Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all, This week, our work was focused on fixing some issues discovered during internal testing of Session, as well as putting the finishing touches on rebranding the UI from Loki Messenger to Session.. We also made progress on the changes requir...

Hey Y’all, This week consisted of significant progress towards the Session release. Loki Core Libc++ read buffer serialization fix attempt https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/1018 Add systemd notification and watchdog support to ensure lokid is...

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, Last week was our final week of holidays, and a majority of the team is back into the office as of this week. However, some members of the dev team did work over the break. Last week, these team members primarily focused on work related to...

Hey Y’all, Last week was quite busy, with the release of the testnet 6.0.0 Loki Core software, and Lokinet releases being tagged. We continue to focus our efforts on making the backend changes necessary for Session to be ready in mid-January. This in...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we started testing Blink on testnet. Apart from a few small bugs, Blink transactions are now sending successfully on testnet. On the Loki Messenger side, nearly all Loki messenger team members have started work on the upcoming L...

Hey Y’all, This week we did a lot more work on Loki Messenger focusing on multi-device and profile images, getting everything ready for a quality-of-life upgrade for this week. We also forked the Loki core testnet with the latest Lokinet release cand...

Hey Y’all, Last week the Loki Messenger team released the first revision of multi-device for public usage. For the rest of the week, we worked on upcoming features for improving the multi-device user experience. This includes adding QR code scanning ...

Hey Y’all, Last week we finished the last of our edge case testing for multi device and we’re readying ourselves for a release tomorrow. This will contain the first version of multi device, which allows for contact syncing and syncing of sent and rec...

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,  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...

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...

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. ...

Everything that network operators need to know about the upcoming mandatory service node upgrade. 10.4.0 Wistful Wagyu will be released on Tuesday February 6, 2024 with a 2 week mandatory upgrade period....

We are beyond excited for what the project and the community can achieve together in 2024. ...

The Oxen top brass recently sat down to answer some of your burning questions about the Session Token Swap Program. We're here with a summary of all the questions they answered, or you can check out the video for the full experience....

Welcome to the first ever edition of the Session Lab Update — learn about tokenomics, website building, and the Token Swap Program. ...

A total of 60,000,000 Session Tokens are reserved in the Session Token Swap Program through Oxen Coin Claims and Service Node Bonus....

Chainflip has taken their biggest step yet, with a successful Token Generation Event. A big good onya mate to our Berliner friends across the pond — this is a massive achievement....

There’s a better way to handle the Lab Updates and share our progress with the community— and we are going to do that starting from now. ...