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@PremierJon
LuckyKat Ambassador, Moderator and Holder. IKA maxi, Native BTCFi Beeliever, DeathCorp Piggy immortal, ACT General and Rootlets Rootard. SUI Degen 💧
First product out of the new @SolanaFndn products team is @tokens Foreign assets on Solana have many variants, e.g. there's no canonical Bitcoin or Gold Tokens aggregates all strains into a single place, and will soon offer a few very helpful and novel APIs as well😉 The underlying reason we built this was to power a news account, which with a combination of AI + human editors will surface global headlines + link to the relevant assets to trade. We're uniquely positioned to build this because: a) it presents a neutral view of assets b) a neutral view of where to trade or use the assets c) we have a privileged view of which tokens represent which assets
The Covenant principles explained: II. Inalienable Ownership TL;DR: If someone else holds your private key, they hold access to your money, your identity, your data. Self-custody is the foundation of every other digital right. "To own oneself is to own one's keys. No authority grants this right; it is self-evident. Keys are recoverable, persistent, and secure against present and future threats to cryptography. With direct control and user-friendly access to our cryptographic keys, no other digital right can be taken away." History has a pattern: custody follows control. ✦ Most people interact with cryptographic keys every day without knowing it: they protect messages, logins, financial activity. But in practice, those keys usually live on someone else's servers: a bank, a platform, a cloud provider. When they go down, get hacked, or decide to restrict your access, you find out the hard way that you were never really in control. In 2022, when Celsius Network froze withdrawals, users with assets on the platform had no recourse. The keys weren't theirs. ✦ In many emerging economies with unstable currencies, people use stablecoins like USDC to preserve value. With self-custody wallets, individuals can store and manage wealth independently, without mediation by a bank that may be inaccessible, unreliable, or politically compromised. Open blockchains made this possible. The underlying technology means you can hold your own keys, with no intermediaries in between. The pattern: if you don't control your keys, you don't control your assets, your identity, or your data. You're borrowing access. The hard questions: → If a platform can freeze your account, did you ever own what was in it? What's your emergency plan in case of a banking crisis? → When convenience means handing your keys to a third party, what are you actually agreeing to? → Can self-custody be made simple enough that it's genuinely accessible and convenient, not just theoretically available? ✓ Ownership without custody is permission, not possession. ✓ The right to hold your own keys is not a fancy crypto concept. It's a human right. ✓ Self-custody by design means no single entity can revoke what's yours. Through self-custody wallets, threshold cryptography, and recoverable key systems, we can build an infrastructure where individuals hold what's theirs, without depending on any institution to let them keep it. Control by design, not by permission. And with tools like @WaaPxyz, we can make it user-friendly. If you believe your keys should answer to you and no one else, sign The Covenant of Humanistic Technologies → manifest.human.tech Follow @humntech to stay in the loop.
