We have reached an important point for Holo as we progress towards the release of the hosting platform. The Pre-Release test of Hosted Elemental Chat continues successfully with more than 200 peers chatting across the world. Messages arrive quickly and participants report a real-time chat experience using the app. Elemental…

Paying for use of HoloPorts during Alpha — UPDATE: As of January 2022, Holo has successfully moved all of its infrastructure testing to a fully distributed network formed by HoloPorts that joined the HoloPort Alpha Program. …

Monthly Roundup for April 2022 — Happy #HoloMonday everyone! Thanks for taking the time to click in to the latest Monthly Roundup. We are already a quarter through the year, and both the Holo and Holochain teams are busy working hard. Check out exactly what we’ve been doing in the roundup below.

Monthly Roundup for March 2022 — It’s been a very exciting last month here at Holo! Read the whole Monthly Roundup to gain insight on what we’ve been up to, and what’s going on in the community.

Monthly Roundup for February 2022 — We can’t believe it’s already approaching the third month of the year. It's been a great start so far, and in his monthly roundup, we will take you through everything that’s been happening in February.

Monthly Roundup for January 2022 — Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Welcome to our monthly roundup. January was an amazing start to 2022 for both Holo & Holochain and we loved getting to share it with you all.

Two weeks ago we wrapped up our first public test of Holochain + the Holo hosting infrastructure, and in my opinion, it went wonderfully. For those of you who weren’t involved, we used a proof-of-concept app called Elemental Chat to collect insights on what was and wasn’t working. …

Holochain is co-hosting the Web3 room again at FOSDEM 2022. I’d love to see up-and-coming Holochain-projects give talks there! But first, some Holochain release notes. Holochain 0.0.120: build info Last week’s release saw a new flag for the Holochain conductor: holochain --build-info (#1163). This outputs a JSON blob of the context in which the…

The past few Holochain releases have focused on both increasing resilience and adding features for developers. One task is particularly important, even though you’ll probably never see or experience it — and in fact, its invisibility will be the proof of its success. Right now, the core dev team is doing extensive sharding tests, tuning parameters, adjusting the algorithm, and testing again. …