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  • 💡Introduction to Oxen
  • 📁Downloads
  • 🆘Support
  • About the Oxen blockchain
    • 🗺️Overview
    • 📊Token economics
      • 🔥Token burning
    • 🖥️Oxen Service Nodes
    • 💓Pulse: PoS on Oxen
      • 🤿Pulse: Deep dive
    • 👁️Blink: Instant transactions
  • Using the Oxen Blockchain
    • 📍Overview
    • 💰Oxen Wallet & Guides
      • Preparing for GUI Wallet setup (Windows)
      • GUI Wallet setup
      • GUI Wallet Quickstart
      • GUI Wallet Staking
      • Oxen Mobile Wallet Quickstart
      • Mobile Wallet Staking Guide
      • Exporting a CSV of your wallet transaction history
      • CLI Wallet setup (macOS)
      • Oxen Ledger Wallet setup: GUI Wallet
      • Oxen Ledger Wallet setup: CLI Wallet
      • CLI Wallet commands
      • Restoring an Oxen CLI Wallet from seed
      • Restoring an Oxen CLI Wallet from keys
    • 🖥️Service Node guides
      • 🏎️Express service node setup guide
      • 🍺Full service node setup guide
      • 💸Staking to a shared Oxen Service Node
      • 🛑Service Node deregistration
      • 🛠️Service node tools and upkeep
    • ⛴️Migrating to the new Session Network
      • ✅Migration Checklist
      • ❓Migration FAQ
      • 🔗Connecting to an Arbitrum One RPC Endpoint
      • 🔀How to set up an oxend L2 proxy
    • 🔡Using Oxen Name System (ONS)
    • 🤓Advanced
      • Service node 📞 RPC calls
      • Daemon 📞 RPC calls
      • Wallet 📞 RPC calls
  • Products built on Oxen
    • 🔒Session
      • 📚Guides
        • 🐧Installing on Linux (Debian based distros)
        • 🗣️Session Open Group Server Setup
          • 📗Read Only Room Setup
      • 🔤Oxen Name Service for Session
      • 🏗️Network infrastructure
      • 📨Message routing
      • 📎Attachments
    • 🌐Lokinet
      • 📚Guides
        • 🐧Installing on Linux (CLI)
        • 🐧Installing on Linux (GUI)
        • 🐧Linux troubleshooting
        • 🍎Installing on macOS
        • 🪟Installing on Windows
        • 🍎macOS troubleshooting
        • 📞Run a secure Mumble server over Lokinet
      • 👋Exit nodes
      • 🧑‍💻🧑💻 SNApps
        • 🚀Accessing SNApps
        • 🖥️Hosting SNApps
        • 🗺️Domain Names For Lokinet (ONS)
        • ⏺️Configuring SRV Records
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Introduction to Oxen

Oxen is an ecosystem of privacy tools built on top of a fully decentralised layer-1 blockchain.

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The Oxen Network has transitioned to the Session Network. More information .

Service Node operators and contributors who participated in the Service Node Bonus Program earned additional Session Tokens and had their staked OXEN automatically converted to Session Tokens. More information can be found .

Oxen can now be swapped for the new Session Token using the . More information can be found .

Oxen was one of the largest app ecosystems in the entire crypto industry. Applications like Session and Lokinet serviced hundreds of thousands of active users thanks to the power of the Oxen Service Node Network, recently migrated to the new .

The network was powered by the Oxen blockchain, a privacy preserving cryptocurrency network that enables fast and private value transfer. The blockchain was maintained by a distributed network of community-operated , which ran all the network features and services offered by Oxen's tech stack.

The Coin

Oxen was originally forked from Monero, and was based on the CryptoNote protocol. From these beginnings, Oxen inherited privacy and security features — including ring signatures, stealth addresses, and ring confidential transactions. Just like $XMR, $OXEN is fungible, private, and untraceable.

Service Nodes

Oxen was fully proof of stake, with a set of incentivised nodes called Oxen Service Nodes maintaining an securing the blockchain, providing services to Oxen Apps, and receiving block rewards. Nodes that migrated to the Session Network are now functioning as Session Nodes and receiving block rewards in the form of Session Tokens.

The Apps

Session — An end-to-end encrypted, decentralised messaging app. Because Session doesn’t require any identifying information—such as a phone number or email address—to sign up, it has become popular with civil rights groups, whistleblowers, and other people who require high levels of privacy and anonymity.

Lokinet — An onion-router that allows people to browse the internet privately and securely. Lokinet operates on the network layer and is therefore able to onion-route any IP-based protocol, making it fast, dynamic, and adaptable.

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