Latest News & Gossips related to HOT Coin, Holo and Holochain in 2026!
The livestream we were all waiting for finally happened on July 30, 2026 and it was worth the wait! Hosted by Matthew Schutte with Eric Harris-Braun, Arthur Brock and Cameron Burgess, this “Strategic Update” gave us at last a date for the migration of the HOT token to HoloFuel, but also a much clearer picture of how Holo intends to become a real business. Here is our summary of the announcements, followed by the confirmations published on X during the summer.
1/ The HOT to HoloFuel migration will be available by November 1st, 2026. Cameron insisted on the wording: “available by” and not “on”, which means that November 1st is the worst-case date, the outer edge and not the target; if conditions allow it, the swap could open sooner.
2/ On the technical side, the Holochain framework version 0.7 was released the very day of the livestream with significant performance improvements. The Wind Tunnel stress tests now reproduce real network conditions, Unyt delivered ten feature releases and twelve community tests, and the Edge Nodes are easier to set up and are already compensated in HoloFuel for their participation in the Wind Tunnel tests.
3/ Cameron Burgess also announced the creation of Holo Ventures, a venture studio which will build products and spin them out as companies while keeping a stake in them; the Holochain Foundation keeps a “golden share”, a veto right without operational control. On the regulation side the team explained how it embeds the protections expected by regulators directly into the code through peer validation instead of a central authority, a key point for HoloFuel which is a mutual credit currency grounded in productive capacity (the hosting) and not a speculative trading vehicle.
4/ The ecosystem is delivering too: Volla Messages reached version 1.0.0, the Moss groupware now offers around twenty tools, Flowsta launched in January 2026 and Your Own AI published its v0.1.0. Partnerships extending the use of HoloFuel beyond the community nodes are expected to be announced soon.
5/ And the news kept coming in September: on the 16th, Holo Ventures published a new concept paper titled “Decent Infrastructure in an Authoritarian World: Building the Walk Away Stack”. Nine years after the original Green Paper the team makes a simple assessment: the diagnosis of where the world was heading was spot-on, the time needed to build the solution was largely underestimated, but the world needs capture-resistant infrastructure more than ever — and this time the infrastructure is ready. The paper describes the complete “Walk Away Stack”: Holochain for peer-to-peer coordination without global consensus, Holo to make the hApps reachable from an ordinary web browser, Unyt as the accounting engine and HoloFuel as the mutual credit currency on top of it. For us HOT holders, chapter 08 “HOT and the Bridge” is the one to read first, together with chapter 07 about utility versus speculation. Stay tuned!
The beginning of 2026 was very quiet in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and the Holo project was no exception. As a result, many people lost interest in cryptocurrencies; some even thought Holo was dead, which is understandable after so many years of development. But spoiler alert: that's not the case. Why? Well, despite the radio silence, open-source development continued steadily. Wind tunnel testing continued to expand coverage of various use cases, and stability and performance bugs were fixed. Finally, after months of silence, Cameron Burgess from the Holo team published a blog post on July 3, 2026, announcing a livestream on July 30. This livestream would, among other things, reveal the official date for the migration of the HOT token to HoloFuel, the native cryptocurrency of the Holo network. This event, also known as a swap, is the transition to the mainnet and is generally a major event in the world of blockchain projects.
On July 10th, Holo released a new communication to share an updated roadmap, checking off the blue boxes for the second quarter and adding new milestones for the third quarter. Seeing one of them, "Hosts earn HoloFuel for hosting," we can conclude that the migration to HoloFuel will take place during this same quarter, before September 30th! Another milestone is expected to be announced during the livestream; we believe it could be related to the new open-source project, PeerKit, available on HoloChain's GitHub. Stay tuned!
We have been very quiet since the beginning of 2025 not because we have abandoned the project; quite the contrary. We have discreetly followed the internal reorganization of the Holochain foundation, we have continued to follow the development of the ecosystem and the community but also news published over time by the team and with all this we have gained confidence in the project and the team; indeed the new Holo website and its updated roadmap, the new Unyt website and the update of the Holochain roadmap have once again demonstrated that even in difficult times the team is still working to deliver, question itself and recover from its mistakes. But that's not all: the Holochain Framework v0.5 is now stable, a new version 0.6 with its performance tests will arrive in a few weeks and it is therefore with confidence that we have increased our position on the HOT token in recent days.
1/ At the Token2049 conference in Singapore on September 18, 2024, Holochain announced a partnership with blockchain security auditing company Least Authority. This partnership is very good news for Holo because Least Authority has already audited the biggest names in the cryptocurrency ecosystem such as Ethereum, Polygon and Metamask so it's proof that Holochain is recognized by the whole crypto and blockchain industry!
2/ Holo announced that its Hosting service will be launched very soon using the existing Holo token (HOT) as a cryptocurrency to pay for services since the native cryptocurrency HoloFuel (HF) is not yet ready because the counter-signature feature which is a must-have for HoloFuel could not pass the required quality tests. Holo Hosting will therefore be launched in a few weeks while HoloFuel will arrive a few months later but stronger than before since HoloFuel will be a dedicated entity and provide accounting services to other decentralized cloud projects and DePIN such as Wi-Fi providers and ISPs.
3/ A new white paper has just been published by the Holochain team at the same time as an internal reorganization with Eric Harris-Braun as the new executive director of the Holochain Foundation. During the announcement, Eric took the opportunity to send a strong message about the adoption of Holochain in 2025 by major players in the industrial supply chain and the media.
4/ At the end of November, Holochain and Holo changed their communications on social networks, particularly on X; they now publish short Thread type posts that are engaging and more regularly, plus Nathan, one of the Community Managers, came to chat with the community, which helped to give a boost of engagement to all of us supporters!
5/ On November 29th Mary Camacho streamed the second Holo Delivery Brief to share the latest news and explain how things will be organized for the launch of the hosting service, she explained that two Holo networks will be live in parallel (the legacy network and the new network under development).
6/ On December 5th, David Atkinson and Arthur Brock presented the new version of HoloFuel called V2 temporarily while a new name is officially chosen that will better reflect the DePIN ecosystem (Decentralized physical infrastructure network) because in fact this new version will not only be used by Holo for its cloud hosting service but also other DePIN projects. In addition Arthur talked about other news that will arrive in the coming weeks, the most important will be the Holochain smart contract system called RAVE, stay tuned it is going very fast since the reorganization into three entities: Holo, Holochain and HoloFuel.
After a relatively quiet start to the year, the summer was much busier for both Holochain and the Holo Hosting service.
1/ The announcement of the first Holochain-compatible phone, the “Volla Quintus phone”, as well as two Holochain applications installed by default on the phone: “Relay” will allow secure and encrypted communication in 1-to-1 instant messaging but also by group chat. “Recover” will allow you to create backups of your data without having to use a cloud provider.
2/ Holo is getting closer to launching the network and its native cryptocurrency HoloFuel (HF). To answer the many questions from the community, Holo now regularly organizes “Launch briefs” to answer them but also to share the latest news and present the functioning of the Holo application ecosystem. According to the latest news, the launch will finally be in the third quarter of 2024 (Q3), probably around the end of September or the beginning of October.
3/ During the Holo launch brief No 3, CEO Mary Camacho presented the different tools of the Holo ecosystem: The “Holo Key Manager” extension, an extension to identify yourself similar to the well-known blockchain wallet extensions such as MetaMask; The “Springboard” an application that allows you to manage different accounts under a single identity. The “Cloud Console” which allows hosts and application creators to manage their hosting needs and preferences. The “HoloFuel” application has not yet been presented; See you at the next Brief No 4.
The biggest event of the winter 2024 was Holochain's presence at the ETHDenver conference. This year Holochain shared its effort with two projects from the ecosystem: Rainlang and IOEN. This collaboration made it possible to demonstrate use cases of Holochain technology with trendy DeFi, DePIN or NFTs projects.
As already announced in our last News bulletin, the Holo team has been discreet throughout 2023 in order to be able to concentrate on the development of its project.
1/ However, in order to continue to build links with the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem, the team did not forget to be present at major events. Indeed the sales team participated in several events such as for example in November the NFT San Francisco event where the team was able to present the Fractal Tribute project which bridges the creation of NFTs in a collaborative manner with Holochain and mints the NFT on the Polygon/Matic blockchain.
2/ It was at the beginning of December that finally during the AMA 55 on December 7 David, Mary, and Art began by presenting and demoing a new big meta gaming project using Holo called NOR.gg created by Brooks Brown a veteran of the world of entertainment and gaming with for example many years spent at Lucasfilm, Lucasarts and Universal Pictures.
3/ The AMA 55 was full of announcements, in fact the team also announced that the development of all the Milestones of the Holo project have been completed and that the Holo host RC network will be launched in December with the virtual cryptocurrency TestFuel. In fact, in parallel with the test network, an external audit will be carried out by the specialized company Least Authority which has already audited numerous projects in the blockchain ecosystem such as Ethereum2.0 or MetaMask. The real HoloFuel, the native cryptocurrency using a double-entry accounting system, will be officially launched after the audit around the second quarter of 2024. This is also when the swap of the Holo token (HOT) against HoloFuel (XHF) will be open for a minimum period of 6 months.
The Holo team was discreet at the start of 2023 and as always the very curious community started asking a lot of questions about the progress of Holo Host, we finally had some very interesting news from CEO Mary Camacho in the March 23 press release. They work hard at Holo and Holochain!
1/ On the Holochain side, they announced the official release of the Holochain Beta 0.2.0 framework version in April, as a reminder this version contains a security system as well as an immune system as explained in the official Holochain roadmap.
2/ On the Holo Host side, they updated the roadmap to mark three milestones as completed: Invoice and payment hosting, HoloFuel counter-signature, Holo ecosystem update to Holochain Beta. In addition the alpha testnet will be reset in order to put all these changes online, the MewsFeed demo application is still available for the most curious but be aware that all data will be lost when the Testnet network is reset in April.
We waited several years but it finally happened this Thursday, January 26, 2023! 🍾 The Holochain framework has moved to beta version (0.1.0). The development of the framework was long and difficult because the writing of the software in Rust and the development of the skills of the developers took time but now the framework is complete, stable, secure and powerful.
The team is still quite discreet regarding marketing because they are still actively building many parts of the framework, so they prefer to stay focused and build silently; however, as a community we really appreciate seeing demos of what is being built. And in the last month we enjoyed the different demos made by the ecosystem. Here are the links below. Regarding the long-awaited Beta version of Holochain, we are now very close, indeed only the milestone of the immune system and warrant is to be developed from scratch and the team has specified that it is not very complicated to develop, and therefore not very long in time...
1/ Marcus Phillips co-founder of Hack Reactor joined the Holo team to help train Holochain developers and the first Rust & Holochain immersive developer training took place in July in Austria. Get more information about this news in the Holo AMA No 51 and in the other links below.
2/ The team announced that the stable version of the Holochain Development Kit (HDK v0.1.0) is going to be released in the following days. This will allow developers to build hApps without breaking changes, which is a big milestone leading to the long-awaited Beta version. Also the company applied for a second US Patent in order to protect the latest improvement made in the Quantized Gossip algorithm of the framework. Some of you may remember last year the announcement of the patent was the trigger of a massive bull run for the HOT cryptocurrency. You can also get more information in the AMA No 51 linked above.
3/ More Holochain applications are opened to the public, we now have Elemental Chat and Elemental Chess available, we tested it and we can say it's a beautiful success so big congrats to the team! Try Elemental Chat!
4/ On the pure technical side, recently the developers made a lot of changes in the Holochain framework from v0.0.144 to v0.0.151, the big changes are the split of the two different responsibilities of the framework: Integrity and coordination and that way the hApps will be more maintainable in the future. Next is the integration of Quantized Gossip and Enzymatic countersigning. You can get more information in the Holochain Dev Pulse 121 and Holochain Dev Pulse 122.
1/ The Holochain team has released the roadmap to detail important milestones to continue developing the Holochain framework through Beta and beyond. Holochain Roadmap
2/ The Holo token has been listed on the Huobi Global exchange, this exchange is little known in the Western world yet it is the largest exchange in the world with a very large customer base in Asia. Huobi Global announcement about the Holo token listing
3/ The Holo token has been listed on the Coinbase Custody service. This service provides access to the institutional grade secure offline storage solution that is used by the Coinbase exchange. This is the first step to listing the Holo coin on the Coinbase exchange, and it's Arthur Brock the founder of Holo himself tweeting it.
Arthur Brock's tweet about listing on Coinbase
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