🦉 HTN Wallets and Explorer down since yesterday. 🦉

We've today with Foztor hunted down an issue in my current modifications in master branch, which stopped the balances from being updated. I'm currently syncing the public Wallet/Explorer node to working version. If you have done transactions out of the web wallet or mobile wallet. Try reimporting your wallet once I have the explorer up and running, then your missing HTN should be back and if not they are where you sent them.

Work towards finding the issue with slow IBD is ongoing.

🦉Wohoo hoo hoo!! HTND 1.6.7 release! 🦉

This is non-breaking update to HTND 1.6, fixing many things.

Release Highlights:
- Fix slow IBD caused by block window cache broken.
- Upgraded Go version to 1.26.0
- Major cache and memory optimizations.
- PebbleDB option changes.
- Reduced GC (Garbage Collection) churn and improved memory usage.
- Added per-script UTXO cache with thread-safe LRU caches.
- Improved error handling and fixed several nil pointer and memory leak issues.
- Enhanced logging, metrics, and RPC request reporting if using "HTND_PROFILER=1" environment variable.
- Added a vote command to htnwallet, but it does not work yet because need to send notify to vote.hoosat.fi api and need API access from Namp88.
- General performance improvements and bug fixes.
- Respect GOMEMLIMIT and GOGC environment variables. Default 14 GB GOMEMLIMIT and GOGC 200%

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v1.6.7

🦉 HTND 1.6.8 🦉

This is a release few issues that came out with 1.6.7.

- Remove code that partially disabled RPC connections from outside network.
- Reduce GC Churn of UTXOs even more to stabilize windows usage.
- Fix two places where node could send blocks without PoW hash to alleviate nodes banning each other for sending blocks without PoW hashes.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v1.6.8

🦉HTND 1.6.9 released🦉

@everyone this release is optimizing even more the GC churn.

Switched to vtprotobuf (github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf).
Htnwallet send and balance fetch utxo on demand.
Htnwallet decreases address seeking from every 1s to 10s.
Disable relay while node is in IBD, even if nearly synced.
Optimize out ton of allocations to alleviate GC churn
Build with experimental SIMD and JSONv2 to add some speedup.

Default values:
GOMEMLIMIT 8GB
GOGC 100
PebbleDB Memory Tables up to 4GB
PebbledB cache 2GB

Explorer at the moment running with 8.8GB SSR and 30-300% CPU usage 80 cores. Compounding dev fee and explorer and wallet functionality.

This is about how far I can optimize HTND gc churn, before moving out of the Golang and starting to rewrite the node with C for self managed memory usage. So the CPU usage and RAM usage are what they are and you can play with the environment values if you need less CPU usage over more RAM being used. For example export GOMEMLIMIT=20GB and export GOGC=200 will allow the RAM to raise and the node CPU usage will be smaller and in part you could do export GOMEMLIMIT=6GB and export GOGC=25 and the RAM will be cleaned up as fast as possible, but CPU will be utilized.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v1.6.9

🦉HTN Stratum Bridge 1.6.9 released🦉

Upgrades to HTND 1.6.9 and adds get block template cache to alleviate hitting the node so much when mining.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/htn-stratum-bridge/releases/tag/v1.6.9

🦉 10,000,000 HTN AIRDROP ALERT! 🦉

Want free HTN + help shape the future of Proof-of-Work?

Install the official Hoosat Wallet Chrome extension (secure wallet for Hoosat Network)
👉 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hoosat-wallet/djcpncochmpbipoiblkafkjfbfolnkom

Connect your wallet & cast your vote in our on-chain poll: "Favorite Proof of Work crypto? "
👉 https://vote.hoosat.net/polls/715b1e06ea7c6f526bc0ab832eb4904a14c8c180ec2648c26dbaabfc3eac5848

Everyone who completes both steps (install + valid vote) enters the draw!
Prize Pool: 10,000,000 HTN total
Winners: 10 lucky participants
Each winner gets: 1,000,000 HTN!

Like and Share! Make sure your friends participate for bigger change of winning with your friends.

📅 Deadline: 31.3.2026 12:00 PM GMT+3
Winners announced and airdrop distributed directly to your Hoosat chrome wallet you used to vote within 48 hours.

🦉Roadmap for Q2 of 2026 🦉

Hoosat Network roadmap for Q2 of 2024 is here. There really is nothing more interesting than trying to push DAGKnight to mainnet. DAGKNight on a cryptocurrency mineable from Mobile phones to professional GPUs. What's more interesting than that?

https://wiki.hoosat.fi/en/roadmap/2026Q2

🦉HTND 1.7.0 has been released. 🦉

Precompiled binaries are incoming today whenever built.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v1.7.0

🦉HTN Stratum Bridge 1.7.0 has been released. 🦉

Precompiled binaries are incoming today whenever built.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v1.7.0

🦉Gongrats to the winners of Vote platform airdrop 🦉

1M airdropped to all the lucky winners of people who voted poll: https://vote.hoosat.net/polls/715b1e06ea7c6f526bc0ab832eb4904a14c8c180ec2648c26dbaabfc3eac5848

The winners drawn by Grok:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA_14a027c9-954c-4c6b-8533-25a1cbdc72e7

#KAS won the poll

#HTN voting platform is free to use for any kind of polls.

🦉HTN Payment Gateway on WooCommerce🦉

Wohoo!! Wohoo hoo!! Hoosat Network Payment Gateway on WooCommerce is working!!

@everyone this is one step further to what I've been talking about. Well it's not a marketplace, but a payment system to merchants who sell digital and physical goods online.

Hopefully we find more WooCommerce users!

WooCommerce plugin part submitted to wordpress plugin repository review.

🦉Hoominer 0.3.4 GUI launcher for Windows 🦉

Wohoo hoo, @everyone windows users.. Now you don't need to mess with terminal for launching the Hoominer for mining Hoosat (HTN). I will be adding this later also to the website for Windows users like the bash script is for Linux users.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/hoominer/releases/download/0.3.4/hoominer-0.3.4-gui-launcher-win64.exe

🦉 Hoosat Network 2.0 Zenith Hard Fork 20.6.2026 20:20:20 GMT! 🦉

@everyone, the community has decided on the name for the Hard Fork from GhostDAG to DAGKnight. The name) of the Hard Fork will be Zenith and the Hard Fork will be kept 20.6.2026.

https://vote.hoosat.net/polls/33d816330c75f460816e88e831046abf554146f6f60f90aa9a8f7334c94a3bf4
https://vote.hoosat.net/polls/3d95ef020696784ae8e9a20bbfadc99e89a491396ef2dc30e5da3f28157af7cd

The Hard Fork will bring plethora of features like P2PKH, P2SH and adjustable block deletion depth and many more smaller things.

I'm currently investigating the DAGKnight pruning point proof level 0 header amount increase and fiddling with dagknight, but I'll try to get the issue resolved 2 weeks before the Hard Fork or we either try how it goes with the current code on mainnet and fall back to GhostDAG if the pruning point proof level 0 header amount issue can not be found.

On that note, please @everyone running testnet node, please restart with git pull, rebuild and --reset-db.

🦉 HTN Dex-Trade funds gathered! 🦉

@everyone be happy! We have gathered the required funds to list in Dex-Trade. So hopefully this listing will go smoothly! I will be communicating the process in the discord announcements. But now we have the funds to accept their offer!

Thank you to the investors and donators. Everyone have a fabulous weekend!

🦉HTND 2.0 Zenith Hard Fork release. 🦉

We will have Zenith Hard Fork on DAA Score 192,792,190. It will move Hoosat mainnet from GhostDAG to DAGknight and this is frontier that no-one has ever done yet. Thank you Yonatan Sompolinsky for awesome research on consensus mechanisms.

https://github.com/HoosatNetwork/HTND/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Most of the updates in the code does not require the Hard Fork to function and some changes might crash 1.7.0 nodes, so please wait until every node in the network has been updated or until the Hard Fork for messing with the mainnet.

Remember that Hard Forks always may have unknown issues, as we don't have as huge testnet as the mainnet. But from the experiences with the previous Hard Forks I'm thinking this Hard Fork will move much smoother than ever before.

🦉Roadmap for Q3 of 2026. 🦉

@everyone here is roadmap for Q3 of 2026.
https://wiki.hoosat.fi/en/roadmap/2026Q3

🦉 Hoosat World 🦉

Globe showing Hoosat Network nodes is now public.

https://hoosatworld.net/