We are happy to announce that at 2017–11–23 at 17:53:48 Luna has landed in our release branch and is now live for the public.

This is the final major update before the Nimiq Mainnet launch. Luna introduces all remaining core protocol features such as:

• Nano clients establishing consensus with the network by downloading just about a megabyte of blockchain data.
• Light clients that securely sync to almost full consensus by downloading just about 100 MB.
• High degree of miner decentralization by using Argon2 as memory-latency bound Proof-of-Work algorithm.
• Multiple significant performance improvements such as WebAssembly modules, Ed25519 signatures and fast database transactions.
• An intuitive address format designed for usability, based on the IBAN standard.
  To learn more about the guts and features of Luna please read here .

LUNA has Landed: New Testnet

First sighting of Luna, taken by Telegram User stankadank