Two months ago, we launched the beta versions of both our apps, X Cloud and X Core. It has been truly exciting since then, and we are deeply grateful to our community of early-adopters for continuously helping us improve our products. Both, October’s and November’s X Core node payouts have already been sent out to Hosts. We’ve been improving our infrastructure and are finishing X Cloud’s mobile, desktop and web apps, as well as the API. In the coming couple months, we will release X Cloud’s and X Core’s commercial products. Until then, we’ll keep running our awesome beta program so that you can see all our progress live!

Something else we’ve done is further improving our X Core payout formula, as you can read in detail in our whitepaper. This new formula will be used starting this month. Essentially, we have removed the uptime variable, as our infrastructure already takes this into consideration when allocating disk space to each node. This simply means that the disk space variable now incorporates the uptime variable. Storage nodes are selected to store data based on various criteria: ping time, latency, throughput, bandwidth caps, sufficient disk space, geographic location, uptime, history of responding accurately to audits, and so forth.

We have also just released an update to our X Core and X Cloud beta apps. You should download the latest version of X Core from the X Core page in order to be eligible for the upcoming Host payouts. You can also take a look at X Cloud web here, which is now back up after some issues forced us to temporarily take it down. We are also continuously deploying performance and security updates in our infrastructure, to make X Cloud more robust every day. We are also working on polishing X Cloud’s web interface and adding the remaining features, and will soon also launch the mobile version of it. Both our apps are getting closer and closer to being ready for a commercial launch, so start getting ready for it!!