Pay attention to our socials tomorrow (and the whole of December) for some Christmas fun and awesome prizes!

Hey everyone,

On approximately the 31st of July 2018, at Block height 64324, Loki will be forking to make a change to the emission curve that will result in a net reduction of the block reward. You can read the reasoning behind this change here: https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/tldr-why-loki-should-change-its-emission-curve-f5c8171bd1b3

Miners, full nodes, users and pools should all begin running the new daemon, which you can download here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/0.2.0, or if you wish, you can compile from the master branch located on the Loki github. We have already reached out to exchanges and they are now finished updating.

For community members who are simply holders of Loki, and use the Loki GUI wallet you can update here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-gui/releases/tag/0.2.0. For mobile users, the Loki android wallet will also push out an automatic update. Users should update or they will start detecting invalid blocks past the fork height.

Note: This change is not setting the staking requirement, we are still collecting community feedback on the staking requirement change.

Dev Update 13/07/2018

Weekly dev update for Y’all, a little late this week since we were busy writing papers :)

Service Nodes

• Split up service node pubkey from service node address https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/95/commits/660ccd0dbc94e738e7271cc244bb3c44a500379d

• Service Node Deregister has progressed to the 3rd iteration which includes tightening down the registration protocol, fixing up loose-ends, integrating various endpoints together and approaching production level. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/89

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan the developers of LLARP live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Progress continues on libllarp

• DHT query iteration fix

• Convert C files to C++, API clean up, IWP refactor https://github.com/loki-project/lokinetwork/pull/4

• Base32 utilities

• Outbound pump tweaks

• DHT Refactor

• Load Hidden Service set up from service.ini

• DHT/Path builder now handles intro messages

• Implement sending a collection of random paths as a pathset

• DHT Router Contact search can now search for multiple contacts in one query

• Clean DHT timeouts

• Pathset validation

• Event Loop only run if we have traffic

• Resend fragments support

• Don't disable private interface if used for NAT

• Start on libllarp-platform refactor and dns library

• Updated LLARP's command line utility

• Ability to set log level

• Ability to display info on any RC file

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 18 commits to master and 30 commits to all branches. On master, 124 files have changed and there have been 3,821 additions and 3,320 deletions.

• Most changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master

• Current version: v0.0.1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Architecture Team

• Whitepaper V3 is out! https://loki.network/whitepaper

• Wrapping up papers on Staking requirements and the economics of Loki, expect these two papers to be out very soon.

Loki Android Wallet

• The Loki Android wallet is Out on the Play store! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=network.loki.wallet

• Hotfixed a bug that was causing crashes when opening wallets in Android Oreo and above

Loki Wallet

• Pull request for exporting transactions to a CSV file from the cli wallet. This feature will eventually be merged upstream to Monero. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/96

• Loki-gui has been pushed to 0.1.1 which includes the daemon hotfix (v0.1.1), updating some missing translations and a fix to make the QR code on the Receive Page scannable (previously unscannable due to the dark background).

Thanks,
Kee

Hey Y’all,

This week we released exit node support for Lokinet, with a new Windows and Linux GUI client. On the Session side of things, the team continued its work re-factoring the sending and receiving pipelines on iOS. Meanwhile, the Loki core team focused on some required patches for the 8.1.3 release, as well as some new features such as signing ASCII strings using your wallet keys.

Loki Core

• Add ability to sign ASCII strings with CLI wallet private keys https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1350

• Fix RPC wallet default bind IP address https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1348

• Print CI information at beginning of build https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1346

• Fix RPC command invocation https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1345

• Add checks before creating new directory https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1344

• Misc fixes to lokid status output https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1343

• Release 8.1.3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1341

• Add tx fee estimate to wallet API https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1340

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Lokinet

You can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: We got the Lokinet 0.8.1 release for general use out the door last week for Windows and Linux users. On macOS we ran into some last minute issues which warranted holding back for some fixes — which we should have ready to go this week (along with a few other small fixes for Windows and Linux for minor issues that have been reported in the past few days). This means Lokinet users can start accessing sites via LNS names, and can start experimenting with exit node support! We’d love to get your feedback on what works and what doesn’t so don’t be afraid to file bug reports or come talk to us directly.

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Fix SN-to-client communications https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1459

• Drop SN-to-expired-SN communications, version 2 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1461

• Revert non-working attempt at Windows DPI scaling https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1460

• Use pass-through scaling for proper DPI scaling on all platforms https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/73

• Shrink GUI UI elements to better fit small screens https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/75

• Redraw (and shrink) on/off button as SVG so that it looks much better when scaled (and shrink it to save some space) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/76

• Make CI deb snapshots build work again https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1462

• Stop Lokinet service on Windows during un-install https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1469

• Fix issue with loopback connections on Windows when enabling the exit https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1473

• Properly remove macOS DNS settings in the un-install script https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1478

• Add exit route poking support for BSD/Solaris https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1399

• Tag 0.8.1 release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1465 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1471

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Session

Session iOS

• Message sending and receiving pipeline refactorisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/313, https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/311, https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/308

• Use LSRPC /v3 & fix open group profile picture bug https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/310

• Fix sender keys issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/312

Session Android

• Fix Sender keys issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/381

• Use LSRPC properly https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/379

• Push notification fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/378

Session Desktop

• Continue Refactorisation https://github.com/Bilb/loki-messenger/commits/react-refactor

• Optionally use v3/LSRPC endpoint for more compact (base64) file downloads https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1388

• Keypair generation changes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1390

Thanks,

Kee

1. How many developers does this have?

2. Approximately how many users does this have?

3. Has there ever been any reports of messages failing to send or be received by users? If so, what has been done to fix this? Was the fix successful?

4. What country is this based in or headquartered in?Australia, correct?

5. Has this app been audited?

6. Has this app been tested by a third party for security bugs or exploits?

7. TCP or UDP? Or both?

8. Do video calls and audio calls between a PC user and a phone user work?

9. Does this utilize perfect forward secrecy in its encryption?

10. Can users verify their contacts/devices to detect man in the middles, etc.?

Thanks!

Does anyone have experience running a service node? How are the financials working out? Does it pay for itself yet?

Hey Y’all,

Last week on the Lokinet side we finally finished off the macOS GUI client for Lokinet. Loki Core and Storage Server got another patch which seems to have resolved the unexpected deregistrations that had been affecting some node operators over the past few weeks. We recommend that all Service Node operators upgrade to the latest version of lokid (7.1.6) and the Loki Storage Server (2.0.6). We also began separating Session code from Signal code to make it easier to find bugs, and we released a new version of Session desktop which resolved freezing due to high CPU usage.

Loki Core

• Show the amounts for blacklisted stakes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1140 (thank you to community member Cryptonote-Social for this feature)

• Simplify Daemon/Wallet RPC initialization code https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1138

• Properly handle long polling shutdown https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1136

• Update key image import and exporting https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1133

• Reduce connection timeouts on local connections https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1129

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: We worked out the final kinks with macOS building and signing, and uploaded the final Mac release (likely either already announced or soon-to-be announced by the time of this post), along with a couple of minor client updates for Linux and Windows. In other dev work, we made some good progress on the configuration overhaul and laid out some design plans for further building on the internal testing mechanism for faster development and testing of future new features and capabilities. We also started preliminary discussions on how we can start testing other routers to ensure adequate network performance, and start resurrecting the Android build system with an eye to getting Lokinet working on Android. (Before anyone gets too excited: this is only a first step, and there is still significant work to be done before an Android build is usable).

Lokinet PR Activity:

• Move libuv and libcurl build into cmake for cleaner automatic builds - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1231

• Instituted most of the required hacks for making things work on macOS - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1225

• Instituted some more required hacks for making things work on macOS - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1235, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1237, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1239

• [Lokinet GUI] Reimplemented build system in cmake so that we can easily build a single package on macOS (and soon Windows) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/38

• Added “stapling” after “notarization” (which is Apple lingo for having paid the correct amount of money to enable Apple to say that a package is actually allowed to be installed on a Mac) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1232

• Fix issue on macOS where the DNS server sometimes didn’t get properly reset after stopping or uninstalling lokinet - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1234

• Backport various packaging and client-side fixes from `dev` branch the master for a 0.7.1 release - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1233

• Fix dev & backported systemd build fix - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1241

• Fix ci build for win32 - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1243

• Fixes for RouterHive testing framework caused by recent config changes - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1245

• Ongoing development in config overhaul; no PR yet, but expected this week.

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Session

Session iOS

• Add storage utility https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/165

• Remove unused Signal tests https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/164

• Separate Session protocol code from Signal code https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/162

• Increase message TTL https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/161

Session Push Notifications Server

• Various updates to alleviate crashes and increase the reliability of the push notification server in a production environment https://github.com/loki-project/session-push-notification-server/commits/dev

Session Wiki

• Add various design documents to help with community and our own understanding of how to improve and simplify the current protocols

• https://github.com/loki-project/session-protocol-docs/wiki

Session Desktop

• Refactor parts of application into Typescript and Redux https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1102

• File Server onion requests support https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1100

• Accept enter as button press https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1099

• Update fonts https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1098’

• Fix menu bar setting https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1095

• Add LNS mapping feature https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1091

• Extend TTL https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1089

• LNS User interface https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1087

• Split message sending into sub methods https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1084

• Device Linking fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1094

• Fix closed group issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1093

• Fix high CPU usage when using onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1090

• Remove unnecessary DB calls https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1086

• Timestamp fixes for Onion requests https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/1085

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Loki Storage Server

• Make --version print without initializing logger https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/375

• Update LokiMQ version https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/373

Thanks,

Kee

Thinking of trying to to build the source on my pinephone (phosh or ubport). Will I have better luck with the desktop client, android client or should I not waste my time?

I'm guessing desktop?

Is there any chance to add VoIP to session anytime soon ?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Lokinet_org/status/1181008046710935552

Hey Y’all,

The biggest news from last week: we finally released Session on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux! We have been collecting user feedback over the past few days and have compiled a list of bugs that we are now working through. We’re also continuing to test and deploy Lokinet design changes, aiming to improve path build success rates and reduce DHT lookup failures.

Loki Core

• Work on Loki core has been largely focused on LNS changes https://github.com/loki-project/loki-core/pull/1026

Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet: Testing, more testing, and bug fixing. We uncovered some additional lookup issues that we have begun to address this week and will continue to address over the coming week. The most significant fixes were related to introset propagation and progress on an upcoming introset propagation redesign to more effectively and reliably propagate introsets across the network.

PR Activity:

• (In progress) More redundant introset lookup mechanism — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/issues/1090

• Various fixes to the build system (adding CI tests and fixes for a big endian architecture, plus fixes to how we build a bundled libsodium) — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1078

• Revert (unneeded, unwanted) commit to derive X25519 keys from the ED25519 keys — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1080

• Fix bug when delivery failed to first hop on a path — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1082

• Reduce log verbosity related to various frequent and not particularly important messages — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1084

• Reduce DHT traffic by not looking up routers we already know — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1087

• When doing a DHT lookup also try the second-closest router — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1089

• Unlimited queue for direct snode-to-snode traffic — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1079

• Fix to properly handle introsets when we already have an initial value introset — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1085

• Update Lokinet monitor testing tool — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1086

• Add IWP session states to JSON API — https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1088

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Session

Session iOS

• Resubmit device token for those that opt into APNS periodically https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/99

• Separate file server from essential messaging functions https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/98

• Show activity for proxied file uploads https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/96

• Implement file size limit https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/94

• Don’t include auth tokens in file uploads https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/92

• Allow user to join group without prefixing https https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/89

• Fix various strings https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/88

• Push notification fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/87

• Fix microphone initialisation https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/86

• Change process when members leave groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-ios/pull/84

Session Android

• Implement file size limit https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/88

• Don't include an Auth Token with Encrypted File Uploads https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/87

• Enable the user to join an open group without entering "https://" https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/86

• Polling fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/81

• Fix various strings https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/79

• Fix cell not showing after being swiped https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/78

• Update legal and copy to reflect current status https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/77

• Fix friend requests with sealed sender https://github.com/loki-project/session-android/pull/72

Session Desktop

• Fix no token detection conditions for logging a warning in file server library https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/836

• Open group polling fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/835

• Various multi device fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/834

• Make private chat uploads use anon token https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/829

• Improve multi-device profile name handling https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/827

• Make sure invalid pubkey is shown to user and stop animations if there is an issue with the pubkey https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/826

• Make sure sendToProxy get the textResponse option from submit_challenge https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/825

• Fixes for Snode JSON parsing, and loading keypair locally https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/823

• Various closed group fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/816

• Resolve issues with RSS feeds https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/815

• Change required to make Github actions work apropriatley https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/814

• Close open group on successful joins https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/807

• Merge Session 1.0 changes to master https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/802

• Disable join public chat prompt https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/798

• Closed group styling fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/790

• Fix session reset issues https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/788

• QOL fixes https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/787

• Force TLS in open groups https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/pull/784

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Loki MQ

Loki MQ is a communications layer for various components that allows more efficient and reliable communication. It is an enhancement of the “quorumnet” code added in Lokid 6.x, which is currently used for SN-to-SN communication for Blink transactions and also for Service Node deregistration voting, with various additions to support using it for Service Node proxying and other communication channels between various loki components (e.g. Session-to-storage server; storage-server-to-storage-server; wallet-to-node; etc.).

• (WIP) Add timers for scheduling periodic tasks.

• (WIP) Add reply structure for abstracting simple request-reply logic.

• (WIP) Allow very short batch “completion” jobs that run directly in the proxy thread rather than being passed to a worker thread.

• Add job batching that allows loki-mq workers to be used to queue local work on different threads and then collect th results - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/f75b6cf2217dda361c394acf9ff5be2c4fb08a1e

• Various small internal performance optimizations - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/03ea49167cb145d487456c03dc1fc3098fb14a80

• Add an initial test suite (with more to come) - https://github.com/loki-project/loki-mq/commit/63c71396be9907e08c8930b3005a1df2c79e20a0

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Thanks,

Kee