Verus - The Internet of Value

#PBW2026 has been a blast. Great conversations at the booth, Mike Toutonghi’s presentation on DREAM apps and that warming Verus community feeling. Thanks for everyone who came and made this happen!

@ej888coin Verus also has more efficient MMRs than (again, just an example) Zcash’s frontier Merkle tree. Here’s data for 1 million real hashes, run through each Merkle structure, for x = [1000, 1MM] Mike wrote the MMR implementation himself, and I think the data below speaks for itself

If you agree with Hackernoon, I highly encourage you to check out VerusIDs All is baked deeply into consensus (updates to ID occur via smart transactions & are UTXO spends) Identity will become a primitive moving forward, and it shouldn’t live in centralized DBs

@AquarianMetals 👋

Who’s building DeFi for privacy coins? If no one… then why should those coins actually exist? You’d think the Monero $XMR #XMR bros would be all over DeFi because it provides much needed liquidity to people who want the coin. You’d think Zano for the same reason, but they don’t have traditional smart contracts because they don’t want to solve the privacy problem. You’d think ARRR but… alas… no DeFi. What’s it going to take for some community to finally build an actual DeFi for real money?

Let's put users back in control of their data with DREAM apps. Decentralized, Rights-preserving, Encrypted, Application Model. Come see the keynote, Wednesday, 15 April, 10:40 AM, Mona Lisa Stage. #PBW2026

Paris Blockchain Week just got interesting. Michael Toutonghi, lead developer of Verus, is keynoting on April 15 at 10:40 AM. Verus also has a booth on the floor. If you're serious about where blockchain infrastructure is heading, come find us. #PBW2026

Verus at Paris Blockchain Week 2026! We secured a booth + 20-min talk slot for our lead developer to present Verus to Europe's biggest blockchain audience. Help us reach €22,000 by Feb 15th and make it happen. #Verus #PBW2026

Let us join our forces and help this great project to shine at Paris Blockchain Week. A community member have made this great looking donation website where you can follow the process👏 @VerusCoin #Verus @ParisBlockWeek pbw-2026.vercel.app

Donate to bring Verus to Paris Blockchain Week: VRSC (or other currencies): Verus Community Donations@ ETH: 0x4601cf6e6E6F91408E0651f7FcCc39324bF948a2 BTC: bc1q3thd5v8eslu85xl3at2vde0ax264med7stdv2e Goal: €22,000 by Feb 15th.

Track our Paris Blockchain Week fundraiser live: pbw-2026.vercel.app Surplus goes to the Verus Coin Foundation. If we don't hit the goal, donations still support Verus development and infrastructure. Nothing wasted.

🚨 MANDATORY UPGRADE: Verus v1.2.14 🚨 To 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, and 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, please upgrade your full node ASAP — required by 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟔, 𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐌 𝐆𝐌𝐓. Ethereum bridge changes: 🔹 Min crossing cost (Verus → Ethereum) reduced to ~¼ (to min ~$8–10) 🔹 Fixes a DAI interest-rate accounting variable mismatch (no security impact) CLI & GUI updates: 🔹 getidentitycontent improved: retrieve identity content by key more easily 🔹 New -currencyindex option for explorers/infrastructure to speed up balance retrieval on IDs/addresses with tokens 🔹 Better getrawmempool: filter by tx type/expiry + optionally return full transactions 🔹 New clearrawmempool tools for cache control & easier node issue analysis ⚠️ Bridgekeeper operators (miners/stakers): contract upgrade needs >50% vote. Currently ~33% — upgrade & run the new Bridgekeeper ASAP. (Verus Desktop Bridgekeeper auto-updates.) 👉 Upgrade: CLI: github.com/VerusCoin/Veru… GUI: github.com/VerusCoin/Veru…

Another really nice looking project being built on Verus just announced in the builders channel on Discord. I truly pity the people selling $VRSC with the amount really innovative things being built that can only be built on Verus because of the unique technology in Verus ID’s and Smart Transaction. So many things rolling out in ‘26

Verus $VRSC ⛏️⛏️⛏️ And also merge mining $vARRR, $vDEX, $CHIPS and soon to be $VALU All with the same hashpower and energy it takes to mine just VRSC Than I get to stake all the mined rewards from those chains passively, as you know Verus is 50% POW/50% POS. As RAM and GPU prices skyrocket I think CPU mining becomes more important for the common person. As more chains launch on Verus it gives miners the opportunity to mine up to 22 independent but connected blockchains with the same hashpower as one. Watch Verus this year, it’s a more important system than people realize. Not just because of mining.

Building an Arbitrage Bot on Verus Network (Full Tutorial + Code) This thread includes: • video walkthrough • Python arb bot source code • Notes & explanations This is educational not financial advice. Live experimentation. 🧵👇 🎥🎥🎥🎥

Decentralization isn't about buzzwords. It's about structure. Verus: no entity controls funds, no company takes a cut, no insiders with special allocations. Just code, miners, stakers, and contributors.

Full technical details: aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulu… Verus uses direct version references, yarn over npm, and strict dependency auditing to prevent supply chain attacks. Stay vigilant.

~26,500 affected repos on GitHub currently. Attack spreads through package installation. Check your GitHub for suspicious new repos. Review project dependencies before installing packages.

PSA: Widespread NPM supply chain attack affecting 400+ JavaScript/TypeScript packages. Verus software is NOT affected. We've verified all dependencies. If you're a developer in our community, check your own projects. 🧵