Established April 2017
Ryo Currency is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2017, built from the ground up on its own blockchain. It uses a long-term, GPU-only emission model to keep mining accessible and decentralized. With no premine or ICO, Ryo was fairly launched and remains community-driven. Privacy is embedded at the protocol level, giving users true control over their transactions and data. Designed to be resilient, Ryo offers a serious alternative for those who value financial freedom in a time of growing surveillance and centralization.
Private
Ryo was conceived with the highest level of privacy in mind. It uses Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) with a default ring size of 25 to conceal all transaction details: amounts, origins, and destinations.
The upcoming migration to zk-proofs will make tracing Ryo recipients virtually impossible. Enjoy peace of mind knowing that what you choose to do with your money is your business—and no one else’s.
Untraceable
With privacy as Ryo’s core foundation, sender and receiver addresses are encrypted, and transaction amounts are obfuscated by default. Our uniform payment ID system makes transactions that use payment ID-s untraceable and hides the very fact that you use ID-s.
Decentralized
Ryo builds upon Satoshi’s original vision of a decentralized, trustless cryptocurrency by placing privacy at its core. Many GPU-mined coins have drifted toward centralization through ASICs, FPGAs, or botnets. Ryo actively pushes back, using the Cryptonight-GPU algorithm and ongoing development to preserve fair mining and network decentralization.
Fungible
Ryo is truly fungible thanks to its built-in privacy features. Just like cash, no one can trace who previously possessed a particular coin. Even better than cash, the recipient’s identity remains completely unknown. Because of this, it is extremely unlikely that Ryo will ever be blacklisted by any third party due to associations with prior transactions.
Anonymous
Ryo allows you to use a unique ghost address for every transaction you receive, hiding your real Ryo address from senders. This means you can choose to never receive coins to the same address twice, reducing the already slim chance of linking transactions back to you.
Easy to Use
Our Ryo Wallet Atom is a user-friendly wallet that lets you store, send, and receive Ryo. The desktop wallet Atom is one of the most easy-to-use and intuitive wallets around, and it also supports GPU SOLO mining, view-only wallets, and many more features.
Wallets
Why RYO?
Privacy. Decentralization. Innovation.
Ryo Currency is built for people who value privacy, fairness, and financial independence. Unlike many other Cryptonote-based projects, Ryo continues to deliver meaningful development. Innovations such as short wallet seeds, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), fast payment IDs, and payment gateway integrations – have even been adopted by other major privacy coins, including Monero.
Ryo’s mining algorithm, Cryptonight-GPU, is optimized for standard consumer GPUs, not ASICs. This levels the playing field, allowing individual miners with home PCs or gaming rigs to participate meaningfully without being crowded out by industrial-scale operations. The algorithm has even been adopted by other privacy projects.
Ryo was one of the first Cryptonote projects to include built-in solo mining through a graphical user interface. The Ryo Wallet Atom makes it easy to mine independently, without the need for complex setups or reliance on mining pools.
There was no premine, no speedmine, and no privileged early launch. Emission is spread out over 20 years to ensure long-term sustainability and fairness.
Looking ahead, Ryo is transitioning to Halo 2 zero-knowledge proofs: next-generation privacy technology that will bring stronger anonymity and enable entirely new capabilities. Privacy will remain default and enforced at the protocol level.
Ryo isn’t just another coin in the crowd. It’s a project building practical tools for real privacy, with a long-term vision that starts today.
Buy RYO
Get Ryo in a Few Simple Steps
Ryo is available on several privacy-friendly platforms that support secure and anonymous trading. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced crypto user, you can start using Ryo in just a few clicks.
Where to Buy
How to Use Ryo Privately and Securely
To ensure maximum privacy and security, always withdraw your Ryo directly into an official Ryo wallet:
Ryo Wallet Atom (for desktop)
This is the only wallet designed specifically to support Ryo’s privacy features. This includes one-time ghost addresses, encrypted transactions, and full compatibility with view-only wallets.
Why this matters:
Exchanges and third-party wallets often lack full privacy support. As a result, your transaction history may be exposed or only partially protected. By using Atom, you ensure your transactions remain fully private and untraceable. This is how Ryo was meant to be used.
Learn more in our FAQ under: “What’s the safest/intended way of using RYO privately?”
Work with us
If you want to become a contributor for occasional work or a part-time & full time regular team member - you are welcomed to join our efforts in making crypto private by default and accessible to eveRYOne.
Who can apply?
Anyone that falls under listed above criteria, works in areas that are needed and listed above, who can accept crypto as payment and has a track record (portfolio that can be linked to review or samples of own work).
Is it full-time or a part-time work?
We can work with you as a one-time cooperation on a single task, or on a regular basis (full-time and part-time). Let us know what you prefer more.
What about payments?
Rates and amounts are set depending on your skillset, experience and type of work on review. We set it on hourly basis and pay with crypto. The payment frequency is also flexible but is not more often than once a week.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: I don't have much experience, but would like to apply.
A: We are open to all candidates. Don't worry if you don't know everything on application date. Development is a process of study all the time. Start with us and get paid for it. You just need to have enthusiasm and desire for it. Sounds cool, right?
Q: Will I have to pass an exam or get a test job?
A: Yes, you will be provided a small task to deliver. It will be paid on completion.
Q: I'm an expert in everything, can I apply??
A: If your expertise is falling under any listed criteria - go ahead, you're welcomed.
Q: Do I have chances to grow and earn more?
A: Sure. After all it depends only on you how proficient you become. We will help if needed and share our experience with you.
Q: Can I work with other projects while working with you?
A: Why not? We are not in a cult here :)
Core Code Developer
Requirements: C++, Blockchain tech understanding and experience over 2-3 years of active coding practice. Github link on portfolio is mandatory to be reviewed by team.
Wallet & infrastructure developer
Frontend and backend developers: Webdev, Python, JS and its frameworks, Electron, NodeJS, server maintenance. Github workflow. Optional: Crypto & Blockchain experience is a good add-on. Github link on portfolio is highly welcomed to be reviewed by team.
Support & Marketing Crew
Design: 3Ds Max (modeller, texturer, visualiser), Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator.
Animation Production: Adobe Premiere, After Effects, 3Ds Max animation.
Video Production: Voiceovers, reviews & news production.
Social Promotion & Support: Discord, Telegram, Reddit, Twitter.
Ryo library
Development resources
Write-ups
Retrospectives, security reports and community updates:
Ryo mining algorithms (POW) write-ups:
"Tracing Cryptonote" series of write-ups by Fireice_uk:
- pt.1 : Hiding your IP while using Ryo or other Cryptonotes
- pt.2 : Tracing Cryptonote ring signatures using external metadata
- pt.3 : How buying pot with Monero will get you busted — Knacc attack on Cryptonote coins
- pt.4 : On-chain tracking of Monero and other Cryptonotes. (aka Graph analysis of transactions)
"Vulnerabilities of Monero and how we fixed it in Ryo" series of write-ups by Fireice_uk:
Ryo Gallery
You are free to use these images as illustrations for blog posts, tweets and any other materials about Ryo Currency. You are more than welcome to contribute your artwork such as renders, sketches, drawings, 3D models, animations and other resources to the Ryo marketing team. High quality artwork may be awarded with a bounty if deemed by appropriate by our team.
Send your masterpieces via email to contact@ryo-currency.com or contact us through any of our official channels (Telegram, Discord, Reddit, etc) . Selected works will be added to this page.
Ryo Branding Pack contains Ryo Currency and Ryoblocks logo in raster and vector formats.
- 18 raster logo/slogan images. Image format: .png
- 5 Vector logo and slogan images. Image format: .svg
- 13 Full-HD logo 3D renders. Some with transparency. Image format: .png
This page is being updated, so come back from time to time ;)
