It feels like we really turned a corner this week, with the announcement of our Impossible Future’s winners. Massive congratulations and huge thanks to everyone who took part in developing apps for Autonomi. Finalists were apps and projects that were deemed by the judges to have successfully deployed on main net. They were: Friends, Colony, IMIM, Autonomi Browser Extension, Autonomi Community Token, Ryyn, Mutant and Queeni AI Assistant. There were some brilliant and inspiring efforts from several other projects too and we are proud of you all. You really showed what can be achieved.
Congratulations to @riddim, @safemedia and @zettawatt for landing the top three places (zettawatt was also judged the most impressive individual contributor) and to @Traktion for scooping the most engaged team gong. You can hear the announcements on X Spaces.
This is just the beginning. The winning submissions have received their cash prizes, empowering them to continue pursuing their dreams, building on what they’ve started. And we’re already working on IF2.
The future is looking brighter already 
Community action
Clearly not one to rest on his laurels, @safemedia has created a fully virtualised x86 operating system on Autonomi. 
@oetyng released a new version of his backup app Ryyn which contains multiple bug-fixes.
@happybeing updated dweb – the foundation of much of the good work that has been accomplished in the app space so far, simplifying the CLI.
And @zettawatt is moving forward with his Autonomi developer co-op idea.
Dave is here!
Yes, that’s right. The revamped Dave, our web application to demonstrate the core functionality of the Autonomi network, is ready to make your acquaintance!
But what exactly is Dave? Dave is our proof-of-concept web application that showcases how personal data can be uploaded, stored, and made accessible on the Autonomi network. Think of it as your first proper introduction to what makes Autonomi special – a hands-on demonstration of Autonomi data storage in action.
It acts as a practical reference implementation for developers, showing how applications can interact with the network’s core APIs. You can dig into the code to understand how we’ve tackled it, and we hope there will be useful components and patterns for your projects too.
It’s a foundation upon which more sophisticated applications can be built, and we fully expect it to be rapidly improved upon – not only by our Impossible Futures builders, but by the community and the wider ecosystem.
That’s the beauty of open source development at work. We provide the building blocks and reference implementations, you take them in directions we’ve never imagined. It’s how we can all progress together, achieving something much greater than the sum of its parts.
Give it a whirl! And have fun digging into both the UI and the code – and let us know what you build next.
What? Video Streaming on the Autonomi Network?!
Oh yes indeed! Gather round for a glimpse of what @Anselme has cracked this week – a live demonstration of video streaming straight from the network. It’s another string to the bow for developers and community teams who want to add rich streaming media to their applications and projects. Github Repo here.
It also shows just how rapidly things are evolving and what can be done thanks to all the recent progress. Very exciting.
Next week: Roadmap
Ahead of our next major network release, we’re going to be publishing our roadmap.
Coming next week, you’ll see what lies in store – not only the immediate network and client updates and upgrades, but work on other projects such as Indelible and a glimpse into the future that is rapidly approaching.
We guarantee you will not want to miss what’s coming, so keep an eye out for a very special Spaces event where we delve into the sequence of what’s coming. We’ll be discussing some of the quite radical work that’s been going on behind the scenes and where that will take the network.
Think big, people!
General progress
On top of the video streaming work, @Anselme has updated his AntUpload file sharing app for Linux and macOS to use streaming in order to easily upload very large files. He also released – you guessed it - AntDownload to facilitate the downloading of multiple files or archives with streaming and a pretty UI. Plus he cleaned up the API, fixing some file APIs affected by the streaming upgrade.
@chriso continued work on reachability, focusing on port-restricted NAT emulation, and is pairing with shu and Ermine to resolve remaining issues. Plus he’s preparing the next release candidate.
Ermine has been finalising the Dave project, improving dark mode and working on Docker validations.
@dirvine is working in the background on several projects, including Message Layer Security to integrate Post Quantum cryptography, improving DevX and a project called Communitas, which is a collaboration platform built on the Saorsa P2P ecosystem with four-word addresses, end-to-end encryption and distributed storage.
@mick.vandijke fixed public file download failures in Dave, optimised uploads by avoiding unnecessary vault key requests and refreshes, and fixed adding local files/archives to network vaults.
@qi_ma raised a PR to prevent early returns during a GET request unless unique content is received from enough peers. He’s also been looking into a potential native token mechanism (don’t get too excited though, it’s very early days and there’s much to do before we get to that stage).
@roland verified that Port Restricted Cone emulation works after fixing an issue discovered by Shu and raised a PR to support reachability check flow on nodes.
@Shu implemented retention policies on InfluxDB reducing memory usage by 60%, fixed an edge case bug with NAT hairpinning for port-restricted cone NAT and updated our internal dashboard with reachability metrics.
And @vphongph continues to work on tests for scratchpad forking, BLS test, CLI and updating the Python API. He also worked on CI issues with the autonomi-client repo.
Biggest hurdle for me was the long time to get the upload quote, but that is network related of course and I’m sure that will drastically improve over time.
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