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Major project announcement: A bright future for Loki
Major project announcement: A bright future for Loki

Since making our start back in 2017, Loki has grown significantly, and we've learned a lot along the way. Now, it’s time for Loki’s next evolution....

09 November 2020Admin

Pulse Check: Salty Saga Hardfork Brings a New Block Reward Structure to Support Chainflip

Pulse Check: Salty Saga Hardfork Brings a New Block Reward Structure to Support Chainflip

Oxen’s upcoming Salty Saga 8.0.0 hardfork will bring a bunch of exciting changes to Oxen Core and other key components of the Oxen privacy suite. As mentioned in the Salty Saga announcement, one of these changes is a restructure of the Oxen block rew...

22 September 2020Admin

DeFi: The Dangerous Game of Governance Tokens

DeFi: The Dangerous Game of Governance Tokens

The last few months have generated an explosion of discussion in the crypto world about governance tokens and so-called ‘yield farming’. There’s lots of chatter around incentive structures for the variety of actors in the field. In particular, the De...

13 August 2020Simon Harman

Oxen Meets DeFi: Introducing Chainflip

Oxen Meets DeFi: Introducing Chainflip

Since getting started in 2018, Oxen has been constantly exploring and pushing the boundaries of what a staked node network can do....

19 July 2020Admin

Make it SNAppy: The power and potential of Lokinet SNApps

Make it SNAppy: The power and potential of Lokinet SNApps

Lokinet is an incredibly powerful and versatile onion router. Lokinet allows for uses such as real-time onion-routed voice calls, videogame server hosting, and other applications that would be completely infeasible on existing onion routers due to th...

16 June 2020Admin

Building Blocks, Building Blockchains: How the Oxen Blockchain Works With Session, Lokinet, and Blink

Building Blocks, Building Blockchains: How the Oxen Blockchain Works With Session, Lokinet, and Blink

Oxen is many things: a project, a foundation, an idea. But first and foremost, Oxen is a blockchain. The Oxen blockchain is the backbone of Oxen’s powerful and versatile suite of privacy tools. Every privacy feature, tool, and solution we’re building...

31 May 2020Admin

Achievement Get: An Update From Simon Harman, CEO of Oxen

Achievement Get: An Update From Simon Harman, CEO of Oxen

An update from Simon harman, CEO of Oxen, about where the project has been and where it is going....

28 May 2020Simon Harman

Connecting the Dots: How Session Brings Value to the Oxen Network

Connecting the Dots: How Session Brings Value to the Oxen Network

Those of you who have been following Oxen for a while have watched Session grow into one of the main products — and one of the most talked about aspects — of the whole Oxen ecosystem. But for newcomers in particular, it may not be immediately clear h...

18 May 2020Admin

Blink: Fast-tracking the Future of Crypto Transactions

Blink: Fast-tracking the Future of Crypto Transactions

Until now, crypto transactions have been either fast or anonymous — not both. Blink is Oxen's new instant anonymous payments mechanism....

25 March 2020Admin

Oxen Name System (ONS): The Facts

Oxen Name System (ONS): The Facts

ONS can assign human-readable usernames to Session IDs and Oxen Wallet addresses, with other features in the works!...

24 March 2020Alex Linton

Back to School: Learing eSafety

Back to School: Learing eSafety

Everyone goes to all available lengths to keep their loved ones safe from the dangers of the world — both offline and, increasingly, online. But sometimes it can be hard to understand both the benefits and the dangers of the internet, both for kids a...

28 January 2020Admin

Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, and Hybrid Mechanisms

Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, and Hybrid Mechanisms

Every computer network needs a way to ensure that all connected devices are in agreement about the state of the network: whether data is valid, where and how it should be sorted, etc. For centralised networks, reaching this consensus is easy: the cen...

23 January 2020Admin

Choosing a Blockchain Project: The Checklist

Choosing a Blockchain Project: The Checklist

Choosing a blockchain project to get involved with can be really stressful. There are thousands of different blockchain projects in operation, and it can be hard to tell which ones are worth your time. Trimming that long list down to a handful of opt...

06 January 2020Admin