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Just over two days after HF6 activation, the first Gateway Address has been registered on mainnet.

The registration transaction was included in block 3,836,052 and contains a gateway_address_descriptor_operation_register, with the required 100 ZANO fee:

https://explorer.zano.org/transaction/03edb09ab5d9ec759aa2c2b98b377499cdb136e6a222622c75445d095902c517

This is a small but meaningful milestone. It provides the first visible on-chain confirmation that the Gateway Address registration mechanism introduced by HF6 is operating successfully on mainnet. HF6 is not only live: its new functionality has already produced its first observable result.

Congratulations to the Zano team and everyone involved in this successful activation!

@petrex-0 Gateway Addresses are mainly intended for services that need a persistent, publicly trackable account-style address on Zano: exchanges, payment processors, gateways, automated services, and similar infrastructure.
Unlike normal private Zano addresses, a Gateway Address has directly trackable balances and visible asset/amount information, which makes accounting, deposits, withdrawals and automated integration much simpler.
The idea is not to replace Zano’s private addresses, but to add a service-oriented option for cases where public, deterministic accounting is useful.
In the future, with the right tooling and security controls, this model could also be well suited to autonomous AI agents, since they can work with directly queryable balances, deterministic accounting and automated payment flows.