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Firo

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Firo is a digital currency with a focus on setting privacy standards.

One of the most groundbreaking academic developments in Bitcoin research.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • ZA flagSouth Africa

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  • Mac
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  • Linux
  • Flathub
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  • Developed by

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  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  751 Stars
  •  361 Forks
  •  40 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 12, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Firo, and it has gotten 7 likes

Firo was added to AlternativeTo by andres57sc on Jul 31, 2017 and this page was last updated Mar 6, 2024. Firo is sometimes referred to as Zcoin.

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andres57sc
Aug 10, 2017
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Great annoncoin zerocoin protocol combined with MTP is just superb tech specs.

I think the devs team is doing much to make this project a reference in its category.

What is Firo?

Firo formerly known as Zcoin, is a privacy focused cryptocurrency that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs which allows users to destroy coins and then redeem them later for brand new ones with no transaction history.

Our research created the Lelantus privacy protocol which supports high anonymity sets without requiring trusted setup and relying only on standard cryptographic assumptions. The Lelantus cryptographic library was audited by Trail of Bits and funded by Firo's CCS. Lelantus' cryptography was also audited by ABDK Consulting.

Firo also utilises Dandelion++ to obscure the originating IP of transactions without relying on any external services such as Tor/i2P.

Firo developed and utilizes Merkle Tree Proofs (MTP) as its Proof-of-Work algorithm which aims to be memory hard with fast verification to encourage mining using commodity hardware.

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