Oxen Blogs

Lokinet is an incredibly powerful and versatile onion router. Lokinet allows for uses such as real-time onion-routed voice calls, videogame server hosting, and other applications that would be completely infeasible on existing onion routers due to th...

Oxen is many things: a project, a foundation, an idea. But first and foremost, Oxen is a blockchain. The Oxen blockchain is the backbone of Oxen’s powerful and versatile suite of privacy tools. Every privacy feature, tool, and solution we’re building...

An update from Simon harman, CEO of Oxen, about where the project has been and where it is going....

Those of you who have been following Oxen for a while have watched Session grow into one of the main products — and one of the most talked about aspects — of the whole Oxen ecosystem. But for newcomers in particular, it may not be immediately clear h...

Until now, crypto transactions have been either fast or anonymous — not both. Blink is Oxen's new instant anonymous payments mechanism....

The new Oxen Name System (ONS) was released in a limited capacity on the 25th of March alongside the Valiant Vidar hardfork. At launch, ONS can assign human-readable usernames to Session IDs and Oxen Wallet addresses, with other uses (and features) p...

Everyone goes to all available lengths to keep their loved ones safe from the dangers of the world — both offline and, increasingly, online. But sometimes it can be hard to understand both the benefits and the dangers of the internet, both for kids a...

Every computer network needs a way to ensure that all connected devices are in agreement about the state of the network: whether data is valid, where and how it should be sorted, etc. For centralised networks, reaching this consensus is easy: the cen...

Choosing a blockchain project to get involved with can be really stressful. There are thousands of different blockchain projects in operation, and it can be hard to tell which ones are worth your time. Trimming that long list down to a handful of opt...

We’re covered the basics of buying, storing and selling cryptocurrency. Now, it’s time to take things up a notch and take a look at cryptocurrency trading....

Running a masternode or service node is a great way to earn a passive income through cryptocurrency rewards. However, doing so requires staking (locking away) a certain amount of cryptocurrency. For some blockchain projects, the staking requirement i...

A Sybil Attack is a security threat that involves one actor (a person or group) trying to take over a network by operating multiple accounts, nodes or computers. The name ‘Sybil’ comes from a famous case study about a woman, Sybil Dorsett, with Disso...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Wallet3 work, unsend requests for Session, and various Lokinet updates...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Session WebRTC calling progress, Lokinet calling test app work, and more!...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Lokinet calling test app, Session WebRTC calling UI, and more!...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Session backend changes, liblokinet work, and wallet3 development...

Recently, we’ve been spending a lot of time making specific plans for the future of Oxen. We’ve been analysing which parts of the project are worth devoting more resources to, which ones will best serve Oxen, and devising development and marketing st...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: a new Session release, liblokinet improvements, and voice/video call progress....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: more work on voice calls, session open group server upgrades and bug fixes...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Session desktop UI overhaul, Lokinet macOS final touches, and Oxen core bug fixes...

We’re running yet another meme competition! That means all you jokers out there have the chance to win some seriously ❄️cool❄️ prizes for your 🔥hot🔥 memes....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: progress on webRTC calls on Session and Lokinet macOS support...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Service Node reward batching finished & in review, and a Session desktop conversation screen overhaul....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: progress on voice/video calls, SN reward batching and more!...