{"id":13123,"date":"2018-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2018\/11\/12\/product-brief-dash-core-release-v0-13-0\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:36:30","slug":"product-brief-v0130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/product-brief-v0130\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Brief: Dash Core Release v0.13.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Product Brief: Dash Core Release v0.13.0
\nIf you have not yet read our announcement on the release name changes, please check it out here.<\/p>\n

Dash is a global payments network with its own cryptocurrency offering businesses and individuals instant payments for less than a cent per transaction. Our goal is to provide users with a better way to pay and get paid. We are in the process of rolling out a series of upgrades to our system dubbed \u201cEvolution\u201d to make Dash the most user-friendly blockchain-based payment network in the world.<\/p>\n

Available to anyone who wants to use it, the system runs on a distributed governance system operated by a network of masternodes. Masternodes enable Dash\u2019s fast, secure payments by reaching consensus via \u201cquorums\u201d on the validity of transactions.<\/p>\n

Our development team recently introduced several network upgrades to Testnet which, after sufficient testing, we plan to introduce to Mainnet in Release 0.13.0. This release focuses on improving consensus methods on the network. It includes:<\/p>\n