Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all, Checkpointing is back on the agenda now that the Loki Core team has finished up with the process of managing the hardfork. This should prompt some further discussion of consensus mechanisms in the community.   Loki Core The first part of t...

Hey Y’all, There was a lot of Swarm storage server work this week. We’re getting close to a new Lokinet release with binaries that are much more stable than the last release. We’re actively testing lots of additional applications, like the iOS wallet...

Hey Y’all, A big dev update this week, with lots of work going into the integration between Loki core, Lokinet and Loki Messenger. We’re getting closer and closer to the vision of a unified process for Service Nodes, which allows the main network to ...

Hey Y’all, Lots of changes happened last week! We hardforked to the new version of Loki 3.0.2 / 3.0.3 and we switched hashing algorithms to Cryptonight Turtle. With this came a few bugs and lots of fixes. We’re still fixing various issues this week, ...

Hey Y’all, The past week has been intense, as a critical bug was discovered which required getting Service Node operators to immediately update. You can find a full report here: https://loki.network/2019/03/22/critical-bug-report-21st-march-2019/ Lot...

Hey Y’all, We have released the final binaries for the next hardfork on the 26th of March, block height 234,767. The release is called Summer Sigyn, and you can download it here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v3.0.0 The new releas...

Hey Y’all, Loki Core is going through some big changes this week… Infinite Staking! We decided to postpone the hard fork date due to some bugs in the 3.0.0 testnet release. However, we are back on track for a Mandatory Upgrade Period of 10 days which...

Hey Y’all,  Lots of updates for Loki Messenger this week! We are making steady progress on a number of fronts, and we hope to have something out soon for everyone to play around with!  Loki Core The core team has begun streaming more frequently, you ...

Hey Y’all, Another Dev update for you to have a look at Loki Core The core team has begun streaming more, you can catch Doy-lee streaming here https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/ Continued work to add encoded date information to 25 word seeds https://gith...

Hey Y’all, Loki Core Service Node checkpointing LIP-3 Work continues here https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/ServiceNodeCheckpointing Remove tail increase in staking requirementhttps://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/422 as per https://github....

Hey Y’all, Another weekly Dev Update for you to peruse. Loki Core The core team has begun streaming more frequently – you can catch Doy-lee streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/doy_lee/ Fix crash in view only wallets. https://github.com/loki-project...

Hey Y’all, We’re back with another Dev Update for you all. Loki Core Infinite Staking refinement and squashing new bugs including Adjusting contribution minimum rules to adhere to key image limits and reservation amounts Improving prepare_registratio...

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. ...