The DevTest Labs Artifact library has a new home. The old location will remain, but will not be updated. If you manually added the old library to your DevTest Lab, please redirect the URL for the artifact library the new URL. To make it REALLY easy to get started with your own "consortium" lab, we have created a Blockchain as a Service Marketplace Template. The template will automatically setup your lab with the most popular lab settings and include the library of existing Blockchain as a Service partner offerings. The library of blockchain artifacts is kept up to date, so you will know when new distributed ledger platforms, tools and services become available.
MONERO
Monero is a crypto currency that is not based on the Bitcoin codebase, and that aims to remain as private, secure, and scalable as possible. All Monero transactions are cryptographically untraceable and unlinkable, and there is no separate "clear" token. This enables end users to use Monero as a private store of value and as a medium of exchange that is impervious to blockchain analysis or miner censorship. Developers that are building privacy-aware or privacy-centric applications will benefit from Monero's private-by-default approach, and will appreciate the small and simple metadata storage area (tx_extra) available in every transaction. Additionally, they will benefit from the standard and uncomplicated cryptography based on Daniel J. Bernstein's Curve25519 EC curve as well as EdDSA signatures. Those building pegged off-chain or sidechain systems needn't worry about on-chain limitations, as Monero's dynamic block size algorithm grows and shrinks the block size limit based on the on-chain demand. Peg as much back to the Monero blockchain as you need!
Full story: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-7/