Dear Verge Community,
The Verge Team is excited to make a major special announcement along with the launch of a 7 day crowdfunding campaign.

Atomic Swaps Capability

In light of increasing centralisation in the crypto space, mainly due to the growing influence of localised exchanges, the Verge Development Team has decided to take a step towards greater decentralisation. To do this we will be implementing BIP65 in the upcoming Core Release, which allows for Atomic Swaps.

What are Atomic Swaps and why is it important?

Atomic Swaps, or atomic cross-chain trading, is a technology that enables direct peer-to-peer trading across separate blockchains with BIP65 support, thereby eliminating a third trusted party. Traditional centralised exchanges in this case are replaced by decentralised exchanges, which means you always keep your funds in your wallet and do not rely on an intermediary that represents a single point of failure in the current world, filled with governments trying to shut down exchanges, frequent security breaches and diminishing privacy.

Here is how it works in plain English:
Alice has some traceable coins, e.g., Bitcoin or Ronemo. But she cares about her privacy and would like to exchange them for Verge. Bob is less concerned about privacy, so he is willing to buy the coins from Alice. With Atomic Swaps they can trade directly with each other, bypassing the centralised exchange that is scheduled to shut down any minute now by some government hostile to crypto.

By enabling Atomic Swaps capability, Verge takes a proactive step towards a decentralised future. In that respect, we at Verge believe that decentralised exchanges will be an important part of it. Therefore in the coming weeks we will start collaborating with pioneers in this field, such as SuperNET.

Community Message

As covered in our blog post, The Verge Team has been exceptionally active on all fronts recently. Our presence in the media has greatly increased, our development never stops and we continue to improve technology and bring innovation. With this being said, we believe it is time to take Verge to the next level and we need your help to do this.

Our plan is to double down on the marketing effort and let the world know about Verge and its amazing technology. To do this effectively, funding is needed and thus we appeal to you, the Verge Community, to help us by donating $XVG.

The collected funds will be utilised to run mass marketing campaigns, increase exposure and create momentum in the media. We have seasoned veterans waiting to take action and a plan is in place. It includes the use of PPC Adwords, Facebook PPC advertisements, publishing press releases and featured review.

Our crowdfunding campaign goal consists of 4 milestones, 250 000 $XVG each, totalling 1 million $XVG. Each milestone represents a budget with a specific purpose.

Milestone 1: Exchange Listings Budget

Verge has been focusing heavily on user expansion and volume growth. We have recently completed listing integrations with multiple high volume exchanges including Binance and HitBTC. Many high level exchanges require a listing fee to cover promotion, cold wallet storage and development costs. This listing fee pool will cover the needed costs when Verge lists on exchanges such as Bitfinex, Bithumb, BuyUcoin, Kraken and SuperNET.

Milestone 2: Advertisement Budget for Wraith Protocol

The Verge Marketing Team has prepared a social media advertisement campaign with the ultimate goal of making people aware of what Wraith Protocol is and how it brings Verge to the frontier of competition.

Milestone 3: Advertisement Budget for Atomic Swaps

As Verge moves forward towards the decentralised future, we are planning to spread the word about Atomic Swaps and decentralised exchanges more broadly.

Milestone 4: Operating budget for hosting services

The Verge Team requires a minimum amount of financing to pay for operating costs, such as web-hosting services, collaborative tools and shared drives.

Please note that the Verge Team works on a volunteer basis, every day.
No one has taken any payments for services in $XVG or any other currency and will not be paid. So far the costs related to development and promotion have been covered by the team members out of their own pockets.
Please remember to double check the address above before you send any amount of $XVG.

Donation address ($XVG):
DDd1pVWr8PPAw1z7DRwoUW6maWh5SsnCcp

Thank you for your continual support and trust. Please do not hesitate to directly contact the team with any further questions.
The crowdfunding campaign will end on the 14th of October at 18:00 PT, followed by another stealthy announcement.

Atomic-ly Yours,
The Verge Team

Recent Progress

I think we can all agree that September has been a very exciting month for Verge and October is going to be even better, so buckle up! But before we get to the juicy upcoming stuff, let’s briefly go over just some of the things that happened over the last 30-something days, breaking it down into 3 categories.

Development

• A major milestone on the roadmap was completed: the Verge Telegram Bot went live. The user manual can be found here.
• Shortly before that, the Verge Twitter Bot was implemented. In case you missed it, the announcement and the user guide is here.
• Verge Discord Bot released back in August was largely rewritten and updated to become much faster and reliable. Check out the manual.
• CoinPouch iOS Wallet was released, adding Verge support to the app.
• The Verge Team has shaken the crypto space by announcing the upcoming Wraith Protocol in a breathtaking teaser.
• A massive Electrum infrastructure upgrade was rolled out to match the growing popularity of the service. Now you can deploy your own electrum server!
• The first of its kind Tor Android Wallet has been updated.

Social media

• The Official Verge Blog and Verge Medium Publication were kicked off with “What is Verge?” article.
• Verge has greatly increased its social media outreach by setting up official LinkedIn, Instagram and Youtube channels.
• The Verge Marketing Team has been establishing a Verge presence in other countries. As of today, there are already multiple regional Twitter channels (Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, German, Bulgarian, Saudi Arabian) and Verge is constantly adding more thanks to our active community of volunteers helping with translations.
• In general, we have seen an explosive growth in social media channels and fan pages, quietly supported by The Verge Marketing Team. Let’s not be shy and go over some impressive numbers:
  1. Telegram Channel has over 6000 members.
  2. The Official Twitter Channel is approaching 24000 followers.
  3. Total following on Facebook amounts to over 15000 people. Official group here.

As one of the members of the Verge Marketing Team Michael Stollaire said in the recent interview:

“Community is the greatest asset of Verge”

Exchange Listings

• Verge won in an epic Twitter poll battle to be listed on HitBTC exchange, the 5th biggest exchange by volume in the world. The Verge Community has shown extraordinary activity and delivered nearly 100,000 votes. Digibyte Community has put up a great fight and as a result HitBTC (clearly in awe) decided to reward the amazing communities by listing both coins on the exchange!
• Verge was also listed on the Binance exchange on Monday, October 2nd, following unprecedented Verge Community effort in their “Community Coin per Month” Program. You can read about Binance in our previous blog post here.
• Verge partnered up with Nexchange (details here).
• Yet another Twitter poll was crushed by The Verge Community! This time to be added to Changelly. Well, what can we say? Great job, Community! You. Are. Unstoppable. The guys at Changelly are already working on the integration, so stay tuned.

What’s Up Next? The Roadmap update!

Ufff… That was a lot, wasn’t it?

Alright, let’s now get to the good stuff. Without further ado, here’s the new quarterly overview of Verge:

The central update of the 4th Quarter 2017 is going to be the Core Wallet Release coming out in October. The much awaited Wraith Protocol will be a game changer, bringing Verge technology to the next level. The milestone includes other features as well (new user interface, baked-in Tor, faster sync and something else), which will be covered in the immediate future in more detail.

Besides that, The Verge Development Team is working hard on the following updates to be released in the 4th Quarter:

• Stylish redesign of the paper wallet generator, that is used to store your Verge coins offline. Soon you will be able to show off this bad-ass looking wallet, themed as Wraith Protocol, and keep your coins in style!
• Official Mining Pool & Mining Guide: with the new Official Verge Multi-Algorithm Mining Pool you will be able to support Verge network and fund further development. Our official guide will make for an easy set up!
• XVGui Miner: a mining software which enables even the most inexperienced users to start mining $XVG, with as little know-how and information as possible. At simplest it works like this: enter in your Verge public address, leave all the settings at default and press “Start mining”. This just can’t get any simpler.
• i2P Android Wallet: as a part of Verge mobile integration, i2P Android Wallet will allow you to stay anonymous using your Android device.
• Steam, Slack & Reddit Tipping Bots will be great additions to the collection of peer-to-peer transfer bots that are already in place (Telegram & Twitter bots).
• More exchange listings, including the next generation bitcoin and digital asset trading platform NakamotoX. You can already sign up for alpha testing on their website and read more about the platform here. Needless to say, The Verge Marketing Team is constantly in touch with other major exchanges as well. In particular, more attention is being paid to de-centralised exchanges, which are going to be the future in the crypto space.
• With the RSK launch postponed until after potential Bitcoin fork, at the end of the quarter Verge is planning to integrate the technology and become the only cryptocurrency on the market combining total anonymity and smart contracts functionality (that’s probably worth a tweet).
• If you paid close attention to the overview above, you might have noticed something else that will be revealed soon. Sooner than you think… 😊

On this mysterious note, The Verge Team wishes you a great October!
Stay tuned and, most importantly, stay anonymous.

Wraithly Yours,
The Verge Team

VergeCurrency to be listed on Binance Exchange!

VergeCurrency Team is very excited to announce that $XVG will be listed on Binance
on the upcoming Monday, October 2nd.

About Binance

Binance is setting a new gold standard in cryptocurrency trading, based on its
scalable and highly-redundant architecture. We believe that they will take
the lead in this area now and into the future. As of today, Binance is already
one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume in the world.

The team behind Binance is excellent, working hard to deliver superior trading
experience to its users. Some of the many benefits Binance provides are:

• Safety stability ensured by multi-tier & multi-cluster system architecture;
• High performance (Binance is able to process over 1,4 mln of orders per second);
• Great liquidity;
• Multiplatform support (Web, Android, iOS, HTML5, PC, Mac);
• Multilingual support (English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese).

With $XVG listing as the first and highly important step, we at VergeCurrency are
looking forward to a mutually beneficial partnership in the time to come!

About VergeCurrency

For those who are new to VergeCurrency, below is a brief introduction. More details
can be found in the previous blog post “What is Verge?”,
as well as on our website.

Verge is a cryptocurrency that
focuses on total anonymity and privacy for its users.

Whereas Bitcoin succeeded in the mission of creating a decentralised cryptocurrency, VergeCurrency
brings it further by making transactions completely anonymous. The currency is virtually untraceable and the users of VergeCurrency can make instant anonymous transactions.

How is this possible? VergeCurrency implements highly advanced blockchain technology built on top of services such as Tor and I2P that hides your personal data, such as IP-addresses and geolocation. With the future implementation of RSK technology, Verge will offer smart contracts functionality, while maintaining total confidentiality of the users, thus being the only cryptocurrency on the market combining such features.

VergeCurrency is script based and makes it very easy to implement on an exchange.

Transaction speeds are ultra-fast compared to other coins. Simple Payment Verification (SPV) technology allows average transaction confirmation times to drop to ~5 seconds. Also, there is a tipping bot cooked into the algorithm which helps translate the effectiveness of merging low fees, ultra-fast transaction speeds into a high-volume coin.

What are VergeCurrency Major Features?

• Completely anonymous and privacy-focused

• Active development team with many contributors

• Great support from the community

• Ready for mass adoption

• Ultra-fast transactions

• Decentralized and open-source

• Stealth Addressing as an Option of Wraith Protocol™

• Private Transactions as an Option of Wraith Protocol™

• IP Address Obfuscation of both the Sender and Receiver

About Verge Community

VergeCurrency is an open source project and Verge Community has full input
and inclusion in any and all decisions made in regard to new feature implementations.
VergeCurrency is a grassroots style project with a core development team constantly
working to improve upon the existing foundations of XVG.
There was no ICO held upon launch, and no pre-mine took place.

Therefore, the largest benefit that VergeCurrency can provide immediately, is the direct
and highly engaged support of our massive online community. VergeCurrency is a truly
global cryptocurrency with a wide spread team of volunteers and people that believe
in the Verge cause. This has been proven by the fact that up until six weeks ago,
no money has been spent on marketing or development – VergeCurrency is truly 100{d5fe6ff56e0cbdf728bb390499e82137eb3f7b12d15a2c6b1e7e10a9abcd5ac9}
community supported.

What’s next?

With all above being said, VergeCurrency is now prepared to expand, and there is
a strategic plan for development and further growth. VergeCurrency is launching on multiple
new exchanges and wallets already and there is more, much more to come. One of the major future milestones is RSK technology implementation, whereby Verge will be the first privacy-focused cryptocurrency with integrated smart contracts functionality.

Finally, VergeCurrency has an organized marketing team and they are working tirelessly,
around-the-clock to create landing pages, PPC campaigns, social media campaigns,
and to write blog posts and interviews with media sources world-wide,
both brick-and-mortar and online.

Stay tuned and welcome Binance to VergeCurrency Family!

Vergely Yours
VergeCurrency Team