Good evening everyone 👋

Another 3,500 XE has been paid out to Host nodes over the last week, with the automated earnings oracle processing payouts daily. Today we’ve had 171 nodes online with v2, which is amazing.

The iOS Mobile Wallet beta is now open to everyone. We've been working with a closed beta group for a few weeks but now we're ready to open the app up to anyone who wants to give it a go before release. If you’ve kept your eye on the announcements channel, you’ll have already seen this. It’s currently locked to testnet while we test, but we’ll be opening up mainnet functionality early next week.

The app features the ability to manage multiple XE & Ethereum wallets and send or swap XE, EDGE, USDC, and Ether. If you’d like to give it a go, make sure you install the TestFlight app from the App Store then follow this link to join: https://ed.ge/mobile-wallet-open-beta

If you spot any bugs or have feedback, please let us know in the 📲│open-beta channel in Discord. Thank you 🙏

You may also have noticed that node exploration has been introduced to the explorer. This is the first iteration of node exploration, introducing the ability to view all nodes or individual nodes and explore their locations with the map, with much more to come, including node statistics, network contributions, and all manner of other cool metrics.

Now, onto deployments. On mainnet this week:

Index v1.18.5 + v1.18.6 were deployed which contained improvements and fixes for session synchronisation along with changes to the gasrates endpoint.

Stargate v2.5.0-153 + Stargate v2.5.2-157 were then deployed which introduced geolocation for all network nodes. All locations have a level of fuzziness added to them.

Index v1.18.10 was deployed which introduced the ability to explore node sessions and laid groundwork for more detailed reporting of node activity in future updates.

Explorer v1.15.0 was then deployed which used the new Index functionality to allow exploration of network nodes, along with a map of their (approximate) locations 🗺️