Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 281. (Read 3314316 times)

   Developers at Tari Labs will work on a Lightning Network router implementation that supports both Bitcoin and Monero

What is Tari?

Tari is a decentralised assets protocol that is going to be built on top of Monero. Think of it as something like coloured coins or CounterParty, but for Monero and a lot more scalable (ie. not using an embedded consensus mechanism).
How is it built "on top of Monero"?

Tari will have a native token, like CounterParty, but it will operate as a merge-mined sidechain. Miners will be able to earn Tari block reward and fees as they mine Monero. In addition to binding itself to Monero's security model, Tari will also support atomic swaps between itself and Monero.
Who is building it?

Everyone! Tari will be an open-source project very much in the spirit of Monero, to the point of reusing a lot of the patterns we've developed for Monero over the years. However, it will initially be a little bit more centralised than Monero, which is fine as it is a layer 2 project that can afford to experiment a little without impacting on the purity of Monero's robustness and decentralisation.

This early form of centralisation comes in the form of the Tari organisation, which will act as a steward of the protocol in much the same way as the Monero Core Team acts as a steward of Monero. However, we have also formed Tari Labs based out of Johannesburg, South Africa, and we are in the process of hiring researchers, developers, and others, who will be among the first contributors to Tari.

That said, we do not believe that Tari Labs should be the sole owners of the ever-evolving design and architecture of the protocol, nor should they be the decision makers. They are merely a bunch of clever people working alongside anyone in the community that wishes to contribute to the Tari protocol.

If you would like to work at Tari Labs, and live in South Africa or are willing to relocate, then please do look at the available positions on the Tari website. Please note that on principle Tari Labs will not employ existing Monero contributors, so as not to place a drain on the relatively limited developer resources available to the Monero project.
You keep saying "we"...who is "we"?

Tari has been founded by myself (Riccardo Spagni), Naveen Jain, and Dan Teree. You can read more about us, as well as some of the other contributors to this very nascent project, on the About page on the Tari website.
So you're doing an ICO?

I will slay you where you stand.
Well then how will you pay for this?

I've decided to sell my watch and my power glove, obviously:-P

Seriously, though, Tari is backed by some of the world's leading top-tier VC firms, such as Redpoint, Trinity Ventures, Canaan Partners, Slow Ventures, Aspect Ventures, as well as some of the leading blockchain VC firms.
How does this benefit Monero?

Our investors believe in what we want to build with Tari, but they also believe in Monero as the world's leading private digital currency, and also as a powerful base layer upon which projects can be built. Because of this, we have capital that we are using to not only build the Tari protocol, but to enhance aspects of the Monero software stack and ecosystem.

Consider three examples of areas the Tari Labs team will be focusing on over the next year:

    Researchers will work with the Monero Research Lab to identify ways to improve Monero's block and transaction propagation. This will increase on-chain scalability for Monero, as well as speed up initial syncing of nodes. Tari Labs developers will also assist the Monero development community by implementing some or all of these improvements.

    Tari Labs developers will work with Tari Labs researchers to create and implement an atomic swap mechanism that will initially allow for atomic swaps between Monero and other cryptocurrencies, such as Litecoin, but will also be used later on for atomic swaps between Monero and assets issued on Tari.

    Developers at Tari Labs will work on a Lightning Network router implementation that supports both Bitcoin and Monero, allowing Monero to benefit from the added off-chain privacy that LN provides.

In addition, Tari has plans for ways we can more directly support Monero development in the future through the creation of development hubs around the world, where people will be able to apply for grants that will let them work on Monero or Tari for a period of time. This concept, whilst still in its infancy and quite far away from inception, will provide people with the opportunity to contribute to the Monero codebase, research, and ecosystem on a more regular, full-time basis.
Does this mean fluffypony is leaving Monero?!

No, not at all! In order to free up time for me to work on Tari I have taken two major steps in my professional life:

    I have stepped down as CEO of MyMonero, and have handed the reins to the very competent Paul Shapiro (aka endogenic). We are in the process of the last few bits being totally handed over, after which I will be non-operational on MyMonero.

    I have stepped down as CEO of GloBee, and have appointed a new CEO to replace me, Felix Honigwachs. Felix comes with a wealth of experience, having been a senior manager at Microsoft and at SAP, and more recently having been the founder and now-former CEO of one of the most influential healthcare software startups in South Africa. I have already become largely non-operational on GloBee as Felix has slid nicely into the role, even taking over my office and making me move to our management company's offices next door;)

That said, over the past year I've been reducing my roles within the Monero project itself, in order to ensure I am never a bus factor. Members of the community have stepped up to fill these roles, including Monero Core Team member luigi1111 taking over as lead maintainer on the Monero website and Monero GUI repos. I am determined to further reduce any reliance on me over time by continuing this trend, with an eventual goal of handing off the task of lead maintainer on the Monero CLI repo once we have added full support for deterministic builds.

My role in Monero will then solely focus on advocacy for Monero and privacy, technical advice and counsel to the contributors and maintainers where necessary, and I will continue to serve on the Core Team for as long as I am required and able to. In addition, I will also be spending a lot more time on the Monero Enterprise Alliance, which I hope to one day meme into existence.
What technologies will Tari be buit in?

While some of the moving parts will be determined among the development community as it comes together, one thing we have already decided on is to use Rust as our language of choice for the Tari protocol software. The decision to use Rust is partly because we believe that Rust is an incredibly capable language that is purpose-built for lower-level high performance software like this, but largely because we want to make sure that Tari does not drain any of the existing Monero contributor support.
This all sounds exciting...where do I sign up?

As mentioned before, we're reusing a lot of the patterns that have served the Monero community well over the past four years, some of which I'm directly responsible for and was quite surprised they worked at all;) The best places to join in the discussion and get involved with the burgeoning community are at:

    The Tari subreddit
    Tari IRC channels on Freenode, including:
        #tari
        #tari-dev
        #tari-research
    The Tari Telegram group

Monero will need to definitively put to rest the perception -- whether accurate or not -- that Monero may have a bloat problem, in terms of blockchain size and/or memory usage.  This perception has dogged Monero from the beginning and it does Monero no favors.

nobody really knows. but doesnt seem like market overall is bullish at the moment.

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Monero keeps in the channel more or less... but i still dont get it why we are not rated higher in price... so many shitcoins do better. Its like people lost interest in monero, even with the ledger and bulletproofs comming , they are not interested it looks. i would start selling some coins at 1000 usd , im starting to think i should be happy with 500 usd a coin . any thaughts on this?

The next 2 weeks™ are critical

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I am excited if we get the same roller coaster as in September 2016 

Poloniex was first exchange that took Monero. Well after the one that was i think just temporary made to host Cryptonote coins. Since was brawest they deserve biggest Monero volume. When Monero was accepted to Mintpal, everyone expected huge volume there, but it seems Mintpal users are more conservative.

Poloniex was first exchange that took Monero. Well after the one that was i think just temporary made to host Cryptonote coins. Since was brawest they deserve biggest Monero volume. When Monero was accepted to Mintpal, everyone expected huge volume there, but it seems Mintpal users are more conservative.