💸🌱Grants Program update💸🌱
Updates from SMB - Indexer Support
🟢 Added support for SMB dialects 3.0.2 and 3.1.1
🟢 Deployed a public test server for community feedback
🟢 Next: implement a metadata store, improve query behavior
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
💸🌱Grants Program update💸🌱
Updates from Chi-Voice Pilot:
🟢 Completed initial S5 integration
🟢 Next: snapshot creation, restore flows, and resumable backups
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
💸🌱Grants Program update💸🌱
Updates from Vup Vault - Personal Backup:
🟢 Improved personal backup workflow
🟢 Introduced persistent config storage
Read more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
coreutils: Consensus Hardening and Reliability Improvements
🚀 Released coreutils v0.21.0 and v0.21.1
✅ Added validation for malformed fund account requests
💯 Reached 100% test coverage for consensus validation
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
explored: Better Search and More Visibility Into Chain Activity
🔍︎ Added support for searching unconfirmed transactions
⚠️ Added warnings when API response time exceeds 10 seconds
Read more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
walletd: Better Wallet Visibility and Faster Sync Options
🚀 Released v2.12.0
🔍︎ Added UTXO source tracking
📥 Added Siacoin input origin to consensus/block
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
hostd: Leaner Storage Operations for Hosts
⚙️ Shipped hostd v2.7.0
⚙️ Updated to Go 1.26.0.
✂️ Added experimental consensus pruning
⛔ Added an option to disable the Merkle proof cache
Read more! 🔗https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
renterd: Safer Syncing and a New Release
⚙️ Shipped renterd v2.9.0 with Go 1.26.0 and coreutils 0.21.1
✅ Ensured all store methods are retry-safe in the latest release
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
indexd: Stronger Developer Ergonomics and Quota Management
❌ Added an endpoint to delete a contract and all associated sectors
🛠️ Validated the OpenAPI spec and fixed minor issues
Read more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
Sia Storage App: Rapid Iteration Toward a Better Consumer Storage Experience
⚙️ Shipped seven releases
🏷️ Added tags and favorites that sync across devices
📁 Added folders and a configurable photo import folder
And more! 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
Check out the latest State of Sia to learn about major improvements from February:
🟢 Sia Storage App
🟢 indexd
🟢 renterd
🟢 hostd
🟢 walletd
🟢 explored
🟢 coreutils
🟢 Grants Program
Read more about these updates 🔗 https://sia.tech/blog/the-state-of-sia-february-2026
💸🌱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...
