Oxen Blogs

Hey Y’all, The first day of 2018! Smaller dev update this week since most of us were on holidays for the last week celebrating Christmas. LLARP / Lokinet If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP...

Hey Y’all, Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to everyone! Over the next few weeks the Dev Updates will probably be more sparse as most of the team is having a little time off for the Christmas period. We hope to be refreshed before a great 2019 for...

Hey Y’all, Festive Freya and bulletproofs are now active, reducing the average transaction size by about 90% and fees by about 25 times! Anyone who is having issues syncing past the hard fork height of 161849 should download the point release here fo...

Hey Y’all, Another weekly Dev Update for everyone. We released Festive Freya Version 2.0.1 this week which fixed a number of subtle bugs that we introduced in 2.0.0. Both 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 are compatible with the Festive Freya hardfork, but we recommen...

Hey Y’all, By the time this Dev Update is out, the Festive Freya mandatory upgrade period will have begun. This means ALL SERVICE NODE OPERATORS, ALL POOLS, AND ALL USERS NEED TO UPDATE to the Festive Freya release in anticipation for our December 13...

Hey Y’all, Big update this week… The Festive Freya release is coming closer and closer! Last week we launched the Festive Freya testnet – if you want to try out some bulletproof transactions, feel free to jump on the testnet by downloading the CLI bi...

Hey Y’all, This will be the last Dev Update before the Festive Freya release goes live on testnet! Loki core Add testnet and mainnet hard fork block height and Version numbers https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/318 Continue writing integration...

Hey Y’all, Another weekly Dev Update for you to peruse. Just a note, we’re moving Dev updates to Mondays instead of Fridays, so keep your eyes peeled each Monday. Loki Messenger Integrate the Service Node storage into Lokid https://github.com/loki-pr...

Hey Y’all, Some bigger changes going in this week as we prepare for our next hardfork, the date of which should be announced soon so watch out for updates in the community channels! Loki Core Change governance wallet reward from per block to once eve...

Hey Y’all, Lots of hiring this week! We have brought on two new members who will be joining us in the coming weeks – I will introduce them once they complete their first pull requests. Daemon Fix Monero bug using receive time to subtract m_txpool_wei...

Hey Y’all, Things are moving along at a fast pace as we hire more developers. Service Nodes The first natural Service Node deregistration will be processed in the coming days. We have written a guide on some of the considerations users should make, h...

Hey Y’all, Lots of code going in this week, with some big design decisions especially around Swarms and Loki Messenger. There was also a new release of the the Loki CLI wallet and daemon, which all Service Node operators should update to. The release...

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 team is shifting their focus from Oxen to Session Token. ...