Update 24th July, 2025

Development Updates
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The week we’ve been laser focused on eliminating remaining niggles. We’re not seeing any data loss but there are some random upload and download failures requiring multiple retries. Fixes have been identified and are being tested.

There’s a new release out with lots of fixes, including one that will enable with emissions for people running nodes with a port forwarding configuration. We’ve gone some way to nailing failed downloads, but there’s still a bit to do on that. Essentially we are doing away with relays which were causing problems. The --relay flag is deprecated so please upgrade your nodes asap. Clients are unaffected.

We’ve also kicked off an internal hackathon to develop a team-built app to showcase the network and assist partners and communities to use it from a central provider within the organisation, such as a single wallet for many people to use. This marks our transition from R&D to a features and products team. It’s so great to have got here and the team is super-energised!

On Impossible Futures, participants are now deploying to the network and preparing their projects for voting, which will begin next week. We’re also assembling the community judging panel ready to assess and score the apps. The community judging panel will account for 40% of the overall score for the top three prizes.

A way out of this M.A.D.-ness

Jim has put out another cracking video demonstrating the disadvantages of centralisation. This time it’s about how data centres are prime targets in times of war and introduces the countervailing concept of Mutually Assured Data. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Community doings

@riddim upgraded his Friends messenger app to include dweb attribution, routes upgrade and larger avatar pics.

Riddim also helped @happybeing with a bug fix for dweb that affected uploads. Dweb is now on V0.10.4

@zettawatt is mirroring Project Gutenberg to his local machine with plans to upload all the files and plug the metadata into Colony for searching and management.

And @oetying unveiled a slimmed down MVP of Ryyn, his backup project .

General progress

@chriso has been chiselling away at the latest release knocking off the rough bits.

@anselme has been working on data streaming support to allow for big file uploads in a way that’s backward-compatible.

Ermine continues working on fixing the issues with upgrading on metric service over RPC.

Lajos has been studying the signature scheme in the Safe ERC4337 module and trying to implement a valid signing method using Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) for the smart account.

@mick.vandijke created tasks for the internal hackathon, added back-end offline detection and reconnect UI, and worked on an extensive Admin dashboard which is almost done.

@qi_ma has been checking out the release candidate and also fixed a couple of bugs to do with home nodes being unavailable to clients despite being able to connect to other peers. He also reviewed the data streaming work, which required some changes to self encryption. This is something @dirvine has been working on.

@roland has been on the hackathon, in particular Dockerising the components we are working on for our app.

Meanwhile @vphongph worked on the Python API, issuing a PR for implementing Postgres DB using SQLx, the Rust SQL toolkit. We can now store the auth tokens to the database for validation and also the uploaded file data!

Finally, @shu added additional functionality to ELK and Telegraf side so data in ELK can now be specifically targeted to be deleted. Previously we were running out of disk space when using verbose logging.

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If not, why not.. fiiiirrrst… :slightly_smiling_face:

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Crazy, is this for the showcase app? Will it be some sort of self-hosted webapp with backend in Python + Rust? Why not just use Python’s Postgres access?

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hopefully its every bit as great as Dave :slight_smile:

well done to all the team looking forward to seeing the difference when all the nodes are upgraded.

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hmmm - is this only about saving on ram and streaming full files up/down in one go without needing to put everything into ram at once or may that enable range requests for self encrypted data from the network? (like fetching one file from a tarball when knowing where it is inside it)

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Thanks for the update team. The devs here are a well oiled unstoppable coding machine!

Cheers :beers:

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

And thanks as well to the community members for all of their contributions! Our community is the best! :1st_place_medal:

RIP Ozzy Osbourne! He gave us lots of great music! He taught me how to ride the Crazy Train and Bark at the Moon, very important life skills!

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Are there any more details to share on the change to Self Encryption and why that was needed?

And a very positive update!

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And Hulk Hogan has shuffled off with Ozzy

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Terrific video and feels like a (hard won) milestone has been reached (tips hat) by maidsafe developers , it’s going to be fascinating and exciting to experience what comes next (one, three, five years) after a decade of gray concrete mix (so to speak) and congrats to all who survived all of that lol and are still trucking on.

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Congratulations and thank you to all involved in this weeks update.
Thanks to both the Autonomi devs and ALL the IF developers who have worked so hard to give us apps to run on this new network.
The transition from R&D to a features and products team is an important milestone, one that should be celebrated.
Naturally we are all wondering just what performance we will get and at what gas cost. I support the idea that we should be working to get what we have working well and worry about cheaper alternatives to Arbitrum later. But not TOO much later. We are going to have an ERC-20 token for a while, so lets have the most cost efficient chain we can get until we are ready for native.
Nne of this should happen until we are all convinced the R&D really is finished and we have squashed the current bugs and have acceptable performance.
The actual price of the ANT will be what it is, lets not get too hung up on it for now. The moon can only come with a performant network that will attract - and KEEP users. So bug fixes and performance enhancements rather than new features should be the focus for now.

And a big hand for @JimCollinson and his YT videos - excellent stuff.

Avanti!!!

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Hello, Friends! Tell me, please, is it only me that displays the year 2024 instead of 2025?

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Yes you are right, I will fix that, I have the power :rofl:

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Thx 4 the update Maidsafe devs and your hard work and transition :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head:

@riddim @happybeing @zettawatt @ oetyng :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

:exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :partying_face: :confetti_ball: :high_voltage: :zany_face: :star_struck:

@jimcollinson :+1: mutually assured :face_blowing_a_kiss: data more than destruction…

Keep hacking super ants

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