Oxen Blogs

Eth 2.0 is live. As of 12am UTC on Tuesday, 1 Dec, the first stage of Ethereum’s evolution into a Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain has now begun. If PoS sounds familiar, that’s probably because Oxen has been full PoS since the Salty Saga hardfork back...

We’ve talked a lot about the benefits of Proof of Stake for the Oxen blockchain, but there’s another huge upside to PoS compared to our old hybrid PoS-PoW consensus mechanism: it’s a lot kinder to the planet....

Oxen’s upcoming Salty Saga 8.0.0 hardfork will bring a bunch of exciting changes to Oxen Core and other key components of the Oxen privacy suite. As mentioned in the Salty Saga announcement, one of these changes is a restructure of the Oxen block rew...

Hey Y’all,  Pulse blocks started flowing last week as the Loki core team fired up the Pulse devnet, over the next couple of weeks the core team will use the devnet to test the resilience of consensus with Pulse. The Lokinet team made more progress on...

Read all about the latest updates to the Loki privacy suite. This week: final prep for Pulse’s devnet launch and a Lokinet exit node test run....

Read all about the latest improvements to the Loki privacy suite. This week’s highlights include the first big steps towards implementing Pulse....

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...

Recently we released our fifth Oxen Improvement Proposal in which we outlined a new Proof of Stake scheme, Pulse. If it’s to be implemented, Pulse would have Service Nodes produce blocks, order transactions, and secure the blockchain, rendering miner...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: voice call internal testing, wallet3 work continued, and PySOGS debuted...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: more wallet3 work, SOGS improvements, and webRTC call testing continues....

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Internal testing of Session voice/video calls, wallet3 design progress, and Lokinet stability upgrades...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Ledger support coming for Oxen, WebRTC calls progress, and message requests...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: unsend messages released, Session file server and open group server refactor, and more voice call work he's going to el sa...

Read all about the latest updates to the Oxen suite! This week: Session unsend requests arrive, WebRTC call progress, and further Wallet3 work...

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....