Firo Frontier · November 5, 2025

Firo Frontier provides a brief summary of what's been happening in Firo over the past few weeks.

Firo Turns 9!

It has been nine exciting years of building financial privacy, innovating with Lelantus Spark, and pushing forward private digital cash.

FIRO was the first coin to launch ZK privacy on mainnet (1 month before $ZEC), first coin to deploy Dandelion++ live, held the first political elections on blockchain in 2018 and is still the only coin with private instant transactions. $FIRO 9 years and still building!
None of this would be possible without the support of our amazing community, both old and new, and the broader privacy ecosystem that stands alongside us. Thank you for being part of this journey Firofam.
More info on Firo turning 9
More info on X here

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 coming in November.

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

Cedric Crispin Mining pool enables Spark payouts and Spark Name support

Cedric-Crispin.com a Firo mining pool has enabled the ability to receive payouts to Spark addresses and to use Spark Names to setup your username on their site. This will add additional privacy when mining your Firo! Just enter your Spark address or Spark Name instead of a transparent Firo address on the Cedric-Crispin site when setting up your mining account.

DataVEX now Supports Firo masternodes

DataVEX, a new masternode hosting provider, has added Firo to its list of supported masternodes. You can now easily deploy and manage Firo masternodes - no technical skills required. This makes it simple for anyone to participate in securing the Firo network without needing to handle server setups or command-line configurations.

Reminder - iNodez service shutting down

Just a reminder - iNodez has made the decision to shut down for good on December 31 - so make sure you withdraw your FIRO from their site as soon as possible. Thanks again to iNodez for the amazing service they have offered over the years.

Congratulations to @nodehubio

Congratulations to Nodehub for achieving a huge milestone of having 1000 Firo masternodes running on their servers. Thanks for being an important part of the $FIRO ecosystem!
NodeHub has been powering the $FIRO network with stability, one click setup, and high uptime masternode hosting at affordable prices since 2018.
Of course - do your own research here
and more info on X here

ECC 2025 Speaker Spotlight: @ReubenYap

Firo's own Reuben Yap took the stage at the recent Electronic Cash Conference - in Barcelona, Spain - on October 4-5, 2025 to speak about the “On-chain Privacy Landscape”. It was a deep dive into where on-chain privacy stands today, the challenges it faces, and where the future of privacy tech is headed.
More info at: ecashconference.com

FIRO at the Borneo Blockchain Convention 2025

$FIRO was present at the Borneo Blockchain Convention in Kuching, Sarawak. Both Poramin Insom and Reuben Yap were among the speakers at the event. It was a great two day event with talks, panel discussions, and Firo's booth crew sharing Firo’s privacy technology with students, builders, and blockchain enthusiasts. There were meaningful conversations, and the Firo project met new faces, and helped more people discover the importance of privacy in the crypto space.

A big thank you to everyone who dropped by our booth and engaged with us - your curiosity and support keep us moving forward.
Borneo Blockchain

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 and more.
You can catch up on dev progress details here

Firo v0.14.15.0 Mandatory Released

This is a mandatory release for all wallets, node. masternode operators and must update before block 1,205,100 (approximately 19 November 2025).
This release also introduces the ability to transfer registered Spark Names to other Spark addresses, whether your own or third party's. It also reduces the GPU memory consumption, allowing 8 GB graphic cards to mine again. Additionally, Sigma stripping is introduced, Spark spend limits increase, and a new loading screen is introduced.

Github Firo version v0.14.15.0

Other News

• Real-world adoption in action in Syria!

A pharmacy in Syria is now accepting payments with FIRO!
Check out this video of an actual transaction taking place. fironews-video

• Privacy Roundtable discussions - Sept 17

Discussions on X with PIVX, BasicSwapDex, Particl, plus a guest appearance from MeileDVPN.
Catch the full podcast - featuring MeileDVPN, where we discuss about VPNs and Privacy. Watch it on x here

• Privacy Roundtable discussion - Oct 29

Discussion on X with PIVX, BasicSwapDex, Particle and a guest appearance from Ghost Privacy.
Catch the full podcast - featuring Ghost Privacy, where we discuss Are Privacy Coins Without Default Privacy Truly Private?. Watch it on x here

• Thank you, Power Up Privacy!

$FIRO has received another generous donation of 290 $XMR from Power Up Privacy to support our ongoing development and ecosystem growth.
This continuous contribution reflects the recognition of Firo’s role as a key innovator in the privacy space.
A special thank you as well to @cypher_stack for their constant work in maintaining our infrastructure and wallets. Read more here

• The Coin Republic podcast

The Coin Republic brings you an interview with Reuben Yap on why privacy coins protect our sovereignty, how FIRO is built for this mission, and why missing out could cost you. Watch the interview here
and more info available on X: here

• Reuben on Naomi Egbe's X Space

Discussions about whether blockchains can be fast and scalable at the same time. Watch it here

• Market recognition of Privacy coins

In recent weeks the crypto market seems to be recognizing the value of privacy coins - including Firo.

• Happy Birthday Aram Jivanyan!

Aram Jivanyan is one of the key people behind Firo’s Lelantus Spark. Aram is not only a brilliant cryptographer, an iron man competitor but also one of the most principled and genuine person we know.
Happy birthday Aram!

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