Update 9th October, 2025

Development Updates
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Lots going on behind the scenes, with the team laser-focused on reducing gas fees for uploads as far as we possibly can. We’re pursuing some promising ideas and have started coding them up, but obviously they will need thorough testing before they’re ready to go live. Once it’s all ready and working, you’ll be the first to know.

We looked further into the distribution of emissions, and @shu is building some dashboards so we can monitor distribution patterns to ensure that no-one is being unfairly favoured/disadvantaged because of their location.

No Spaces this week, but we hope you’ll join us next Thursday 8pm BST, when @Nic_Dorman will be on hand to answer some of your more technical and operational questions.

Likewise the next release has been slightly delayed as we’re looking to iron out a performance issue with the production network first.

Showtime

The case for privacy-preserving alternatives to the prevailing data-grabbing norms continues to grow, as @jimcollinson in his video on the UK government’s plans for a digital ID.

Community superstars

Great to see Dave being put through his paces. @dimitar has started a thread “On the Roads with Dave” chronicling his experience with uploading of public domain books. This week Mick fixed a bug in Dave to do with max chunk size, so expect to see some performance improvements in the next version.

In a stunning bit of synchronicity, @safemedia popped up with an ebook reader for Autonomi so you can read all those books that @dimitar has been uploading.

Props to @oetyng who has provided a detailed tutorial for using Rynn, his massive multi-device virtual FS.

And to @tobbetj who created a video showing @riddim’s Friends messenger in use.

Finally, @researcherguy started an interesting thread on an idea for a new monetary system designed for the world of AI and automation. Fantastic to see the forum buzzing with ideas and energy.

General progress

@Anselme has been deep into the gas fee reduction scheme together with Qi.

@bzee headed into Kotlin and Android app development. He also started implementing async client API methods for Swift/iOS and Kotlin/Android.

@chriso created a release candidate for the single-node payment release (to reduce gas fees), incorporating Ermine’s signing work.

Ermine has been working on our In-house developed enterprise gateway Indelible, including token management, backend database implementation, and fixing some frontend issues for a smoother experience. Plus he was on the single-node payments issue too.

@mick.vandijke has been testing some of the team’s ideas to reduce gas payments to a bare minimum. He also investigated and corrected upload problems with Dave, including PaymentQuoteOutOfRange errors, looked at the distribution of emissions and reviewed Ermine’s Indelible work.

@qi_ma and @anselme have been looking at the way we pay nodes, introducing a number of changes for efficiency. Qi also investigated Dave upload failures and the fluctuating size of the mainnet, plus he collaborated with @shu on emission/observer dashboard improvements.

@roland fixed a bootstrap cache issue by pushing newer addresses to the front, and another bug causing node startup failures.

@shu worked on automating observability for emissions dashboards, and worked with Qi on file format integration and minor changes.

And @vphongph worked on scratchpad tests for the ant CLI test suite and also fixed some bugs in Indelible.

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First, ever.
Thanks for this weeks update and thanks for the shout out.

There was some more to this than just a video, I made a demo launcher for dweb/friends during the weekend to try and motivate devs to focus on user-friendly experiences, which does not include cli, build from source and so on, to allow Autonomi apps to reach the general public and increase the chances of success for the network.

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Thanks for great update.

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Well done to all the team can’t wait for next week to see the new release in action :slight_smile:

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

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

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Great update. I’m very much looking forward to hearing from Nic to get some info about near-term plans.

Fantastic to know that a solution to this bottleneck is on its way :slight_smile:

Once a huge quantity of data can be uploaded to the network cheaply, I’m sure its usefulness will start to grow, and more value will circulate within the ecosystem vs going to ETH. Of course total removal of ETH fees would be the best, but a 67% + far greater reduction for large uploads is huge, so it’ll be great to hear how it will be done!

Also great to know work on mobile app development work is progressing.

Encouraging progress. Thanks team Autonomi, and of course community members doing some cool stuff :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Applause for the team for their hard work in minimising fees :ok_hand::clap: :clap:

This is one of the most important issues in the operation of the network, and I hope that very positive changes will be introduced. :crossed_fingers:

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Have a question about the reduction in gas fees. If we are able to reduce the gas fees by 67% and ETH prices doubles from here are we back to where we started?

It is likely with global liquidity increasing we are going to see much higher crypto prices. If we have 10k ETH does our effort at lower gas fees by 67% get wiped out?

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So by seeing this question I think there are two things that need clarification for you.

#1 is knowing what the change actually is. The 67% reduction is not talking about $ cost directly, it’s reducing the amount of transactions required. So instead of paying 3 nodes, it’s paying 1. Therefor, you’re paying 1 time the transaction fee, instead of 3 times. It’s a bit more complicated than this, but it’s the general idea.

#2 transaction cost is not directly tied to the price of the asset. It’s the price of making a transaction (demand vs transactions per second). If ETH price would increase, that does not mean the price of transactions go up. However, sharply increase of price usually also comes with increased blockchain activity, increasing demand, making it more expensive.

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Whatever happens to the ETH price, the situation will be significantly better if fees are 67% lower than they would otherwise have been.

But, of course if ETH fees rise, it’ll still affect the cost of uploading until there’s an alternative.

At least it sounds like large uploads should be able to see a significantly greater reduction in ETH fees than 67%, so that will make ETH fees fairly irrelevant for large uploads whatever happens to the price of ETH.

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An other important thing to note is that Arbitrum One is still actively trying to reduce the fees on their side as well. The latest Ethereum upgrade allows for L2 to be more efficient, but not all the L2s have integrated that improvement yet (including Arbitrum One).

I honestly feel the fees are going to be much less of an issue before the end of the year. They may still be an issue during the end of a altcoin bull run, as that historically has clogged the chains.

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Thank you for the clarification and straightening me out on this! :folded_hands:

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