MacEagon Voyce
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This is our 11th and final (for now 😉) edition of No Signal. Just before clock strikes twelve, we find solace in knowing that there is still (and always) time for a signal to be found if you are looking in the right places. Here are a few words from our inimitable publisher, @maceagon, who shepherded us so well through these eleven stories of Kernel Fellows.
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
"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.
"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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"I'm really passionate about making [the law] clear to everyone who wants to engage with the laws that guide our life,” Nitesh Daryanani (KB11) told us. “I think it's almost forgotten the extent to which law impacts everything we do.” That’s the driving force behind Lexon: “Wikipedia meets GitHub for lawyers,” as Nitesh describes his project. Using knowledge graphs and crypto primitives, Nitesh (a Berkeley trained lawyer and "pragmatic litigator") and technical co-founder John Spry are building a platform to house a living, collaborative, and decentralized legal corpus.
Originally from Iran, Kaveh Tehrani (KB11) spent much of his life in Canada. He studied math and finance at McGill University in Montreal, and has a Master’s in financial engineering from UC Berkeley. “The global equity market is massive,” Kaveh wrote in a recent blog post, “but access to it is deeply uneven, even more so if you are not in a developed country.” “Perpetual single stock futures on crypto rails,” Kaveh wrote, “would allow anyone to gain exposure to equity returns without having to open a brokerage account at low fees.” Perpetual single stock futures are crypto-native derivatives that track individual stock prices, allowing anyone to trade exposure to stocks without actually owning the shares or needing traditional brokerage accounts – or needing to live in designated jurisdictions. “They (can) be available to anyone with a crypto wallet.”
John Hoopes 📍 Founder, Astral Identity, Time, Action, Location “If I look at my phone and look back at the last 10 apps I've used, half of them are location-based,” John Hoopes (KB0) told Kernel. On-chain, location is largely unaccounted for, and neglecting it constitutes a fundamental limitation. Proof of Location (PoL) systems offer signed, structured claims that describe place, time, and identity. Teams like Flashbots are exploring ‘co-location incentives’ and ‘geographic decentralization’ for the next era of research in cryptosystems, and extensive research into locations role in crypto has long been ongoing. @AstralProtocol employs various location proof strategies – network-based systems like FOAM, nearfield approaches using NFC chips or Bluetooth, social strategies through peer attestation, and authority-based verification like event check-ins – allowing their location proofs to gain durability. Please enjoy this session with @johnx25bd on ‘location’, and the crypto-native contexts where, exactly, we might find meaning next.
