Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all, Last week was a busy one due to the Nimble Nerthus hardfork, which was successful in both moving Lokinet routers onto mainnet and enabling Blink on mainnet. We are still monitoring the stability of both of these features and will release u...

Hey Y’all,  We’re powering along with updates on Loki core. Last week, the Trusty Tyr Hardfork enabled Service Node checkpointing. This week, we are beginning work on LNS, and have finished a Blink pull request  which has most of the changes needed t...

The Landing Hardfork was activated at 00:00 UTC (block height 1,852,079) on May 21st, 2025, coinciding with the token generation event of Session Token (SESH). Registered operators and contributors have now had their staked OXEN automatically swapped...

The Landing Hardfork software upgrade was released today, Wednesday May 14th. Operators have until Wednesday 21 May 2025, 00:00 UTC at block height 1852079, to complete the upgrade....

With the migration fast approaching, key parameters have now been finalised for the new Session Network, including the staking requirement for a Session node, and the conversion rate for the swap from OXEN to SESH for OXEN holders and stakers....

The Anchor Hardfork software upgrade was released today, Tuesday April 22nd. Operators have until Tuesday April 29th, 00:00 UTC at block height 1836239, to complete the upgrade. At this point, the Anchor Hardfork will be activated and new service nod...

Oxen is announcing changes to the rollout of Oxen Anchor Hardfork. A new point release (version 11.1.0) will be released in advance of the Anchor Hardfork release. ...

As TGE draws closer, many things are falling into place and being finalised, including Session Token's official ticker. The official ticker for Session Token will be: $SESH. ...

A non-mandatory Service Node upgrade is now available, with bug fixes for Oxen Core and Lokinet....

Session Token is planned to launch between February 5, 2025 to March 20, 2025 to ensure migration readiness and ecosystem sustainability. Here's what it means for Oxen service node operators....

After two Mandatory Service Node Upgrades (MSNUs) in the last few weeks, there are two more on the horizon....

Oxen is announcing another MSNU, with 10.6.0 Wistful Wagyu releasing on July 24 2024 with a one week mandatory upgrade period....

Everything that network operators need to know about the upcoming mandatory service node upgrade....

After multiple years of development, the Oxen team has shifted their focus from Oxen to Session Token. ...