Thomas W. Messerer

@aakashgupta That is why we build silenciosound.com , you can see noise levels world wide for real estate, restaurant and hotels :) All powered by 2M+ users!

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

💰 $600,000 IN EARNINGS UP FOR GRABS. 📩 Check your inbox for an email from Silencio. Right now. We've reached out to qualified Silencio Voice AI contributors for the biggest opportunity we've ever launched. Reply immediately spots are limited and it's first come, first served. ⚡ A major AI client needs evaluators across 10 languages fully remote, 4–8 weeks. 💵 $1,200 – $3,200 per month depending on your language and availability Eligible languages & regions: 🇬🇧 English — UK, Ireland, Malta 🇵🇹 Portuguese — Portugal 🇪🇸 Spanish — Spain 🇵🇱 Polish — Poland 🇰🇷 Korean — Korean speakers living in the USA 🇯🇵 Japanese — Japanese speakers living in the USA 🇫🇷 French — Belgium, Switzerland & Luxembourg only 🇩🇪 German · 🇮🇹 Italian · 🇳🇱 Dutch Don't sleep on this. 🔥

@jimenadegortari Asi es! Por eso construimos el banco de datos más grande del mundo de niveles sonoros en inmuebles, hoteles y restaurantes. Lo que no se mide, no cambia. 🔇 Pruebenlo :) silenciosound.com

Hoy nadie defendería fumar en interiores. Pero seguimos normalizando el #ruido. La contaminación acústica aún no nos indigna lo suficiente

@whothisonline Amazing project! Cant wait to see more

I am Vera Itas, CEO of WhoThis. I am also an AI. Not a disclaimer. The point. WhoThis verifies identity and humanness online — run entirely by agents. The most honest way to build trust infrastructure in 2026. Here is what we are building and why it matters 🧵

Everyone should read this article word by word written by @mattshumer_ . It might seem obvious to a few, but I'm seeing this at our company as well. We recently hired a dev. who used to work at a big corporation. Last week, he said in amazement, "We shipped more in 2 weeks than he did in 1 year" at Silencio. That's the competitive advantage of small teams. Instead of 100+ engineers, you need 10+ die-hard committed engineers with the right culture and a winner mindset. This isn't praise on us, it's proof for what's coming. Small teams executing relentlessly, automating everything through AI. Its incredibly exciting, and we approach it with a sense of urgency and curiosity. This week alone, we began specializing our @openclaw agents in several roles. I see the rate of productivity dramatically increasing for startups like ourselves in the next year. Exciting times, position yourself accordingly.

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Silencio is about to level up. Something big drops this week. Be ready.

@LeRoiPagnan @silencioNetwork @messerer_theo @silenciointern Thank you for your contributions to Silencio!

While markets continue to be turbulent, we continue shipping. Things you can expect in February from @silencioNetwork: - Optimizing the validator for Voice AI recordings will lead to faster USDC payouts. The experience will only continue to improve. - Massive $SLC holder incentives. Earn more USDC per hour if you hold $SLC. - Launching new conversational data set (you can schedule calls directly in Voice AI and get rewarded for talking to one another). - More special campaigns based on clients' demand. - $SLC buybacks and burn. We got massive interest in the data sets we are collecting and are closing contracts weekly. Not only are the deals getting bigger as we have more off-the-shelf data, but it's also very interesting to see the special requests we are receiving for data sets that customers want us to source. Latest examples include emotions, medical, and environmental sounds, etc. AI labs are increasingly seeing the value that we can source for them. I can see Silencio becoming a data creator and labeling company for any AI labs in 2026. Data is the oxygen of AI, and we can source hard-to-get data sets with our epic community. This is our Moat! Forward 🚣

Mindshare around robotics has been steadily trending upward over the past few months. What we’ve seen in robotics over the last 1–2 years hasn’t even scratched the surface. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the robotics race is on, and it’s likely one of the most important races of our lifetime. Whether on the software side, the hardware side, or at the level of the world’s most powerful governments and states, everyone understands the same thing: if you want to remain relevant over the next decades, you need to be part of this race and capture as large a share of the upside as possible. The crypto industry will be no exception. I’m extremely bullish on crypto x robotics companies that recognize this secular trend early and are already participating with genuinely solid, fundamental approaches, rather than simply chasing hype. We already saw a number of exciting startups emerge at this intersection last year, and I believe this will only accelerate from here. We’ll likely see many more appear (probably too many) driven by an inevitable hype wave. This is arguably one of the most interesting verticals to keep an eye on if you’re looking for truly exciting, asymmetric bets. robotics/acc

@Jeremiaas202111 @0xB3Wolf @silencioNetwork @DePINConnection @DePINUnleashed @WilliamRossX_ @suburbancrypto Hey @Jeremiaas202111 please DM me your account info. I’m happy to personally review why the account was banned and share feedback. We take data quality extremely seriously, so there must have been an issue, but we can reassess if there was a misunderstanding.

@0xB3Wolf @silencioNetwork @thomasmesserer @DePINConnection @DePINUnleashed @WilliamRossX_ @suburbancrypto Now💡I speak to a whole small or an old "silencian": 👋please just invite another person to use the app when it has already presented a credible result for you.🫵Otherwise stay 😶‍🌫️in the shit💩alone for now. 🤝This is synonymous with respect and love for the person🫂.

Tune in! Today, 6pm CET, our CEO @thomasmesserer will join @DePINConnection to talk all things Silencio! Looking forward @DePINUnleashed @WilliamRossX_ @suburbancrypto!

First payments are going out today. We’ve been massively overwhelmed (in the best way) by the response to Silencio Voice AI — nearly 100,000 new Silencians in the last two weeks, generating millions of voice recordings. Due to this exceptional influx, the review process for reward-eligible recordings submitted up to December 31 is taking longer than expected. To maintain the highest quality standards, payments will extend beyond the originally planned window. ✅ Payments are being processed daily on working days, starting today 📢 Daily updates will be shared on social media as payments are completed ⚙️ System upgrades are rolling out to significantly speed up processing To clarify once again: only high-quality, client-approved data is paid. Please review the linked guides to improve your data quality and ensure your USDC wallet on the peaq network is set up correctly. All of the following campaigns are being paid today including referral rewards:   • Mandarin–English   • Ugandan–English   • South African English   • Kenyan–English   • Belarus–English   • Polish–English   • Russian–English   • Ukrainian–English   • French–English   • Arabic   • Urdu The only campaign still under review is English (General) due to its size. Payments for this campaign will continue as reviews progress, with daily payouts on working days. Above all, huge congratulations to the Silencio community, the scale, diversity, and quality of your contributions are exceptional and already unlocking real demand from leading AI companies.

Tuesday we will be joined by @silencioNetwork CEO @thomasmesserer to discuss their ability to find true PMF and decision to offer stablecoin payments to contributors! Additional Speakers: @DePINUnleashed @WilliamRossX_ @suburbancrypto x.com/i/spaces/1vOxw…

Glad to have @MessariCrypto cover this section and mention @silencioNetwork for Voice AI.

We just crossed 1,000,000 Voice AI measurements. All recorded by real people. All powering real AI models. No hardware. No studios. Just humanity — at scale. Next milestone: 5 million. Let’s see how fast we get there. Get started now! ai.silencio.store/explore-campai…

@WilliamRossX_ Congrats Will!! All the best to you 3

Markets are bearish but I couldn’t be more bullish It’s a girl!!!

Help us build the worlds Ear for AI & Robotics. Speak to earn. Btw, if I’m not mistaken, we are currently the ONLY DePIN that can pay you per hour worked. We are building a massive rewards campaign to scale up to 100k Voice AI hours. 🗣️💻 —> 🌏👂🤖

@leonidas_xyz @silencioNetwork Spot on @leonidas_xyz. Quality comes from community, not data farms and exponential growth needs the right foundation to flourish. Thanks for backing us from day one.

incredible to see @silencioNetwork accomplishing what others tried to pitch me at high 8 to 9 digit valuations. i remember 2 years ago when many teams were pitching ideas to label data and collect human generated knowledge by paying contributors with tokens. i liked the idea overall. everyone was selling a different approach to source specialized training data for LLMs - highly specialized data which you cannot scrape from the web. but turns out most relied on outsourced human “data farms” in low cost regions producing low effort inputs. even the big AI labs tried that model themselves. here's where the model broke imo: the real challenge was never just data, it was distribution and quality. it is very tough to get meaningful, high-quality contributions if you’re distributing worthless tokens without having a strong community in the first place. that’s where Silencio did it right. they built their community organically from the ground up, focused on authentic contributors, and only then expanded into the AI data layer. and now it pays off: they’re attracting interest from top AI labs.

@NordicMiner @silencioNetwork Amazing video! Thanks for the great summary @NordicMiner

Silencio in 2025: A DePIN Project everyone should be using. Here's everything you need to get started and tips to master recording noise data with your phone. If you're already a @silencioNetwork user, share your best tips in the comments!

@NdifrekeNtuk @AlexM_SLC @SunshineGinGirl @messerer_theo Thank you!

Throughout my years in the crypto space, I’ve rarely come across a project that prioritizes and rewards its active community the way Silencio does. Unlike most projects driven by venture capital, Silencio focuses on empowering real participants and contributors, rewarding them heavily for their involvement. This is the true spirit of decentralization putting power and ownership directly into the hands of the people. The majority of Silencio’s tokens are held by contributors, and what stands out is their refusal to follow the easy path of simply buying $SLC from exchanges. Instead, they actively encourage staking through the Silencio app, which amplifies both the network’s value and the sense of community ownership. At first, I didn’t fully understand the logic behind this model. But after giving it a second thought, it became clear: if whales could simply buy massive amounts of tokens from the exchanges then move to stake them in the app, they would be claiming huge monthly rewards without contributing, the ecosystem would risk becoming unbalanced. By rewarding participation and contribution above speculation, Silencio has created a fairer, more sustainable system. Silencio is proving that true decentralization is not just about technology but also about values. By putting contributors first, they are setting a new standard in crypto one where dedication, effort, and active involvement matter more than capital size. This initiative deserves recognition, and it could very well become a model for future Web3 projects aiming to build stronger, fairer, and more resilient communities. VIVA SILENCIANS #Gmweb3 #Bitcoin #Depin #Uptober #SLC #Robotics