Oxen Blogs

Everyone knows Proof of Work consensus uses a lot of energy. People care about the climate — and crypto needs to catch up....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: a new Session release including V2 Open groups and closed croup improvements, as well as preparation for the upcoming Lokinet release...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: release of the new hardfork, and new Session open groups...

The state of privacy on the internet has been degrading for years. Let's take a look at how that happened and what can be done to fix it....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: putting the final touches on Oxen Core and Lokinet for the upcoming hard fork, and Session Android improvements...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: preparation for the Audacious Aurochs hardfork, and liblokinet preparation...

To promote the currently running Chainflip Airdrop, we are running a community meme competition (with Oxen prizes) — here's how you can enter!...

To promote the Chainflip airdrop we're running a community video program with an Oxen prize — here's how you can join in!...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: overhauling the Session open group server, liblokinet progress, and cleanup in preparation for the upcoming Oxen hardfork...

Session is seeing massive user growth, with 100+% increase in active user count in the past month alone. To capitalise on this, we’re creating a Session Pro subscription to provide access to new power-user features like multi-account support and manu...

We're launching a new wrapped token: wOXEN. We're also running a wOXEN-USDT liquidity mining program....

Towards the end of 2020, we announced the biggest change to the Loki Project since launch: Loki is rebranding to become Oxen. There have been plenty of questions about what the rebrand entails, when everything will be happening, and what our users ne...

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. ...