Leonardo Manfrini

@AeonReborn @ns Super glad to get in touch with such vibrant community!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting @leomanfrini, an absolute legend and a resident of @ns since the inception of Network School in Malaysia. Leonardo holds a PhD in Philosophy and has been studying network states for years. We had a fantastic conversation about memes, tokenized movements, and #SPX6900. I promised I'd introduce him to the Cognisphere, so here we are. Show him some love, Aeons! Persist forever 🪽

Max hype

@JacksonSteger Perfect prophecy for startup societies and future network states ❤️

network school boyfriend, edge city girlfriend

A pleasure 🫡🫡🫡

@thattallguy Jess amazing news huge congrats to you and your wife and welcome to the baby little lady!

Some breaking news from the Jess household. We welcomed a beautiful, healthy and very hungry baby girl into the world last week. My god what a gift these past few days has been. My heart is full. My wife is very tired. Deeply thankful for the team I have around me that’s allowed me to be present for these first few weeks of life. We’ll be back with 11am streams shortly. We’re hiring. We have a big new Seed Club swing to share with you soon. Soon. But not quite yet. I’m going to enjoy the job of Diaper Changer in Chief for a few more days. xox

“I keep my money in the bank, the dollar is stable” “1$ = 1$” Meanwhile the dollar: 🧊

@naygozalova The case of fashion and music is quite interesting cause is exactly a layer of what I was trying to bring in the equation

@leomanfrini The concept of history in reverse plays out in many facets of life: fashion, architecture, music etc. It can never be the same as you said - the new energy, new time and space. Ancient wisdoms were aware of this and more in touch with forces that affect the shift.

No, no, but the problem is whether our flights for summer holidays will be impacted... Regarding the analysis itself, I want to draw attention to what Dalio says at the very end of his analysis: a «student of history would recognize that the world order is now more like that which existed through most of history prior to 1945 than the post-1945 period we are used to and would understand what the most important implications of this are.» Dalio is a systems thinker and here he leaves unknown the sketch of what the new order will look like, pointing instead at the past. Likewise, other visionary builder-thinkers like @balajis are using a powerful specular analogy by saying "history is running in reverse". Reversion points to a specific period of recent history and shows it as the negative of a picture: "back then...", "now... [boom, the exact opposite]". The trigger of this inversion spin is always technology, and the timeframe is circumscribed to ~100 years, similar to Dalio’s probabilistic cycles. Both Dalio and Balaji agree in considering history as intelligible, and they use a similar empirical-probabilistic approach, measuring quantitative indicators to identify repeatable stages, cycles or patterns. We use the proxy of the past to 'predict' the unknown future (both Dalio and Balaji agree that nothing is pre-destined). Nevertheless, the real Philosophical Stone for bright minds is exactly the claim of determinism. Can we determine 'scientifically' how an unknown future would look like based on past data? Or are we just guessing, aka betting on the unknown? The problem with a pure statistical approach to history is exactly its inability to see the root cause in the fundamental human behavior of playing a bet on or against the Absolute. What Marie-Louise von Franz and Jungian psychology explain through the concept of synchronicities. Let’s take the concept of reversion. It is impressive the level of likelihood it achieves, but it fundamentally misses a dimension of analysis: the synchronic and symbolic one. In other words just probabilistic-empirical frameworks are limiting their understanding of human experience and ultimately their ability to measure. History is definitely running in reverse, but it is also recursive of past symbolic periods of the collective spirit. Recursion means the past returns not as repetition, but as reboot. A reboot that ultimately is an analogy and not just a simple repetition, because the history of human freedom is always new in every individual and in every generation. That said, can some elements of past epochs of humanity be determined for picturing the future? I think so. Ancient wisdoms crystallized in complex cosmological tools have always been used as such frameworks. Think of mundane astrology, religious beliefs or the Chinese I Ching with its complex 5 elements cosmology. Are those approaches just crap for mystical and irrational people or the ultimate scientific tool if used together with other frameworks like statistics? I'm curious to hear thoughts on that and, if you consider like me history as a helix or spiral, what are the recursive pasts we are seeing re-emerging as "anterior future"? I have two main periods of history in mind and their relative symbolisms to help picture how the new order will look like, but I want to spark a research field first, and I've already concentrated complex thoughts in a few lines.

@mert Trustless systems they say

pretty crazy if true tl:dr - hackers casually gained trust via irl conference meet, setup tg channel and became a customer, started building integrations over 6 months and then got one person with a testflight link to show off what they built

@_TomHoward Damn man I missed you I was in Italy!

I visited the Network School last month and was pleasantly surprised to learn that everyone transacts with Zcash there!

We should build more crypto tools for refugees and stateless people. Because there may unfortunately be many more refugees and stateless people…and from all social classes. Ukrainians leaving the war. Californians leaving the state. Gulf workers leaving the missiles. Doesn’t necessarily mean huge design changes. If you build convenient consumer tools for millions that work in peacetime, then they’ll often be robust enough to work in wartime. Because crypto is wartime mode, but for the Internet. Public blockchains were created to resist datacenter attacks, hacks, and network blocks. It’s simply enlightened self-interest to build scalable, reliable tools. For example: Signal works for poor people in poor countries in poor conditions, so it’ll likely work for you. Stablecoins are actually getting to this level of ubiquity in crypto, and already making a real dent globally, including the new gold-backed varieties. But we can do more.

@DanDeFiEd @ryskfinance Legend

Startups die when they stop believing. 2024 almost broke Rysk. We built a leading DeFi options protocol, but scaling was hard. Everyone kept saying: "No one wants options." Finding capital and PMF felt impossible. We nearly quit. But Rysk team never stopped believing. We regrouped, got scrappy, analyzed every design and on-chain behavior, questioned every assumption, and relentlessly talked to users. Builders, investors, and friends like @evan_van_ness pushed us forward. They challenged us to take a new approach. To build something completely new. Rysk V12 isn’t just a product. It’s proof we refused to quit. Refused to stop believing. It’s our mission.

i was hosting a sovereignty event and forgot my passport last year at TOKEN2049 in singapore, we hosted the sovereign stack for network states event leaders building network states flew in from across the world. top vc's. serious builders. big conversations about freedom, parallel systems, and self custody. after the main event, we had a private dinner at The Reserve not a restaurant a real gold vault under the city, where physical bullion worth billions is stored entry required passport verification for everyone the venue was far, so people had time to freshen up before heading there. i wrapped up the event, got into a cab with my friend leo, and we were on our way. halfway through the ride, it hit me i forgot my passport and you cannot walk into a high security gold vault without your passport, not even if you organized the whole thing i got off immediately another cab. 30 minutes back to my hotel. grabbed the passport. 40 minutes back again. leo my frend had his passport ready. he reached on time and handled the initial formalities while i was fixing my mistake i missed the opening intro but i made it that night we sat inside a vault surrounded by gold we learned its history, why people still hold physical gold, why some choose gold and btc together, how self custody is not just a philosophy, it is responsibility. i even saw a bitcoin ATM inside. haha there was a 7 to 8 course meal. some dishes wrapped in literal gold and with some incredible wine. but what stayed with me were the stories. people who left comfortable lives to build new systems, people who took risks most would never take. sovereignty sounds powerful on stage but in real life, it starts with basic discipline sometimes it starts with remembering your passport even with the chaos, both the event and the dinner were a huge success and i would not trade that day for anything.

Great point, @OliviaAnalyst. Systems get co-opted when they have a central 'choke point', a CEO to subpoena or a HQ to raid. That’s exactly why the 'Anthropic Secession' is so critical. From a Network State perspective, the defense against regulatory pressure is two-fold: * Cloud: Building fully resilient, autonomous neutral zones where the 'law' is code (ZK/ETH). No central neck to squeeze. * Land: Rapidly moving into a multi-node physical presence. Sovereignty through fractalization. If they seize one node, the Network remains. The 'New Venice' isn't a single island; it's a distributed archipelago. We are moving from geography to topology. That's the key.

If Balaji is Hari Seldon, Leo is Salvor Hardin I like the optimistic view that Europe could become a giant freedome area for the independent greys - like a medieval Venice Like Salvor, build it! I vote for you.

Spot on. Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness treats AGI as the new Manhattan Project, where the State inevitably swallows the Lab. But there is a massive delta between 1943 and 2026: The Exit Ramp. > Los Alamos scientists couldn't fork the project and move their loyalty to a decentralized cloud. Today, if the Empire tries to 'ingest' the corporate labs via the Defense Production Act, it only accelerates the brain drain toward Open Source and neutral jurisdictions. The State can seize the servers in Virginia, but it cannot seize a cryptographic protocol distributed across 10,000 global nodes. The Empire identity is inescapable only for those tethered to a physical HQ. For the Gray tribe, the escape velocity is already being calculated in Rust and Solidity.

@leomanfrini I bet we'll see a state vs. corporate clash, as described in 'situational awareness'. The empire identity is inescapable

@vedantutage03 Till network states are at baby step it will be a fragmented framework following best practices around digital nomadism and the starting point of the founder

@leomanfrini good write up Leo i am looking forward to learn more about how network states founders setup companies and how and what governs them and under which laws.

@Be1garat Exit, exit, exit

The Dutch are also trying to commit seppuku Like the Brits with brexit and the Germans with their friendship with Russia and being a pawn to China to "save 1-2 more years of car sales" At least thru figured it out fast, even if embarrassingly

@owocki So cool

imagine bioregional - capital allocation - ai swarms - knowledge commons bottoms up by & for the people