v1.2.4-2

Announcing Verus v1.2.4-2 - CRITICAL UPDATE TO PREVENT POTENTIAL PBaaS, CROSS-CHAIN OR FORK ISSUES

UPDATE TO v1.2.4-2 OR GREATER IS RECOMMENDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF YOUR NODE FALLING OUT OF SYNC WITH THE MAIN CHAIN OR DELAYS ON CROSS-CHAIN NOTARIZATION FOR PBaaS CHAINS AFTER A REORG

v1.2.4-2 Addresses an issue that occurred on the vARRR chain with overly aggressive memory caching of blockchain information that has the potential to cause a PBaaS chain node to fall out of sync. It also fixes another issue that can sometimes delay the resolution of cross-chain notarizations if a fork on a PBaaS chain forces a cross-chain challenge competition.

In addition, v1.2.4-2 adds checking and will throw errors if the cli command sendrawtransaction is used and the transaction being sent is recognized as having an absurdly high fee payment. As there are transactions you could make where this check might still allow an excessively high fee to be sent, this is intended to help prevent simple errors on typical send types of transactions, such as forgetting a change output. Even after this update, please always double check that your transactions have appropriate change outputs before using sendrawtransaction.

v1.2.4-2 HAS NO PROTOCOL CHANGES

General VerusId, Verus DeFI, and Public Blockchains as a Service (PBAAS) Capabilities

• On-chain Self Sovereign, Provable Identities, NFTs, and Individual or Organizational Profiles
• On-chain Launches of Token, Centralized Currency, and Liquidity Basket AMMs
• On-chain Launches and Merge Mining of Independent, Connected, Interoperable Blockchains without Programming

Verus ID and NFT Marketplace

Buy and sell VerusIDs on-chain, advertising your offer directly to the owner of an ID or NFT, or posting the sale of your NFT on the worldwide blockchain for all the world to see. Execute transactions in a completely decentralized way. Pay or offer to pay from a transparent or zero-knowledge private address, still auditable by you. Accept payment to either as well, and best of all, execute your transactions directly, peer-to-peer without any intermediary necessary. Don’t worry the on-chain model still makes room for owners to select and share proceeds with value added agents, marketing organizations, or other participants in a new economy of provable digital ownership. It’s the next step in the evolution of VerusID, the most powerful self-sovereign identity and secure storage model for funds in the digital world.

Verus Vault

With Verus Vault you can now protect funds on a VerusID, even from theft of a private key! If you lock your VerusID with Vault you cannot spend funds from that identity at all until it is again unlocked. While locked, you can still stake those same funds on the Verus network and earn by doing so. Of course, you can also still receive funds.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ENABLING REVOCATION, RECOVERY, AND ALL VERUS VAULT CAPABILITIES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ONE PRIMARY IDENTITY, AND AT LEAST ONE REVOCATION/RECOVERY ID CONFIGURED.

A locked VerusID can always be revoked and recovered by its revocation and recovery authority identities, which circumvents the lock. At the same time, anyone with only the primary keys, even a multisig of primary keys must first unlock, then wait for the predetermined unlock time before they can spend or access funds. This gives you, or maybe a company that specializes in watching the blockchain to whom you've assigned the revocation ID to revoke and recover whenever an unauthorized unlock occurs. That means that like a bank, setting a 24 hour unlock delay on your locked IDs actually provides the first decentralized solution to the infamous 5 dollar wrench attack.

In addition to a new level of blockchain protection and decentralized funds recovery, Verus Vault provides the same security for your IDs and NFTs as well as time locks for other purposes, such as vesting schedules, trusts, and inheritance. With Verus Vault, you can now protect and recover your funds, preserving all your assets and generational blockchain wealth from common forms of crypto loss or theft, no bank required.

New Verus Multicurrency, Multichain, DeFi Enabled Testnet

With an easy GUI for basic operations or command line for more advanced functions. Without any programming, you can now create new identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains for your business, your government, your projects, a worthy cause, your family, or your next decentralized application suite. Send currencies worldwide on the same chain, or across blockchains with ease. Even convert currencies to others on the network without an exchange by sending to yourself and converting along the way.

The new Verus testnet is a full-featured, intrinsically decentralized multi-chain blockchain platform with an unlimited number of identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains. It is accessible from the released versions of Verus Desktop and Verus CLI wallets, and it is the beginning of a new age in crypto. There are so many things you can do with Verus that you cannot with any other cryptocurrency platform, and you can try them all today.

As Verus PBaaS offers completely new capabilities that go beyond today’s decentralized platforms in many fundamental ways, the worldwide Verus community put its energy into creation, rather than convincing everyone that its capabilities are possible. Members across the Verus worldwide community have worked hard to make this all possible, and we are more than excited that you can now experience it firsthand. If you have an interest in the future of crypto, you owe it to yourself to learn about Verus, an unlimited scale, decentralized future with truth and privacy for all.

The Verus testnet, available in the Verus Desktop or cli wallets as the VRSCTEST coin, has the following capabilities, which to our knowledge are unique in crypto today.

Self sovereign, revocable, recoverable identities (currently on mainnet) VerusID

• Enables permissionless registration of friendly name strong identities and funds addresses that are simultaneously fully self-sovereign, revocable, and recoverable.

Staking-capable time locking and theft prevention (Verus Vault)

• Enables identities to be locked, preventing any funds under their control from being spent while locked, but still allowing seamless staking of funds. When locked, a user specifies an unlock delay, typically long enough to notice when someone who might have compromised a user’s keys would have to unlock the ID before spending. The only way to circumvent the unlock delay is to revoke and recover an ID. Users may also choose to create and use fresh private keys when unlocking an ID as well. This enables virtually theft proof workflow and a solution to inheritance, trusts, vesting schedules, the 5$ wrench attack, and identity theft. IDs may be used as friendly name cryptocurrency addresses for all currencies on all Verus PBaaS blockchains in the Verus network. The VerusID protocol is a protocol, which can also be implemented on non-Verus systems.

Multi-currency, user created, decentralized tokens and merge-mineable, interoperable blockchains without programming

• Enables any user with an ID to create their own token currency or even full fledged, multi-currency, ID-issuing 50% POW/50% POS, 51% hash attack resistant blockchain that can send and receive from the Verus chain which launched it. All PBaaS chains run from the same daemon, and projects may choose to join the worldwide Verus community in improving the daemon. In doing so, they will start with a complete, multi-currency, ID-capable blockchain with DeFi capabilities that is merge-mineable and stakeable with other blockchains in the Verus network.

Consensus integrated DeFi liquidity pools and fractional currency baskets

• Any ID owner may define Verus DeFi fractional basket currencies with one or more asset currencies backing the liquidity pool at a fractional percentage ranging from 5% to 100% backing. The Verus DeFi protocol ensures that all currency conversions that use a particular liquidity pool and are mined into one block are solved and priced simultaneously, addressing the problems of miner extracted value (MEV) and front-running, while providing fee-based DeFi integrated incentives to miners and stakers, ensuring smooth consensus operation and fee conversion capabilities by integrating DeFi liquidity pools directly into the consensus and cross-chain bridge protocols.

Simultaneous blockchain and blockchain liquidity pool launches

• Launch of a world class, worldwide, merge-mineable blockchain along with a fully decentralized or centralized “bridge” converter liquidity pool as part of defining a new blockchain. Bridge converter currencies have the same flexibility as other fractional 100% asset backed or partially asset backed currencies, but is bound to the launch of the new blockchain, runs on the new blockchain, and all fees generated via cross chain fee conversions or general use of the liquidity pool are earned on the new blockchain with no rent going back to the Verus blockchain, only seamless connectivity.

Blockchain-based, crowdfunding currency launches with minimum participation or automatic refunds, including for dual launches (blockchain and bridge)

• Set required minimum levels of worldwide participation in your preferred currencies on chain. If by the start time of your blockchain, minimums are not met, all participants will automatically get a refund of all of their pre-conversions, less the network fees. The launch options also provide for maximum participation in one or more currencies, pre-launch discounts, price neutral pre-allocations to select IDs that increase the fractional reserve ratio to issue currencies, similarly price neutral carve-outs of proceeds, and pre-launch discounts for early participants. Using Verus...

v1.2.4-2-testnet

Verus Desktop v1.2.4-2 with builds testnet-only pbaas support. The testnet version of Verus Desktop uses different settings and profiles and can be run alongside the mainnet version. See v1.2.4-2

Disclaimer

This is experimental and unfinished software. Use at your own risk! No warranty for any kind of damage!
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The enclosed copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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Avast and Kaspersky may flag the software as "not-a-virus" or "PUP". These are warnings that you are installing mining software, which may be installed by a third party to exploit your PC.
To find out more about the false positives, review the following resources:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bitcoinminer/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/not-a-virus/18015/

Verifying Downloads

A txt file containing the signer, standard sha256 file checksum, and signature, is included for each download. These packages have been signed with the identity "Verus Coin Foundation Releases@".

1. Extract downloaded archive
2. Verify signature for the extracted app or installer using the extracted textfile.

v1.2.4-1

Announcing Verus v1.2.4-1 - OPTIONAL UPDATE TO ADDRESS GUI DISPLAY ISSUE

UPDATE TO v1.2.4 OR GREATER IS RECOMMENDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE DUE TO NETWORK DOS MITIGATION AND IMPROVED EARNING POTENTIAL VIA PERFORMANCE, THOUGH KEY PROTOCOL CHANGES ACTIVATE AT THE FOLLOWING BLOCKS ON THE FOLLOWING CHAINS:

Approximate time: Fri Sep 20 05:00:00 PM UTC 2024
Fri Sep 20 10:00:00 AM PDT 2024
Time: 1726851600
VRSC Mainnet Height: 3227685
vARRR Height: 238210
vDEX Height: 68730

v1.2.4-1 reintroduces previously deprecated Sprout private address functionality associated with reading information. This deprecation introduced a display issue with the GUI that would result in continued function and balance reporting, but with an incorrect transaction display, showing zero transactions.

As long as you do not change the default notification oracle for your Verus nodes, nodes older than v1.2.4 running on the Verus blockchain will pause and wait for upgrade just before the activation blocks above. If you do not have time to update before activation, you should be able to simply close, upgrade, and continue when you are able.

General VerusId, Verus DeFI, and Public Blockchains as a Service (PBAAS) Capabilities

• On-chain Self Sovereign, Provable Identities, NFTs, and Individual or Organizational Profiles
• On-chain Launches of Token, Centralized Currency, and Liquidity Basket AMMs
• On-chain Launches and Merge Mining of Independent, Connected, Interoperable Blockchains without Programming

Verus ID and NFT Marketplace

Buy and sell VerusIDs on-chain, advertising your offer directly to the owner of an ID or NFT, or posting the sale of your NFT on the worldwide blockchain for all the world to see. Execute transactions in a completely decentralized way. Pay or offer to pay from a transparent or zero-knowledge private address, still auditable by you. Accept payment to either as well, and best of all, execute your transactions directly, peer-to-peer without any intermediary necessary. Don’t worry the on-chain model still makes room for owners to select and share proceeds with value added agents, marketing organizations, or other participants in a new economy of provable digital ownership. It’s the next step in the evolution of VerusID, the most powerful self-sovereign identity and secure storage model for funds in the digital world.

Verus Vault

With Verus Vault you can now protect funds on a VerusID, even from theft of a private key! If you lock your VerusID with Vault you cannot spend funds from that identity at all until it is again unlocked. While locked, you can still stake those same funds on the Verus network and earn by doing so. Of course, you can also still receive funds.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ENABLING REVOCATION, RECOVERY, AND ALL VERUS VAULT CAPABILITIES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ONE PRIMARY IDENTITY, AND AT LEAST ONE REVOCATION/RECOVERY ID CONFIGURED.

A locked VerusID can always be revoked and recovered by its revocation and recovery authority identities, which circumvents the lock. At the same time, anyone with only the primary keys, even a multisig of primary keys must first unlock, then wait for the predetermined unlock time before they can spend or access funds. This gives you, or maybe a company that specializes in watching the blockchain to whom you've assigned the revocation ID to revoke and recover whenever an unauthorized unlock occurs. That means that like a bank, setting a 24 hour unlock delay on your locked IDs actually provides the first decentralized solution to the infamous 5 dollar wrench attack.

In addition to a new level of blockchain protection and decentralized funds recovery, Verus Vault provides the same security for your IDs and NFTs as well as time locks for other purposes, such as vesting schedules, trusts, and inheritance. With Verus Vault, you can now protect and recover your funds, preserving all your assets and generational blockchain wealth from common forms of crypto loss or theft, no bank required.

New Verus Multicurrency, Multichain, DeFi Enabled Testnet

With an easy GUI for basic operations or command line for more advanced functions. Without any programming, you can now create new identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains for your business, your government, your projects, a worthy cause, your family, or your next decentralized application suite. Send currencies worldwide on the same chain, or across blockchains with ease. Even convert currencies to others on the network without an exchange by sending to yourself and converting along the way.

The new Verus testnet is a full-featured, intrinsically decentralized multi-chain blockchain platform with an unlimited number of identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains. It is accessible from the released versions of Verus Desktop and Verus CLI wallets, and it is the beginning of a new age in crypto. There are so many things you can do with Verus that you cannot with any other cryptocurrency platform, and you can try them all today.

As Verus PBaaS offers completely new capabilities that go beyond today’s decentralized platforms in many fundamental ways, the worldwide Verus community put its energy into creation, rather than convincing everyone that its capabilities are possible. Members across the Verus worldwide community have worked hard to make this all possible, and we are more than excited that you can now experience it firsthand. If you have an interest in the future of crypto, you owe it to yourself to learn about Verus, an unlimited scale, decentralized future with truth and privacy for all.

The Verus testnet, available in the Verus Desktop or cli wallets as the VRSCTEST coin, has the following capabilities, which to our knowledge are unique in crypto today.

Self sovereign, revocable, recoverable identities (currently on mainnet) VerusID

• Enables permissionless registration of friendly name strong identities and funds addresses that are simultaneously fully self-sovereign, revocable, and recoverable.

Staking-capable time locking and theft prevention (Verus Vault)

• Enables identities to be locked, preventing any funds under their control from being spent while locked, but still allowing seamless staking of funds. When locked, a user specifies an unlock delay, typically long enough to notice when someone who might have compromised a user’s keys would have to unlock the ID before spending. The only way to circumvent the unlock delay is to revoke and recover an ID. Users may also choose to create and use fresh private keys when unlocking an ID as well. This enables virtually theft proof workflow and a solution to inheritance, trusts, vesting schedules, the 5$ wrench attack, and identity theft. IDs may be used as friendly name cryptocurrency addresses for all currencies on all Verus PBaaS blockchains in the Verus network. The VerusID protocol is a protocol, which can also be implemented on non-Verus systems.

Multi-currency, user created, decentralized tokens and merge-mineable, interoperable blockchains without programming

• Enables any user with an ID to create their own token currency or even full fledged, multi-currency, ID-issuing 50% POW/50% POS, 51% hash attack resistant blockchain that can send and receive from the Verus chain which launched it. All PBaaS chains run from the same daemon, and projects may choose to join the worldwide Verus community in improving the daemon. In doing so, they will start with a complete, multi-currency, ID-capable blockchain with DeFi capabilities that is merge-mineable and stakeable with other blockchains in the Verus network.

Consensus integrated DeFi liquidity pools and fractional currency baskets

• Any ID owner may define Verus DeFi fractional basket currencies with one or more asset currencies backing the liquidity pool at a fractional percentage ranging from 5% to 100% backing. The Verus DeFi protocol ensures that all currency conversions that use a particular liquidity pool and are mined into one block are solved and priced simultaneously, addressing the problems of miner extracted value (MEV) and front-running, while providing fee-based DeFi integrated incentives to miners and stakers, ensuring smooth consensus operation and fee conversion capabilities by integrating DeFi liquidity pools directly into the consensus and cross-chain bridge protocols.

Simultaneous blockchain and blockchain liquidity pool launches

• Launch of a world class, worldwide, merge-mineable blockchain along with a fully decentralized or centralized “bridge” converter liquidity pool as part of defining a new blockchain. Bridge converter currencies have the same flexibility as other fractional 100% asset backed or partially asset backed currencies, but is bound to the launch of the new blockchain, runs on the new blockchain, and all fees generated via cross chain fee conversions or general use of the liquidity pool are earned on the new blockchain with no rent going back to the Verus blockchain, only seamless connectivity.

Blockchain-based, crowdfunding currency launches with minimum participation or automatic refunds, including for dual launches (blockchain and bridge)

• Set required minimum levels of worldwide participation in your preferred currencies on chain. If by the start time of your blockchain, minimums are not met, all participants will automatically get a refund of all of their pre-conversions, less the network fees. The launch options also provide for maximum participation in one or more currencies, pre-launch discounts, price neutral pre-allocations to select IDs that increase the fractional reserve ratio to issue currencies, similarly price neutral carve-outs of proceeds, and pre-launch discounts for early participants. Using VerusIDs, launches can also include vesting schedules in the pre-allocations as well.

An interoperable, multichain network for new use cases and unlimited sc...

v1.2.4-1-testnet

Verus Desktop v1.2.4-1 with builds testnet-only pbaas support. The testnet version of Verus Desktop uses different settings and profiles and can be run alongside the mainnet version. See v1.2.4-1

Disclaimer

This is experimental and unfinished software. Use at your own risk! No warranty for any kind of damage!
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The enclosed copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

MacOS: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/76d58af9bcc5d070d88f5cc66dcb0f3a1b6f6f65866a676f9b3d42d2effb2798/detection
Linux-x86-64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9e74f26676335a165481f9b6cc7b17d2a91ebdca7a6bb3b5ef38e2e05ac4a1f9/detection
Linux-ARM64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7e76e22b95cf8a78dac04caece14d54ddacbbe5785f9958c5ec13d13371c5b72/detection
Windows: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5a13d05b2c88e7f3f3c61cdc40fd3182abed6d2ed38a098bef4cb3fae55d1780/detection

Avast and Kaspersky may flag the software as "not-a-virus" or "PUP". These are warnings that you are installing mining software, which may be installed by a third party to exploit your PC.
To find out more about the false positives, review the following resources:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bitcoinminer/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/not-a-virus/18015/

Verifying Downloads

A txt file containing the signer, standard sha256 file checksum, and signature, is included for each download. These packages have been signed with the identity "Verus Coin Foundation Releases@".

1. Extract downloaded archive
2. Verify signature for the extracted app or installer using the extracted textfile.

v1.2.4

Announcing Verus v1.2.4 - MANDATORY, CRITICAL UPDATE FOR ALL MAINNET AND TESTNET BLOCKCHAINS

v1.2.4 INCLUDES NETWORK DOS VULNERABILITY MITIGATIONS PORTED FROM RECENT ZCASH UPDATES, MINOR PROTOCOL FIXES, SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE AND CACHING IMPROVEMENTS FOR FASTER SYNC AND BETTER RPC RESPONSIVENESS, AN ETHEREUM CROSS-CHAIN FEE REDUCTION, AND INCREASED ERROR REPORTING FOR CLI AND RPC COMMANDS.

UPDATE IS RECOMMENDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE DUE TO NETWORK DOS MITIGATION AND IMPROVED EARNING POTENTIAL VIA PERFORMANCE, THOUGH KEY PROTOCOL CHANGES ACTIVATE AT THE FOLLOWING BLOCKS ON THE FOLLOWING CHAINS:

Approximate time: Fri Sep 20 05:00:00 PM UTC 2024
Fri Sep 20 10:00:00 AM PDT 2024
Time: 1726851600
VRSC Mainnet Height: 3227685
vARRR Height: 238210
vDEX Height: 68730

For CLI users who also run Bridgekeeper, it is important to upgrade your Verus Bridgekeeper software before the Verus mainnet block above. This version includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Mitigation of two published network vulnerabilities that have the potential for DOS attacks and which were previously shared with Zcash and Bitcoin. These fixes have been ported from a recent Zcash update.

• Improved synchronization performance and RPC responsiveness. In some parts of the blockchain and in steady state operation, RPC response times and synchronization speed are significantly improved, which can potentially result in higher earnings whether staking or mining.

• Fixes causes of two separate events involving PBaaS chain reorgs that caused cross-chain or block progression delays, and in one case, some stuck nodes on the vDEX chain. One of these issues will be fixed immediately, and the remainder with minor protocol changes that will take effect at the blocks above.

• Within one day of the activation blocks above, sends from the Verus chain to the Ethereum chain will be lower cost when GAS remains as low as it recently has on Ethereum.

• Includes RPC fixes for data storage as well as improved error reporting, more flexible options for alternate data directories, and miscellaneous additional improvements.

• New verusd startup option -notarydatadir= to specify the data directory of connected chains.

As long as you do not change the default notification oracle for your Verus nodes, nodes older than v1.2.4 running on the Verus blockchain will pause and wait for upgrade just before the activation block. If you do not have time to update before activation, you should be able to simply close, upgrade, and continue when you are able.

General VerusId, Verus DeFI, and Public Blockchains as a Service (PBAAS) Capabilities

• On-chain Self Sovereign, Provable Identities, NFTs, and Individual or Organizational Profiles
• On-chain Launches of Token, Centralized Currency, and Liquidity Basket AMMs
• On-chain Launches and Merge Mining of Independent, Connected, Interoperable Blockchains without Programming

Verus ID and NFT Marketplace

Buy and sell VerusIDs on-chain, advertising your offer directly to the owner of an ID or NFT, or posting the sale of your NFT on the worldwide blockchain for all the world to see. Execute transactions in a completely decentralized way. Pay or offer to pay from a transparent or zero-knowledge private address, still auditable by you. Accept payment to either as well, and best of all, execute your transactions directly, peer-to-peer without any intermediary necessary. Don’t worry the on-chain model still makes room for owners to select and share proceeds with value added agents, marketing organizations, or other participants in a new economy of provable digital ownership. It’s the next step in the evolution of VerusID, the most powerful self-sovereign identity and secure storage model for funds in the digital world.

Verus Vault

With Verus Vault you can now protect funds on a VerusID, even from theft of a private key! If you lock your VerusID with Vault you cannot spend funds from that identity at all until it is again unlocked. While locked, you can still stake those same funds on the Verus network and earn by doing so. Of course, you can also still receive funds.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ENABLING REVOCATION, RECOVERY, AND ALL VERUS VAULT CAPABILITIES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ONE PRIMARY IDENTITY, AND AT LEAST ONE REVOCATION/RECOVERY ID CONFIGURED.

A locked VerusID can always be revoked and recovered by its revocation and recovery authority identities, which circumvents the lock. At the same time, anyone with only the primary keys, even a multisig of primary keys must first unlock, then wait for the predetermined unlock time before they can spend or access funds. This gives you, or maybe a company that specializes in watching the blockchain to whom you've assigned the revocation ID to revoke and recover whenever an unauthorized unlock occurs. That means that like a bank, setting a 24 hour unlock delay on your locked IDs actually provides the first decentralized solution to the infamous 5 dollar wrench attack.

In addition to a new level of blockchain protection and decentralized funds recovery, Verus Vault provides the same security for your IDs and NFTs as well as time locks for other purposes, such as vesting schedules, trusts, and inheritance. With Verus Vault, you can now protect and recover your funds, preserving all your assets and generational blockchain wealth from common forms of crypto loss or theft, no bank required.

New Verus Multicurrency, Multichain, DeFi Enabled Testnet

With an easy GUI for basic operations or command line for more advanced functions. Without any programming, you can now create new identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains for your business, your government, your projects, a worthy cause, your family, or your next decentralized application suite. Send currencies worldwide on the same chain, or across blockchains with ease. Even convert currencies to others on the network without an exchange by sending to yourself and converting along the way.

The new Verus testnet is a full-featured, intrinsically decentralized multi-chain blockchain platform with an unlimited number of identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains. It is accessible from the released versions of Verus Desktop and Verus CLI wallets, and it is the beginning of a new age in crypto. There are so many things you can do with Verus that you cannot with any other cryptocurrency platform, and you can try them all today.

As Verus PBaaS offers completely new capabilities that go beyond today’s decentralized platforms in many fundamental ways, the worldwide Verus community put its energy into creation, rather than convincing everyone that its capabilities are possible. Members across the Verus worldwide community have worked hard to make this all possible, and we are more than excited that you can now experience it firsthand. If you have an interest in the future of crypto, you owe it to yourself to learn about Verus, an unlimited scale, decentralized future with truth and privacy for all.

The Verus testnet, available in the Verus Desktop or cli wallets as the VRSCTEST coin, has the following capabilities, which to our knowledge are unique in crypto today.

Self sovereign, revocable, recoverable identities (currently on mainnet) VerusID

• Enables permissionless registration of friendly name strong identities and funds addresses that are simultaneously fully self-sovereign, revocable, and recoverable.

Staking-capable time locking and theft prevention (Verus Vault)

• Enables identities to be locked, preventing any funds under their control from being spent while locked, but still allowing seamless staking of funds. When locked, a user specifies an unlock delay, typically long enough to notice when someone who might have compromised a user’s keys would have to unlock the ID before spending. The only way to circumvent the unlock delay is to revoke and recover an ID. Users may also choose to create and use fresh private keys when unlocking an ID as well. This enables virtually theft proof workflow and a solution to inheritance, trusts, vesting schedules, the 5$ wrench attack, and identity theft. IDs may be used as friendly name cryptocurrency addresses for all currencies on all Verus PBaaS blockchains in the Verus network. The VerusID protocol is a protocol, which can also be implemented on non-Verus systems.

Multi-currency, user created, decentralized tokens and merge-mineable, interoperable blockchains without programming

• Enables any user with an ID to create their own token currency or even full fledged, multi-currency, ID-issuing 50% POW/50% POS, 51% hash attack resistant blockchain that can send and receive from the Verus chain which launched it. All PBaaS chains run from the same daemon, and projects may choose to join the worldwide Verus community in improving the daemon. In doing so, they will start with a complete, multi-currency, ID-capable blockchain with DeFi capabilities that is merge-mineable and stakeable with other blockchains in the Verus network.

Consensus integrated DeFi liquidity pools and fractional currency baskets

• Any ID owner may define Verus DeFi fractional basket currencies with one or more asset currencies backing the liquidity pool at a fractional percentage ranging from 5% to 100% backing. The Verus DeFi protocol ensures that all currency conversions that use a particular liquidity pool and are mined into one block are solved and priced simultaneously, addressing the problems of miner extracted value (MEV) and front-running, while providing fee-based DeFi integrated incentives to miners and stakers, ensuring smooth consensus operation and fee conversion capabilities by integrating DeFi liquidity pools directly into the consensus and cross-chain bridge protocols.

Simultaneous blockchain and blockchain liquidity pool launches

• Launch of a world class, worldwide, merge-mineable b...

v1.2.4-testnet

Verus Desktop v1.2.4 with builds testnet-only pbaas support. The testnet version of Verus Desktop uses different settings and profiles and can be run alongside the mainnet version. See v1.2.4

Disclaimer

This is experimental and unfinished software. Use at your own risk! No warranty for any kind of damage!
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The enclosed copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

MacOS: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d5489ba6f3233eea93bca36c2dd14088563b14a571fe9997704146c571c6aa1a/detection
Linux-x86-64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d096f0d80d661aa397d1424498016a568911b2ea08c74cb24e3da25eb105219c/detection
Linux-ARM64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e2f8383ef5b3265d488a1f650bc43c8966595e9589e9ec72a8e879ab5790b11d/detection
Windows: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d81d0167406c70bfa9c29786db547298a5ca51fd84e47cde28b8f297c80bb0e2/detection

Avast and Kaspersky may flag the software as "not-a-virus" or "PUP". These are warnings that you are installing mining software, which may be installed by a third party to exploit your PC.
To find out more about the false positives, review the following resources:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bitcoinminer/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/not-a-virus/18015/

Verifying Downloads

A txt file containing the signer, standard sha256 file checksum, and signature, is included for each download. These packages have been signed with the identity "Verus Coin Foundation Releases@".

1. Extract downloaded archive
2. Verify signature for the extracted app or installer using the extracted textfile.

v1.2.3-7

Announcing Verus v1.2.3-7 - URGENT AND MANDATORY UPDATE FOR ALL MAINNET AND TESTNET BLOCKCHAINS

YESTERDAY AN ERROR WAS RECOGNIZED ON A NATI BASKET CONVERSION. IN RESPONSE, WE DISCOVERED AND FIXED AN ISSUE IN A LIBRARY WE HAVE USED FOR SOME TIME. THIS IS A MANDATORY UPDATE THAT WILL ACTIVATE ON VERUS MAINNET AT:

VERUS MAINNET BLOCK 3177557 - EXPECTED AT ~20:00 UTC ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 15TH

This update includes an urgent network fix to address an issue that caused one real conversion and one test conversion on the NATI basket to complete improperly. Once that occurred, the Verus oracle notification technology was used to disable DeFi on the Verus blockchain, and at present DeFi and cross-chain transactions are disabled on the Verus blockchain until the activation height above. Please upgrade as soon as possible to ensure a smooth activation.

As long as you do not change the default notification oracle for your Verus nodes, nodes older than v1.2.3-7 running on the Verus blockchain will pause and wait for upgrade just before the activation block. If you do not have time to update before activation, you should be able to simply close, upgrade, and continue when you are able.

General VerusId, Verus DeFI, and Public Blockchains as a Service (PBAAS) Capabilities

• On-chain Self Sovereign, Provable Identities, NFTs, and Individual or Organizational Profiles
• On-chain Launches of Token, Centralized Currency, and Liquidity Basket AMMs
• On-chain Launches and Merge Mining of Independent, Connected, Interoperable Blockchains without Programming

Verus ID and NFT Marketplace

Buy and sell VerusIDs on-chain, advertising your offer directly to the owner of an ID or NFT, or posting the sale of your NFT on the worldwide blockchain for all the world to see. Execute transactions in a completely decentralized way. Pay or offer to pay from a transparent or zero-knowledge private address, still auditable by you. Accept payment to either as well, and best of all, execute your transactions directly, peer-to-peer without any intermediary necessary. Don’t worry the on-chain model still makes room for owners to select and share proceeds with value added agents, marketing organizations, or other participants in a new economy of provable digital ownership. It’s the next step in the evolution of VerusID, the most powerful self-sovereign identity and secure storage model for funds in the digital world.

Verus Vault

With Verus Vault you can now protect funds on a VerusID, even from theft of a private key! If you lock your VerusID with Vault you cannot spend funds from that identity at all until it is again unlocked. While locked, you can still stake those same funds on the Verus network and earn by doing so. Of course, you can also still receive funds.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ENABLING REVOCATION, RECOVERY, AND ALL VERUS VAULT CAPABILITIES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ONE PRIMARY IDENTITY, AND AT LEAST ONE REVOCATION/RECOVERY ID CONFIGURED.

A locked VerusID can always be revoked and recovered by its revocation and recovery authority identities, which circumvents the lock. At the same time, anyone with only the primary keys, even a multisig of primary keys must first unlock, then wait for the predetermined unlock time before they can spend or access funds. This gives you, or maybe a company that specializes in watching the blockchain to whom you've assigned the revocation ID to revoke and recover whenever an unauthorized unlock occurs. That means that like a bank, setting a 24 hour unlock delay on your locked IDs actually provides the first decentralized solution to the infamous 5 dollar wrench attack.

In addition to a new level of blockchain protection and decentralized funds recovery, Verus Vault provides the same security for your IDs and NFTs as well as time locks for other purposes, such as vesting schedules, trusts, and inheritance. With Verus Vault, you can now protect and recover your funds, preserving all your assets and generational blockchain wealth from common forms of crypto loss or theft, no bank required.

New Verus Multicurrency, Multichain, DeFi Enabled Testnet

With an easy GUI for basic operations or command line for more advanced functions. Without any programming, you can now create new identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains for your business, your government, your projects, a worthy cause, your family, or your next decentralized application suite. Send currencies worldwide on the same chain, or across blockchains with ease. Even convert currencies to others on the network without an exchange by sending to yourself and converting along the way.

The new Verus testnet is a full-featured, intrinsically decentralized multi-chain blockchain platform with an unlimited number of identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains. It is accessible from the released versions of Verus Desktop and Verus CLI wallets, and it is the beginning of a new age in crypto. There are so many things you can do with Verus that you cannot with any other cryptocurrency platform, and you can try them all today.

As Verus PBaaS offers completely new capabilities that go beyond today’s decentralized platforms in many fundamental ways, the worldwide Verus community put its energy into creation, rather than convincing everyone that its capabilities are possible. Members across the Verus worldwide community have worked hard to make this all possible, and we are more than excited that you can now experience it firsthand. If you have an interest in the future of crypto, you owe it to yourself to learn about Verus, an unlimited scale, decentralized future with truth and privacy for all.

The Verus testnet, available in the Verus Desktop or cli wallets as the VRSCTEST coin, has the following capabilities, which to our knowledge are unique in crypto today.

Self sovereign, revocable, recoverable identities (currently on mainnet) VerusID

• Enables permissionless registration of friendly name strong identities and funds addresses that are simultaneously fully self-sovereign, revocable, and recoverable.

Staking-capable time locking and theft prevention (Verus Vault)

• Enables identities to be locked, preventing any funds under their control from being spent while locked, but still allowing seamless staking of funds. When locked, a user specifies an unlock delay, typically long enough to notice when someone who might have compromised a user’s keys would have to unlock the ID before spending. The only way to circumvent the unlock delay is to revoke and recover an ID. Users may also choose to create and use fresh private keys when unlocking an ID as well. This enables virtually theft proof workflow and a solution to inheritance, trusts, vesting schedules, the 5$ wrench attack, and identity theft. IDs may be used as friendly name cryptocurrency addresses for all currencies on all Verus PBaaS blockchains in the Verus network. The VerusID protocol is a protocol, which can also be implemented on non-Verus systems.

Multi-currency, user created, decentralized tokens and merge-mineable, interoperable blockchains without programming

• Enables any user with an ID to create their own token currency or even full fledged, multi-currency, ID-issuing 50% POW/50% POS, 51% hash attack resistant blockchain that can send and receive from the Verus chain which launched it. All PBaaS chains run from the same daemon, and projects may choose to join the worldwide Verus community in improving the daemon. In doing so, they will start with a complete, multi-currency, ID-capable blockchain with DeFi capabilities that is merge-mineable and stakeable with other blockchains in the Verus network.

Consensus integrated DeFi liquidity pools and fractional currency baskets

• Any ID owner may define Verus DeFi fractional basket currencies with one or more asset currencies backing the liquidity pool at a fractional percentage ranging from 5% to 100% backing. The Verus DeFi protocol ensures that all currency conversions that use a particular liquidity pool and are mined into one block are solved and priced simultaneously, addressing the problems of miner extracted value (MEV) and front-running, while providing fee-based DeFi integrated incentives to miners and stakers, ensuring smooth consensus operation and fee conversion capabilities by integrating DeFi liquidity pools directly into the consensus and cross-chain bridge protocols.

Simultaneous blockchain and blockchain liquidity pool launches

• Launch of a world class, worldwide, merge-mineable blockchain along with a fully decentralized or centralized “bridge” converter liquidity pool as part of defining a new blockchain. Bridge converter currencies have the same flexibility as other fractional 100% asset backed or partially asset backed currencies, but is bound to the launch of the new blockchain, runs on the new blockchain, and all fees generated via cross chain fee conversions or general use of the liquidity pool are earned on the new blockchain with no rent going back to the Verus blockchain, only seamless connectivity.

Blockchain-based, crowdfunding currency launches with minimum participation or automatic refunds, including for dual launches (blockchain and bridge)

• Set required minimum levels of worldwide participation in your preferred currencies on chain. If by the start time of your blockchain, minimums are not met, all participants will automatically get a refund of all of their pre-conversions, less the network fees. The launch options also provide for maximum participation in one or more currencies, pre-launch discounts, price neutral pre-allocations to select IDs that increase the fractional reserve ratio to issue currencies, similarly price neutral carve-outs of proceeds, and pre-launch discounts for early participants. Using VerusIDs, launches can also include vesting schedules in the pre-allocations as well.

An int...

v1.2.3-7-testnet

Verus Desktop v1.2.3-7 with builds testnet-only pbaas support. The testnet version of Verus Desktop uses different settings and profiles and can be run alongside the mainnet version. See v1.2.3-7

Disclaimer

This is experimental and unfinished software. Use at your own risk! No warranty for any kind of damage!
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The enclosed copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

MacOS: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9658198bb670c3cad3722f2e84ab61774b45b81e3df80524eb2106d023b97c1b/detection
Linux-x86-64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b6a0404b87f196516a744eac6216785f1b300527d04f64aa4988cbde3b0e1275/detection
Linux-ARM64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b85e238d949f7b203e38e37e56709d4d851fbdb06889708078bcd5d252af8d58/detection
Windows: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e7c9adaf81b6c29fa18723356b6b93366e9143c914a82a9c963b867d475f4200/detection

Avast and Kaspersky may flag the software as "not-a-virus" or "PUP". These are warnings that you are installing mining software, which may be installed by a third party to exploit your PC.
To find out more about the false positives, review the following resources:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bitcoinminer/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/not-a-virus/18015/

Verifying Downloads

A txt file containing the signer, standard sha256 file checksum, and signature, is included for each download. These packages have been signed with the identity "Verus Coin Foundation Releases@".

1. Extract downloaded archive
2. Verify signature for the extracted app or installer using the extracted textfile.

v1.2.3-6

Announcing Verus v1.2.3-6 - MANDATORY UPDATE FOR MAINNET, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR TESTNET

TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE THAT IS PREVENTING THE NEW vDEX BLOCKCHAIN FROM NOTARIZING INTO VRSC MAINNET, THIS IS A MANDATORY UPDATE THAT WILL ACTIVATE ON VERUS MAINNET AT:

VERUS MAINNET BLOCK 3173198 - EXPECTED AT ~17:00 UTC ON MONDAY, AUGUST 12TH

Congratulations to vDEX on a successful PBaaS blockchain launch! All functions, with the exception of cross-chain communication to Verus at this time are fully operational, including identities, storage, DeFi, and merge mining or merge staking. Cross-chain traffic between vDEX and Verus mainnet that has not already completed will continue operation on v1.2.3-6 after block 3173198.

Verus VIP protocol enables transfer of identity and currency definitions cross-chain, both as part of a new blockchain launch and on an ongoing basis. The recent launch of vDEX exposed a false rejection issue of the initial notarization verification when identities transferred to the new blockchain were of an older than PBaaS version at the time they were transferred. This is the case with vDEX, and will be addressed now and in the future with v1.2.3-6. There are no other protocol related changes.

As long as people do not change the default notification oracle for their Verus nodes, nodes older than v1.2.3-6 running on the Verus blockchain will pause and wait for upgrade just before the activation block. If you do not have time to update in the next week or before activation, and this happens to you, you should be able to simply close, upgrade, and continue when you are able.

Verus v1.2.3-6 also includes extended capabilities with the getcurrencybalance command and RPC API, enabling a more complete breakdown of address holdings in various currencies. It also includes various other minor improvements.

General VerusId, Verus DeFI, and Public Blockchains as a Service (PBAAS) Capabilities

• On-chain Self Sovereign, Provable Identities, NFTs, and Individual or Organizational Profiles
• On-chain Launches of Token, Centralized Currency, and Liquidity Basket AMMs
• On-chain Launches and Merge Mining of Independent, Connected, Interoperable Blockchains without Programming

Verus ID and NFT Marketplace

Buy and sell VerusIDs on-chain, advertising your offer directly to the owner of an ID or NFT, or posting the sale of your NFT on the worldwide blockchain for all the world to see. Execute transactions in a completely decentralized way. Pay or offer to pay from a transparent or zero-knowledge private address, still auditable by you. Accept payment to either as well, and best of all, execute your transactions directly, peer-to-peer without any intermediary necessary. Don’t worry the on-chain model still makes room for owners to select and share proceeds with value added agents, marketing organizations, or other participants in a new economy of provable digital ownership. It’s the next step in the evolution of VerusID, the most powerful self-sovereign identity and secure storage model for funds in the digital world.

Verus Vault

With Verus Vault you can now protect funds on a VerusID, even from theft of a private key! If you lock your VerusID with Vault you cannot spend funds from that identity at all until it is again unlocked. While locked, you can still stake those same funds on the Verus network and earn by doing so. Of course, you can also still receive funds.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ENABLING REVOCATION, RECOVERY, AND ALL VERUS VAULT CAPABILITIES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ONE PRIMARY IDENTITY, AND AT LEAST ONE REVOCATION/RECOVERY ID CONFIGURED.

A locked VerusID can always be revoked and recovered by its revocation and recovery authority identities, which circumvents the lock. At the same time, anyone with only the primary keys, even a multisig of primary keys must first unlock, then wait for the predetermined unlock time before they can spend or access funds. This gives you, or maybe a company that specializes in watching the blockchain to whom you've assigned the revocation ID to revoke and recover whenever an unauthorized unlock occurs. That means that like a bank, setting a 24 hour unlock delay on your locked IDs actually provides the first decentralized solution to the infamous 5 dollar wrench attack.

In addition to a new level of blockchain protection and decentralized funds recovery, Verus Vault provides the same security for your IDs and NFTs as well as time locks for other purposes, such as vesting schedules, trusts, and inheritance. With Verus Vault, you can now protect and recover your funds, preserving all your assets and generational blockchain wealth from common forms of crypto loss or theft, no bank required.

New Verus Multicurrency, Multichain, DeFi Enabled Testnet

With an easy GUI for basic operations or command line for more advanced functions. Without any programming, you can now create new identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains for your business, your government, your projects, a worthy cause, your family, or your next decentralized application suite. Send currencies worldwide on the same chain, or across blockchains with ease. Even convert currencies to others on the network without an exchange by sending to yourself and converting along the way.

The new Verus testnet is a full-featured, intrinsically decentralized multi-chain blockchain platform with an unlimited number of identities, currencies, liquidity pools, and blockchains. It is accessible from the released versions of Verus Desktop and Verus CLI wallets, and it is the beginning of a new age in crypto. There are so many things you can do with Verus that you cannot with any other cryptocurrency platform, and you can try them all today.

As Verus PBaaS offers completely new capabilities that go beyond today’s decentralized platforms in many fundamental ways, the worldwide Verus community put its energy into creation, rather than convincing everyone that its capabilities are possible. Members across the Verus worldwide community have worked hard to make this all possible, and we are more than excited that you can now experience it firsthand. If you have an interest in the future of crypto, you owe it to yourself to learn about Verus, an unlimited scale, decentralized future with truth and privacy for all.

The Verus testnet, available in the Verus Desktop or cli wallets as the VRSCTEST coin, has the following capabilities, which to our knowledge are unique in crypto today.

Self sovereign, revocable, recoverable identities (currently on mainnet) VerusID

• Enables permissionless registration of friendly name strong identities and funds addresses that are simultaneously fully self-sovereign, revocable, and recoverable.

Staking-capable time locking and theft prevention (Verus Vault)

• Enables identities to be locked, preventing any funds under their control from being spent while locked, but still allowing seamless staking of funds. When locked, a user specifies an unlock delay, typically long enough to notice when someone who might have compromised a user’s keys would have to unlock the ID before spending. The only way to circumvent the unlock delay is to revoke and recover an ID. Users may also choose to create and use fresh private keys when unlocking an ID as well. This enables virtually theft proof workflow and a solution to inheritance, trusts, vesting schedules, the 5$ wrench attack, and identity theft. IDs may be used as friendly name cryptocurrency addresses for all currencies on all Verus PBaaS blockchains in the Verus network. The VerusID protocol is a protocol, which can also be implemented on non-Verus systems.

Multi-currency, user created, decentralized tokens and merge-mineable, interoperable blockchains without programming

• Enables any user with an ID to create their own token currency or even full fledged, multi-currency, ID-issuing 50% POW/50% POS, 51% hash attack resistant blockchain that can send and receive from the Verus chain which launched it. All PBaaS chains run from the same daemon, and projects may choose to join the worldwide Verus community in improving the daemon. In doing so, they will start with a complete, multi-currency, ID-capable blockchain with DeFi capabilities that is merge-mineable and stakeable with other blockchains in the Verus network.

Consensus integrated DeFi liquidity pools and fractional currency baskets

• Any ID owner may define Verus DeFi fractional basket currencies with one or more asset currencies backing the liquidity pool at a fractional percentage ranging from 5% to 100% backing. The Verus DeFi protocol ensures that all currency conversions that use a particular liquidity pool and are mined into one block are solved and priced simultaneously, addressing the problems of miner extracted value (MEV) and front-running, while providing fee-based DeFi integrated incentives to miners and stakers, ensuring smooth consensus operation and fee conversion capabilities by integrating DeFi liquidity pools directly into the consensus and cross-chain bridge protocols.

Simultaneous blockchain and blockchain liquidity pool launches

• Launch of a world class, worldwide, merge-mineable blockchain along with a fully decentralized or centralized “bridge” converter liquidity pool as part of defining a new blockchain. Bridge converter currencies have the same flexibility as other fractional 100% asset backed or partially asset backed currencies, but is bound to the launch of the new blockchain, runs on the new blockchain, and all fees generated via cross chain fee conversions or general use of the liquidity pool are earned on the new blockchain with no rent going back to the Verus blockchain, only seamless connectivity.

Blockchain-based, crowdfunding currency launches with minimum participation or automatic refunds, including for dual launches (blockchain and bridge)

• Set required minimum lev...

v1.2.3-6-testnet

Verus Desktop v1.2.3-6 with builds testnet-only pbaas support. The testnet version of Verus Desktop uses different settings and profiles and can be run alongside the mainnet version. See v1.2.3-6

Disclaimer

This is experimental and unfinished software. Use at your own risk! No warranty for any kind of damage!
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The enclosed copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

MacOS: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/697ba6ab92730f66308f0ba7f87796dd62dcfabf267d4d635916564d786d4b1e/detection
Linux-x86-64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d101181f5a7ae8a769f620b8de8d27f31d621644e54a086dc290a5a62d1bd447/detection
Linux-ARM64: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8f5aae4df82f0b732e72610c57236952370b0ff27ce89f2bb7b7ae7e698e3e95/detection
Windows: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7bd8fef0e89494e788479a645610bd3c38cd3943652f93e3238be6d07bdb3452/detection

Avast and Kaspersky may flag the software as "not-a-virus" or "PUP". These are warnings that you are installing mining software, which may be installed by a third party to exploit your PC.
To find out more about the false positives, review the following resources:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bitcoinminer/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/not-a-virus/18015/

Verifying Downloads

A txt file containing the signer, standard sha256 file checksum, and signature, is included for each download. These packages have been signed with the identity "Verus Coin Foundation Releases@".

1. Extract downloaded archive
2. Verify signature for the extracted app or installer using the extracted textfile.