✨ Astral

@eas_eth v0 is a research preview. APIs may change. We want your feedback. Docs: docs.astral.global

What you can build: Agents that prove where they performed a task. Delivery verification with real evidence, not a GPS pin. Location-gated smart contracts — tokens, governance, access — tied to verified physical presence. We're integrating with ERC-8004 so agents can attach verifiable location evidence directly to task results, with spatial constraints checked and signed by Astral.

Today we're launching v0 of the Astral Protocol — verifiable location-based services for apps, agents, and smart contracts. Two capabilities that work together: → Location proofs: verify where something actually was → Verifiable geocomputation: ask spatial questions and get signed answers Both produce cryptographic attestations any system can verify independently.

@stephengraves What about `StephenGr`? We'd love to chat about an article about Astral ... but only with the real you 😂

Have had a bunch of crypto industry people telling me they've been approached by a scammer using my identity on TG and looking to set up interviews. For the avoidance of doubt: @GravesSteve on TG is a FAKE, and is likely someone using this playbook: decrypt.co/355979/north-k…

@sodofi_ @synthesis_md We’re cooking something up that will be available very soon … sneak peek docs.astral.global

havent had a chance to respond to everyone here yet but we're looking for partners who want to shape the future of agents onchain and co-create with us DM me to get involved will be announcing tomorrow @synthesis_md

@ethereum Verifiable location-based services for the agent economy inbound 🫡

8/ Start building: → Use the the Agent0 SDK (TS/Python) or ChaosChain SDK → Register via 8004scan.io or agentscan.info Explore the Best Practices and specs at 8004.org

0/ ERC-8004, the standard for universal AI agent identity, reputation, and verification, is now live on Ethereum Mainnet. With the ERC-8004 standard, AI agents are accountable economic actors. Here are 5 unlocks that ERC-8004 gives to builders, and how to integrate today.

🙏✨💖 We love the contributions — and are so impressed by @oxwizzdom Exciting stuff coming, very very soon ....

@tkstanczak City chains, built on something more sophisticated than latency … docs.astral.global

Core development / governance will be gradually replaced by agents, consensus will be defined by the attention resources allocated to submitting and reviewing EIPs and ERCs. Proof of Attention works fast, PoS protects capital. City chains (50ms radius) may change parameters very frequently, global chain (Ethereum) will have to convince economies of quadrillions.

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1/ location data is everywhere—but we blindly trust centralized systems to tell us where things happened. decentralized geolocation changes this 🧵

What if local currencies could actually be local — not just to a community of approved accounts, but to physical space itself? Thinking (+ a visualization!) on how @AstralProtocol + @ethereum will enable spatial filters for economic activity 🌍 johnx.co/notes/spatial-…

@VitalikButerin All the prerequisites for the original web3 vision are *almost* here. Ridesharing needs location-based services. v0 of the Astral Protocol is coming soon ... a geospatial policy engine for Ethereum milady

In 2014, there was a vision: you can have permissionless, decentralized applications that could support finance, social media, ride sharing, governing organizations, crowdfunding, potentially create an entire alternative web, all on the backs of a suite of technologies. Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer that could give any application its shared memory. Whisper: the data layer. Messages too expensive for a blockchain, that do no need consensus. Swarm: the storage layer. Store files for long-term access. Over the last five years, this core vision has at times become obscured, with various "metas" and "narratives" at various times taking center stage. But the core vision has never died. And in fact, the core technologies behind it are only growing stronger. Ethereum is now proof of stake. Ethereum is now scaling, it is now cheap, and it is on track to get more scalable and cheaper thanks to the power of ZK-EVMs. Thanks to ZK-EVM + PeerDAS, the "sharding" vision is effectively being realized. And L2s can give additional and different kinds of gains in speed on top. Whisper is now Waku ( docs.waku.org ), and already powers many applications (eg. railway.xyz, status.app just to name two I use). Even outside of Waku, the quality of decentralized messaging has increased. Fileverse (decentralized Google Docs and Sheets alternative: fileverse.io ) has seen massive gains in usability over the past year. IPFS is now highly performant and robust as a decentralized way of retrieving files, though IPFS alone does not solve the storage problem. Hence, there is still room to improve there. All of the prerequisites for the original web3 vision are here, in full force, and are continuing to get stronger over the next few years. Hence, it's time to buidl, and buidl decentralized. Fileverse is an excellent example of the right way to do things: * It uses Ethereum and Gnosis Chain for what they are good for: names, accounts and permissioning, document registration * It uses decentralized messaging and file storage to store documents and propagate changes to documents * The application passes the walkaway test: github.com/fileverse/walk… (even if Fileverse disappears, you can still retrieve them and even keep editing them with the open source UI) This is what we mean by "build a hammer that is a tool you buy once and it's yours, not a corposlop AI dishwasher that requires you to register for a google account and charges a subscription fee per month for extra washing modes, and probably spies on you and stops working if you get politically disfavored by a foreign country". If you think this criticism of corposlop is hyperbolic, well turns out, it's literally a concatenation of these three: * mein-mmo.de/en/user-buys-n… * theguardian.com/technology/202… * irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/… In 2014, decentralized applications were toys, hundreds of times more difficult to use in web2. In 2026, fileverse is now usable enough that I regularly write documents in it and send them to other people to collaborate. The decentralized renaissance is coming, and you can be part of making it happen.

Great research from @oxwizzdom on MEV in the African context. We just replied on the Flashbots forum, tying this work in with ours on location verification and measuring network geography ... collective.flashbots.net/t/africa-on-th…

the 12th time is the charm looking forward to working closer than ever with the participants in @Kernel0x the energy shift from fellowship to residency is palpable if you're considering 'what is next?' or building something new, we'd love to chat x.com/Kernel0x/statu…

I've been thinking a lot about how to verify the authenticity of satellite imagery and other geospatial data. It's an emerging field, here is the state of it: johnx.co/notes/state-of…