History
2024-April-07
- Emerald Onion launched a Tor Project WebTunnel bridge relay. All bridge details moved to emeraldonion.org/bridges.
2024-February-28
- Emerald Onion upgraded system memory (RAM) for all three of the Tor exit relays in Seattle to 128GB.
2023-November-28
- Emerald Onion launched 10 public obfs4 bridges.
2023-November-12
- Emerald Onion published a bridge management shell script for Tor operators on Github.
2023-October-31
- Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the Transparency Report.
2023-August-13
2023-April-30
- Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the Transparency Report.
2023-April-7
- Emerald Onion upgraded our Seattle core switch to a MikroTik CRS518-16XS-2XQ.
2023-March-13
- Emerald Onion's Tor exit probability hit 3rd in the world (4.9118%) with advertised bandwidth at 1,907 MiB's and peak throughput at 5.2 Gbps symmetrical.
2022-October-31
- Emerald Onion's Board of Directors updated the Transparency Report.
2021-October-4
- Emerald Onion's Tor exit traffic peaked at 10.25 Gigabits (symmetrical) at 2.77 million packets per second.
2021-September-28
- Tor Project's synthetic bandwidth measurements made Emerald Onion temporarily look like #1 in Tor Exit providers @ 11.65 Gbps Advertised Bandwidth and 17% Exit Probability.
2021-September-19
- Emerald Onion deployed two more AMD Epyc 7402P servers along with 80 new Tor exit relays for stress testing, for 118 relays in total.
2021-March-25
- Emerald Onion began peering with the Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange (BCIX) in Berlin, Germany.
2021-March-24
- Emerald Onion migrated 20 (of 37) relays to a new AMD Epyc 7402P system using HardenedBSD 13.
2021-February-5
- Emerald Onion deployed a temporary Signal TLS Proxy for Iranian Signal users.
2021-January-6
- Emerald Onion upgraded their Seattle edge router to a MikroTik CCR1072-1G-8S+.
2020-August-10
- Emerald Onion joined the League of Entropy to provide verifiable randomness as a service.
2020-June-27
- Will and yawnbox presented at ToorCon VirtualToor on Growing a 501(c)(3) transit ISP for privacy infrastructure.
2020-June-17
- Emerald Onion deployed a Point of Presence (POP) in Fremont, California with connectivity to FCIX, thanks to a Hurricane Electric donation.
2019-August-8
- Emerald Onion's overclocked Intel i7-8086k system became the fastest Tor relay.
- Emerald Onion's total advertised bandwidth reached 10.9 Gbps (symmetrical).
2019-June-24
- Emerald Onion added an Intel QuickAssist Adapter 8950 to the overclocked Intel i7-8086k relay and migrated its OS to CentOS.
2019-June-21
- Emerald Onion reached top 4 of exit families, 5.65% exit probability, at 8.9 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.
2019-June-10
- Emerald Onion migrated their Intel Xeon D-2146NT edge router to VyOS.
2019-May-13
- Emerald Onion deployed two Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 relay servers using HardenedBSD 12.
2019-May-1
- Emerald Onion reached 3.05% exit probability at 4.6 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.
2019-April-27
- Emerald Onion reached top 5 of exit families at 4.04 Gbps (symmetrical) advertised bandwidth.
2019-April-15
- Emerald Onion reached the top 10 of Tor exit families for the first time.
2019-April-8
- Emerald Onion migrated their edge router to an Intel Xeon D-2146NT system using HardenedBSD 12.
2019-April-2
- Emerald Onion deployed a 40-core Tor relay server using HardenedBSD and Ansible-Relayor.
2019-April-1
- Emerald Onion upgraded to 10 Gbps transit (WAN) via Hurricane Electric.
- Emerald Onion completed their Route Origin Authorizations (ROA) deployment with ARIN.
2019-March-12
- Emerald Onion reached the top 11 of Tor exit families for the first time.
2019-March-6
- Emerald Onion deployed 10 Gbps high-availability switching for their Local Area Network (LAN).
2019-February-24
- Emerald Onion upgraded their edge router to an Intel Xeon D-1557 system.
2018-December-9
- Emerald Onion completed IRR deployment with ARIN.
2018-November-14
- Emerald Onion deployed an overclocked (Intel i7-8086k at 5.2 GHz) Linux server for Tor relaying.
2018-August-10
- yawnbox presented Emerald Onion to DEF CON 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2018-June-30
- Emerald Onion moved to the Seattle Westin Building (WBX) and upgraded our Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) link to 10 Gbps.
2018-June-2
- Emerald Onion migrated their edge router from pfSense to HardenedBSD.
2018-March-26
- Emerald Onion's Board of Directors published their first transparency report.
2018-March-14
- Emerald Onion was included in Duck Duck Go's Privacy Challenge fundraiser.
2017-October-27
- Emerald Onion's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status approved by the United States IRS.
2017-September-22
- Emerald Onion reached top 12 of exit families for the first time.
2017-August-19
- Emerald Onion deployed DNSSEC for forward and reverse lookup zones.
2017-July-19
- Emerald Onion was granted their first direct-assignment IPv4 /24 subnet from ARIN.
2017-July-11
- Emerald Onion breached 1 Gbps (symmetrical) actual throughput from Tor exit relay traffic.
2017-July-7
- Emerald Onion deployed a 1 Gbps link to Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX).
2017-July-2
- Emerald Onion was assigned Autonomous System Number (ASN) 396507 by ARIN.
- Emerald Onion turned on their first Tor exit relays.
2017-June-30
- Emerald Onion was granted their first direct-assignment IPv6 /36 subnet from ARIN.
2017-June-19
- Emerald Onion deployed this website, emeraldonion.org.
2017-June-15
- Emerald Onion received nonprofit incorporation approval by Washington's Secretary of State.