💸🌱Grants Program update 💸🌱
Congrats to the Lume Web team for completing their final progress report!
This past month, they delivered an MVP LBRY integration via the portal system, including POST/TUS support and network pinning.
Read more 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
💸🌱Grants Program update 💸🌱
Update for SMB Indexer Support:
🟢 Added support for SMB dialects 2.1 and 3.0
🟢 Refactored store handling
And more 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
💸🌱Grants Program update 💸🌱
Newly Approved Grants:
💾 Vup Vault: Personal Backup, Sync, & Archive with indexd
🗣️ Chi-voice pilot: A platform for collecting and organizing short audio recordings of indigenous languages
Read more 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
s3d: Faster Downloads via Cached Metadata
📥 Improved download behavior by using cached slab metadata instead of fetching it from the indexer, reducing dependency overhead and improving efficiency
Read more 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
coreutils: RHP4 Hardening
⏳ Received protocol-level hardening work by replacing bytes.Buffer with a custom buffer implementation in RHP4
Read more 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
explored: Backend Support for Unconfirmed Transaction Lookups
⚙️ Made the syncer peer cap configurable
🔍 Added backend support for looking up unconfirmed transactions
Read more 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
hostd: Instant Sync, Rate Limits, and Clearer Status
🔄 Added syncer rate limits.
⚠️ And error is now returned when database slices fail to decode (instead of silently masking decoding failures)
Read more 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
renterd: Smaller Allocations in Pruning
✂️made a focused internal cleanup to reduce allocations during pruning.
Read more 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
indexd: Contract Formation Edge Cases and Safer Upload Choices
🛠️Fixed an edge case in contract formation that caused excessive contract formations
⚙️Added resumable uploads to the Go SDK
And more 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
Check out the latest State of Sia to learn about major improvements from January:
🟢 indexd
🟢 renterd
🟢 hostd
🟢 explored
🟢 coreutils
🟢 s3d
🟢 Grants Program
Read more about these updates 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-january-2026
The Developer Relations Engineer is a highly technical role that will help further bridge the gap between what we're building and our dev community.
The Developer Marketing Manager will help boost the developer experience and ensure the grants program continues to receive high quality applications.
We're hiring for two new positions - a Developer Relations Engineer and a Developer Marketing Manager!
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Read all about our updates from August including...
🟢 hostd and renterd updates to further stabilize Sia v2
🟢 Our new Grants Program Manager, Rebecca
🟢 Upcoming betas from grantees
sia.tech/blog/the-sta...
Reintroducing ourselves... We are the Sia Foundation and we're building a world where privacy, autonomy, and transparency aren’t perks—they’re just the default.
Read about our nonprofit model and visit our new website!
🔗 sia.tech/blog/your-pe...
🔗 siafoundation.com
This past June SecureSphere Decentralized Vault was approved for a grant!
SecureSphere is an open-source decentralized vault built Sia that combines password management, breach monitoring, and encrypted file storage and sharing.
See progress from all grants: sia.tech/blog/the-st...
Check out the latest State of Sia recapping #Dev updates from June 🧰 including:
🛠️ renterd: Robust Contract Management & Consensus Refinements
🛠️ hostd: Stability Improvements & Hardfork Enforcement
🛠️ walletd ui: Improved Ledger Support & UX Refinements
And more! 👉 sia.tech/blog/the-st...
June was the BIGGEST month in Sia's history 🎉
Here's your review of everything we accomplished, including:
🟢 The Sia v2 Hardfork🍴
🟢 Sia's 10-Year anniversary since mainnet
🟢 New Sia rebrand and website
🟢 Announcning our partnership with @Hackernoon 💚💚
Read more🔗
sia.tech/blog/the-st...
Only 10 limited edition swag prizes left! 🎁
We are ramping up our dev rel to make Sia more accessible and easy to use than ever.
Support us by taking the survey now!
docs.google.com/forms/d/17J1...
To celebrate our partnership, we're giving away MORE exclusive swag for devs who fill out our 10-minute survey 🎁
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Fill out now 🔗👉forms.gle/7jgDnr9dyk...
We’re excited to announce a major partnership between HackerNoon and @sia.tech!
Our entire publishing archive - over 100,000 articles and counting - is now secured on Sia’s decentralized, blockchain-powered cloud infrastructure, with 2,000+ new stories added monthly.
hackernoon.com/hackernoon-a...
Yes please apply! :) Likely closing apps EOW 🙏
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🎉Announcing our partnership with HackerNoon!🎉
That's right. 100K+ articles backed up on Sia and accessible at sia.hackernoon.com in perpetuity😏 We stand with HN in protecting independent voices from #censorship and #takedowns.
hackernoon.com/hackernoon-a...
#TechNews #FreeSpeech #journalism
The Foundation's Q1 2025 report is now available:
sia.tech/api/media/f...
FYI this doc is a "1 of 1" in terms of looks and placement on sia.tech. Stay tuned for the Foundation's 🌟new website + new branding 🌟
📦 New update to improve syncing stability 📦
We recommend updating to the latest release. This is a normal patch upgrade.
hostd v2.3.2
renterd v2.3.1
walletd v2.10.2
minerd v0.2.9
*Docker, desktop, & apt package updates are available for all apps.
🔗 sia.tech/upgrade-you...
Learn about our new brand with Dev Rel, Oliver!
🎦 youtu.be/yKE8UNJ9WIM
Then hop over to r/siacoin👇 and participate in our AMA to win a Sia Secrid wallet :)
🔗 www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/co...
Join us tomorrow at 5PM UTC (12PM EST, 9AM PT) to learn about the new Sia brand with our Dev Rel Oliver
Then hop over to our r/siacoin for an AMA + your chance to win Sia swag 🎁
Didn't upgrade in time for our v2 hard fork last Friday? Watch below for how you're affected and what you can still do. 👇
🟢 Sia users (renterd, hostd, walletd)
🟢 Siacoin holders (offline + Sia Central Lite Wallet)
🟢 Siacoin holders (via Ledger app)
🟢 SiaUI and Siad users
Tune in Wednesday 6/18 @ 12PM EST for our Community brand presentation led by Dev Rel Oliver Anyanwu!
Afterwards, join our Reddit AMA for a chance to win 1 of 10 Sia v2-branded Secrid wallets 🎁
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to #privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about #freespeech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden
#Censorship #bigtech #decentralization #AI
Welcome to the world: Sia v2, complete with a massive tech upgrade and new branding. Read about our 9-month journey to develop the face and voice of Sia v2!
#Dataprivacy #cloudstorage #decentralization #TechNews #web3news
sia.tech/blog/sia-v2-...
