Major Milestones

2 Million Handles Registered: Yup, you read that right! Our community made it loud and clear that user-friendly crypto experiences are here to stay.
5th Anniversary: FIO turned four this year, showcasing the protocol’s maturity and ongoing evolution.
13,000+ Domains Registered: With thousands of new domains, more and more users can enjoy a personalized, secure way to manage their digital identity.
MetaMask Partnership: Now you can access FIO App features right within MetaMask—no extra accounts or passwords needed. It’s all about making life easier!
Major Exchange Listings: We proudly landed on Kraken Pro, Bitunix, CEX.IO, ByBit, SuperEx, Bitrue, Binance, Gate.io, and OrangeX, making FIO more accessible across the globe.

Partnerships and Collaborations

Decentraweb: We teamed up to add FIO Handles into the DecentraChat app for streamlined decentralized communication.
Skale Network: A big leap forward in blockchain usability, making everything easier and smoother for end users.
CoinStats: Another notch on our belt for simplifying crypto—CoinStats users can now tap into handy FIO features.
Chappyz, Blubird, Fizen, Yom, AlterVerse, CofferNetwork, and Web3Compass: Yup, it’s been a busy year! Each partnership helps us bring FIO’s vision of simplified blockchain usability to even more projects.
MetaMask: This was our biggest partnership of the year, enabling FIO Handle Registration and FIO resolution right on one of the world’s most popular crypto wallets.

Community Engagement

Campaigns: We celebrated 1.5 million FIO Handles in style with a super-fun campaign, and our Ambassador Program thrived with enthusiastic community participation.
Events, Events, Events: Our team hopped around the globe, making appearances at ETHDenver, Web Summit Qatar, Token2049, Devcon, and beyond. We also popped into India Blockchain Week, India Blockchain Summit, NFT NYC, Messari Mainnet, Consensus in Austin, Bitcoin2024, and the Litecoin Summit in Nashville! Phew—what a ride!
Bonding Over Brews & Bites: We even hosted a special get-together in Bangkok, strengthening relationships and enjoying great food with fellow blockchain fans.

Technical Advancements

FIO Chain v2.11.1 & FIO App v1.26: We rolled out performance boosts and squashed a bunch of bugs, all in the name of a smoother FIO experience.
FIO Wallet MetaMask Snap: Self-custody just got easier! This Snap lets you take full control of your FIO identity right inside MetaMask.
Ambassador Program Updates: Our community champions got extra support and rewards as we strive to empower the folks who make FIO possible.
Elections: We hosted two elections for the FIO Board of Directors and block producers, ensuring our community has a strong voice in FIO’s future.

For the super curious, hop over to our FIO Progress page for a comprehensive deep-dive into our history, milestones, and what’s next.

View the full FIO news archive page here.

SecuX adds Full FIO Protocol Support

Creating your own custom FIO Crypto Handle!

SecuX, a well-known blockchain security company and manufacturer of cryptocurrency hardware wallets, has integrated the FIO Protocol in partnership with FIO. The FIO Protocol offers a more streamlined way to use cryptocurrencies while significantly reducing the risk of errors.

SecuX users can now enjoy the benefits of the FIO Protocol by creating their own custom FIO Crypto Handle, which replaces the need to handle complex public wallet addresses. For instance, a user can create a simple and human-readable wallet name on the @secux domain, such as jane@secux.

In addition, SecuX users can create and purchase custom domains and custom Crypto Handles with their custom domains. This feature allows users to buy their last name as a domain and create custom crypto handles for each family member in the format of firstname@lastname.

SecuX has also integrated other functionalities such as FIO Send, FIO Receive, FIO Staking, and FIO token support. With FIO Send, users can easily withdraw and send any cryptocurrency without copying and pasting long string public addresses.

Instead, FIO Send replaces the long string public key address with a simple, human-readable address known as a FIO Crypto Handle, such as firstname@lastname or janedoe@secux.

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About FIO

FIO (Foundation for Interwallet Operability) is a decentralized consortium dedicated to the ongoing development, integration, and promotion of the FIO Protocol. Built on the dPoS-based FIO Chain, this open-source usability layer solution works across all blockchains. With simple, human-readable FIO Handles, we eliminate the complexity and risks of blockchain transactions. At the heart of our ecosystem is the FIO Token ($FIO), powering transactions and rewarding network participants. Here’s to making crypto simpler, friendlier, and more accessible—together!

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FIO Worker Proposals

FIO’s vision is to operate as a transparent, community-run DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Consortium) in which token holders have influence over the future of the FIO protocol.

The Active Worker Proposals are managed by the FIO Steering Committee and the proposals are written by the workers themselves.

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Block Producers

What is a Block Producer?
Block producers run the infrastructure necessary to run the FIO blockhain, and play a major role in the governance of the chain. Those holding FIO Tokens choose the block producers through vote.

Who are the Block Producers?
Anybody can register to be a block producer (BP) and produce blocks if they receive enough votes. The top 21 active BPs and up to 21 stand-by BPs will be paid – the pool of the 42 total BPs are determine by number of vote.

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Block Producer Performance Metrics

You can keep track of the FIO block producers using these tools:

Mainnet

EOS Authority
EOSUSA Reliability Tracker
health.fioprotocol.io
AlohaEOS
FIO block explorer
Bloks.io
AlohaEOS fee vote monitor

FIO Development Resources

FIO can only succeed if the protocol is integrated in to YOUR product & services. If your’e a developer of a blockchain application implementation details, API Specs, and SDKs, FIO has an extensive Developer Portal.

What makes FIO different?

Similar to other crypto-naming projects FIO supports sending and receiving crypto but FIO can seamlessly support ANY blockchan.

FIO also enables your ability to request payments, this is critical when incorporating crypto-payments in to your businuss processes. Sending an invoice (payment request) is native to the protocol and integration is easy and FIO metadata can be attached to any transaction on any blockchain.

Where can I Buy-Sell-Trade FIO?