DarkSilk is a privacy-centric cryptographic currency which is a fork of BlackCoin, with features from Dash and ShadowCash.DarkSilk’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm is ‘Argon2d’. This system secures the protocol through an efficient, decentralised process called “minting”. DarkSend, Stealth Address technology for sending anonymous block transactions are implemented, along with ShadowChat for encrypted messaging, InstantX and a decentralised marketplace.