Empower Your Privacy
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Navio is the world's only fully private blockchain powered by a Proof of Private Stake (PoPS) consensus mechanism. As a decentralized privacy platform, Navio is designed to protect financial autonomy and make private blockchain applications accessible to everyone. Utilizing its innovative blsCT protocol and unique Proof-of-Private-Stake (PoPS) consensus, Navio ensures that every transaction remains private by default.
Our mission is to provide the tools necessary for individuals to safeguard their financial privacy in the face of increasing surveillance. We are dedicated to enabling anonymous payments and decentralized banking, empowering users to take control of their financial lives.
Privacy is not just a luxury, it is a fundamental human right. We believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability to make private transactions in order to protect their personal freedom, financial data, security, and business privacy. If you share this vision, join us on our mission to redefine financial privacy for the digital age.
You can find important milestones about Navio blockchain below.
Phase-1 - 11 July 2024
Phase-2 - Estimated date December 2024
Phase-3 - An announcement will be made.
Final Phase - An announcement will be made.
NAVIO (Ticker: NAV) is the privacy-by-default cryptocurrency powering the Navio ecosystem. Using the advanced blsCT protocol, NAV ensures that transaction details such as sender and receiver addresses, as well as the amount transferred are fully protected and kept private.
Financial privacy and the freedom to transact are fundamental human rights and essential for a free society. The ability to manage one's financial affairs privately is closely linked to the broader exercise of personal freedoms.
As part of the Cypherpunk movement, Navio is committed to developing decentralized, privacy enhancing solutions that empower individual freedom and autonomy.
Private tokens are a unique feature of the Navio ecosystem, enabling users to mint their own privacy-preserving tokens, built on the secure foundation of the blsCT protocol.
Public blockchains have proven to expose NFT metadata, such as ownership details, on a large scale, making this information accessible to anyone through block explorers. With Navio's private NFTs, this concern is eliminated, ensuring complete privacy for your digital assets.
Our privacy features are designed to be easily integrated with other ecosystems. If you're a developer looking to build privacy focused solutions on a blockchain that enforces mandatory privacy for all transactions, Navio provides the ideal platform to build your dApps.
Navio is a privacy-centric, high-utility blockchain ecosystem that leverages our innovative blsCT protocol and the world's first Proof-of-Private-Stake (PoPS) consensus mechanism to offer a range of powerful features and use cases.
Our goal is to empower developers to build private, decentralized dApps on the Navio platform, expanding access to financial privacy for more individuals worldwide.
NAV, the privacy coin of the Navio blockchain, ensures that all payments remain private by default concealing the sender, receiver, and transaction amount. Transactions are fast, scalable, and cost-effective, offering a seamless way to protect your financial privacy.
Maintaining the ability to make private payments is essential for safeguarding your financial freedom.
Unlike Bitcoin and other pseudonymous cryptocurrencies, where transaction histories can be traced and potentially linked to your identity especially with growing KYC requirements on centralized exchanges Navio ensures your transactions remain fully anonymous.
We are committed to ensuring interoperability between Navio and leading ecosystems like Ethereum, Avalanche, BSC, and more, offering a privacy shield for pseudonymous tokens across these networks.
Privacy in the cryptocurrency space should be a fundamental right, available to all users, no matter which blockchain or ecosystem they use.
PoPS (Proof-of-Private-Stake) is a privacy-focused consensus mechanism that integrates confidential schemes, leveraging Pedersen Commitments to conceal transaction amounts. It combines range proofs and set membership proofs to ensure both the staked amount and the staker's identity remain private.
A key feature of PoPS is coin locking. When coins are locked, the staker gains the right to participate in staking for the upcoming epochs defined as sets of consecutive blocks of a predetermined length.
Locked coins cannot be spent and serve solely as collateral to help secure the network. After the completion of an epoch, stakers can unlock their coins and regain full control over them.
Our Proof-of-Private-Stake (PoPS) consensus mechanism empowers NAV stakers to actively participate in decision-making by voting on consultations and proposals, with equal voting weight and no barriers to submitting ideas.
These features enable Navio to remain self-funded, self-guided, and self-governed through consensus-driven changes, ensuring its sustainability and growth for generations to come.
We believe that our strength lies in our community, and we are incredibly proud to have the support of countless members who have stood by us for many years.
With great privacy comes great responsibility, and we are thrilled to see Navio evolve into a high-utility privacy platform. We're excited to offer both new and existing ecosystems the ability to leverage Navio's privacy-preserving features, ensuring they can achieve the same level of security and confidentiality that Navio itself provides.
Private tokens are a unique feature of the Navio ecosystem, allowing anyone to mint their own privacy-preserving tokens using our blsCT protocol.
Transactions involving these tokens are as private as standard NAV transactions hiding details such as the token balance, the amounts sent, the recipients, and the source of the funds.
Public blockchains that are pseudonymous, like Ethereum, Avalanche, and others, could greatly benefit from integrating with Navio, providing their tokens with a powerful privacy shield.
Private NFTs enable confidential ownership, ensuring that assets and transactions remain private unlike traditional NFTs, where ownership and transaction details are publicly visible. With traditional NFTs, anyone who owns an NFT can be easily identified.
Private NFTs address this issue by shielding ownership from public view. The validation of fungibility and authenticity occurs without exposing sensitive information.
In other words, private NFTs allow for the verification of ownership, transfers, and authenticity without compromising privacy or revealing any private data.
Leveraging the Navio on-chain trading protocol, which incorporates Atomic Swaps and BLS signatures for secure and private transactions, we are developing a decentralized exchange (DEX) for Navio users. This platform will allow for the trading of private, wrapped versions of various tokens.
Our vision is to create a truly decentralized ecosystem where privacy is always preserved. The private token DEX will play a crucial role in realizing this vision, providing users with the freedom to trade securely and privately.
Our community is made up of idealists united by a shared vision: a decentralized, private blockchain ecosystem where every user action is private by default something we are committed to upholding without compromise.
We are not driven by the pursuit of wealth, but by the pursuit of freedom for ourselves and for anyone who wishes to join us. If our vision resonates with you, we invite you to explore more about our work.
Below you can find wallets that support Navio blockchain.
Navio Core is the most basic wallet for storing your NAVs and works via command line interface.
Download Binaries Github Repo
Navio X is an open source experimental cross platform desktop wallet that supports the upcoming Navio blockchain. Currently not ready for production use.
Web Site Github RepoWe will announce the exchanges below where you can trade Navio once the Mainnet launches.
Below you can find the process you need to follow to move your NAV's from the existing (Navcoin) chain to the Navio.
Other technical details regarding the deposit address and transition process will be shared later.
Create a new wallet using one of the wallets specified on the site and generate an address. Keep this address for Step 2.
Paste the address you generated in the previous step into the relevant field. Send your NAV's to predetermined deposit address.
Congratulations. You will receive your NAV's automatically on the Navio chain shortly. Your NAV's from the previous chain will be burned.
Launched in 2014, as 'Navcoin' with no pre-mine or ICO to achieve a fair and transparent initial distribution of the supply, it became 'Navio' in 2024.
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Transparency is at the heart of Navio. Every line of code can be viewed, and anyone can contribute or reuse what we've built.
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Earn passive income by either running a node to secure the network or by taking part in the mixing process that ensures NAV's privacy.
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Main developments have been steadily progressing, with a series of core issues and bugs being fixed. At this rate, a stress test to assess our network's performance and stability can be expected in about two months' time.
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We have now entered the testing phase, ensuring the best possible transition to main. This month, our focus was on pushing patches and fixing bugs related to the new blockchain syncing and staking process.
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We are excited to announce our switch to Proof-of-Private Stake (PoPS), with the testnet going live today. As we embark on this new path, we are taking the opportunity to refresh our identity: Goodbye Navcoin, hello Navio.
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