BlackHat Coin

Private, secure, fast and available for everyone

Privacy focused decentralized cryptocurrency providing truly anonymous untraceable transactions based on PoS consensus and zk-SNARKs data protection protocol (Zero Knowledge Proof)

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” — Edward Snowden

features

Energy saving (PoS)
High privacy level (zk-SNARK)
Low fees
Fast transactions
Governance / DAO
Community driven

Secure anonymous payments

The privacy layer of BlackHat coin implemented on zk-SNARK Sapling protocol by Electric Coin Company (ZCash) which provides fast, anonymous and untraceable payments with Zero Knowledge Proof without revealing your transaction amounts and balance to anyone

Proof Of Stake — Staking

Running your wallet and keeping coins in it you automatically participate in the blocks and transactions validation process which allows you not only receive rewards, but also strengthen the network.

Proof of Stake is available for everyone and it doesn't require any specialized mining equipment with high energy consumption, so you are able use your home computer/laptop and even ARM based microcomputers such as Raspberry PI

Cold Staking

Like usual staking but with some features:

  • you can delegate your coins for staking to another wallet which is switched on 24/7 (hot wallet)
  • hot wallet stakes delegated coins on your behalf but have no access to them
  • the rewards go directly to your wallet
  • all coins remain under your full control in your wallet which could be switched off keeping your private keys and coins safe while hot wallet stakes coins for you
  • it's possible to delegate coins from different multiple wallets to one hot wallet for cold staking

Masternodes

Masternodes is the second layer of network security which provides additional blocks and transactions validation.

Starting your own masternode you're also strengthen the network and receiving rewards.

Anyone who started masternode can participate in Decentralized Governance voting for the proposals to determine if the proposal should be funded.

This voting is decentralized and anonymous, since the owners and their masternodes are located in different parts of the world

Decentralized Governance

Decentralized Governance is the system of proposals which is submitted to the blockchain network to be voted by masternodes to determine if the proposal should be funded.

Each started masternode is capable to vote for each proposal (a vote per masternode for each active proposal) thereby setting the vector of network development.

Therefore, only community-validated initiatives will be funded

BlackHat Community Treasury

A small amount in excess of the block reward will be potentially allocated for the Community.

Treasury to fund an implementation of proposals that received sufficient % of Yes votes from masternode holders.

This funds will be generated at each superblock (approx. each month).

Note: The budget will not be allocated each month in full. Only valid proposals will be funded and only required amount of coins will be generated

Roadmap

2020 Q4
2021 Q1
2021 Q2
2021 Q3
2021 Q4
2022 Q1
2022 Q2
2022 Q3
2022 Q4
2023 Q1
2023 Q2
2023 Q3
2023 Q4
2024 Q1
2024 Q2
2024 Q3
Future No ETA
  • ready
  • in progress
  • planned
2020 – Q4

Project development has been started. Research and development of the idea, the core team formation

2021 – Q1

Core team meetings, goal setting, basic upcoming steps planning

Building the core infrastructure for the development

Referral program planning, ToS elaboration

Development of the portal for referral program and coin presale (ex. fair.blackhatco.in)

2021 – Q2

Referral program and coin presale start (1st of April)

Finalization the blockchain and BlackHat Core Wallet software

Deployment preparations, setting up all the required infrastructure

Test network launch, performance check

Start the blockchain in production mode, BlackHat Core Wallet release (see the wallet page)

Website release

Referral and presale coins withdrawal is available! (ex. fair.blackhatco.in)

Web Wallet release

Exchanges listing (DEX-TRADE)

Summary of Q2 2021 on our official Medium blog, goals and plans for Q3 2021

2021 – Q3

New version of BlackHat Core wallet release 5.2.0.1 (for Cold Staking feature activation)

Cold Staking activation on block 114000

Finalization of the referral program coins withdrawal (fair.blackhatco.in will be active until 1st August 2021)

Mobile (Telegram) Wallet release

Exchange listing (BILAXY)

Restructuring of the BlackHat Project website

Decentralized Governance development (within official Block Explorer)

Staking support for Web/Mobile Wallet (shared staking pool implementation)

BlackHat Core Wallet release 5.3.0

New protocol enforcement in the BlackHat network (on block 202000, ~ 22nd of September 2021)

2021 – Q4

Updating all the project's server infrastructure (update OS, software, security patches, etc.)

New exchange listing (TradeOgre, Graviex)

Official automatic OTC trading platform implementation (no KYC at all), read more in our blog

BlackHat Merchant Payment Processing System development (will be continued, see 2022-Q1)

Summary of 2021 on our official Medium blog

2022 – Q1

Checks issuing and redeeming functionality for Web and Mobile wallets (read more in our blog)

BlackHat Merchant Payment Processing System implementation

AMA with XT CEX community before the listing

Exchange listing XT

Coin Burn event: On February 15th, 150000 BLKC is burnt and taken out of the circulation supply (Burning TX)

Summary of Q1 2022 on our official Medium blog

2022 – Q2

BlackHat Merchant Payment Processing System release (read articles in our blog here and here)

Free and easy to use MasterNode monitoring system for BlackHat masternode owners (see in Resources top menu)

BLKC token is now available for trading on Binance Smart Chain on Pancake Swap

Second Coin Burning event: 200 000 BLKC on May 25th, 2022 (Burning TX)

Building a bridge to Binance Smart Chain network as BEP20 token (exchange BLKC->token->BLKC is available on OTC). Read more in our blog

OTC updates: Implementing referral system, discounts for buying large amount of coins. Detailed info in our blog post

Summary of Q2 2022 on our official Medium blog, goals and plans for Q3 2022

2022 – Q3

Building a bridge to Ethereum network as ERC20 token

Implementing a fiat currencies gateway to OTC

Third Coin burning event: 200 000 BLKC on August 24th, 2022 (Burning TX)

BLKC token is now available for trading on Ethereum on UniSwap

Summary of Q3 2022 on our official Medium blog, goals and plans for Q4 2022

2022 – Q4

Listing an additional trading pair on XT BLKC/USDT

New partnership with masternode hosting service HIGLAN

Internal security audit (update all servers, software, etc.)

Fourth Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC on December 15th, 2022 (Burning TX)

Due to crypto-winter, the team puts more effort to making new partnerships, searching for additional investments. A number of planned network upgrades and developments have been postponed to the next year

Summary of 2022 on our official Medium blog

2023 – Q1

BlackHat Core Wallet 5.5 release

Listing on BDEXHUB exchange

Building a bridge for BLKC coin to be tokenized on Polygon network. Read more in our blog

BLKC token is now available for trading on Polygon network on UniSwap

Fifth Coin burning event: 200 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of February 2023 (Burning TX)

According to user requests we are researching the ways to make deposits of USD to our official OTC platform. Read more in our blog

2023 – Q2

Building a bridge for BLKC coin to be tokenized on Arbitrum One network. Read more in our blog

BLKC token is now available for trading on Arbitrum One network on UniSwap

Sixth Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 17th of May 2023 (Burning TX)

Regular internal security audit (update all servers, software, ecosystem etc.)

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas

Summary of Q2 2023 on our official Medium blog, goals and plans for Q3 2023

2023 – Q3

Seventh Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of August 2023 (Burning TX)

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas (ongoing process)

2023 – Q4

Building a bridge for BLKC coin to be tokenized on The Open Network (TON).

Listing BLKC token on DEX of The Open Network (TON) - goes to 2024 Q1

Eighth Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of November 2023 (Burning TX)

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas (ongoing process)

AMA with the core team representatives (Russian-speaking community) on November 8th (Youtube link)

2024 – Q1

Listing BLKC token of The Open Network (TON) on xRocket exchange

Listing BLKC token of The Open Network (TON) on DEX DeDust.io

Ninth Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of February 2024 (Burning TX)

BlackHat Core wallet update 5.6.1, network update

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas (ongoing process)

2024 – Q2

DAO voting: masternode owners will determine the BlackHat's vector of development (follow announcement channel of our official Telegram and Discord to get information about the start of voting)

New ecosystem project development based on DAO voting results: Community choose the Cold Staking Portal development, which will be started in July 2024

Expansion, partnerships, new services (ongoing process). Results (will be updated as progress is made): several new masternode hosting services have been added to our Services page

Tenth Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of May 2024 (Burning TX)

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas (ongoing process)

2024 – Q3

Eleventh Coin burning event: 250 000 BLKC to be burned on 15th of August 2024 (Burning TX)

Exploring the prospect of BlackHat ecosystem expanding through gamification and gambling areas (ongoing process)

Future plans, NO ETA!

Cold Staking Portal development (as chosen by DAO vote in Q2 2024)

Expansion, partnerships, new services (ongoing process). Results (will be updated as progress is made)

Online merch shop release (as a demonstration of Merchant System)

BlackHat Faucet development and release (free BLKC for everyone!)

Moving to Deterministic masternodes (huge network upgrade)

NFT

Global charity project in BlackHat ecosystem

Exchange listings

Specifications

COIN SPECS
Consensus: PoS (Hot & Cold PoS)
Total supply: 21m (premine 1m, which is approx. 4.7%)
Block Time: ~ 1 minute
Block Size: 2MB max
Transactions per second: 173 TPS (theoretical maximum)
Master Node Collateral: 5000 BLKC
BLOCK REWARDS
  • 2 BLKC (40% PoS / 60% MN) + (potential allocation for Community Treasury).
    See White Paper for details
  • Block reward will be decreased every 3 months by 20% (about ~ 50% yearly)
  • Minimal block reward 2 BLKC (reached in  February 2024)

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Windows Windows 7 (64bit) or later
Stable Release
Linux
Stable Release
macOS macOS 10.10 or later
Stable Release
Source Code
Stable Release

Exchanges Click to see All Exchanges

Services

(Masternode hosting, etc.)

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BlackHat in Mass Media

(Articles, reviews, etc.)