Oxen Blogs

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include Lokinet bugfixes and progress for Loki on Ledger wallets....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki software suite. This week: Progress on a public Lokinet 0.8 (exit nodes) release for macOS, and more....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include onion routing for Session open groups and file attachments....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include merging and final testing of Session’s desktop refactor....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include finishing up the Session Desktop refactor....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include 3-hop onion routing on all Session platforms....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include massive Session stability improvements on Android....

Hey Y’all,  Last week we continued our efforts to improve the stability of Loki Core and the Loki Storage Server. We found and patched some bugs, however these stability upgrades are still ongoing. Lokinet for macOS was reworked, and we are onto the ...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we dealt with a deregistration event caused by some misconfigured Service Nodes, and a Loki Storage Server bug which occurred on some platforms. On the Lokinet side, we adopted some new strategies for implementing the Lokinet GU...

Hey Y’all,  This week we focused on implementing onion requests and revamping push notifications in Session. Onion requests (once implemented clientside) should increase message sending reliability and improve multi-device functionality. On the Lokin...

Hey Y’all,  Last week we continued our focus on fixing Session bugs affecting multi-device, push notifications and message sending. We made good progress on these fixes, and were able to identify identify several key areas where unreliability is comi...

Hey Y’all,  This week has been a little slower, with people working from home due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However, we’re still on track for the 24th of March Valiant Vidar hard fork. We’ve fixed some final Lokinet 0.7.0 prerelease bugs. We have ...

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. ...