Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all,  This week we made big progress on Lokinet and Loki Messenger. On the Loki Messenger side, we are putting most of our efforts into finishing multi-device support, which means solving lots of edge cases. For Lokinet, we are getting closer a...

Hey Y’all,  Last week the Loki Messenger team continued their short term pivot to get File Attachments and Mentions finished for a quick release. These long requested features are very close to being rolled out. The Loki Core team continued their pus...

Hey Y’all,  Last week the Loki Messenger team continued work on limited multi-device support for mobile devices, and finished the last required changes to support @mentions on Desktop. The Loki Core team is almost ready to release Trusty Tyr 5.0.0 – ...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we released the 5.0.0 testnet binaries for lokid, which include enforced checkpointing and a number of P2P and uptime proof fixes. We’re running a Bug Bounty with a prize pool of 4000 $LOKI for finding bugs related to checkpoint...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towar...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we stepped up work on Loki Core, with the final set of changes being merged in ahead of the testnet fork, enabling protections against checkpointing edge cases. Loki Messenger got a new release too – there’ll be many more over t...

Hey Y’all,  This week was primarily focused on Loki Messenger user interface improvements, adding features like message replies in public chats and fixing up link previews. We also published the new Lokinet release, which is almost ready, pending a c...

Hey Y’all,  This week we worked hard developing features for a number of upcoming releases, including finally nailing down some issues which have drastically increased the stability of Lokinet, adding lots of new UX features to Loki Messenger, and th...

Hey Y’all,  This week we focused on new features for Loki Messenger, such as allowing moderators and users to delete messages. We also worked on adding QR codes to Loki Messenger and shortening seed words. Last week Lokinet also investigated per path...

Hey Y’all,  A small update this week as many of the Loki devs are attending conferences (I’m at Blockchain Week Berlin) or on holiday. Most of our work went into Loki Core and Lokinet releases, where we are successfully improving stability on both fr...

Hey Y’all,  This week we continued work on some key areas in Loki Messenger, including adding chat channel support for Android and iOS, and starting work on support for Loki Messenger across multiple devices. We also released an update to the Loki St...

Hey Y’all,  This week we finished up with the release of the Loki Messenger Android application. We also released the Loki Binance Bridge which was developed over the past few months and has now been open sourced on Github. Over the next few weeks we...

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 team is shifting their focus from Oxen to Session Token. ...