Flux I Decentralized Cloud

The internet's infrastructure is controlled by three companies. When they go down, everything goes down. When they change pricing, you pay more. When they receive a court order, your app goes offline. We built an alternative.

FluxOS v8.23.0 shipped Nov 6. v8.23.1 followed within hours. In 8.23.1, enterprise app specifications hold nothing in plain text, so a spec at rest is unreadable. Legacy nodes no longer carry unregistered enterprise apps. If you run Flux nodes, update straight to 8.23.1.

Killing Floor 2 servers are live on Flux Games. Co-op wave survival for a squad of 6, or 12 in Versus Survival. It's the same server every night, running your map cycle, your difficulty, and the workshop maps your squad already downloaded. It stays up when the host logs off. Every server setting sits in a form. You also get a map cycle editor, kick and ban in one click, a live console, and backups, all without touching SSH. Updates wait for an empty server. The game keeps no saves, so a restart costs only the wave in progress. Plans from $5.49/month, first week free for new users.

FluxOS v8.23.0 is out, with four changes for operators. Node moves are proved by the chain, so the proof stays there when you move the hardware. IP-change holds are judged by block height, one public clock shared by every node. A UPnP lease renewal at your router no longer disturbs your node's connectivity. App volumes now use direct I/O, so reads and writes go straight to the disk and run smoother under load. Update your node today.

The Oct 26 halving cut the block reward, and people asked whether nodes would leave. The November census says no: 6,912 nodes on the network, and every tier is up. Apps grew too: 2,298 running, up 20% in a month and nearly double the count at the September whitepaper. Most of it never shows on a homepage. 58% of apps are private, encrypted enterprise deployments, and 200+ private AI agents run on the network, 179 of them OpenClaw and 31 Hermes. If you kept a node running through the halving, these numbers are partly yours.

SCUM has 437 server settings. On Flux, each one is a field in a single form in your browser. The Forest gets five save slots, so you can start fresh without deleting the old world. Abiotic Factor covers PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Three more survival worlds take the Flux games hub to 35 games. Restarts, backups and settings are all in the dashboard.

The web is building a permissions layer, and it fits in a text file. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor one IETF policy token in robots.txt for AI scraping preferences. A site states its preferences once, in a standard place. Google and Microsoft follow in 2027. The scraping started years before the standard, so the consent layer arrives late. Flux has run on opt-in participation from the start: independent nodes in 50+ countries, each one there because its owner chose to add the hardware. Permission layers work best when joining is voluntary.

Have an idea for Flux, @zelcore_io, @SSPWallet_io or FluxCloud? Post it and get paid if we build it. How it works: - One idea per post in #feature-requests on the Flux Discord: what you're trying to do, and what gets in the way. - Upvote the ideas you want. - The team reviews the most upvoted every month. - When an idea ships, the first person who posted it gets the Idea Shipped role, a mention in the announcement and 25 FLUX, paid at the start of the next month. There's a cap of 500 FLUX per person a month, and team members and contractors aren't eligible. What's the one thing you'd fix first?

Last week two frontier models shipped in two days: Gemini 4 Carbon took the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and Mistral's Le Chonk came fifth among open-weights models. They'll trade places again before long. Meanwhile your agent runs somewhere, and where it runs decides who holds its logs, prompts and keys. The November census counted 200+ self-hosted agents on Flux nodes: 179 OpenClaw, 31 Hermes. Running yours: - package the agent as an app and register it with the network - FluxOS places it on independent nodes in 50+ countries - live application logs in FluxOS v8.18, so you can watch it work - the model key stays in your own app config Pick the model you like this week. Swap it when the next one lands. The agent stays where you put it.