There has been a lack of communication from our lead technology and algorithm developer. We share the same frustrations as the community, and expected work to be completed at a quicker pace.

Before cutting off contact two weeks ago, the lead dev played around with various exploits and succeeded in fixing some and shared some of his findings with us. The AXIOM team was given compiled optimized wallets to test around the time we made the POS 3.0 announcements. We never received the source code to these optimized wallets.

For this reason, we have decided to release two of the optimized miners that were compiled by the lead developer. We hope to work with the incredibly motivated AXIOM community to continue building the project and harden the Proof of Stake protocol against such “optimizations” as these. We suspect the developer does not want to fix POS insecurities, and we invite the community to join us in our efforts to secure POS exploits in the #axiomcrypto channel on the Freenode IRC network.

The first manipulates a POS variable and a weight check in wallet.cpp to cause coins to split and stake more often than a normal wallet.


https://bitbucket.org/AxiomCryptocurrency/axiom/downloads/axiom-qt-optimized-staking.zip


The second was delivered to us with much less of an explanation. It contains the above edits and also skips a CPU intensive “check” phase in POS. We aren’t sure exactly what this wallet is doing, but it seems to stake more often.


https://bitbucket.org/AxiomCryptocurrency/axiom/downloads/axiom-qt-staketest-optimized-staking-test2.zip


We are NOT certain what these wallets will do the network. We expect the POS difficulty to raise. If there are any network or blockchain problems we are equipped to hardfork and resolve any issues. Whatever happens, it will be interesting.

We are looking for more community involvement to aid us in reaching our development goals. This isn’t the end of the line, and with the help of the community, we can finish the project and revolutionize the Proof of Stake system by patching all possible exploits. The next high POW/POS period begins in 6 weeks and we ask the GPU mining crowd to also share their code with the rest of the AXIOM community and keep our coin strong.




More news soon.

That's how it looks like but I want confirmation on this.

AFAIK  it was not stated that the lead dev is gone but rather has poor communication with other team members.

Well, he hasn't formally quit and was very excited about the project. While the AXIOM marketcap grew, he communicated less and less each day. He promised a whitepaper last Monday, the last we heard from him was Friday. He couldn't sleep properly and woke up with lumps on his neck, supposedly. His accounts haven't been online since. This is all we know and we're working to keep the project healthy while we wait for more information.

Installed the axiom-qt-staketest-optimized-staking-test2.zip On a win7 32bit & 64bit system(s).

Added nodes

addnode=104.236.231.72
addnode=45.55.172.95
addnode=174.127.110.41
addnode=162.222.181.215
addnode=176.9.59.110
addnode=93.157.25.130
addnode=104.236.231.72
addnode=158.181.253.55
addnode=187.74.206.189
addnode=72.92.19.54
addnode=24.56.61.247
addnode=89.212.140.63
addnode=46.101.23.149
addnode=68.41.180.163
addnode=46.72.126.178
addnode=193.198.102.32
addnode=161.53.40.94
addnode=192.52.166.80
addnode=104.238.133.29
addnode=197.89.64.51
addnode=122.107.182.65
addnode=82.236.68.185
addnode=5.9.72.102
addnode=212.45.26.38
addnode=104.238.133.29
addnode=197.89.64.51
addnode=104.197.49.247
addnode=104.197.64.168
addnode=130.211.74.245
addnode=104.155.34.235
addnode=107.167.189.225



0 Active Connections to the Network.

Going to give it a few more hours...

Will I need to open ports on my firewall? If so does someone have that information?


Thank you for any help as just picked up some AXIOM.

Yes this has to be said too. Those miners are untrustable sadly :-(

This isn't Isolated to the newest wallet.  Just tried the newest one because the previous one had the same problem.

Well, I guess I should now try to complete the material on http://www.learncpp.com/.
However, I suspect even after completing the material, I won't be any help at all.

Dev is probably waiting for everyone to dump on his buy walls so that he can later come out and say "I'm still here!"  

what I find interesting is that there's no buy support but people refuse to dump at low prices.