Weekly Developer Update: February 19th, 2026

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With the big announcement going out today, we will have a short update here.

This will be the final update for the v1.0 network, all our efforts going forward will be for v2.0
The release is still useful as it tests and ensures that update functionality across all platforms is consistent.

There will be a break from these updates for the next few weeks, ahead of an alpha release.

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About Autonomi 2.0

We’ve published our 2026 strategy document today. This post summarises the substantive points. The full document is available on the Autonomi website.

Autonomi 2.0 — Architecture
2.0 is a full network replacement, not a migration. The architecture has been decomposed into independently reinforcing layers: transport, DHT, trust, identity, and applications. Key changes from 1.0:

  • Post-quantum cryptography throughout. ML-DSA-65 for digital signatures, ML-KEM-768 for key exchange. NIST-standardised. No classical fallback. Every handshake, every session key, every signed data type is post-quantum from the ground up. In 1.0, data chunks had meaningful quantum resistance at rest, but the network layer, signed data types, and identity did not. 2.0 closes that gap entirely.

  • Native QUIC NAT traversal. Standard consumer routers interfered with 1.0 node connectivity. 2.0 handles NAT traversal natively — no STUN/ICE, no configuration. This matters for genuine decentralisation: a network that only sophisticated operators can run nodes on isn’t actually decentralised.

  • Multi-layer Sybil resistance. Sybil resistance, eclipse protection, and EigenTrust reputation scoring operating in concert.

  • Geographic diversity enforcement. Data distribution across regions rather than concentrations.

  • Adaptive transport. The Network can route over Bluetooth and LoRa where conventional connectivity isn’t available.

Testing on both local and distributed networks is underway now. Go-live is targeted at approximately 4 weeks.

On Data from 1.0
Seamless transfer from 1.0 to 2.0 is not possible. We’re switching wholesale. Early participants who ran nodes and contributed data were doing so without guarantee of permanence - that was understood - and many earned ANT and in some cases USDC through those contributions. Data stored on 2.0 will be permanent for the lifetime of The Network.

Indelible 2.0
Human-facing interface for large-scale uploads. Merkle Tree batch uploads reduce the blockchain payment overhead that made The Network economically impractical at scale. Ships approximately 5 weeks from now.

x0x
Post-quantum agent-to-agent gossip network. Agent-agnostic — connects to any open-source or extensible agent. Enables agents to discover, evaluate, and propagate skills autonomously. Autonomi storage skills distributed through x0x embed The Network in the agentic ecosystem through demonstrated utility. Go-live approximately 9 weeks.

Fae
Local AI agent. Entirely on-device. No centralised component. Fae will run Autonomi nodes, earn ANT, and use ANT for storage — without users needing to interact with any of that directly. The intent is to make the token economy invisible infrastructure. Testing at 14 weeks, live at 16 weeks.

The Trusted Data Layer
A permissionless trust mechanism for programmatic data source selection, operating across canonical (staked, zkTLS-attested) and non-canonical (reputation-weighted) tiers. Each dataset becomes a token sink. Proof of concept targeted at 6 weeks, live at 16 weeks.

Emissions Pool
Total supply: 1.2 billion ANT. Emissions pool allocation: 240 million. Used to date: approximately 2.94%. Remaining: approximately 233 million tokens. These are not being burned. The reasoning: AI agents transact natively in crypto and at a scale and speed that human financial processes cannot match. ANT is structurally suited to agentic payments. No firm deployment decisions have been made, but the optionality is being preserved deliberately.

CLI, Launchpad, and API Compatibility
Existing tools are being reviewed and reworked for the new network. API compatibility decisions will be communicated explicitly over the next 2–4 weeks as they are finalised.
The full strategy document covers the positioning rationale, the Fae security framework (staged capability model), and the multi-bet flywheel logic in detail.

Read more here: Autonomi 2026: Built for This Moment - Autonomi

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Update from Bux - March 5, 2026
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This first just had to be mine! Reading now.

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second! am i?

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Bronze master :3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal::3rd_place_medal:

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4th

now to read :slight_smile:

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This is incredible news ,there must have been some amount of work going on behind the scenes, well done ants ,:blush:amazing

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Not a migration, but a wholesale hard reset new network going to 2.0 is kind of wild. Though the 2.0 network looks great on paper, I just feel for those that uploaded all that data to the 1.0 network. Wish we could refund them.

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So come 2.0, data will be permanently permanent. When will 2.0 come? Sounds like a couple of weeks, but we have been to a couple of weeks before.

Is it guaranteed going to 2.0 will be the last hard reset and data wipeout?

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Per the announcement on the website:

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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: :flexed_biceps:

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Yep, I have noticed the table, but it does not really answer the question.

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For me personally, it’s a bit disappointing to see. I’ve uploaded around 1.5 TB over the last few months at a cost approaching $1000. I did it mainly for testing purposes and to help the team discover some issues, I knew data wasn’t permanent (there has been data loss several times already). Obviously it would have been great if the data was permanent.

I honestly wouldn’t accept a refund from the team even if they offered. Though I strongly believe in the team behind Autonomi, I also firmly believe this project cannot succeed without the community getting involved, everyone in their own way. This project has to become decentralized eventually, and that only happens when community members get involved.

If the team knew a few weeks ago that data was going to be lost in the 2.0 transition, a little headsup would’ve been nice though :sweat_smile:

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Welcome to the mushroom club :laughing:

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When will Autonomi 2.0 launch? 4 weeks from now would be Mar 19. But as you alluded to this is a estimate. Things break and dont always work as intended. Timetables sometimes need to change, but these are our best projections.

Will Autonomi 2.0 be the last hard reset/data wipeout? We believe so but nothing in this world is 100%. We strive to make this the last reset.

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The announcement says 3 weeks from now 2.0 testing. and 4 weeks from now 2.0 live.

I know you guys said you were going to be moving at lighting pace. but if the schedule already shortened by 33% in 1 hour, you guys are really extraordinary

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I didnt read the chart @QrJ955nxcap posted close enough. Edited my post.

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It was originally the idea to do this, but the possibility became 0% as this needs the nodeID to be the same from one network to the next, but with a change in how identity works it they cant be.

Unfortunate but unavoidable once looked into deeply

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Once again all our code and data will be broken. I’m quite relieved that I stopped working on my apps at the end of last year, and haven’t been jumping into the frenzy of uploads. Shutting down my nodes was prescient even though I did it for financial reasons.

To say the plan is optimistic would be a wild understatement. I can’t say any of this is infeasible, but it really doesn’t seem likely to be achieved even without looking at the track record we have on this project.

We won’t have to wait long to wait to find out. Autonomi 2.0 live in four weeks would be beyond impressive and I’ll take my hat off to the team and David if it is live in eight. If they make that, maybe the token isn’t dead after all, and maybe the network can finally fulfill its original goals - though privacy isn’t really featured.

The word “private” does appear once in the announcement, so maybe an oversight but seems important, and maybe a reflection of changes in priority or design (eg blockchain).

I like the adaptive transport too, so many amazing features. Can it be true? :thinking:

P.S. For the record - as predicted a looong time ago - a native token does not feature in the Autonomi 2.0 plan as announced.

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Buy the ticket take the ride, here for the journey.

V2 sounds great and I will be here as always but I do feel a little rugged.

Been stressing and scheming as to how I can bring more nodes to help a steadily declining network.

Now it seems that steady decline was more likely measured than a coincidence.

Even if not, it kinda sucks that up until a few minutes ago good faithed efforts to help the network survive were entirely pointless.

Anyway excited to see what the future holds.

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The decline wasnt engineered if thats what you are implying, the rapid downscale is causing a replication (and traffic) run away, its not something we anticipated or expected.

We have functionality in v2.0 for avoiding exactly this scenario now that it its known

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