Update 16th October, 2025

Development Updates
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Another week, another release. This one brings an immediate 66% reduction to the gas cost of uploads by paying one node per chunk uploaded rather than three. Gas prices fluctuate wildly making the costs of uploads extremely unpredictable. With this change to node and client we have lowered prices at a stroke so everyone can upload more affordably. With the further improvements we’re working on right now we aim to reduce gas fees to close to zero by effectively paying for a whole batch of chunks with a single transaction.

Other changes include:

  • New Python and NodeJS binding for setting payments.
  • Improvements to bootstrapping and the identification and rejection of inactive peers for a healthier network.
  • Internal updates to the continuous integration process.

Full list here.

Net result: lower gas charges and a more responsive network.

Latest binaries (after a hotfix update):

antnode: v0.4.5-rc.5
antctld: v0.13.3
antctl: v0.13.3
ant: v0.4.8-rc.5
evm-testnet: v0.1.16
nat-detection: v0.2.22
node-launchpad: v0.5.11

We have also pushed an update to Dave that introduces the 67% gas cost reduction on file uploads.

Spaces Tonight feat. Nic

Don’t forget the Autonomi Spaces tonight, 1900GMT / 8pm BST! We’ll be joined by our product lead @Nic_Dorman, as we delve into the latest releases, what’s up next, and things bubbling up behind the scenes for Autonomi, and the future of the internet…

Community doings

@Traktion has released a new version of AntTP (serving Autonomi data over HTTP). v0.16.4 incorporates the latest autonomi libraries, improves command error handling and adds retrying. This is in addition to an earlier much larger upgrade with some significant changes to the way background tasks are handled – with pics! Take a look!

In addition to uploading public domain content to Autonomi via the Dave app to test uploading/downloading, @Dimitar has started an digital archive of news snapshots preserved in the Autonomi network. Who knows what aliens will make of us when they find it in 1,000 years’ time.

And @happybeing has updated the AutonomiDweb app – the easiest way to access dweb websites and web apps.

General progress

@Anselme has been refining the design of the new upload payments structure, which promises to minimise gas payments to near zero. He is now ready to start implementing a specific utilities crate for the project.

Benno focused on getting Swift tests to work on macOS and NixOS, creating a repository containing all the current code. Android code now passes tests using an emulator, and Benno is turning his attention to automated testing for Swift/Kotlin bindings.

@chriso has been preparing the latest release, which, as mentioned above, introduces single node payments and adds a file cost command flag --disable-single-node-payment flag to switch from the default single-node payment mode to the multi-node payment mode. Windows binaries are now digitally signed using DigiCert KeyLocker. This should hopefully improve the situation with the binaries being flagged by anti-virus products.

Ermine worked on uploads, user management with limits, retry mechanisms, and deleting mass failed uploads. He also completed token management, cost management, user management, and uploaded file management features in the Indelible enterprise gateway app.

@mick.vandijke continues to work on Dave, introducing certificates for signing Apple binaries and working on Windows certs too. He also raised a PR to wipe outdated cache on connection failure and retry in the client.

@qi_ma raised a PR to resolve failing e2e tests in the release candidate.

@roland investigated testnet results, introduced fixes to the reachability check, and raised PRs to fix long-running bootstrap sync errors on retries. Roland also tweaked NodeJS and Python bindings for antnode to accept BootstrapConfig, and implemented bootstrap cache features (generic API, BootstrapConfig, file locking and peer removal).

@Shu and roland identified and are fixing an issue with genesis nodes setting their WAN IP via the --ip flag. Shu also worked on making the ANT Reward & Observer Service V1 dashboard production-ready and analysed node operator data to map the distribution of the nodes.

And @vphongph worked on ant CLI tests concerning registers, and also helped with the admin panel for Indelible.

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First :1st_place_medal:

New gas is making it much more economical to upload :slight_smile: $3.50 gas for 6Gb file:)

Well done to all the team amazing work.

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Second.

Great news 66% reduction to the gas cost of uploads by paying one node per chunk uploaded rather than three.

Thank you for steady progress week to week.

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Thx 4 the update Maidsafe devs

@dimitar, @happybeing, @Traktion :star_struck:

:money_mouth_face: This makes economic sense :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Thanks again super ants 4 all your hard work

Keep hacking super ants :beer_mug::clinking_beer_mugs:

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Great work on all of these fronts team Autonomi + community.

Fee reduction is a good step, and the batching should go a long way to fixing the broken tokenomics that sees a huge majority of payments for uploads going to the ETH ecosystem instead of Autonomi node operators, which is a hugely important fix!

That, pared with the indelible enterprise app, mobile apps, paymaster etc in due course should put a lot of things in place that will smooth the path to real growth in adoption.

Really good update, and the spaces gave great insights to what’s being worked on.

Thanks, and keep up the amazing work :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Such a great update! Thank you team!

I thought I read on discord that the larger the upload, the cheaper it will be right now?

Anyone know this to be true?

Anyone know approximately what it would cost to upload 100 GB right now? I did a rough estimate of $60?

I need to upload a version of Unreal Engine 4.27, which I cooked from GitHub source code, to customize, as a one of a kind, which was a huge job.

My latest game is built on it, and Autonomi is the perfect place to keep it safe in case my computer burns down. I don’t want to customize and compile it again. Cheers

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Thanks so much to the entire Autonomi team for all of your hard work! :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile:

Our team and community are the best in crypto! :1st_place_medal:

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Right now ETH fees for uploading will be about 67% less than before the recent update (paying 1 node per chunk instead of 3), but there will be 1 ETH transaction for every chunk uploaded, so cost goes up with file size.

Once the batching feature is released, there will be only 1 ETH fee per batch, so the more chunks per batch, the lower the ETH fee per chunk.

Autonomi token costs will still be linear with file size. That cost is currently negligible, but I expect that’ll start to creep up once uploading big batches becomes far cheaper than it is now & nodes start to fill.

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A fantastic update! A big round of applause to the team for their great progress and the relentless pace of work! And a big thank you to the developers and community for their hard work and testing of the application.

Well done! :clap: :clap: :clap: :ok_hand: :smiley:

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Nice update, however, we need a YouTube / Rumble alternative whereby these Spaces can be hosted live via Autonomi with high resolution video and quality audio for the masses. These recordings are trash if we can even get them to load. The barely functional conference call model is absurd at this point.

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Keep smiling :slight_smile:
When you were born, did you immediately start running, riding a bike and bungee jumping? Maybe you don’t do that today, but it’s definitely possible.

Today, we need to do a lot of testing and give presentations to friends on how Autonomi works, and promotion on the Internet, and the time will come for perfect applications, besides, they are already in development… Seek and ye shall find :wink:
We should celebrate our achievements and have constructive conversations about how we can develop the network further.

Look around and… “don’t ask what Autonomi can do for you, ask what you can do for Autonomi”. :backhand_index_pointing_left:

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Everyone with an investment in the token is like a business owner. It might be wise to give some of your money to advertising your business or at least become a customer of your business.

Check out the Impossible Futures!

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Great update team, fabulous improvements. Keep the train folling down the track please!

Cheers

Yup … certainly true. I think, and correct me if I’m wrong, one of the biggest token holders is the foundation?

So yeah, I agree, the foundation should give some of their money to advertise the network.

As for myself, my pile isn’t worth enough yet to help out in this regard. Maybe if we get to 1-2 dollar range that will change.

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I meant your other money, like dollars, not ANT. Foundation tokens are worth nothing at this point in time with this liquidity.

Check out the Impossible Futures!

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@maidsafe AI

:money_mouth_face: :bullseye: 20 cents = 1Tb :exploding_head:

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Seeing a lot of chatter about Monad lately, a new EVM L1.

Thought I would take a little peek and guess what caught my eye.
If something better comes around that solves a issue..

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not interesting tbh, sol does close to 1mil transactions per second for nothing on latest testnets

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Well honestly I would rather jump in front of a train than do another token migration anyway.

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No migration needed

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