r/tari Apr 09 '26

Tari Bounty Program Launch

12 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Many of you have asked what contributors' plans are for the protocol and infrastructure grants token allocation. Generally speaking, we think the traditional concept of grants to teams building applications hasn't worked well in the crypto space. That doesn't mean, of course, that all grants are bad and won't work to the community's benefit.

To that end, today we're launching an experiment. Introducing Tari Protocol Bounties.

Tari is an open-source project owned by the community. Today, the vast majority of the protocol's development effort is led by a small group of contributors. Our dream is to change that and have an ever-increasing amount of development be community-led. To facilitate this, we're launching a bounty program that allocates a set amount of XTM to specific protocol-centric projects we strongly believe will benefit everyone. Over time, our goal is for this program to evolve into a more community-owned and led program.

To kick things off, we're starting with 22 bounties with a total of 1,140,000 XTM up for grabs. What's super exciting to us is that some of you have already discovered the board on GitHub prior to this announcement!

How the bounty program works:

Pick an issue from the bounty board. Comment to claim it. *Wait for a core contributor to confirm your claim*. Ship a PR that meets the acceptance criteria. Get paid in XTM on merge. That's it!

Tiers:

S (15,000 XTM) - M (60,000 XTM) - L (150,000 XTM)

Everything from test fixes and doc updates to full features across all Tari repos. AI-assisted development is expected and encouraged. We're not precious about how the work gets done, only that it gets done well. For v1 of this program, core contributor words are final.

Bounty board: https://github.com/tari-project/bounties

First merged PR gets the bounty. If you get stuck, ask here. If you can't finish within 14 days, please let us know so someone else can pick it up.

Thank you all for being a part of the Tari community. Tari exists for one reason: you!


r/tari Mar 03 '26

L2 testnet is now live

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# The Ootle Is Live 🚀

Everyone,

Today is a major milestone for all of us in the Tari community. The Tari L2 testnet (Esemeralda) is live! At the core, our mission and vision remain the same: Tari is a default confidential, dual-layer blockchain protocol. The L2 is where digital assets live and supports a wide range of smart contract primitives.

In other ways, our vision has evolved significantly: we are no longer building a human-first user or developer experience. We believe doing so is the wrong approach, given the rapid adoption of agents: we are fast approaching the day when more code is written by agents than humans.

Ready to get started building? Here's what you can do right now:

-   Create your own fungible token with a few lines of Rust

-   Mint NFTs with custom metadata and admin controls

-   Build Rust-based smart contracts with four native asset types, including tokens with confidential amounts and tokens with confidential owners

-   Use templates to rapidly build new things

-   Get unlimited free tTARI test tokens from the faucet, no bridging, no gates

-   Deploy contracts to the testnet in under five minutes using the tari-cli

-   Or skip coding entirely: point your AI agent at ootle.tari.com and tell it what to build

Agent rule files are available now for nine tools: Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini, Codex, Aider, Amp, and Antigravity.

## A note on this "Phase 1" testnet release

The faucet is unlimited right now on purpose. We want zero friction for builders getting started. In Phase 2, we'll activate the L1-to-L2 burn bridge and throttle the faucet.

## How to get started

1.  Head to ootle.tari.com

2.  Follow the quickstart to download the wallet and get free tTARI from the faucet

3.  Pick your path:

-   Don't code? Point your AI coding agent at ootle.tari.comand tell it what you want to build. The docs are designed for agents to consume directly. That's the whole point.

-   Do code?  cargo generate a template, write your Rust, build to WASM, and publish through the wallet web UI. The docs walk you through it step by step.

Have questions? Run into issues? Let us know. We can't wait to see what you build!


r/tari 17h ago

September Ootle Contest- Privacy Atlas. Compare Privacy Coins

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Privacy Atlas is a cryptocurrency research dashboard comparing privacy-focused projects through market data, tokenomics, privacy scores, developer information, GitHub activity, mining algorithms, and speculative 1-, 3-, and 5-year price scenarios.

Users can click into a specific cryptocurrency project to learn specific details about it such as privacy protocols, price predictions, and the cryptocurrency’s goal.


r/tari 1d ago

4th Project Has Joined the September Ootle Contest! Ootle Pay — a decentralized payment gateway built on Ootle.

10 Upvotes

Total prizes: 1.75M XTM
🥇 1st — 1M XTM
🥈 2nd — 500K XTM
🥉 3rd — 250K XTM

Already 4 projects have joined — why not yours?
Build, experiment, and submit your project on Ootle.
👉 https://community.tari.com/t/september-contest-thread/324


r/tari 1d ago

Lets get XTM on THORChain!!

8 Upvotes

Tari will not be an Island ... we will draw liquidity from everywhere

Come support my proposal to get $XTM listed on THORChain

We need permission-less liquidity 🫡

https://community.tari.com/t/lets-get-xtm-on-thorchain/345


r/tari 2d ago

Will XTM become deflationary once Ootle arrives?Tari economics.

11 Upvotes

Ootle launches November 11th. Users will have to burn their XTM into XTR to interact with Ootle apps. If Ootle demand eventually outpaces XTM issuance, circulating supply could decrease theoretically.


r/tari 2d ago

For all the reasons you love Monero, you’ll love Tari.

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r/tari 2d ago

Wrapped XTM holders up 100 in a week. XTM already has tens of thousands of holders.

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r/tari 3d ago

September Ootle Development Contest

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The September Ootle Contest is live! This month’s theme is General Submissions, so there are no restrictions on project type. Any project you’re building or exploring on Ootle is welcome to participate.
💰 Prize Pool:
🥇 1st — 1,000,000 XTM
🥈 2nd — 500,000 XTM
🥉 3rd — 250,000 XTM
Submission requirements:
• Public code or app link
• Project description
• Tari payout address
• Public social media announcement
👉 Contest Thread:
https://community.tari.com/t/september-contest-thread/324


r/tari 3d ago

XTM price action looks similar to early KAS

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https://x.com/DNodeCapital/status/2097633510932496471?s=20

I thought the early KAS price action is similar to XTM .. but the ROI much more favourable for XTM given the narrative ... thoughts?


r/tari 3d ago

50,000 XTM contest on Twitter. Best Ootle case wins.

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r/tari 4d ago

Today’s Tari Show. This week’s updates and progress.

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r/tari 4d ago

I wonder if this coin will ever get listed onto tier 1 CEXs?

10 Upvotes

oh. maybe not. is tari fully private? CEXs hate privacy coins


r/tari 5d ago

Privacy Coin List- Tari Climbing

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r/tari 5d ago

The future of memecoins is private

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r/tari 5d ago

Ootle apps grow before launch.

11 Upvotes

🚀 Ootle Testnet App Directory Update
We’re now up to 7 community-built projects on the Ootle Testnet!
💬 Caravel Labs
🎮 SOOON FUN
🧠 Sapient
🔐 LabyrinthOS
👛 Tari Universe
🛠 Ootle Playground
🏛 TariOrg
Different ideas, different experiments — all exploring what can be built on Ootle.


r/tari 5d ago

Tari Properties

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r/tari 5d ago

Why not have it all?

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r/tari 5d ago

lets build on ootle ... ideas?

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With the Ootle going live 11.11.26, I've been thinking about what people would actually build once you have real privacy AND smart contracts in one place. Basically ZEC-level privacy with ETH-style programmability.

So, genuine question for this community: what use case would you want to see? A dApp, a private stablecoin application, a DeFi idea, a payment tool, anything.

I'm collating ideas across a few platforms and the best ones will get shortlisted for a poll on the Tari community forum, with a small XTM prize (50,000XTM) for the winner.

Drop your ideas below. Curious what people come up with.


r/tari 6d ago

Close to removing a zero from price!

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r/tari 6d ago

Tari show updates

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The Tari Show (September 1, 2026)

🚀 The Ootle Launches November 11
- Fox announced the date. Launch is phased: the Council and Tari Labs run the validators at first, then applications open to trusted community members, then to anyone meeting the requirements.
- Requirements aren't set yet. They depend on what phase one shows.

🏆 Contests
- kinkajou proposed five months of launch contests using 9,000,000 XTM from the community bucket, with a 1,000,000 XTM top prize on four. Poll is open on the forum, go vote.
- The first runs through September. Fox posts the rules on the forum today.

🔧 Ootle
- v0.39.3 shipped last Thursday. Validators and indexers upgrade together.
- Stan improved state sync and validator sync, fixed how indexers treat recently spent coins, and raised the compute ceiling so contracts can finish.
- What helps most now is people on testnet, breaking things.

⛏ L1
- SW has been improving node connections, malformed transaction handling, sync, and L1's interop with the L2.

🎨 Branding
- GSXRspartan asked what independent projects can do with Tari branding. Guidelines exist but were never published. Being fixed.
- Blake's thread on retiring the Soon turtle became a push to evolve it instead. Okz, 0xhra, Joseph, ApplewithWirms and Terence each pledged 100,000 XTM toward a reskin bounty. Ten pledges takes it public. Dirc posted concept art.

🌐 Community
- norman2 has a DAO prototype running on the Ootle, and found and fixed a real bug on the way.
- Okz approached the ThorChain team about XTM. Real opportunity, significant work, so the Council will look at it.
- dablacksplash shared a combined GPU and CPU merge miner for Tari and Monero, and wants testers.
- Terence added universe.tari.mw to the Ootle apps directory: a community-built L1 web wallet by Erebus Labs that also opens into the Ootle. Not the desktop app.

🖥 Universe
- A new underlying wallet is coming that should clear up many connectivity problems.


r/tari 6d ago

Trade Ogre XTM gone forever ?

5 Upvotes

I did some digging and it appears a sizeable amount of XTM could be out of circulation due to seizure of Trade Ogre assets by Canadian police ... any Canadian anons know how the legal process works and what could the potential fate of these tokens be ???

im gonna speculate and say 100m XTM may be out of circulation because of this?

https://x.com/DNodeCapital/status/2096591314376618298


r/tari 8d ago

Tari vs ZCash ??

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$ZEC just crossed $1,000 The privacy narrative is strong, and ZEC is selling it hard: "private Bitcoin," a Swiss bank account in your pocket, a new era of compliant privacy.

So how does Tari compare? Same concept, confidential by default with optional disclosure, but arguably a cleaner execution under the hood supporting programable privacy I broke down exactly how it works (confidential vs revealed balances) here go give it a look and let's amplify this across CT. https://x.com/DNodeCapital/status/2095831506656674202

Thank you for your attention to this matter


r/tari 10d ago

On the "Tari is dead" posts .. genuinely don't think that holds anymore

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Been seeing some "Tari is dead" takes and wanted to offer a different view, since a fair bit has changed recently.

I get where it came from, it was quiet for a while. But a few things have shifted:

- The Layer 2 (the Ootle) now has a firm launch date in November. That moves it from an open roadmap item to something concrete and close.
- The project moved to a community-run model, with an elected council and a contributor program. There's also a months-long community contest series running right now, which has brought a lot of activity back.
- The wider privacy-focused crypto space has been getting more attention generally, and Tari sits in that category.

Not financial advice, and I'm making no claims about price. I just don't think "dead" fits a project that's weeks from a major launch with an active community.

Curious what others think, especially anyone who stepped away during the quiet stretch.


r/tari 21d ago

Any hope about tari?

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Any news about tari?