Firo Frontier Newsletter - Vol. 2 No. 12
Firo Frontier · September 7, 2025
Firo Frontier provides a brief summary of what's been happening in Firo over the past few weeks.
Spark Name transfers coming soon!
Spark Names officially launched on May 28, 2025!
Spark Name ownership transfers - plus other Spark Name improvements - will be coming in the next hard fork estimated to be at the end of September.
If you haven’t watched them before:
You can see how Spark Names work on YouTube.
Or watch a video about Firo’s human-readable addresses - here
Or read more about Spark Names here or here
2025 Community Fund Committee (CFC) Election concluded
The Community Fund Committee (CFC) election has concluded on the Firo Forum. Our new CFC committee for the upcoming year are: firofan, rehrar, jagmot, fiendish, nrsimha, ddadybayo and centaurea. We would also like to thank the outgoing CFC members devwarrior, rasikhmorani and sproxet for their great service to the Firo community!
ZergPool enables Spark payouts
ZergPool a Firo mining pool has enabled the ability to receive payouts to Spark addresses for added privacy! Just enter your Spark address instead of a transparent Firo address.
iNodez shutting down
iNodez has made the decision to shutter so make sure you withdraw your FIRO from there as soon as possible. They close for good on the 31 December! Thank you to iNodez for the amazing service they have offered over the years.
Biconomy offers up to 50% APR for Firo deposits (90 days)!
Biconomy.com Earn - #Firo Locked Products: Enjoy Up to 50% APR in Rewards!
Biconomy Earn is pleased to announce a Locked Products update on @firoorg. Subscribe to #FIRO on Biconomy.com Earn Locked Products during the Promotion Period.
As always, do your own research and manage risk wisely.
Biconomy is one of the few exchanges that support direct withdrawals to Spark addresses.
Was Monero under a 51% Attack?
We dive into Qubic's claims of an attack, why it was possible, Monero's plans to mitigate it and how solutions like Firo's hybrid PoW/Masternode mechanism can reduce the threats posed by being pure #PoW.
Watch now: on Youtube
ECC 2025 Speaker Spotlight: @ReubenYap
Our own Reuben Yap has been invited to speak at the upcoming Electronic Cash Conference - in Barcelona, Spain - on October 4-5, 2025.
Catch him this October at Electronic Cash Conference 2025 in Barcelona — a premier gathering for builders, thinkers, and innovators in the crypto space.
More info at: ecashconference.com
Updates from the Firo core developers
Weekly Firo development updates are live on the Firo forums!
The Firo core developers continue to be busy building crypto’s best privacy protocols - and coming soon: Spark Assets on Testnet, Spark Name ownership transfers plus other Spark Name improvements, a change to the mining DAG file size - fixed for 8GB GPUs, and view key support for Stack wallet.
You can catch up on dev progress details here
Other News
Firo onboarding education in Syria!
A community member in Syria has begun work in setting up an office to educate and onboard people to Firo! He also received donations from a local Firofam to buy stickers and banners which are coming soon.
You can view a brief video of the office on the Telegram FiroNews Channel
Latest Privacy Roundtable: Online Safety Act and Cubic
If you missed the latest Privacy Roundtable discussion on August 12, 2025: Online Safety Act and Cubic
The recording can be caught on X here
and the full recording is now on our YouTube channel
here
Did you know?
More information about Firo is available at: https://firo.org
The Firo Telegram news channel is: https://t.me/fironews
Archive copies of previous Firo Frontier Newsletters can be found at:
https://newsletter.firo.org/archive