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Loki provides transparency with it’s development through having an open source development system and weekly developer updates about their progress.
Hey Y’all, This week we made big progress on Lokinet and Loki Messenger. On the Loki Messenger side, we are putting most of our efforts into finishing multi-device support, which means solving lots of edge cases. For Lokinet, we are getting closer and closer to a 0.6.0 release which will allow cryptographic operations to utilise …
Hey Y’all, We’re powering along with updates on Loki core. Last week, the Trusty Tyr Hardfork enabled Service Node checkpointing. This week, we are beginning work on LNS, and have finished a Blink pull request which has most of the changes needed to send and receive Blink transactions. Loki Messenger pushed out Voice Snippet messages, …
Hey Y’all, Last week the Loki Messenger team continued their short term pivot to get File Attachments and Mentions finished for a quick release. These long requested features are very close to being rolled out. The Loki Core team continued their push to get Blink finished, while also working on LNS (Loki Name System) – …
Hey Y’all, Last week we released the Trusty Tyr 5.1.1 Binaries. All Service Nodes, mining pools and exchanges will need to update to these new binaries before block height 385824 (est. 7PM AEDT, 2019-10-23). Currently, approximately 78% of Service Nodes have upgraded, so if you are operating a Service Node, make sure you update in …
Hey Y’all, Last week the Loki Messenger team continued work on limited multi-device support for mobile devices, and finished the last required changes to support @mentions on Desktop. The Loki Core team is almost ready to release Trusty Tyr 5.0.0 – we just want to fix a bug which previously caused some Service Nodes running …
Hey Y’all, Last week we released the 5.0.0 testnet binaries for lokid, which include enforced checkpointing and a number of P2P and uptime proof fixes. We’re running a Bug Bounty with a prize pool of 4000 $LOKI for finding bugs related to checkpointing, so jump in and get testing! Loki Core Implement basic debugging menu: …
Hey Y’all, Last week we released a new LIP discussing ‘Pulse’: a proposed proof of stake protocol for Loki. You can read that here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-improvement-proposals/blob/master/LIPS/LIP-5.md. We also continued to move towards the 5.0.0 release for Loki Core, which adds checkpointing and a number of other features. Keep your ear to the ground for the testnet …
Hey Y’all, Last week we stepped up work on Loki Core, with the final set of changes being merged in ahead of the testnet fork, enabling protections against checkpointing edge cases. Loki Messenger got a new release too – there’ll be many more over the next few months. Finally, Lokinet shifted gears into investigating and …
Hey Y’all, This week was primarily focused on Loki Messenger user interface improvements, adding features like message replies in public chats and fixing up link previews. We also published the new Lokinet release, which is almost ready, pending a couple of minor UX improvements for first time users. Loki Core Update soft forking rules to …
Hey Y’all, This week we worked hard developing features for a number of upcoming releases, including finally nailing down some issues which have drastically increased the stability of Lokinet, adding lots of new UX features to Loki Messenger, and the continued testing of Service Node checkpointing for Loki core. If you like releases, September is …