New Open Marketplace Testnet Build Now Available

The marketplace gets private-by-default 👤

You’ve been waiting for it, you’ve had wild dreams about it, and it’s finally here! The first testnet build, with the OMP Library integrated and with private-by-default, has arrived! 🎉

Particl’s Open Marketplace latest testnet build

For the past months, the marketplace development team has been very busy running the remaining integration tests, fixing bugs, and making the Open Marketplace as stable as it’s ever been. During the last few days, the entire Particl team has been testing the marketplace in order to find any bug or issue that could have been missed by the automated integration tests as well as the manual tests made by the developers.

We are happy to announce that no significant bug has been found during this period, and with this very positive result, the Open Marketplace is now ready to be tested by the wider Particl community!

Due to Quarkslab’s MLSAG (Ring signature part of RingCT) & Bulletproofs audit coming back perfectly and without any single issue, the Open Marketplace will launch with anonymous escrows (RingCT) from Day 1. The RingCT integration into the escrow system has been completed today, but won’t be part of today’s testnet as it still requires a bit of testing. For this reason, today’s build will have its escrow work with CT transactions. A build, with anonymous escrows fully integrated, is likely going to come out next week!