🧩 An eCurrency script can support MAST (Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees): it can lock in multiple spending conditions as leaves of a Merkle tree, but only the one actually used ever touches the chain.

When you spend from a script like that, the branch you used and its Merkle proof get revealed on-chain. Every other condition stays private and never takes up block space.

It's built to enhance user privacy, minimise the on-chain data footprint, and reduce public-key exposure to quantum threats: unused spending conditions and the keys tied to them never get exposed on-chain at all.

We built this directly into our standard P2SH addresses, so there's no separate address type to support.

More in the Whitepaper, Section 5.3

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🖥 Windows users, the official eCurrency wallet is live and ready to download.

eCurrency now has official desktop wallets for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Get it here: https://ecurrency.org/wallets

⛓ eCurrency has been live since 2018. We launched as a Proof-of-Work network on a codebase derived from Litecoin, and in 2025 we moved to Proof-of-Stake through a one-way migration.

Today the network runs on a 10-second block interval. Transactions can be signed with Falcon, the post-quantum scheme NIST selected through its standardisation process, alongside classical Schnorr and ECDSA. The supply is capped at approximately 318 million ECR, including at most 2 million from a terminal emission that halves on a fixed schedule and then ends permanently.

Section 3 of the Whitepaper covers the migration and supply in full.

🇸🇬 Our team has landed in Singapore for TOKEN2049, the biggest crypto event of the year, running tomorrow and Thursday, 7–8 October, at Marina Bay Sands.

More than 25,000 founders, builders and investors from across the industry will be in the city this week, and we're looking forward to the conversations.

Follow along here for updates from the ground.

🔁 When eCurrency moved from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake in 2025, every coin that crossed over had to be matched by a coin destroyed on the old chain.

Holders burned their ECR on the legacy chain, then claimed it on the PoS chain. Validators checked each burn before minting anything. The rate was 1:1, with 1% of every claim going to the Reward Fund that pays validators.

Migration closed in March 2026 at legacy block 4,200,000. The migrated supply is final at approximately 316 million ECR, and coins left unburned stay on the old chain for good.

The full mechanics are in Section 3.1 of the Whitepaper.

📰 Streaming is sold as a whole platform, and news comes bundled into a monthly fee. Both trace back to the same constraint. Below a certain transaction size, card processing fees take too much of what's being charged, so selling one film, one article or one song never made economic sense on the rails available.

Bundling became the default because of that minimum. Bring the cost of a small payment close to zero and pricing per article, per song or per API call starts to work. Cheap, fast settlement addresses the fee side of that problem, which is the part ECR works on.

What would you pay for directly if a small payment cost almost nothing?

⏱ eCurrency counts time in 10-second timeslots. When transactions are waiting, a validator can add a block in any slot. When nothing is waiting, the network skips the empty slots and produces a mandatory heartbeat block every 100th slot, about every 16.7 minutes, so confirmations keep moving through quiet periods.

Section 4.3 of the whitepaper covers the mechanics.

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📍 After TOKEN2049 in Singapore earlier this month, our next stop is closer to home. Plan ₿ Forum runs in Lugano on 23 and 24 October, the city where the eCurrency Foundation is registered.

In Singapore, the conversations kept coming back to stablecoin payments and getting blockchains ready for quantum computing. We're taking those threads to Lugano, where the focus is Bitcoin and what's being built on what it proved.

If you're there, come and say hello.

📍 Tomorrow our team will be at Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, two days of talks and meetings with people building around Bitcoin and payments.

Is there something you'd like us to ask them? Write your question in the comments. We'll put the best ones to people we meet at the forum and share their answers when we're back.

🇨🇭 Back from Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano

We spent Friday and Saturday at Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, the city where the eCurrency Foundation is registered. Two days at Palazzo dei Congressi, 121 speakers across 5 stages and a drone show over the lake. Outside the venue, people in Lugano pay at local shops and settle some city fees in crypto as part of an ordinary day. That's the kind of use eCurrency was built for.

Before we left, we asked what you'd like us to put to people at the forum, and the thread turned into a proper discussion. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Our answers are in the next post 👇

🎬 Video animated from our photos of the drone show.

Your questions from the Plan ₿ thread

Some of your questions were about where crypto is heading, and some were for us. Here's our take on both.

About the industry

Could eCurrency's post-quantum work help Bitcoin?
Bitcoin developers are working on their own post-quantum path, including a draft proposal, BIP 360. eCurrency already supports Falcon, the post-quantum scheme NIST selected through its standardisation process, alongside classical Schnorr and ECDSA signatures. Our node software is open source, so anyone working on the same problem can see how we've done it.

How will European regulation affect crypto?
MiCA gives the EU one set of rules for crypto-assets and the companies that serve them. ECR is structured as a crypto-asset under MiCA. What it means for you as a holder depends on where you live and which services you use, so check with a local adviser before making decisions.

For us

How do I keep my ECR safe from fraud, hacks and losing access?
Write your recovery phrase (seed phrase) on paper and keep it offline. Nobody from eCurrency will ever ask you for it, in a DM or anywhere else. Download wallets only from ecurrency.org/wallets.

Why isn't ECR on more exchanges yet?
ECR already has a trading venue, and the team is working on broader exchange integrations. Every listing goes through due diligence, legal review and technical integration, and that takes time. We can't share details yet, but there's exchange news coming sooner than you might expect. Keep an eye on this channel.

🗳 Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake in September 2022 by swapping its consensus layer in place. Balances carried over automatically, and holders didn’t have to do anything.

eCurrency took a different route. We launched a new PoS chain and opened a one-way migration from the legacy PoW chain. Holders burned their coins in a provably unspendable output and claimed them on the PoS chain on their own timing, with 1% of each claim going to the Network Reward Fund that pays validators. Validators checked every burn before minting, so no coin was ever spendable on both ledgers. Migration closed in March 2026.

A single switch asks nothing of holders. Burn-and-claim asked them to act before the close, and in return each holder chose when to move, and the network never had to coordinate one switchover across every node at once.

📱 eCurrency Wallet is now on the App Store.

You can hold, send and receive ECR on your iPhone with the official wallet from the eCurrency Foundation. It's non-custodial: your private keys are encrypted on the device and never leave it, and the app collects no data.

Each transaction opens a details screen with its block height and input and output addresses.
With iOS live, the wallet now runs on iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux.

Download for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6813177940
All wallets: https://ecurrency.org/wallets

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