Happy anniversary dear Ryo Community!

Ryo-Currency burst onto the CryptoNote (CN) scene June 4th 2018 after the community successfully demonstrated their support for Ryo during the user activated soft fork (UASF) signaling window in response to the Sumokoin scam being exposed.

1 year ago, on block 137500 Ryo Currency started as own chain:

https://explorer.ryo-currency.com/block/137500

When ones could only promise to fix things and deliver updates, I would like to share community some major project development updates that we had this year (since it is the short version of anniversary retrospective).

2018

2019

January 5.2019–0.4.0.0 update public beta test phase start

January 23.2019 — Ryo developers fireice_uk and psychocrypt introduce new mining algorithm- Cryptonight-GPU. February 1.2019 — Our current code usage restrictions expired. All code released up to today fell under the public domain and moved to a separate repository. Read more

February 4.2019 — Ryo Currency ‘Lorentz Transform’ 0.4.0.0 Update: uniform payment ID-s, CN-GPU POW, bulletproofs, default ringsize 25, new diff. algo. Read more

February 10.2019 — Ryo Wallet Atom 1.2.0 includes Ryo daemon 0.4.0.0 + “hide to tray” function and other improvements and fixes.

February 27.2019 — Ryo Currency ‘Lorentz Transform’ 0.4.0.1 update Mar 23.2019 — Released Ryo Wallet Quasar — WEB based wallet. Read more Mar 27. 2019 — Ryo Wallet Atom with SOLO mining is pre-announced. Apr. 7.2019 — RYO-BTC, RYO-USD, RYO-EUR, RYO-RUB markets added on Crex24

Apr.19/25.2019 — Community debates about emission curve pt1 / pt2 May 13.2019 — Ryo Wallet Atom 1.3.1 update: unique SOLO mining feature, and many more updates

May 20.2019 — [Community Debate Decision] — We are fixing a broken emission curve June 1.2019 — Ryo Wallet Atom 1.3.2 update: various improvements and bugfixes.

Ryo wallet Atom interface

Things that I would like to mention, but were not listed above:

We are continuosly working on website updates (It comes in 2 languages: RU + EN), adding all required info for users (various FAQs, links, new sections) that serves major goal — giving all info and help for users.

info and help for users. We are working on not only intitial infrastructure development, but taking it even further right from the start: Building new WooCommerce plugin? Then we build real life working demo of it — Ryo Store. Building first SOLO mining wallet solution? Building solo-mining explorer page. Introducing dev fund? Bringing transparency in management via dev-fund explorer.

Ryo dev team continuosly makes security researches and shares info with public. You can find it in an organised way in our library.

Products of Ryo dev team were used even before Ryo has started (CN-heavy mining algorithm, Xmr-stak miner). This year Monero backported some of Ryo source code fixes as Well as Loki / Xtri projects are already using Ryo Wallet Atom as their official wallet.

We held 5 community debates with community on Emission change / Dev fund introduction / Open source status. Apart from working hard on development, Ryo dev team and support team are keeping community updated and granting support touch every day. Without holidays. Yes, we love our project and community so much :)

Thank you, community!

Your feedback was awesome this year, and I would like to thank each and everyone who expressed their opinions, made proposals, helped in beta testings, spreaded info about us over internet and expressed constructive criticis.

We are aiming to grow bigger, and be better. Stay tuned — you won’t regret ;)

What we will continue doing?

Obviosly, we continuing to develop. There are a lot of nice and needed features in roadmap that are in process of development right now, as I’m writing this article, so we are expecting even more serious updates in observable future. (source code, infrastructure development, support development)

Since we are already having solid track record — We are, and will be working more on spreading awareness of project, adding more languages and spreading geography.

We will keep our high standarts of support, updates and transparency with community.