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 on a number of improvements for Service Node …
We’re back from America – and happy to say the plane germs and jet lag was all worth it. We assembled eleven team members in New York to smash out Consensus, New York Blockchain Week, and to host our very own Loki SNAppathon! Events and parties aside, one of the biggest highlights was having the …
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 Additionally, we’re happy to have Jason (Jagerman) now working full-time with the Loki …
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 published a fix, 3.0.6, which solved an issue where Service …
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 Consensus. Hopefully we can show off some of the cool things people are building on …
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 more information here: https://lokinet.org Loki Core Work on alternate storage …
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 the Service Node checkpointing adds non-enforced Service Node checkpoints: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/566 Extend Service …
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 and Lokinet for iOS. Loki Core Remove unneeded SFINAE on check_tx/block_verification: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/558 Add …
At the latest board meeting of the Loki Foundation’s directors, I put forward a motion to increase the number of Service Nodes that the Foundation operates. Currently, the Foundation runs 15 Service Nodes, which accounts for ~3.3% of the total nodes on the network. I have been doing some calculations regarding the long term viability …
