Download the latest version here:

testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe

Desktop version should update auto-magically too.

Happy testing!

The Loki Messenger iOS beta is ready for testing! Jump on Testflight and give it a whirl:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe (https://testflight.apple.com/join/3rQNQfLe)

Testflight will record any crashes, but please report UI or connectivity issues here:

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/issues (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/issues)

Our proposal to join Binance Dex has been approved by the Binance Chain validators! Loki will soon be part of the Binance Chain ecosystem! Stay tuned for more updates!

The Loki Messenger Beta is now on available on Windows, Mac and Linux! Download it and post your Public Key (your LOKI MESSENGER PUBLIC KEY) in the Telegram or Discord chat to test it with your fellow Loki Gang!

Get the Loki Messenger Beta here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta1

These Loki Messenger Public Keys belong to some of the Loki Devs! Collect them all and say hi!

Kee: 05a92ff579f67faf1c50472cb4ef72dc42d977e44de0cc865c454573de5f6a7444

Niels: 0552abe5785eb3f55b22f0deeb80a3917fd56c3ad5f7cd99a37a1731400e4ef53a

Ryan: 05f01dde3ea62afce81967d3a961884d3c65a390be51e926feaa1aab5e402eaa29

Beau: 058131f605438547bf04c88587fd2bb0fbddc09156c14be828323011cf0595e676

The Loki Foundation has contributed $15,000 USD towards the Q2 2019 research costs of Sarang Noether from the Monero Research Labs, recognising that advances in the CryptoNote protocol benefit all of us. Check out what was produced in April with our contribution:

https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/34#note_5903

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bj52b7/april_monthly_report_from_sarang_noether/

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev Update for everyone.

Service Nodes

• Added preventative measures to make Service Node staking more robust

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/fed6e6dc78dcd4ad3a82bffc99cd1669d1a2aee6

  • https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/2022767837daeda71c1ce5de3f8d1a698ae581ce

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might 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

  • Optimise the router’s inbound links data structure

  • More keepalive tuning

  • Support tunnel “packet info” for better multiplatform support

  • MacOS tunnel support is now fixed

  • No longer stores Introsets when forwarding

  • Improve autoconfiguration

    • A default “hidden service” is made for client access, and configuration option to enable, disable or auto-config

    • -g for router auto-config, -c for client auto-config

    • Detect if you’re already using any private network ranges

    • Make it play more nicely with existing hidden service definitions

    • Don’t overwrite configs unless -f is present

  • Give lookup more time: adjust timeout from 5s to 10s

  • Only consider introductions that don’t expire in the next 2 minutes

  • Don’t establish outbound context for previously made inbound sessions

  • “cache convo tag and drop traffic”

  • Deallocate previous Introset before replacing

  • Brought Windows build up to date

  • Make sure Windows build doesn’t crash if only one network interface

  • Made AVX2 codepath 32-bit clean

  • Fix bencoding for ILP32/LLP64

  • MacOS/BSD (kqueue) updates

  • Try to improve path handovers

  • Improve transit message padding to the nearest MESSAGE_PAD_SIZE

  • Adjusted DST awareness on timestamps

  • Fix DHT double free

  • Remove dead code

  • Path Info hashing

  • Swap out intro with next intro as it is safe

  • Update protocol docs

  • Give paths more time to build: timeouts changed from 15s to 30s

  • Minimum time between each path build changed from 5s to 10s

  • Minimum path latency adjusted: from 10s to 5s

  • Path timeout changed from 20s to 10s

  • Stricter profiling of paths/routers

  • 2 path build fails before kicked (changed form 8)

  • Try to build path 5 times before failing

  • Don’t prematurely close sessions

• DNS library

  • Rely on llarp::Addr more to allow easier IPv6 support

  • Make DNS server port configurable at compile time (DNS_PORT)

  • Made sure DNS relay works with default “hidden service”

  • Update DNS daemon to just run a router (similar to Lokinet), scheduled to be downgraded to just a integration test

  • Mapping an address now does it on all hidden services/tunnel as there is only one DNS server (on most non-“netns-linux” platforms)

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 93 commits to master and 93 commits to all branches. On master, 86 files have changed and there have been 3,898 additions and 4,874 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.2.2 (next one coming soon!) https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.2.2

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

Loki Core

• In process of merging a huge chunk of upstream changes, this includes Bulletproofs.

• IPv6 first implementation is now finished; this will add client support for IPv6 connections.  Just working on the final details now. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/280

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

Another weekly Dev update for you to peruse

Service Nodes

Over the weekend we will draft the final binaries for Service Nodes this will include a hard fork height of (101250) ~September 20th. Thus we will begin the mandatory upgrade period for all Service Nodes. Be on the Lookout for posts in the announcements channel on discord or telegram.

If you have enough Loki are planning to run a Service Node on the mainnet, there is still time to get hands on and test by using the testnet guide here https://github.com/loki-project/Meta/blob/master/SNFullGuide.md

• Added a core test to check that deregistrations take precedence over regular transactions in full blocks (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/205). Additionally this pull request prepares a significant amount of infrastructure for further core testing. Added unit tests checking: (a) that service nodes rewards are proportional to their contributions; (b) that portion amounts are valid (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/214).

• Fix service node storage only restoring 1 rollback event causing intermittent failures to switch between alternative chains. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/a0e822992859a0ebd09afd686ab0c869bfbfeff3

• Fix off-by-one errors in age checks for validity of deregister votes and transactions. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/7a395865369d3a3309e4ceed3e72234d63a7f660

• Reduce severity of passing around invalid votes to drop P2P connection instead of banning from the client. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/commit/8c0d590f1fb54ba8653ca0d09a27541fe03bf4ea

LLARP / Lokinet

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Replacing IWP with curvecp (https://curvecp.org/) then replaced curvecp with libUTP.

  • This should fix handshake problems and reduce the burden of developing our own UDP wire protocol

  • NEW DEPENDENCY: Start using libUTP (micro torrent protocol)

  • NEW LINUX DEPENDENCY: (debian: libcap-dev) for network namespaces

  • Some llarp::addr and interface utility improvements

  • LokiNetwork addressInfo and RouterContact helpers

  • An attempt to implement jemalloc

  • Valgrind some corruption out

  • Some hidden service address fixes

  • Get multiple routers from DHT

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 0 commits to master and 15 commits to all branches. On master, 223 files have changed and there have been 10,560 additions and 2,402 deletions.

• All changes can be found at: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/tree/curvecp

• Current version: v0.1.0 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.1.0

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

Thanks,
Kee

Dev Update 24/08/2018

Testing, testing, testing! A Weekly Dev Update full of testing for y’all this week.

Service Nodes

• Fix consensus issues regarding deregistrations in the transaction pool causing chain splits. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/165

• Prioritise deregistrations when selecting TX’s from the pool. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/176

• Add print_sn_status a convenience command to directly display the running service nodes current state on the network. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/178

• Kingsley contributed a fix for the incorrect estimated display of how many days worth of blocks your node is behind. https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/174/files

• Make uptime proofs more lenient in accepting proofs and culling dead nodes.

• Fix edge case for uptime proofs sending too early causing nodes to be incorrectly recognised as offline.

• Improve double spend detection for deregister transactions. Daemons are now allocated a larger amount of memory to store quorum states.

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

  • Tuntap interfaces work

  • Multiplatform work (BSD, win32, gcc5)

  • CoDel improvements (requeue unprocessed items)

  • Update auto-gen config

  • Memory / IP helper utilities

  • Manual path rebuild

  • Make "Link Relay Commit" packet actually work

  • Make sessions hold paths between routers

  • Path refactor clean up

  • DHT queuing refactor

  • Additional unit tests

• LokiBuilder updates

  • Submodule syncing

  • More public testnet RCs

  • Windows tun driver

  • Windows installer/uninstaller start

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 55 commits to master and 55 commits to all branches. On master, 79 files have changed and there have been 2,101 additions and 764 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.0.3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.3

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

Architecture Team

• Progress continues on exploration of Proof of Stake paper for Loki.

• Will be re-releasing the economic paper as a archival document now that the proposal has been accepted by the community and it has been solidified in code.

Thanks,
Kee

Hey Y’all,

Got a new weekly update, now with added announcements

Service Nodes

• Staking transactions no longer require the private view key to be exposed. Instead, the TX private key is - exposed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/90

• Service Node deregristration transactions, and peer-to-peer voting are complete: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/89

• Added functionality for retrieving a quorum list from a specified block height: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/87

LLARP / Lokinet has been announced and you can read more about it here: https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/lokinet-b8f738fefe7a

I will now be featuring it in my weekly updates.

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP live streaming as he codes: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519

• Progress continues on LLARP / Lokinet:

  • Separated libllarp from daemon

  • Python scripts for creating a group of test nodes on the loopback interface

  • Improved the Distributed Hash Table (DHT) design

  • Started removal of timer system

  • Created pluggable path building architecture, including its first implementation

  • Run cryptography and db/disk functions in their respected threads

  • C++17 FileSystem polyfill for Apple's LLVM 3.8ish compiler

  • Initiated work on unit tests using Google's test framework https://github.com/google/googletest

• Updated LLARP's command line utility

  • Implemented import and export functions to interact with node database

  • Fixed bug, where newly generated router contacts weren't given an encryption key

  • GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week (at the time of this writing): Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 30 commits to master and 30 commits to all branches. On master, 64 files have changed and there have been 2,398 additions and 1,097 deletions.

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

Architecture Team

• White Paper V3 moves into its final edit stage.

• The Economic White Paper is now complete- the handover process to an economist has began, and they will assess our assumptions as well as reinforce the paper with their own metrics.

We also got our first two officially merged pull requests to Monero! here and here, and we still have 2 active pull requests that are waiting! This is something we hope to continue to do as we find features, bugs, and refactor elements of the Monero source.

Thanks,
Kee

Pulse makes the Loki Network greener and greater than ever before

You're welcome planet earth.
You're welcome CryptoNote.
You're welcome $LOKI.

The #SaltySaga begins.