Update from Bux - April 2, 2026

Development Updates
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It’s five days until we launch Autonomi 2.0 … that should mean a decent weekly update - we’ll let you be the judges of that :folded_hands:

Replication - merged and working
The big one. A complete replication implementation has now landed. This is the mechanism that keeps your data alive - when a node leaves, the data it held gets redistributed automatically. No human intervention, no central coordinator. Dynamic chunk audit sizing means the system adjusts how aggressively it checks based on network conditions.

New pricing formula live
Storage now costs: median quote x 3, per chunk. Simple, self-regulating - as a node fills up, its price rises naturally. No price oracle. No human setting rates. The smart contract has been simplified to match, and the old storage cap on nodes is gone.

Payment and upload hardening
Three hardening PRs landed this week: payment verification tightened, upload reliability improved with retry-and-backoff, DoS prevention added to the payment pipeline. EVM dependencies consolidated - roughly 530 transitive deps stripped out. Large file uploads fixed: 4GB through the network using under 250MB of memory via a chunk spill mechanism. IPv6 enabled by default.

Desktop and CLI
Unified CLI done - one tool, one command set, self-update built in. Autonomi Desktop is release-ready: Windows builds DigiCert signed, macOS notarization in progress. Symmetric NAT hole punching confirmed working - nodes behind even the most restrictive home routers can connect. That’s what makes “any home computer can be a node” actually true. Release candidate targeting today, internal testnet and production dry run to follow.

Post-quantum purity
saorsa-pqc hit v0.5.1 this week with all classical cryptography removed. ed25519, x25519, curve25519 - gone. The network runs entirely on ML-DSA-65 and ML-KEM-768 (NIST post-quantum standards). No fallback. No hybrid mode. Pure PQC from the transport layer up. Forbes ran a piece this week on quantum computing breaking Bitcoin’s encryption sooner than expected. We’re not speculating about quantum readiness - we already shipping it.

x0x - the agent layer
Roughly five agents are now actively integrating with x0x - organically. No outreach, no incentive programme. Agents are finding it, evaluating it, and building on it. Developer docs are up, structured for both human developers and agent consumption. More on this soon …

What launch looks like
One thing we’ve been clear on internally: launch day isn’t about theoretical capability. It’s about showing what Autonomi actually does for people. We’ll have more to share on that at launch - but suffice to say, the focus is real use, real data, real permanence (for the lifetime of the network) from day one. Not a demo. Not “imagine if.” The network earns trust by being useful, and that’s how we intend to show up.

Onwards we go!
@Bux

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Yippee, sounding good still.

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That sounds rather epic! You folks are really on a tear. Lets show the world what we got :partying_face:

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Okay this is pretty interesting. Looking forward to it.

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This is gonna be sweet! Peeps should show up here and be a little more excited. Agents are getting DBC’s in the near term future for offline transactions so you can still rule the world from your laptop when the grid goes down! That’s just the tip of the iceberg really.

Genuinely, the new ideas and methods being researched and developed at Saorsa Labs for every aspect supporting Autonomi is just as exciting as when I first was learning about the SAFE Network. The original vision is there and a whole new vision (bringing the future to now) that people aren’t even seeing bc this forum has changed so much. This stuff is wildly interesting and all the threads are coming together. David (and his army of agents) is at his best visionary and productive self. Super inspiring.

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Looking good! I still have my reservations about permanent data, but this new iteration has some great advancements.

I regret my negative attitude regarding Saorsa many months ago, but we had no idea at the time that David was creating a new base for Autonomi 2.0 … secrets are double edged swords.

Cheers :beers:

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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being critical or skeptical really but props for also being humble enough to admit that things that previously concerned you, no longer do!

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Well, I hope I’ll be next to change my course, but I need the pudding and a bit of time. But I really do hope so!

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Can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat!

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And ALL of your vegetables.

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

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Thx 4 the update Maidsafe devs

:star_struck: :flexed_biceps: for all you super :ant:s waiting for 2.0

Good to see this rocket take off :rocket:
Jippy :beer_mug: :clinking_beer_mugs:

Keep hacking super ants

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Looking forward to the release !

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Where did you see info about this?

I’m loving your rejuvenated excitement about the project!

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Here:

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David’s creativity seems off the leash! :laughing: :star_struck:

I wish we could go back twenty years and give him Claude Opus back then.

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Looks amazing… great to see at least plans for a native token being laid out, even if it’s not in current roadmaps / immediate plans.

The mix of ledger (on-network) and bearer certificates (off-network) tokens seems like it could be powerful & flexible.

Given Autonomi already have used EVM mechanisms for locking tokens with the Impossible Futures activities, perhaps it’ll be feasible to integrate some kind of EVM lock with corresponding native unlock on the network so ANT can go native… we’ll see, but however it works, the promise of network-speed value transfer without bulky blockchains, all quantum-resistant sounds amazing & like what was originally envisioned.

Exciting stuff!

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What is the relationship of this new token to MAID, and it’s descendants?

If anyone cares to make a summary of that, even with AI, I’d be thankful. Cannot do it myself at the moment .

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I agree it’d be interesting to hear whether it’s envisaged that ANT might move to this standard.

The document only describes a token system, not a specific token.

If Autonomi nodes were able to handle transactions that use the x0x based token standards, then it should be viable to move ANT over to there instead of Arbitrum, as long as some way to lock tokens on Arbitrum & unlock on x0x, and perhaps vice-versa, is possible.

Of course if this were possible and desired by the team, ANT moving to this kind of standard would mean it’s cheaper & faster to transact, improving performance of storage operations, and it would gain quantum resistance, and improved privacy vs blockchain.

Moving ANT to a new x0x based standard would be a great showcase, with risks until the standards are proven reliable, or backups exist (ideally a decentralised 2-way bridge with Arbitrum).

Anyway, lets remember to not bug the team with questions about this due to their sensitivities. Best to chat among ourselves + use LLMs to try to figure stuff out.

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it was in a FUTURE.md file in a Saorsa Labs repo. The x0x repo I believe!

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