Notable Changes:

• z_importviewingkey and z_exportviewingkey for Sapling to enable confidential, verifiable, and transparent voting

Verus Desktop

The first ever GUI application to support the self-sovereign, quantum, ready, user-friendly Verus ID protocol, along with full node wallets for KMD ecosystem coins, BTC based Electrum servers, and Ethereum/ERC20 tokens.

Originally forked from the Verus-Enhanced Agama wallet, Verus-Desktop was redesigned from the ground up to elegantly introduce a number of unique features, including:

• Verus Identity Support
  • Identity creation, revocation, and recovery
  • Identity GUI details and dashboards
• Multiple wallet profile support, each with their own default wallet screen and active coins
• Redesigned Verus logo and UX
• Numerous performance/usability improvements

Although some will choose to use Verus-Connect in place of Agama, this is an Alpha release. Currently, Verus-Desktop is still in development, and a number of features are coming soon, these include:

• Full GUI mining and staking dashboard support
• Extensive support for multiple KMD features, including interest functionalities
• Extended Verus ID support, including private inter-id messaging,
• Further performance improvements

For this reason, we currently still recommend using the Verus-Enhanced Agama Wallet for functionalities related to those above.

We hope you enjoy creating, managing and using your very own friendly, self sovereign, fully decentralized, quantum ready identities.

Verus ID

VerusIDs are a fully functional blockchain protocol, not just an ID system. There is no corporation involved in the protocol, unlike most blockchain ID implementations. VerusIDs provide plenty of opportunity for identity applications. Specifically, VerusID provides:

Quantum-ready friendly crypto-addresses on the worldwide Verus network

VerusIDs can be used to receive and send funds, which are controlled by the single or multi-sig addresses specified in the identity itself. If these controlling addresses or the single or multi-sig properties are changed, which can be done by the controller of the identity, all future spends of UTXOs sent to that identity follow the updated spend conditions and are subject to the updated keys. Although Verus 0.6.0 does not include quantum resistant signatures for transactions, VerusIDs are themselves resistant to quantum attack with known algorithms, and we have already started to integrate a quantum secure signature scheme, which we expect to activate on mainnet early next year. When that is available, it will be possible to change an ID and have all of the funds sent to it made retroactively quantum resistant. Verus IDs can also be used to publish ID->destination address mappings on other blockchains, but only the Verus ecosystem has the ability to revoke, recover, inherit, funds in existing UTXOs.

Fully Decentralized Protocol

Anyone can create one and have complete, self sovereign control over it without permission to do so. All costs to create an ID go to miners, stakers, and ID referrers. VerusIDs are:

• Revocable -- each ID includes a revocation authority, which defaults to the identity self, and which has the permission to revoke the identity, which creates a valid transaction that, once mined into a block, prevents the identity from being used to spend or sign until it is recovered, effectively freezing all of its funds, for example, in the case of key theft.

• Recoverable -- each ID also includes a separate recovery authority, which also defaults to self, and which can recover the identity through redefining its primary state and the recovery state as well, though it cannot modify the revocation state, or vice versa, unless they are both controlled by the same underlying authority.

• Private - Each ID contains a set of zero-knowledge private addresses, which can be used as messaging, financial, or voting endpoints, and each ID also contains a content map of key-value hashes, intended to be used alongside applications and various identity policies to provide everything from private yet selectively provable claims and attestations to selectively provable components of a strong passport, attested to with a quantum secure signature when that is available.

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