Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all,  This week we finished up with the release of the Loki Messenger Android application. We also released the Loki Binance Bridge which was developed over the past few months and has now been open sourced on Github. Over the next few weeks we...

Hey Y’all,  This week we’ve mostly worked on bugs that were affecting Service Node operators as they transitioned from lokid 3.0.X to the 4.0.3 suite of Loki Service Node tools. We published a new release for the Loki Storage Server and Launcher, and...

Hey Y’all,  The Loki 4.0.0 hardfork is fast approaching! It’s happening in approximately 24 hours, so if you haven’t upgraded your Service Node, Miner or Mining Pool, now is your chance. If you don’t update in time, you will be left on an alternate c...

Hey Y’all,  This week was particularly busy as we worked towards the final binaries release for the mandatory upgrade period. Thank you to everyone who jumped on testnet and set up nodes – with your help we were able to identify a host of bugs which ...

Hey Y’all,  We’ve been busy bug catching this week! The testnet period for 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall is still running, and we’re still working hard to track down a number of bugs that have appeared.   Last week we released the beta version of Loki Messeng...

Hey Y’all,  A big Dev Update this week  – especially for Loki Core with lots of pull requests needing to be merged as we work towards a final release. Last week we released the Loki Core 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall testnet binaries, and the Loki Storage Ser...

Hey Y’all,  We’re all busy getting ready for the testnet release this week, which means we’re busy combing through lokid, Loki Messenger and the Loki Storage Server looking for bugs and testing our edge cases.  This week we also did a new release for...

Hey Y’all, Today’s our 52nd Dev Update, which means we have been doing them for a year now !!!! This week a lot more work happened in Loki Core in preparation for some of the interactions that will need to happen between lokid and the Loki Storage Se...

Hey Y’all, This week we finished up with our Loki iOS wallet! We hope to have a release out this week, pending approval from the Apple Store. We also began work on a version of Loki Messenger that does not use Lokinet. This means we will be able to r...

Hey Y’all, This was a week of planning and debriefing after Consensus. We moved lots of the team around and identified some new goals – the biggest being a plan to release a version of Loki Messenger on mainnet with the next hard fork. We also worked...

Hey Y’all, This week’s Dev Update will only be small since nearly the whole team has been travelling again, this time back to Australia from Consensus. Nevertheless, we have initiated a range of changes both in Lokinet and the Loki storage server Add...

Hey Y’all, This Dev Update is a little late due to the craziness around Consensus. Nearly the whole team has been travelling this week to get to the United States. Last week we improved the stability of a special Testnet called Consensus Net and also...

There will be a mandatory service node upgrade released in the coming weeks. The new binaries will be released on January 26 and all service nodes must be updated by February 9....

Fresh start to the year, new Lokinet team member, AI exploration, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

Recently there we announced some big news, and with 2022 quickly coming to a close, it’s an appropriate time for all the big decision-makers at the Oxen Labs to come together with the community to answer questions, discuss the future, and get ready f...

Short video growth, Christmas break prep, closed groups overhaul, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

New CEO announcement and AMA, content blitz for Christmas break, Wallet 3 progress, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

Fresh off the announcement that he was taking over as the Oxen CEO, Chris McCabe jumped into our community channel to answer some of your burning questions....

Oxen, technology, and the world has changed a lot since we got started;  looking into the future, it’s time for Oxen to embrace new leadership — Chris McCabe is the new CEO of Oxen....

We're in the new office, continued disappearing messages work, Wallet3 progress, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

New Oxen Labs office, Session disappearing messages work, Wallet3 progress, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update...

New Lokinet release, Session closed group overhaul continues, spooky Session Tapes, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

Stable Lokinet build, short form video explosion, closed groups overhauling, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...

Groups overhaul begins, Session release bug-fixes, short form videos popping off, and more in this week's Oxen Labs Update!...