual freedom at the heart of its project. Launched in a fair manner with no premine or reward for the founders, DragonX demonstrates a commitment to creating a decentralized ecosystem. With a customized implementation of RandomX and advanced privacy features like Sietch, DragonX serves the autonomy of individuals by making mining accessible to everone and offering maximum privacy. DragonX represents a movement towards a future where privacy is a fundamental right and its commitment to humanitarian projects and its community-based approach aim to create a positive impact on the world while preserving freedom. Thank you for your time and hope you enjoyed reading it! Rowenta01 & The_Dowser!
Connect With DragonX
Website > https://dragonx.is/
Telegram > https://dragonx.is/tg
Twitter > https://twitter.com/DragonXchain
Connect With CryptoLowCap Team
Rowenta01 > https://x.com/CryptoRowenta01
The_Dowser > https://x.com/The_Dowser42
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