Codex 2024 Year in Review
As 2024 draws to a close, we at Codex are proud to reflect on the milestones, challenges, and breakthroughs that defined our journey this past year.
Our most important moment of 2024 was the launch of the public Codex testnet, empowering anyone to run a node and help build the future of distributed censorship-resistant data storage. This monumental milestone lays the groundwork for delivering a censorship-resistant, cost-effective, scalable storage network that offers actual durability.
Alongside this achievement, we strengthened our community, amplified our voice, presented at key industry events, and hosted our own, positioning Codex at the forefront of the censorship-proof, durable data storage movement.
Let’s look back at Codex’s most significant highlights of 2024.
Codex Public Testnet - The First Step to Mainstream Adoption
Headlining the past year for Codex was the launch of the project’s first public, non-incentivised testnet, which allows everyone to join as a Codex node operator and play a part in building a decentralised storage network capable of durably persisting data while ensuring censorship resistance.
The Codex testnet is an early implementation of the platform’s decentralised storage protocol, marking the first step towards building a robust, scalable alternative to centralised storage systems that can achieve mainstream adoption.
Delivering this initial testnet was the result of a coordinated and impressive effort on behalf of the Codex infrastructure team, each of whom devoted significant time throughout and beyond the first half of the year to deliver a usable public testnet in September.
Early participants are invited to measure the network’s robustness under diverse conditions. With hundreds of participants already interested in onboarding onto the Codex testnet, this testnet phase provided crucial insights for the later transition to an incentivised testnet.
The testnet launch coincided with the release of the Codex whitepaper, which provides a detailed technical overview of its Decentralised Durability Engine (DDE).
This document outlines Codex’s vision to democratise data storage through a token-based incentive structure, redundancy-driven reliability, and a modular P2P architecture. It describes key technical aspects that enable the unique features of the Codex protocol, including erasure coding, repairability, and lightweight ZK-proof-enabled remote auditing.
With the release of the Codex public testnet, the protocol’s development will next prioritise two key development phases. The first of these goals is to achieve file-sharing functionality similar to “BitTorrent with persistence”, with the second being implementing advanced data archiving features such as lazy data repair mechanisms and a storage marketplace.
For more on the launch of the Codex public testnet, read our full press release on Cointelegraph.
Join the Codex Public Testnet
Do you want to contribute to making data more durable and democratic? Install and try out the Codex testnet today. Once you have joined the testnet, we’d greatly appreciate it if you would share your experience of using the network.
Get started by checking our docs and downloading the Codex Testnet Starter.
To help set up a Codex testnet node, read our quickstart guide or head to the #join-testnet channel in the Codex Discord to start the onboarding process.
Amplifying Our Reach
At the beginning of 2024, we committed to revamping our blog to better engage with the broader Web3 community.
Over the past year, we have published more regularly as we kept our community apprised of the latest protocol development news, events, and more. We also published a series of blog posts to raise awareness of the need for decentralised data storage among a broader audience.
Posts like “Decentralised Storage for Virtual Self-Sovereign Territories” and “A Durable Record: Why Decentralised Storage is Vital for Web3 and Beyond” resonated with readers and helped build a foundation of understanding around Codex’s mission.
Our growing presence on social media, particularly on X, mirrored this impact, with our community of followers expanding steadily as Codex continues to reach more developers, enthusiasts, and decentralisation advocates.
Follow Codex on X, join our Discord and subscribe to our blog for regular updates.
Decentralised Data Summit
On November 10, 2024, Codex hosted the first-ever Decentralised Data Summit, bringing together industry leaders, founders, developers, and enthusiasts to discuss the future of decentralisation, privacy, surveillance-resistant technology, and data durability.
The event was a massive success, attracting a total of 2,156 registered attendees who enjoyed in-depth panel discussions, keynote presentations on cutting-edge approaches to p2p data storage, interactive workshops, live demos, and high-quality entertainment.
Organisations involved with the Decentralised Data Summit included Nym, Gnosis, Hopr, Logos, Libp2p, The Graph, Waku, Anoma, Linea, Railgun, Rarimo, Aethir, Nillon, Gateway, IExec, and Acurast.
The Decentralised Data Summit marked a pivotal moment for Codex. It provided a platform to broaden our reach and highlight our public testnet, and it onboarded more node operators to grow our decentralised storage network.
At the event, the team also presented a demo of the Codex Vault, the first-ever showcase of an application connected to the Codex protocol and interacting with the decentralised storage network.
Read all about the Decentralised Data Summit in our November updates blog article.
Showcasing Codex at Industry Events
This year, Codex featured prominently at several events on the Web3 calendar, allowing us to share our vision for durable, decentralised data storage with like-minded peers in the blockchain industry and connect with key players for potential partnerships.
At ETH Denver, Codex Founder Dmitriy contributed to a thought-provoking panel discussion on “Building the Foundation of Web3: Modularity, Security, and Decentralised Infrastructure.”
Codex also hosted a booth at ETHCC 2024 in Brussels, where the team held workshops and gave presentations while contributing to various side events. During the week of EthCC, the team presented workshops on the Codex Data Durability Engine (DDE) at both Web3Social Day and at depin:con.
In November, the Codex team hosted a workshop and presented a live demo at Parallel Society Congress, an event hosted by Logos that explores the concept of network states and the technology needed to deliver digital sovereignty.
During the same month, Codex contributed to panel discussions, hosted workshops, and gave live demonstrations of our data durability engine at Devcon 2024, one of the biggest events in the Ethereum ecosystem.
The team also attended numerous side events and showcased their research on decentralised storage. This included Codex’s Csaba Kiraly giving a presentation at Libp2p Day and the team demonstrating a live demo of the Codex protocol at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress.
In addition to all the above, Codex participated in a host of other events throughout 2024, including the Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) in New York, libp2p day events, and various Ethereum ecosystem meetups.
Each of these events was a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness of our progress on the Codex storage network and onboard potential new users to the public test net and upcoming network deployments.
Looking Ahead
As we head into 2025, Codex is committed to building on the momentum of this incredible year. We aim to continue refining the protocol to deliver on our updated roadmap. In the near future, we aim to deliver an incentivised testnet that rewards node operators for their role in persisting data on the network. Stay tuned to be the first to know when it releases!
We are grateful to our community and the hundreds of testnet participants who have already been onboarded onto the Codex public testnet for their support as we continue to build a reliable and scalable data durability engine. Together, we will revolutionise the way the world stores and secures its data.
Do you believe that your data should be resistant to censorship, safe from manipulation, and protected from the failures of centralised entities? Join the Codex testnet and help to build a better and more durable future for our data.