[2025] Latest Updates
Navigators,
While summer chop in majors is making sure that no wins stay realized, we’re so back with a fresh batch of updates.
MEXC Assessment Zone
As active Discord users already know, the NAV/USDT pair was recently added to MEXC’s assessment zone to evaluate its longevity on the exchange. But our community pulled through and thanks to the new liquidity inflow, MEXC has confirmed that Navio will soon be removed from the assessment zone. Thank you, to all bulls and bears involved.
New Node.js Library: navio-blsct
Gogoex has completed the development of the navio-blsct Node.js library. What this package provides is TypeScript bindings for Navio’s BLS Confidential Transactions, making it easier for devs to create privacy-preserving transactions on the BLS12–381 curve. Let the anon app building begin.
Navio-Core: BasicSwap Integration
The big one. The final step in our mainnet journey is the DEX infrastructure, starting with BasicSwap. A new pull request has been opened in navio-core to support changes for the upcoming BasicSwap integration. This update introduces new functionality required for enabling their internal logic, pushing us closer to a more decentralized, peer-to-peer exchange solution within our ecosystem.
You can follow the PR here: https://github.com/nav-io/navio-core/pull/187
Upcoming Consensus Update: Output Referencing Overhaul
Ok — now pay attention. A new consensus-level update will soon be proposed that changes how transaction inputs reference previous outputs. Instead of relying on the full transaction hash (which often shifts during block confirmation), outputs will be identified directly by their unique output hash.
Here’s the deal. Right now, when you submit a transaction to the network, its final hash can change during block confirmation due to input/output aggregation. As a result, relying on the original transaction hash makes it difficult to build new transactions in advance that reference those outputs. You’re potentially referencing a hash that might not even exist anymore. Not ideal.
With this update, referencing will become consistent, reliable, and future-proof. It also opens the door to more advanced logic, like spending coins before confirmation. Testnet reset incoming when it lands.
Now that we have the dev updates out of the way, it’s time to look at some noteworthy headlines from the PriFi space.
Prosecutors in the Roman Storm trial went full dystopia, arguing that Tornado Cash wasn’t neutral tech but rather a criminality enabler. According to them, building privacy tools that “help people break the law” is itself a crime. Nowhere in this was the intent of the devs ever considered..
Clear as day — Sam Altman went on record to say that your ChatGPT convos aren’t off-limits in court. “If there’s a lawsuit, we could be required to produce that”. TLDR: AI and privacy issues is the next battle you don’t want to be on the wrong side of.
A metric for the privacy market in general, the Monero community greenlit a bunch of new proposals, signalling that support for open-source privacy tech is alive and well. More funding = more code = more stealth.
See you in the next one. Cheers!
