Golden Finance reported that DarkFi, a privacy-focused encryption project initiated by early Bitcoin developer Amir Taaki, released an alpha version of its app. This marks the latest version of this community of coders, artists and technologists who have been quietly patching in the dark for years. Last fall, Taaki released a pre-developed app, which is basically a completely anonymous IRC (Internet Relay Chat) app. However, Taaki plans to develop it into a useful product garden. "It will be very fast to start expanding and adding because we already have a lot of features, such as anonymous DAO, wallet, blockchain," Taki said in an interview with Block magazine. “All of this is already running, just not appearing in the product. The platform’s message transport component can run on Tor and is completely peer-to-peer.