Announcement: Latest Release
Today we’re announcing a crucial new release for nodes and clients — plus a bonus Dave upgrade! This is a critical performance update that’s required for nodes to continue receiving emissions and essential for the overall health of the network. Please follow the instructions below to upgrade to the latest version and ensure the best performance and stability for @everyone! Check out the Github Release for full changelog details.
Then, press Ctrl + U, and hit Enter. This will upgrade your nodes. Upgrading can take several minutes for each node. Please don’t close the app or stop your nodes during this process.
Your nodes will now stop
Press Ctrl + S to start your nodes again
For CLI Tool Users:
If you’re using the CLI tool, please update and upgrade. Run the update first: antup update
Then run the upgrade: antctl upgrade --interval 60000
Finally, start them again with antctl start --interval 60000
For ALL Users:
Please start your nodes gradually — especially if you plan on running multiple nodes.
Be conservative with CPU allocation to maintain stability
You must be on 2025.11.1.1 or newer to earn rewards
Binary Versions:
antnode: v0.4.7
antctld: v0.13.3
antctl: v0.13.3
ant: v0.4.10
evm-testnet: v0.1.16
nat-detection: v0.2.22
node-launchpad: v0.5.11
Dave Update:
Our testbed application Dave also receives an exciting update today, introducing paymaster support — meaning you can now upload data to the network using only ANT, no ETH required! The gasless payment option is integrated directly into the upload flow, where you’ll be prompted to create a smart wallet that handles everything behind the scenes. It’s fantastic to see this new feature land in Dave, and we hope it will be widely adopted and built upon by our Autonomi ecosystem builders. Grab the latest version of Dave here! Please note the readme has detailed instructions on using the paymaster.
It’s basically an EVM smart contract “wallet” that you deposit some token like $ANT into, and for each “transaction” it’s basically freezing that amount of $ANT in the wallet, to satisfy the transaction? Which is how it gets around using gas each time?
Any general quick tips on apps like SAFE-FS integrating it? We currently cover the ARB ETH for everyone’s uploads but would be great to avoid that
Essentially at the beginning you lock up X amount of ANT. When you upload data it swaps the ANT for ETH behind the scenes to pay for the gas. Eventually you will run out of your ANT and will have to refill it to pay for more gas for uploads.
Oh so you still get charged the $0.02 of ETH gas every time, it just charges that as $ANT? Interesting. I thought it was more like a lightning channel system, which would be like 1,000x cheaper long term. I’ll read more about it online
Anybody else noticing very low estimated network size?
I have just over half of my 700 nodes back up so far on Formicaio and Im getting estimated network size ~70k. Normally I’d expect 2million ish…
I tried to upload two .mp4 files (13.4 MB) at once. It said they were successfully uploaded (I paid with paymaster). I got the following data address: 322739f06c697ef87ff2c01ea940aa5ea18c6540d78f064a00e581e0438d87c7
When I download it with Dave I get an empty folder…
EDIT: I tried uploading the files separately and they uploaded successfully without being charged again. I received 2 different data addresses. They are downloading successfully.
EDIT2: In fact, Dave hides the files in the home folder in Vault / Local Vault. That is, in the Upload section, after the files are uploaded, you cannot click and enter the home folder and it seems that the individual files have not been uploaded, while in the home folder they are displayed separately with separate data addresses. Very magical!
Announcement: Latest Release 
