We’re still completing the items outlined in our previous updates, namely including enhancing Tor server capabilities and making a variety of minor improvements.

Please note, however, that we are currently observing a delay that is impacting the the development process of Particl Desktop which we hope to resolve shortly.

• Core Codebase Maintenance 🛠️ As always, we consistently stay up-to-date with Bitcoin’s latest version by regularly incorporating upstream updates into Particl Core. You can monitor these changes by visiting this link.

• Testing and Fixing Bugs🪳 This week, our focus has been on testing the BasicSwap DEX, particularly the integration of its innovative feature that enables bi-directional Monero atomic swaps. As we navigated through this task, we identified a few minor issues in both the codebase and GUI, which we have been diligently investigating and fixing.

  A notable issue we encountered involved the display of blockchain transaction fees on BasicSwap, which differed from the actual on-chain fee. This discrepancy required substantial time to investigate and ultimately led to a comprehensive overhaul of the DEX protocol’s fee estimation. This modification is now complete.

  At this time, we continue to test the new bi-directional Monero atomic swaps and find ourselves in the final stages of this process, steadily moving towards completion.

• User Interface 🖥️ We’ve also been implementing a series of small cosmetic changes and additional code clean-up on the DEX’s GUI. We anticipate merging these modifications into the live version shortly, resulting in a minor user interface update.

We’ve also been making significant progress on the new website, which we now expect to have a working version in internal testing in the next couple of days. Live launch should follow shortly after that!