Weekly update June 18 2026

Development Updates
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*The video was generated by AI and may contain inaccuracies.

It’s still just about Thursday in the UK … so thought I would sneak in our weekly update! There’s too much to share to be late ::slightly_smiling_face::

As you’ll see from our earlier post, we now have … ant-node v0.13.0, ant-cli v0.2.8, Autonomi App v0.8.2 with deep links and datamap backup, Ant-SDK v0.10.0 with streaming downloads across the SDK language bindings, and Indelible v0.11.0 with scaling, caching, role separation, and security hardening improvements. Five releases in one week, and business development conversations are actively progressing with organisations holding data that needs to last. Below is a little breakdown for @everyone that’s interested ::folded_hands::

Uplоad reliability

Recent fresh testnet runs have shown strong upload and download reliability, sustained periods of 100% success, work will continue hardening the edge cases - we’re aiming for ‘bullet proof’. Witnessed quote selection, concurrent quote fetching, single-node payment alignment, and datamap-in-batch payment are all closing the gaps that were causing intermittent retrieval failures. Work is also landing to bind quote pricing to audited storage commitments - making it harder for nodes to game the system. Important foundational stuff for long-term network health.

Network hardening

Work is underway to gate relay publication with canary quorum checks - catching unreachable relays before they enter the DHT rather than after. Relay reachability and neighbour-sync improvements are also reducing CPU spikes during replication, keeping nodes stable under load.

Download monitoring

A production monitor is running daily across the live network - 40 operations, over 27GB, zero failures. With the new SDK streaming work, downloads are now reporting real progress at both chunk and byte level, giving applications built on Autonomi meaningful feedback.

x0x

Recent design work is moving toward a flatter group authority model - Admin and Member roles replacing the previous Owner structure. Agent verification is available through both API and CLI, and work is underway on an Autonomi Operator Skill that would allow agents to install and run network nodes directly - interesting territory for network growth for sure.

Trust layer

The trust layer is sharpening. This week’s walkthrough showed dispute-resolution agent flows using Autonomi storage for evidence and dispute records - a financial metrics agent demonstrating the full cycle from service delivery through to dispute and resolution. The direction is clear: accountable agents with reputation that reflects real performance. Public testnet access is being targeted in the coming weeks. (with the way the world is headed I’m personally really excited for this one)

Fae and agent orchestration

Speaking of excitement - the agentic layer is moving fast. Code reviews are being handled by parallel teams of different models, synthesised into consensus reviews rather than single-model opinions. Early Agent Control Protocol support is landing, giving Fae the ability to coordinate local agent teams more directly. The picture emerging: personal agents that learn your working patterns, coordinate your tools, and connect to other agents through x0x - removing the blind spots that come from teams working across time zones and platforms. Aim: your agent, working freely (big boys can’t play this way, as lock-in is their commercial model/aim), to coordinate a better experience for you …

BingX

This is mentioned last, as while it’s great (lots of users) it will be better with visibility and therefore volume - working on both, but headline, as you know, is that ANT is now listed on BingX, expanding exchange access alongside the development work.

Onwards, and upwards! (… there’s an upload joke in there somewhere) Bux ::rocket::

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

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Thanks all the blue collar workers and all the people who actually generate wealth and value in such an abundance the system can support projects that go from a better-than-blockchain coins backed by utility to the latest AI slop in form of an idea that has proven far more resilient than the network that embodies it.

Without you, all the “dreamers and outcasts” who wasted ten years watching competent people freak out over elementary questions would have wasted ten years watching something else.

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Seems like some big progress this week.

SDK release, streaming downloads, and link-opening from browser when the Autonomi app is installed stand out as significant steps forward, along with work to improve resilience & performance.

If ‘streaming downloads’ means videos and audio could be streamed, we’re very close to being able to download a single app that enables easy to discover streaming of media from Autonomi with a single click in any browser… let’s hope some good user experiences take advantage of this soon to show the benefits of the network (YouTube channel back-up + hosting system on Autonomi please!).

Looking forward to checking out fae + x0x + trust layer when they’re complete & working together.

The Autonomi Network is in the best shape it’s ever been, with progress on many fronts. It’s starting to look like a useful base to build decentralised products on.

All this progress & foundational work, yet you only want to mock & discourage, completely ignoring what’s being achieved & focusing on negatives.

I want a native token system too, but come on… if you can only bring negativity despite the progress being shown, you must not be interested in the core vision the team has been working towards all these years.

There’s at least a concept published for a route to a native token for the ecosystem (Line 287 onward: docs: add FUTURE_PATH.md — speakable identity, agent economics, beare… · saorsa-labs/x0x@4a3d016 · GitHub). But any token system only works on top of the foundation of a reliable network.

If you think it’s a waste of time & aren’t impressed by the network actually working, why are you here?

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You assume a lot. And I actually thanked people (who create value).

IDGAF about the native token. I mainly criticized the way the change was communicated and even suggested FIAT as a means of paying for storage.

“Progress”, “why are you here” or anything even remotely close to that mind-numbening yawnfest of defense people put up whenever people like me speak should be penalized much harder that critique.

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Not sure if I’m misreading your comment, but it seems completely negative & the ‘thanks’ seems backhanded / sarcastic.

You seemed to be thanking people for creating value in general so that a dead-weight project like Autonomi can continue, and it’s all been a waste of time.

Was that a misreading?

Was there any constructive critique or encouragement in your comment at all?

If I am reading your comment correctly as fully negative, how is it inappropriate to ask why you’re here following something you consider a complete failure when it’s actually making big steps toward its aims?

I’ve given plenty of critique over the years, along with loads of encouragement.

Constructive critique is valuable, and so is encouragement.

Complete negativity & sour grapes about old issues while significant progress is being made is not balanced or productive.

If your comment was actually intended to be more balanced than I’ve understood it to be, apologies for jumping on it.

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Thx 4 the update Maidsafe devs

:face_blowing_a_kiss: :robot:

Maidsafe could have kept this so simple, 1 attos for 1mb upload (laughing @ scammers receiving native tokens @ “The Pitch Drop Experiment” speed). In stead of their pour pitch to ‘enrich node operators with fiat’, storage in exchange for storage, would have kept it simple… :sweat_smile:

Keep hacking super ants

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Were getting to a better network every week that goes by ,imagine how good it will be thus time next year.:wink:

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AI slop wan’t part of the plan. We still dont have a functioning, practical, easy to fund network. is it 12 years now?

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they said significant progress was being made a decade ago, 5 years ago, 2 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months ago, last month. The same progress : reliability, uploads/download speeds, usability etc. It wasn’t true then and I’ve been around long enough to know it won’t be true tomorrow. The teams shift to AI looks like another distraction, so they never have to finish anything. AI is completely irrelevant to P2P file storage and the SAFE network we envisioned has gone.

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At this point i do not believe the project will be of any significance anymore (not that it ever was, but the idea was still appealing for many of us OG)

There are literally thousands of ai agent projects being actively developed, some of which already have recursive learning, storage and full privacy. Autonomi tries to do a little bit of everything but fails hard at being the best in anything. This type of infrastructure was a dream in 2014, however the industry has moved on realizing nobody will ever adopt anything sluggish, even if it were to be optimally decentralized. Your approach is not in alignment with our world today. So long.

For the people that still have a stake, I’d encourage you to stop being lazy (stop “believing” really) and start doing some research because Autonomi (or rather the idea behind it) is to be wiped off the map completely with all of these new developments.

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I cannot find the scathing article from… 15, 16, 17? Titled something like “Brokeness of MaidSafe”…

It basically buried the core idea anyone is gonna pay for storage on a storage system thrown together by a bunch of journeymen. If it’s even ever thrown together, as it’s gonna be a bug monster.

It labeled the project devs as “untalented” and advised the project handlers to get their heads out of their asses.

I recall people in the comments saying things like “but they have their own browser now!”

The author retorted, “browser? That’s kindergarten stuff. What’s next? A linkedIN profile?”

It was brutal. And prophetic.

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Not slop, but AI was absolutely part of the vision from the first time I heard about the MaidSafe concept in 2014.

I thought David was a bit mad because of what he said the network could do with intelligence, but now with AI tech developments, the vision he shared back then is actually becoming feasible, and he’s on the cutting-edge of techniques that can enable it.

The network is functional, practical and easy to use for the very basic task of uploading and downloading files, via the Autonomi UI app.

This in itself is a massive success & good use of 12 years work, as long as it is built upon.

Now what’s needed is an app ecosystem that makes use of it. They’re providing support to developers to help encourage this by adding them to their slack so they can work with the team when building with Autonomi. The SDK should also help with this. It’s far slower than I’d like, so hopefully they ramp this developer assistance & outreach up as soon as the tools allow it.

It is true that the team is ‘distracted’ by work on x0x and fae etc rather than focusing on delivering a core ecosystem around Autonomi 2.0 first. This is because they see that the original vision can now be achieved & do much more than they could with the archive network alone, at a time when it’s needed.

It is already there. many Multi-gb uploads have been made & persisted since the Autonomi 2.0 launch, and can be retrieved without error. It can be done easily through a readily available app.

The fact you don’t know this shows you’re not looking or trying, and just want to FUD.

As I said, it was core to the vision David had from the start, as he was as concerned with what people are able to do with their self-sovereign data as the fact they could store it.

There’s things I could criticise / would do differently (based on my limited view of what’s happening), but whatever you say, it’s absolutely true that the network is working, and it’s looking stronger than ever.

Whether it’s too little, too late, and whether it can make an impact remains to be seen.

I think the vision was worth chasing, and now the foundations are solidifying, it would be stupid to stop building unless alternatives already delivered the vision in a highly compelling way, which they don’t.

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I also see this, and it’s true that development in this area is incredibly rapid, and whether Autonomi will find a niche with x0x + Trusted Layer + Autonomi 2.0 remains to be seen & isn’t a given.

But, in such a lively ecosystem that they seem to ‘get’ in terms of David being ahead of the curve on agentic stuff & it’s implications, there must be a lot of opportunity as well as competition

I think they have a chance… impossible to say how big a chance, as they don’t yet have a product beyond the archive layer.

It’s far from guaranteed, but I hope they can pull something together & don’t see value in sniping from the sidelines to try to stop them or their supporters from trying.

Being honest about the risks & challenges is fair, but complete negativity when they are getting a working foundation in place seems unbalanced.

I look around a lot, but nothing else delivers on the vision of Autonomi yet, with decentralised storage & nodes on consumer hardware.

Also nothing else quite delivers on the x0x + trust layer vision in terms of being decentralised, though we don’t have any insight as to what chance Autonomi has of making something impactful out of that given the rapidly changing environment & lots of noise to cut through, and progress not being visible.

I feel it could be the right time for Autonomi & it can take off in ways that wouldn’t have been possible without the vibrant developments going on in the AI ecosystem… and I also see that it could get swamped and left behind. It’s good to be aware of both possibilities.

Knowing the risks & challenges, I’d still prefer to encourage people who want to try to work toward an appealing vision to build something useful than tell them to not bother because someone else will probably do better.

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Great to see the BingX exchange is getting some volume.

Is it a decent exchange? Anyone used it?

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