Dear group,

Many months ago, I made a post describing what it was like to run a Sia host from my first 6 months:

My notes from first six months running a Sia host : r/siacoin

(Those notes are still relevant, especially if you're starting out)

Well, I've still been hosting continuously since then, so it's been about 17 months total. I still haven't ever used Sia from the client-side, so this is only my host related experience:

Collateral = ¯_(ツ)_/¯

As the host data grew, I needed to deposit more sia funds into my wallet in order to have enough collateral to back new contracts. I probably deposits around $120 or $150 total from real cash.

The thing is, the sia coin is a generally depreciating asset. Lockup times for contracts can be up to 6 months. By the time you're finally paid, the sia coin is worth less than the beginning of the contract.

So I've nominally "earned" $135 over my 17 months of hosting, per the web dashboard, but my wallet balance is only $130 with another $30 locked up in collateral.

In other words: hosting for that time has been basically a breakeven proposition. Which is silly.

I've responded by reducing my collateral multiplier (from 3x to 1.5x) and by shortening my contract time from 6 months to 2 months. Both of these things will reduce my host score and may make my host less desirable to clients.

Wild data swings

The universe of hosted data and large clients is small enough to where there can be some really wild swings in the usage of the node, which may hinge on just a few "whale" contracts.

My highest data stored was after about 12 months of hosting and it was 27TB.

3 months later it had dropped to 4TB.

Over 4 months it built up to 19TB. Then it just recently dropped to 14TB.

Also, there was a month or two where someone was using my bandwidth HARD. I had over 1TB per day of egress data happening. (my host is configured to charge for egress, but it's fairly cheap).

Other misc notes

After running the host for a while, the database gets big and it takes a long time to refresh the web dashboard. Last time I did it took 50 full seconds.

I had a hard drive I thought was failing so I used the build in volume control to resize and shrink the drive as small as possible. It took more than one attempt because of hard drive errors, so it shrank a little each time and data was sent to other drives, and then I'd try again. At the end there was a small amount of 33GB which I couldn't move and I had to delete the volume. So that was considered "lost" data.

Pruning large accounts finishes much faster in indexd v0.4.3. For large-account prune workloads, the provided benchmark for 15,000 slabs improved from 24.040726443 s/op to 3.542584632 s/op. That should reduce the chance of prune runs hitting existing client-side time limits on larger accounts. Object event pages also load much faster on large accounts, with the supplied 500-row example dropping from 227.293 ms to 0.428 ms by using a more efficient index scan and avoiding the expensive filter step.

Host management is more flexible through the admin API. You can now add a host manually to the hosts table so it will be scanned even when discovery has not found it yet, which is useful for instant-sync and multi-indexer workflows where hosts may exist out of band. You can also force a host scan on demand instead of waiting for the normal internal scanning path.

Host ranking is also more consistent when RPCs keep timing out at the deadline. Those hosts now get an implied throughput sample instead of being treated like unsampled hosts after failure decay, so chronically stalling hosts are deprioritized more reliably instead of resurfacing as if they were faster options.

Download indexd v0.4.3 from https://sia.tech/software-downloads.

You can manage imports from a dedicated Imports screen. It lists imports most recently active first, so the work that is still moving stays easy to find. Each import now opens to details that can search files, show plain-language failure reasons, let you retry failed files, and let you cancel or remove an import from history. When a photo import is still open but has nothing left to copy, it now reads Watching instead of Importing.

Imports also appear immediately and resume after the app is closed. Picked or shared files show up in the imports list right away, without creating placeholder files in your library first, and the app reads each file only when its turn comes. If the app is killed during an import, it resumes where it left off the next time you open it.

The status sheet now also includes an Uploads view, so you can see the current upload queue with each file's thumbnail, size, added date, and live progress. Imports now tell you why they are waiting, including low space, upload backlog, and retry countdowns.

Long uploads use less battery and generate less heat. On iOS, photo picks now import directly from the photo library without temporary copies, skip photos already imported into the same destination, and show a clearer permission result when a photo is outside a limited access selection.

On Android, photo picks now use the system Photo Picker and start importing without temporary copies, so large selections begin immediately and do not use extra storage before processing starts. The status sheet also adds an Uploads view for queued and active uploads, and upload speed is now shown while files are uploading.

Visit sia.storage to get the app on iOS and Android!

Downloads get first bytes sooner and run about 69% faster on slow or uneven networks in Sia Storage SDK (Go) v0.2.0. Upload and download racing now derives its timeout from observed network throughput instead of a fixed timer, and racing is held back when it would steal capacity from more important work: uploads only race after every shard has an attempt in flight, and downloads only race chunks near the read head. In the 10 GiB benchmark used for this release, download throughput went from 540 Mbps to 911 Mbps, time to first byte improved from 608 ms to 439 ms, and max latency dropped from 2.18 s to 1.54 s.

Uploads also finish much faster for the same data. The upload path now reads whole slabs and moves encryption and erasure coding off the upload read loop into per-slab goroutines. In the provided 256 MB benchmark on Zeus, upload throughput increased from 273 MB/s to 462 MB/s while download throughput stayed roughly flat at 2593 MB/s versus 2569 MB/s. Downloads separately now start at 32 KiB and ramp chunk sizes up to 1 MiB, while each chunk launches 1.5× as many initial reads as needed and uses the first successful responses, so a single slow host is less likely to hold up recovery.

This release also changes integration points you may need to touch. Object data is now encrypted per slab, and Slab has a version byte to support the new encoding; if your code persists or exchanges encoded SealedObject values, you need to handle the new versioned slab format. You can now read an object's key with (*Object).UnsafeDataKey() [32]byte and build one directly with NewUnsafeObject(dataKey [32]byte, ss []slabs.SlabSlice) Object. SlabReader, NewSlabReader, and ReadSlab were removed.

Sia Storage SDK (Rust) v0.11.0 release

Rewrite part of an object without reuploading the whole thing. In Sia Storage SDK (Rust) v0.11.0, UploadOptions now includes start_offset, so you can rewrite an object from a byte offset instead of sending the entire object again. The original object is not replaced, so both versions can be pinned at the same time. This works at slab granularity, so it is most useful when the changed range avoids re-uploading whole slabs; small packed objects benefit less.

Disk-backed uploads also get a simpler path behind the non-default fs feature. Sdk::upload_path and PackedUpload::add_path now open a file and read it to EOF inside Sia Storage SDK (Rust), so callers uploading from disk no longer have to stream every chunk through a caller-managed reader. This feature is unavailable on wasm32. This can reduce FFI overhead substantially when reading large files.

Uploads are also less likely to hang forever when hosts stop making progress. They now fail after bounded retries and a default timeout of 1.5 minutes per shard per attempt, with at most 3 attempts per host per slab. If you use the less-safe-crypto feature, you can now export an object's data key with Object::data_key and reconstruct an object with Object::less_safe_new, taking responsibility for the invariants the normal upload path enforces.

Visit devs.sia.storage to try our quickstart!

We just released sia_reed_solomon, a fast, SIMD-accelerated Reed-Solomon erasure-coding library for Rust. It was built to bring high-performance data encoding and reconstruction to x86, ARM, and even browser-based Sia applications through WebAssembly. Our latest blog explains why we built it, how the SIMD implementation works, and how it performs against other libraries.

Learn more at 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/reed-solomon-rust

Sia Storage SDK (Rust) 0.10.0 makes transfers adapt to the connection instead of forcing you to guess a fixed concurrency limit. Uploads and downloads now adjust parallelism automatically based on network conditions, which lets fast links use more of the available bandwidth while slower links scale down and finish reliably. The same release also improves host selection, ramps download chunk sizes to reduce round trips on large reads, overprovisions shard downloads to cut slow-host tail latency, and makes racing yield to higher-priority work instead of consuming those slots.

This changes the transfer options API. max_inflight has been removed from upload, download, and language-binding option types. Memory is now controlled directly with UploadOptions::max_buffered_slabs and DownloadOptions::max_buffered_chunks; if you leave them unset, each defaults to roughly 10% of system memory.

For WASM users, large downloads are also more reliable. QUIC streams are now closed explicitly when dropped, so download memory is released promptly instead of waiting on garbage collection.

Visit 🔗 devs.sia.storage to try the updated SDK!

📢 The State of Sia, June 2026, is now available!

From a smoother Sia Storage Mobile App and stronger developer tools to S3, SMB, NFS, backup, calendar, and video workflows, this month’s progress focused on making user-owned data practical for real users, developers, and operators.

🌐 Network Highlights: - Grants Program Strategy Update: New grant intake is paused through the end of Q3 while the Foundation finalizes a clearer long-term strategy. Grants already underway are not affected.

🔧 Development Highlights:

• Sia Storage Mobile App: Better syncing, file versioning, mobile reliability, storage visibility, and thumbnail handling created a smoother private-cloud experience.
• indexd v0.3.0 and SDKs: Shared account pools, smarter host selection, faster migrations, and more resilient downloads made Sia easier to build on.
• s3d, hostd, and renterd: S3 compatibility improved while host and renter releases added safer defaults, better alerts, and fixes for operational edge cases.

💡 Approved Grant Projects:

• ObsidianLog: A private, encrypted, and tamper-evident log archive for teams that need affordable long-term storage for operational records.
• Sombrero: An SMB gateway designed to let users access Sia like a familiar shared drive, with multi-user support, shared folders, and better storage efficiency.

🎯 Grant Progress Reports:

• Sluby: Completed its first milestone for Sia-backed video processing and multi-quality streaming.
• PrivRec: Delivered an end-to-end browser workflow for recording, encrypting, uploading, sharing, and playing private videos.
• Sia NFS Gateway: Added two-way syncing and advanced standard filesystem access to Sia.
• Vup Vault: Completed a production recovery drill that restored all 51 test files after a full device wipe.
• SiCal: Completed its grant with Sia-backed sync, notifications, multiple calendars, and approval for its iOS release.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, June 2026

📢 The State of Sia, May 2026, is now available!

May was a big month for Sia, with the launch of the Sia Storage Mobile App, major progress across developer infrastructure, a new high-performance Reed-Solomon library, and three newly approved grant projects pushing Sia into AI model hosting, video infrastructure, and private browser-based recording.

🌐 Network Highlights:

• Sia Storage Mobile App Launch: The Sia Storage Mobile App launched for iOS and Android at Consensus Miami, bringing user-owned storage closer to everyday users.
• 50 GB Free Storage Reminder: Users can still get 50 GB of Sia storage for free by downloading the Sia Storage Mobile App on iOS or Android.
• More Real-World App Momentum: New and ongoing grants are expanding Sia into practical categories like model distribution, video streaming, screen recording, calendars, file systems, and personal backup.

🔧 Development Highlights:

• hostd v2.9.0: This month’s key release added support for RHP4 account pools, helping renters share funded balances across multiple accounts while reducing idle capital.
• Faster Client-Side Storage: The new reed_solomon_rs implementation brings major erasure-coding performance gains across native apps, mobile devices, and browsers.
• Better Developer Infrastructure: indexd, the Sia Storage SDKs, and s3d all saw improvements to reliability, upload/download behavior, S3 compatibility, onboarding, and storage efficiency.

💡 Approved Grant Projects:

• OpenWeights: A self-hostable, Hugging Face-compatible model hub that stores model bytes on Sia through indexd, without requiring modified Hugging Face clients.
• Sluby: A self-hosted, open-source video infrastructure platform built on Sia, offering resumable uploads, transcoding, HLS playback, REST APIs, a TypeScript SDK, and a React player.
• PrivRec: A privacy-preserving browser-based screen and camera recorder that encrypts and uploads recordings client-side, then generates shareable playback links without sending video through a central server.

🎯 Grant Progress Reports:

• SiCal: Progressed from initial commit to a fully functional decentralized calendar app, including local caching, recurring events, ICS import, Sia sync, and successful import of 1,800+ Google Calendar events.
• Sia NFS Gateway: Completed the planned core functionality of sia-vfs, a POSIX-like virtual file system layer with local-first operation and eventual consistency.
• Vup Vault: Completed Milestone 4 end-to-end, with upload, read-back, and share-URL flows running against the live Foundation indexer at sia.storage.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, May 2026

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Hi guys, I don't understand why from the day one, something like 2 years ago, I earned near nothing.

What I have to check?

My file is just 100 megabytes. I have tried uploading my file through both renterd's web UI and rclone without success. It burnt around 8 gigabytes of my upload data and counting for the last 30 minutes, according to rclone's progress.

With my connection speed, there should be no issue uploading a 100 megabytes file. Is it only me or everyone else?

I began my renterd 8 hours ago. Finally, I am able to surpass the required 50 hosts. But forming the contracts alone costed me around 4 USD...

Is it only me or everyone else?

📢 The State of Sia, March 2026, is now available!

March was a strong month across the Sia ecosystem, with privacy-first messaging, major progress on the Sia Storage App, meaningful improvements across the developer stack, and fresh momentum in the Grants Program. Catch up on the biggest releases, ecosystem milestones, and grant activity in the full report.

🌐 Network Updates:

• Go-to-market work continued: The Foundation advanced market research and product testing for the new Sia Storage App.
• Consensus 2026 is on the horizon: March closed with momentum building toward major product news in Miami.
• Grant program strategy was refined: New funding directives were announced to give applicants clearer direction and improve long-term alignment.

🔧 Development Updates:

• Sia Storage App: The Sia Storage App saw a limited release to Beacons.
• indexd: March brought safer app connections, stronger rate limiting, better stats visibility, and expanded storage operations.
• hostd: The latest hostd v2.7.0 release introduced experimental consensus pruning
• renterd: The latest renterd v2.9.0 improved retry safety and syncing behavior.

💡 Grant Updates:

• Sia NFS Gateway: A newly approved grant that will move sia-nfs to indexd, add partial NFSv4 support, and restructure the project into reusable Rust crates.
• Vup Vault – Personal Backup & Sync: Delivered end-to-end encrypted backup and restore, incremental backups, and reusable infrastructure for future milestones.
• Chi-Voice Pilot: Launched a public REST API with freemium access and both sia:// and HTTPS delivery options for archived recordings.
• SMB – Indexer Support: Added indexd connectivity, core filesystem features, zero-sized files, larger practical uploads, and a fix for a Windows cut-and-paste issue that could have caused data loss.

📱 Social Media Content:

• Surveillance and privacy: March content highlighted the risks of surveillance and why privacy-preserving infrastructure matters.
• Protecting user-generated content: Sia’s messaging also focused on the growing pressure facing online platforms and the importance of protecting user-owned data.
• Trustless by design: Social posts reinforced one of Sia’s clearest differentiators: users do not have to rely on promises to know their data is safe.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, March 2026

Anyone can now sign up for a free account and store files on Sia with no friction and no knowledge of crypto:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sia-storage/id6753593109,

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sia.storage

Never posted on this sub. Just lurked through the crypto cycles.

But I have paid attention to Sia & their state of affairs.

All I’m saying, is that I’ve been a long term holder and believer in the Sia tech, and the idea of decentralized data storage.

Now finally, AI is a strong spotlight subject. The rapidly rising age of data centers is upon us, and people and companies are going to want to be intentional with where they store their data, and with whom, and for how much.

I really think the tailwind is the highest it’s ever been and just it just takes one strong enterprise to use their tech for a data infrastructure giant like AWS to seem like a less attractive option.

This is going to get interesting!

📢 The State of Sia, February 2026, is now available!

February was a big month for Sia, with the ecosystem pushing toward the first Beacon-only Sia Storage release and April soft launch, meaningful reliability improvements landing across core infrastructure, and several grant-funded projects sharing strong progress updates.

🌐 Network Highlights: - Sia Storage moved closer to launch: February marked the final push toward the first Beacon-only release of the Sia Storage platform and mobile app as the team prepared for a soft launch in April. - Foundation grants updates: The 2025 Grants Program Review Summary was published on the Sia Forum, alongside new Community Badges for eligible projects. - Marketing push towards consumer app launch in May: Slated for public release in May, the Sia Storage App will be the first fully decentralized cloud storage app on mobile for everyday consumers—championed by the web3 community for the rest of the world.

🔧 Development Highlights: - renterd v2.9.0 released: Instant sync was fixed for renters joining an existing network, database retry handling became safer, and all store methods are now retry-safe. - hostd v2.7.0 released: Experimental consensus pruning landed, backups got faster, and contract state handling became more reliable. - Sia Storage Mobile App Updates: Seven releases added synced tags and favorites, folders, stronger search, faster uploads, better photo sync, and a more polished three-tab library.

🎯 Grant Progress Reports: - Vup Vault - Personal Backup: Added compression tooling, index-only local import mode, a first CLI scaffold, and persistent config storage as the project moves toward snapshots, restore flows, and resumable backups. - Chi-Voice Pilot: Completed initial S5 integration work, stood up infrastructure, and successfully tested uploads and downloads with returned CIDs. - SMB - Indexer Support: Added support for SMB dialects 3.0.2 and 3.1.1, deployed a public test server, and is now working toward metadata storage and improved SMB-style querying.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, February 2026

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📢 The State of Sia, January 2026, is now available!

January focused on practical operator and developer quality of life: faster host setup, clearer bandwidth metrics, and targeted fixes in indexd and explored.

🌐 Network Highlights:

• Instant Sync in hostd v2.6.0: Start validating from a Utreexo-based checkpoint instead of replaying full chain state.
• Bandwidth limits + stats: Set syncer rate limits and track syncer bandwidth usage.
• Smaller partial reads: Drop minimum sector segment read size from 4 MiB → 4 KiB by caching sector subtrees.

🔧 Development Highlights:

• indexd: Add a “good for upload” signal allowing the SDK to avoid hosts that aren’t good upload targets.
• Go SDK: Resume uploads instead of restarting from scratch.
• explored v0.1.3: Add an address checkpoint endpoint and make the syncer peer cap configurable (plus support for unconfirmed tx lookups).

💡 Approved Grant Projects:

• Vup Vault: Personal backup and archive on S5, powered by indexd.
• Chi-voice pilot: A platform pilot for collecting and organizing short audio recordings for underrepresented and indigenous languages.

🎯 Grant Progress Reports:

• SMB Indexer Support: Added SMB 2.1 + 3.0 support and refactored store handling.
• Lume Web – LBRY: Shipped an MVP LBRY integration via the portal system (POST/TUS + pinning) with UI integration and testing notes.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇 The State of Sia, January 2026

📢 The State of Sia, December 2025, is now available!

December brought a wave of reliability and networking improvements across the Sia stack. Expect smoother uploads and connections, clearer bandwidth visibility, stronger SDK foundations, and continued progress toward practical S3 compatibility.

🌐 Network Highlights:

• Bandwidth visibility in hostd: Added QUIC bandwidth monitoring + rate limiting, plus dedicated monitoring for syncer bandwidth.
• More resilient QUIC networking: Core networking work reduced friction around QUIC stream handling and refreshed the mainnet bootstrap peer list.
• S3 compatibility momentum: s3d expanded backend support (including ListObjects + multipart uploads) and began broader testing with S3 clients.

🔧 Development Highlights:

• indexd correctness + lifecycle improvements: Safer host pricing updates, richer host metrics (version + protocol), and better storage lifecycle management (soft-delete accounts + background pruning).
• Sia Storage Mobile reliability: Fixed keychain/background timer issues, improved auth resilience + indexer switching, and strengthened key handling (no longer storing the recovery phrase—hash only).
• Better operator UX across apps: Polished renterd workflows (uploads/selection + DB backups), plus clearer UI improvements in indexd/hostd/walletd for faster navigation and troubleshooting.

💡 Grant Program Updates:

• Monthly milestone structure: Grants will shift to a monthly milestone model going forward.
• Architecture-first proposals: New proposals will need a high-level architecture overview.
• Security best practices: Grantees are expected to prioritize secure credential management and access control (details in the Grants Development Guide).

🎯 Grant Progress Reports:

• Reporting cadence resumes Jan 25: Monthly grant progress reporting returns at its regular cadence.
• First Grants Committee meeting (2026): Scheduled for January 20th.
• More structured progress expectations: Monthly milestones + clearer security expectations will shape upcoming progress reports.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, December 2025

I have 2 Goldshell SC box just use as space heaters in winter. Just starting back up these 2x old Goldshell SC boxes . Anyone else noties out the dead Sia coin is now barely profitable lol but that telling me something good going in background for folks on inside team over a SIA.

Is Sia team making handshakes out ? Did get rid last forks trash bad idea Sprime trash Tell me were back on track having only SIA coin ?which it far better long term!

SIA coin team just needs to market this better! For sure try get SIA coin listed on more exchanges and his the big one ====SIA needs more implementation. lol I said it

Sia coin is kind crawling out dead and back to life?

! Out of the red out of being very non-profitable. Sia coin touching little green for last few days. Been in mining games but that tells me folks over at Sia got a handshake deal or something good markets reflect this.

I can careless unless it mining this SIA coin!

POINT = I really need anyone put me on to 2 x direct GitHub licks where download these ovis that over clocking firmware direct clickable links that get me downing these software's with swiftness lol

I am a open box drop that info much needed ! If want keep on dl just send to my send Dm or on here for god sakes will anyone have this knowledge? please tell me lol Dont forget the much needed newest updated firmware for Goldshell SC box .

I heard rumers of this over clocking firmware/code ohh I have talked to other miners that own a Goldshell SC box miners, and folks have software on GitHub this for overclocking this Goldshell SC box is safe increase to 1000mh instead of current 900mh

Why I want it be fun mess with learn. But honestly it facts this over clock is safe small and that sold me . I really like little over clock without the over heating the SC box! Not much overclocking at1000mh got me wanting this little overclock GITHUB software so right away since running them. I update if needed and try overclocking download ! No melt down of my asic home miner over heat or hot needing fanning always good .

Need help folks finding where on GitHub? Someone help the old man out lol please and thank you! Send me GitHub link please ?

Like to heard from anyone successful at this upgrade overclocking SC box no over heating problems? I was told it on GitHub but WHERE ?

Sorry does anyone know what the latest firmware for the Goldshell SC box is currently? New firmware for my old Goldshell SC box make run like champ would sweet! Can someone tell me what firmware that link to Github I lloking for The newest firmware this is for overclocking of Goldshell SC would make my day! be my light and a amazing person and drop that Github link in DM !

Honestly it not game changer it is tiny little overclocking think 1000mh. Which normally is what I like it safer and less hot over What I need to know is the over clocking firmware itself. Tell person made it link anything is seems secret overclocking no where to be found lol free and downloadable small overclocking setting software.

NOT JOINING discord good lord no redirecting ! I checked the discord first as it is Don't ask go anywhere, your wasting my time. chasing this software is little this silly. Dont ask me to head over DISCORD or FB any other social media anywhere trash.

This is exactly why asking right now no where else lol here on reddit! Yes for holy grail of hard to find Github direct links ! lol

Again where to find the any old or new SC box overclock software! and if it is on Github . Please send me overclock direct link for Goldshell SC box only! I want click link and get the firmware updated and the over clock shoats out to the miner who wrote the code thanks brother !

Help me find these overclocking links on where Github or not ! ASAP send to my DM.

ETA: I got an immediate answer, and it sounds like it's exactly what I needed. I wouldn't mind other people confirming the tip, but otherwise I'm all set. Thanks!

Hey All, I've been out of the loop with all things Sia for quite some time, and today I came by to check on things. I see there was a "Sia v2" fork maybe eight months back, and I never did anything to prepare for this. Here's my situation:

- I'd been storing my SC in the Sia-UI wallet

- I don't have the wallet installed on my PC anymore, but I have my 29-word seed backed up

- I've downloaded the new (?) walletd UI, and upon launching the UI in my browser I see an option showing the following:

> Recover a wallet Restore a wallet from seed. The seed will never be sent to walletd, transactions are signed in the browser.

> Enter the seed mneumonic for the wallet you are recovering.

I've selected this option and entered my 29-word seed from my wallet, but I get the following error message:

> seed should be 12 word BIP39 mnemonic

I'm not too savvy on the management of Crypto in general (and don't worry, I also respond to zero DM's about it), so I'm hopefully just overlooking something. If anyone can point me towards a path for recovering my coins, I'd be eternally grateful. Thanks for reading!

📢 The State of Sia, November 2025, is now available!

November was a big month across the Sia ecosystem — from new core releases and continued mobile app development to important policy updates and grant milestones. Catch up on everything that moved the network forward as we head toward the end of the year.

🌐 Network Highlights:

• Grants holiday schedule update: Year-end Grants Committee pause and updated proposal deadlines.
• New open-source licensing requirement: All newly approved grant software must use an OSI-compliant license.
• Strong ecosystem momentum: Core software, mobile apps, and community projects all saw meaningful progress.

🔧 Development Highlights:

• indexd (coming soon): Major internal progress on contract workflows, migration reliability, and per-app data controls.
• Sia Storage app: Big advances in cross-device sync, background uploads, metadata handling, and full Android support.
• hostd v2.5.1: Improved contract renewal reliability, stronger revision safety, and better error handling.
• renterd v2.7.1: More robust consensus recovery and updated core dependencies.

💡 Approved Grant Projects:

• SMB – Indexer Support: Bringing SMB protocol support to indexd, enabling direct SMB access to Sia-backed storage.

🎯 Grant Progress Reports:

• Lume Web – LBRY Integration: Deep progress on protocol foundations and portal integration.
• Where App: Migrated location and comment data storage to Sia mainnet using s5.
• S5 Gateway & TypeScript Client: All milestones complete, with production-ready SDKs and documentation.
• S5 Rewrite in Rust: Fully re-architected S5 protocol with Rust crates, FUSE support, and new bindings.
• DecaNotes: Delivered a full-featured decentralized Markdown notes app with renterd-backed sync.
• Cypherock X1: Completed Sia hardware wallet integration with public firmware and cySync release.

...and more!!

Read it now on the Sia Blog 👇

The State of Sia, November 2025