Oxen Blogs

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...

Hey Y’all, This week we continue working towards building out Loki Messenger for iOS, improving the stability of Lokinet, and making progress on Service Node checkpointing. Next week I will post a special version of the Dev Update specifically for Co...

Hey Y’all, We’re really focusing on integration this week, with lots of work going into setting up testnets and improving the stability of Lokinet. This week we finally released our Lokinet alpha – I encourage you to go and test it out! You can see m...

Hey Y’all, Checkpointing is back on the agenda now that the Loki Core team has finished up with the process of managing the hardfork. This should prompt some further discussion of consensus mechanisms in the community.   Loki Core The first part of t...

Hey Y’all, There was a lot of Swarm storage server work this week. We’re getting close to a new Lokinet release with binaries that are much more stable than the last release. We’re actively testing lots of additional applications, like the iOS wallet...

Hey Y’all, A big dev update this week, with lots of work going into the integration between Loki core, Lokinet and Loki Messenger. We’re getting closer and closer to the vision of a unified process for Service Nodes, which allows the main network to ...

Hey Y’all, Lots of changes happened last week! We hardforked to the new version of Loki 3.0.2 / 3.0.3 and we switched hashing algorithms to Cryptonight Turtle. With this came a few bugs and lots of fixes. We’re still fixing various issues this week, ...

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. ...

Everything that network operators need to know about the upcoming mandatory service node upgrade. 10.4.0 Wistful Wagyu will be released on Tuesday February 6, 2024 with a 2 week mandatory upgrade period....

We are beyond excited for what the project and the community can achieve together in 2024. ...

The Oxen top brass recently sat down to answer some of your burning questions about the Session Token Swap Program. We're here with a summary of all the questions they answered, or you can check out the video for the full experience....

Welcome to the first ever edition of the Session Lab Update — learn about tokenomics, website building, and the Token Swap Program. ...

A total of 60,000,000 Session Tokens are reserved in the Session Token Swap Program through Oxen Coin Claims and Service Node Bonus....

Chainflip has taken their biggest step yet, with a successful Token Generation Event. A big good onya mate to our Berliner friends across the pond — this is a massive achievement....

There’s a better way to handle the Lab Updates and share our progress with the community— and we are going to do that starting from now. ...

Closed Groups Chunk 2, EVM work continues, Session Token Discord incoming, and more in this weeks Oxen Labs Update!...