🚀 MyZubster Gateway Is Officially Live: A Major Milestone for Our Decentralized Marketplace
After weeks of development, debugging, and infrastructure improvements, we're excited to announce a major milestone for the MyZubster ecosystem:
The MyZubster Gateway backend is now live and publicly accessible.
This is more than a successful deployment. It marks the beginning of a new phase in the project, where developers can start interacting with a live backend and prepare the Marketplace for real-world testing.
What Is the MyZubster Gateway?
The Gateway acts as the communication layer between the Marketplace and the services that power it.
Its responsibilities include:
- handling API requests;
- managing escrow operations;
- integrating with Monero wallets;
- providing a secure backend for future marketplace transactions;
- supporting upcoming AI-driven automation features.
By separating these responsibilities into a dedicated service, the platform becomes easier to scale, maintain, and extend.
Multisig Escrow Has Been Merged
One of the biggest achievements in this development cycle was the successful merge of Pull Request #153, introducing a complete 2-of-3 Monero Multisig Escrow implementation.
This contribution adds support for:
- multisig wallet creation;
- key generation and exchange;
- transaction signing;
- secure escrow transaction flows;
- automated testing for the wallet lifecycle;
- continuous integration through GitHub Actions.
This lays the technical foundation for trustless transactions within the MyZubster Marketplace.
Deployment Challenges
Getting the Gateway online wasn't simply a matter of pressing the deploy button.
During deployment we faced several technical challenges, including:
- Git merge conflicts;
- legacy repository cleanup;
- removal of an obsolete submodule;
- Render deployment cache issues;
- CI/CD stabilization.
Each issue provided an opportunity to simplify the project and make future deployments more reliable.
Today, every push to the main branch automatically triggers a new deployment through our CI/CD pipeline.
The Gateway Is Now Live
The backend is now publicly available, providing developers with a live environment for integration and testing.
With the service online, contributors can begin:
- testing API endpoints;
- validating escrow workflows;
- integrating frontend components;
- experimenting with Monero testnet transactions.
Having a live backend dramatically improves the development workflow by allowing features to be tested continuously instead of relying solely on local environments.
Why Multisig Matters
Escrow is one of the most important components of any decentralized marketplace.
By implementing 2-of-3 multisig, buyers and sellers can lock funds in a shared wallet without needing to trust each other directly.
If a dispute occurs, a third participant—such as a trusted mediator or, in the future, an AI-assisted arbitration service—can help authorize the release of funds according to the agreed process.
Combined with Monero's privacy features, this creates a strong foundation for secure and confidential marketplace transactions.
What's Next?
Now that the infrastructure is operational, development can move toward integration and refinement.
Upcoming priorities include:
- restoring the complete Gateway business logic;
- reconnecting Monero RPC services;
- documenting the Gateway API;
- integrating the Marketplace frontend;
- expanding end-to-end testing;
- preparing for larger-scale testing on the Monero testnet.
These steps will move the project closer to a fully functional decentralized marketplace.
Thank You
Open-source software is built through collaboration.
Special thanks to @laurentketterle-hub for implementing the multisig functionality, and to everyone who contributed by reporting issues, testing changes, reviewing code, and sharing ideas throughout the development process.
Every contribution helps strengthen the MyZubster ecosystem.
Looking Ahead
Launching the Gateway is not the end of the journey—it's the beginning of a new chapter.
For the first time, MyZubster has a live backend capable of supporting future marketplace integrations, privacy-preserving payments, and decentralized transaction workflows.
There's still a lot to build, but with a stable infrastructure, automated deployments, and multisig escrow now in place, the project is better positioned than ever for the next phase of development.
We're excited to continue building in the open and sharing each milestone with the community.
Happy coding! 🚀
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