Holo Announcements

🌿 Moss 0.15.7 is officially live! This is a massive quality-of-life and customization update for all Moss users. Here is what you need to know about the new release: 🏗 Custom Dashboards: Your group home is now a tile-based dashboard! Customize it with markdown, images, and iframes to welcome your community. 🗂 Better Tool Discovery: The Tool Library now has sort & tag filtering, and right-clicking a tool opens a detailed info popup with curator details. 🔓 Custom Curation: You can now add your own custom curation lists for tools! ⚡️ Holochain 0.6.1: We’ve officially updated to the final 0.6.1 release. 🛠 Major Fixes: Significant startup speed/memory enhancements, and enabling/disabling tools no longer resets the entire UI!

🌐 Ecosystem Spotlight: HummHive Newsletter One of the best parts of building infrastructure is watching what the community creates on top of it. HummHive is doing fantastic work building decentralized publishing and community tools using Holo tech. They just dropped a new update. Check out their latest HummHive newsletter to see their progress and support ecosystem builders! 👉 Read it here: https://hive.humm.earth/post/MTc3OTE1NzkyMDcxOS1mODZiN2FlMGY5OWQ4Mjc1

📢 Holo Ecosystem Delivery Update Have you read the latest strategic update on the Holochain blog? It highlights massive progress from the Holo team, specifically: 🔹 Edge Nodes: Our new open-source Edge Node model makes it easier than ever to host the network. 🔹 Web Conductor: We are internally testing the bridge that will allow anyone to use Holochain apps in a normal web browser. 🔹 Joining Service: New tools for apps to manage KYC and network access securely. Check out the full post to see how Holo, Holochain, and Unyt are delivering together: 👉 https://blog.holochain.org/ongoing-delivery-demonstrating-whats-next/

🎙 Ongoing Delivery Deep Dive If you prefer watching over reading, don't miss the recently recorded conversation covering the massive Q1 delivery across Holo, Holochain and Unyt. It’s a great deep dive into how the HOT-to-HoloFuel test operated behind the scenes, how the Web Conductor prototype works, and what the roadmap looks like heading into Q2. 👉 Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsf_njmi-M

🌪 Educational Deep Dive: Edge Nodes in the Wind Tunnel You've heard us talk a lot about "The Wind Tunnel" lately—but what is your Edge Node actually doing when it joins? The short version: It's generating extreme network traffic alongside hundreds of other peers to test the absolute limits of Holochain's sync speeds and resilience. Why it matters: Perfect simulations don't exist in the real world. By participating in the Wind Tunnel, your Edge Node provides the exact real-world data (varying connection speeds, hardware differences, realistic dropouts) our dev team needs to prepare the network for massive scale. If your hardware is sitting idle, put it to work for science! 🧪 🔹 Follow the guide to join the Wind Tunnel: https://holo.host/resources/edge-node-wind-tunnel-guide/

🛠 Educational Deep Dive: Your Edge Node & Holochain Apps We get asked a lot: "What exactly is my Edge Node doing for Holochain?" Here’s the simple answer: It acts as the bridge. 🌉 Holochain apps are fully peer-to-peer. But to reach mainstream adoption, people need to access these apps through regular web browsers. Your Edge Node acts as an always-on node for your Holochain applications. Without Always-On Edge Nodes, the distributed web stays trapped in developer environments. With them, we build a censorship-resistant, highly resilient internet. 🔹 Read our "Holo Forward" vision for hosting: https://holo.host/blog/holo-forward-Cf5h1g8UhaZ/ 🔹 Ensure your node is optimized for 24/7 hosting: https://holo.host/resources/always-on-holochain-node-guide/ 🔹 Read about our latest HolOS upgrades: https://holo.host/blog/first-upgrades-for-holo-edge-node-and-holos-5DG2_l0IVDv/

🌐 Ecosystem Highlight: The Holo Web Conductor If you missed it in the recent blog, Holo has built a prototype Web Conductor. This is a massive milestone. It allows everyday users to interact with Holochain applications directly from their normal web browser—no complex installations required. We are testing it internally right now. 👉 Watch the team discuss it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsf_njmi-M

It's been a full week of people running the HOT-HF Technical Migration Test. Yesterday wrapped up with over 50 folks from the community testing simultaneously and asynchronously — real people, real transactions, real network conditions. And the testing delivered what it was supposed to. Every issue surfaced now is one fewer surprise at launch. Most importantly: core functionality worked. Thank you to everyone who showed up this past week — running transactions, reporting issues, and joining yesterday's group calls. You're helping shape this. And a special shout-out to the smaller group who have been testing for months. You're incredible. More testing ahead. Every cycle brings us closer to the infrastructure we need.

Come test with us during today's Group calls to test the HOT-HF technical migration together! We recommend getting set up with Phase A before the call by following the guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4JMK7WWzQNYXzso70KF1aMQOMyeFQEwinqE1RaK86E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kd0m8qshvrgt. The 2 Group calls are today, April 24th. Call 1: 2 PM UTC Call 2: 7 PM UTC (More info in the guide)

All sign-ups have been invited, so check your email inbox! Test now--or get Setup for tomorrow's group test calls. All testers are welcome as we aim for as many simultaneous peers as possible. When? This Friday, April 24th! Call 1: 2 PM UTC Call 2: 7 PM UTC Want to test? Follow the guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4JMK7WWzQNYXzso70KF1aMQOMyeFQEwinqE1RaK86E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kd0m8qshvrgt

Testing continues, and all who have signed up have been emailed. This Friday join us to test in a group call. We'll be stress testing a specific "chatty" (full arc) version of the Unyt app, as we aim for as many simultaneous peers as possible. When? This Friday, April 24th! Call 1: 2 PM UTC Call 2: 7 PM UTC Sign up as a tester: https://holo-host.typeform.com/to/O7Ax2Cqt If you've already signed up check your email.

The trolls and fearmongers say the CLARITY Act kills mutual credit currencies and non-blockchain projects. It doesn't. We actually read the legislation. Here's what it says: https://holo.host/blog/mutual-credit-currencies-and-the-clarity-act-what-CWLMlID-I_6/

🛠 Host Resource: The Always-On Guide A quick shoutout to all the Hosts keeping their machines running 24/7! Always-on nodes are the backbone of network resilience. If you are transitioning your hardware from "occasional testing" to "always-on hosting," make sure you review our official setup guide to ensure your configuration is optimized for long-term uptime. 👉 Check your setup: https://holo.host/resources/always-on-holochain-node-guide/

⚠️ Community Update: Technical Migration Test The HOT to HoloFuel Technical Migration Test is live and underway! Our alpha testers and the first group of the 250 selected participants are actively in the testnet environment. Although the initial 250 testing spots are currently spoken for, the sign-up list is still open for future testing phases. 👉 Read blog: https://holo.host/blog/hot-to-holofuel-technical-migration-test-ha2gtr4RkYV/

HOT-to-HoloFuel migration test is now running on Sepolia testnet with up to 250 beta testers joining in groups over the next days and weeks. So if you signed up to be a tester (thanks!) please be patient if you haven't seen an email yet. This is the first live community test of bridging Ethereum and Unyt infrastructure outside our core team and a small test group. We'll share results and learnings once this round completes. Read more in the blog: https://holo.host/blog/hot-to-holofuel-technical-migration-test-ha2gtr4RkYV/

🌪 Mission Alert: Wind Tunnel Nodes Needed To get the highest fidelity data on Holochain's gossip scaling, we need more active peers in the Wind Tunnel. If you have a HoloPort or a Linux machine ready to go, your compute power is needed today. This is how we map the limits of the protocol before global scaling. Grab your terminal and follow the written guide here to get connected: 👉 https://holo.host/resources/edge-node-wind-tunnel-guide/ Drop a ✅ in the chat when your node is live!

The EdgeNode support channel grew 30% in one day. Real people showing up, learning the platform, getting things running. When operators and developers start joining support channels unprompted, it means something is actually working. This is operational traction. https://t.me/+ayxU6f69qW1iOWJk

Something for the technically curious 🔧 Holochain (the protocol layer, separate from Holo) has a network resilience testing tool called Wind Tunnel, and you can run a node in it right now. It's not a simulation. It's real network testing under real conditions. More participating nodes = better data on how the network actually holds up. There's a video explainer if you want the full picture before diving in: ▶️ https://youtu.be/jEHj6xSYpCo And a write-up with more technical detail: 📄 https://holo.host/blog/into-the-wind-tunnel-forging-resilient-distribute-DtHygSjNWqX/ If you're the kind of person who'd rather contribute to infrastructure than just use it, this is a concrete way to do that.

🟢 Weekly Support Call #3 goes live today! Testing the Wind Tunnel? Setting up a Moss group for your friends? Hitting a Linux wall? Come talk to us. We’re hosting our 45-minute live Q&A where you can drop your Edge Node questions in the chat and get real-time answers. 📍https://holo.host/public When? 3 PM GMT

[Ecosystem News] Unyt brings Oracles (Forex & Token Pricing) to the network 📈 Hey everyone, A massive piece of the economic puzzle just snapped into place. Unyt has officially released Oracle support for their accounting apps. What this means: Apps built on Unyt can now securely fetch and utilize external pricing data, including live Forex rates and Blockchain token prices. If you are building a marketplace, an exchange, or any economic tool on Holochain, you no longer have to operate in a data silo. This is a huge leap forward for the utility of the network. Read the full breakdown from the Unyt team here: https://unyt.co/blog/oracles:-blockchain-token-and-forex-pricing-in-unyt-apps/