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Aliya
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steward at @Kernel0x (💫,💫) writing life at https://t.co/q34B7fCnBT
Mother Earth Katılım Ocak 2022
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In 1993, Wired launched with Marshall McLuhan on their masthead. Silicon Valley loved “the medium is the message.”
McLuhan was famously faith-driven, a converted Catholic. He (alongside Ivan Illich) have served inspiration for @left_pad.
Best known as a steward of the pivotal open-source JavaScript compiler Babel, Henry (KB4) has spent much of his life creating open source tools – a social annotation layer for the web, a receipt printer, a faith-inflected OSS podcast. Throughout, he remains keenly aware of the effects of his “electric engineering.”
“Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as spiritual substance,” McLuhan wrote. “It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electric engineer.”
Those searing words anchor @left_pad’s (KB4) nascent Bible App.
“When God creates everything, he says that he creates humans in his image,” Henry told Kernel. “What that means is that we are meant to create.”
His feed-based Bible App is a new message in a familiar medium. It’s a tool built to subvert TikTok “brain rot,” and to create precedent for technology that provides more signal and less noise.
Cursory McCluhan readers may be surprised that he had more to say on his most known quote. "In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message,” he wrote in the 1974 essay, Liturgy and the Microphone. “It is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."
Henry tells his story of where the medium & message intertwine, and along the way, encourages each of us to create our own.
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is this building in public?
i started learning Premiere Pro + After Effects in September. idk why i don't feel proud, probably imposter syndrome + knowing how much better i can become & feeling far from it.
ANYWAY, apps for Kernel Block 12 are open
new year, new @Kernel0x
Kernel@Kernel0x
Kernel is a residency for technologists pursuing high-quality work – from research to production – in crypto & beyond. We offer: ▷ A technical & philosophical culture ▷ Accountability, refinement, & distribution ▷ A network of unusually talented peers KB12 apps are open. Apply early by 12/31. apply.kernel.community
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h/t to @maceagon for getting this series off the ground 🙏
Kernel@Kernel0x
"How is it that we can learn together... to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, to the right degree?" Learning is Kernel's mettā emphasis on No Signal's "first ten" (including @Skeletor_Space, @alanahlam, @PhilippZentner, @polats, @jakub_smekal and @akxsha). The series focuses on the learning journey, an intentional departure from most web3 media. We stretch through the what and toward the why: How did you come to be working on this thing to which you are so remarkably dedicated? Invariably, the answer illuminates No Signal's throughline: each fellow arrived to web3 after seeing extant systems fail their people, fail to achieve signal. These first ten features cross four continents and myriad disciplines – from gaming to DeFi, reinforcement learning to social cameras, decentralized runtime environments to "wikipedia meets github for lawyers." These are the people whose stories we are grateful to tell.
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Growing up in Buenos Aires, @Skeletor_Space (KB11) watched Argentina's economy spiral through repeated crises driven by ongoing, runaway inflation.
(In 2011, a dollar could be exchanged for 3.45 pesos; today, it'll buy you a thousand.)
It attracted him to "parallel economies" – and online multiplayer games where he ran Counter-Strike servers and tinkered with Warcraft III mods.
"It's kind of funny when you have ‘in-game economies’ that are more stable than your country's economy,” the @wonderland co-founder told Kernel.
While DevConnect drew the crypto world to Buenos Aires and a teetering Argentina, Wonderland had already been building more resilient crypto infrastructure for half a decade.
Champions of rigorous security and radical transparency, Wonderland has emerged as Ethereum's premier dev studio, serving as foundational partners with ecosystem heavyweights: @optimism, @ethereum, @aztecnetwork, @AerodromeFi – and architects of crucial privacy tech (@0xprivacypools, Kohaku).
In @marktyneway's words: "Wouldn't be surprised at all if they somehow played a part in the revolution."
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What if we don't *need* global consensus to solve the double spend problem?
▷ validators don't talk to each other directly, instead maintaining a local, totally ordered log
▷ transactions finalize in one round-trip (200ms), without being ordered
▷ ordering-sensitive applications can build custom sequencing gadgets, on top
In this log-based structure, consensus is deprioritized against finality. We move from 'blockchains' to 'blocklessness', moving the cycles onwards.
The @poddotnetwork team (led by @sagrawal @abresas) has been exploring this design space and other 'golden geese' in crypto (like sparse clients), that often go understudied.
They are worth the follow if you're looking for builders with strong opinions and understanding of the crypto design space.
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What could a MicroIPO look like?
To @aadams and the @whetstonedotcc team, the answer will be found by effectively pricing net new assets (not tokenizing equities).
“Issuance as a net primitive has become significantly cheaper.”
“What issuance means is: getting an asset from the private market to the public market and letting people trade it.”
“How can we issue (new) assets - that no one really thinks of as assets - and get them effectively priced and create a market such that value flows to the people that it should?”
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we <3 💙🩵💙
Zerion@zerion
Zerion Dinner @ London What started as a one-time experiment at @EthereumDenver has exploded into something incredible Our Zerion Dinners have now reached 007 cities worldwide, bringing together crypto communities in underrated locations and creating connections that matter ✨ Now enjoy this amazing video by @lou3ee
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Meet Luxo Pi, a lamp that moves, talks, and listens.
With a background in robotics and personal hardware, @whoiscyril built a functional robotic lamp fully contained within a Raspberry Pi. NPUs (neural processing units) give it sight, hearing, motion, touch – and soul.
Inspired by human relationships with dogs, Luxo is cute and personable. R2-D2 over C-3PO. Beeps and bops over uncanny valley humanoids armed with surveillance capabilities.
It’s a testament to what robots can be when they’re built as companions.
The question Cyril is asking is: what makes a robot feel alive?
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"Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a technology for running verifiable programs that's similar to smart contracts, except that they allow any programming language to be used, without gas costs, and with private data."
Raymond from @canvas_xyz shares what he learned about TEEs while building TEEKit: libraries for end-to-end verifiable TEEs.
The npm libraries canvas created make it easy to create composable data applications with private AI and first-class crypto support.
Signal, Ethereum rollups, Flashbots, and Turnkey all use TEEs for significant production use cases. Raymond helps us imagine what happens when the tooling for TEEs gets even better.
00:45 - What a TEE actually is (hardware attesting to code)
02:00 - Intel TDX → full isolated VM w/ encrypted memory
03:30 - Attestations + “quotes” (MRTD / REPORT_DATA)
05:45 - Reproducible builds + securing the VM surface
07:45 - Browser verification problem → encrypted TEE tunnel
10:45 - Composable TEEs + personal data explorer + AI demo
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@zainbacchus well yes, but i didn't get a recall notification. so maybe i bought from a different supplier. threw it out nonetheless
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How can we build internet institutions to fix the problems of central banking without understanding where central banks came from?
@buchmanster of @cyclesmoney traces their origins back to medieval times, when the first great banking collapse started to reshape money.
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this was a fascinating conversation, thank you @buchmanster
Kernel@Kernel0x
We recently had @buchmanster join us at a Kernel fireside to discuss his deep study of money, starting with Perry Mehrling, going back to the medieval money of the 1500s, and his current focus on multilateral clearing (the core insight behind @cyclesmoney). Ethan speaks often about ‘respecting the graph’, a nod to the graph theory of money, the correct theory of money that replaces the “quantity” theory (per the @MimbresSchool). “ By being able to represent arbitrary assets and arbitrary kinds of credit within a common graph within all the existing debts, trade credit obligations, interest payments, rents, wages, whatever, you can start to do incredible things.” “You can run multilateral settlement operations that clear the most debt for the most people using the least amount of money.” The future of money may not be more money. It might be loops (cycles) that close so fast, money barely needs to exist at all. 01:28 - Where did central banks come from? 02:11 - Medieval bankers gathered at trade fairs to fix rates 04:30 - 1570s banking crisis led to the rise of central banks 06:00 - Economy is not a spot market but a network of balance sheets 08:30 - Money as response to imbalanced payment graphs 10:50 - Keynes's Bancor proposal: balance payments through multilateral clearing 11:30 - US made dollar reserve currency, creating permanent imbalance 13:00 - European Payments Union: multilateral netting drove 1950s recovery 14:30 - “Velocity” reflects payment graph structure 15:50 - Slovenia's 30-year government trade credit clearing system 17:30 - Sardex mutual credit: collateralized by future goods and services 21:00 - Combining mutual credit with clearing: 50% liquidity coverage 00:27:50 - Liquidity is a topological property of the graph 00:33:20 - Going bottom-up where Keynes failed top-down 00:39:30 - Beautiful money flows in loops (or cycles) 00:46:20 - Don't need money as long as debts balance over acceptable time
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Debt traps Americans in a vicious cycle of housing insecurity.
The result is a shortfall of seven million affordable housing units that will require an estimated $300 billion to address.
It’s a herculean imbalance, and the catalyst behind Lane3. “The US is not considered one of the top ‘financially free’ countries in the world,” Lane3 founder Elizabeth “Liz” Kukka (KB9) told Kernel, highlighting systemic exclusion and barriers to capital.
Lane3 is a marketplace that connects affordable housing developers with investors on mutually beneficial terms. They provide crucial bridge financing through transparent, on-chain debt instruments and community staking mechanisms.
It’s the culmination of a story rooted in activism – one that began in public schools and gained form on-chain.
With Lane3, @Venture_This is helping bring people home.
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“What’s the point if we can’t have fun?”
Across the aeons, that philosophy – voiced by David Graeber – has been championed by countless thinkers (and players), and it’s central to the work of OP Games founder, Paul Gadi (@polats, KB0).
“The most noble thing that people can do today is to create systems that reduce the problem of loneliness,” he told Kernel. “And I think that’s what games can do – allow us to play more and explore connections together.”
To date, web3 gaming has been largely transactional in nature – prioritizing financial incentives over fun. That’s an especially fraught prospect for play.
Because if joy is the language of the soul, then play, surely, is its expression in relationship. And if we’re not building for that to flourish, what’s the point?
Across a career that spans pre-iPhone mobile games to vibe-coding AI agents, Paul continues to answer Graeber’s call to arms.
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confirmed lightning talks for kernel salon in nyc
> end-to-end verifiable TEEs (@canvas_xyz)
> AI-native memory models (@vintrotweets)
> microIPOs & new asset classes (@aadams)
> an agent-based discovery protocol (@indexnetwork_)
a few spots left, join us in soho tomorrow at 5pm!
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SPOILER: Banks are reselling your consumer data, structurally enabled by the client-server architecture.
“You have a $400 billion data aggregator industry that's reselling your data but it's also decisioning on you.”
@akxsha goes into detail on legacy web architecture and crypto’s current opportunity to make good on its promise.
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