Weekly update 21 May 2026

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::loudspeaker:: New Autonomi App Release: v0.8.0 and Thursday Update::loudspeaker::

Autonomi App users: There is a new Release Autonomi v0.8.0 · WithAutonomi/ant-ui · GitHub now. Please click the top left of the app where it says Update Available (If you do not see that you can close then reopen the app) then select Update & Restart button on the app. You will be prompted to click Allow or Approve, please do that and wait for it to update, this could take a few minuets. Your nodes should remain running through the restart @everyone!

What’s New: Multi-languag@everyoneeveryone support — Autonomi now speaks 7 languages: ::united_states:: English (Default) ::united_kingdom:: @everyone​:japan:: 日@everyone語 (Japanese) ::south_korea:: 한국어 (Korean) ::netherlands:: Nederlands (Dutch) ::france:: Français (French) ::bulgaria:: Български (Bulgarian) ::mexico:: Español (Spanish) ::spain:: Switch via SettingsLanguage, or let the app follow your system locale.

Autonomi CLI users: There is no new release Release ant 0.2.4 · WithAutonomi/ant-client · GitHub at this time.

Thusday Update

Data integrity:

Chunk pruning rules are now significantly stricter. Nodes must receive confirmation from all closest peers that they’re storing a chunk before pruning it, and the waiting period before any pruning is eligible has been extended from 6 hours to 3 days. A loophole where nodes could dodge audit penalties by claiming they were still bootstrapping has also been closed. These changes directly address the chunk loss flagged by the canary monitoring system and are now being tested on production.

Network health:

A single fix eliminated roughly 60% of all warning noise across the node fleet - older nodes were publishing invalid addresses that every other node tried and failed to dial, endlessly. That’s now filtered at source. Node memory usage is also being addressed by throttling how often nodes refresh their routing tables. On the trust side, nodes that fall below a threshold trust score are now immediately evicted from close groups rather than being slowly phased out - and a higher bar is being set for re-entry.

Merkle uploads:

A new preflight step now checks whether chunks are already stored on the network before processing payment. If they are, you don’t pay again. If only some need uploading, payment is calculated for just the remainder. Combined with the resumable uploads from last week, failed or repeated uploads no longer cost you extra.

x0x:

Peer relay landed this week - a Tailscale-style fallback that keeps agents connected even when direct paths aren’t available, with auto-upgrades now on by default. x0x.md now has a human-facing frontend alongside its agent-readable skill definition - go take a look at https://x0x.md/. Internally, we’re dogfooding agent orchestration - a locally-hosted AI agent team is now assisting with code reviews, security analysis, activity monitoring, and research across our repos and channels. No data leaves our infrastructure. The vision: human → AI → coordinated agent teams — with x0x as the communication layer that makes that possible wherever those agents live.

Trust layer:

The first marketplace contracts have been deployed to testnet. Some bugs and vulnerabilities surfaced … which is exactly what a testnet is for - and an updated version is being deployed. The proof-of-concept design has also been simplified.

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Not coming till next version release. See discord bug reports for Nic stating this

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