Mike Gault

Unpopular take: the shared ledger is crypto's original sin. Every scaling problem, every UX nightmare, every privacy compromise traces back to it. Eliminate it and the entire design space opens up. This is the bet we're making at Unicity. Come join us.

The intellectual arc of blockchain design has been unbundling - taking work away from the network. Bitcoin: certify correctness, agree on order. FastPay: certify correctness, drop ordering. Unicity: certify uniqueness only. Correctness moves to the edge.

Every blockchain since Bitcoin is a shared ledger in the sky. That's why DeFi keeps getting drained. That's why no government/enterprise has really adopted. That's why agents can't settle on it. Unicity is the rebuild. Tokens that verify locally. Shared state through verifiable execution and token predicates. No bridges to believe in. Parallel by default, private by default. L1 fatigue is real. Showing up in 2026 with something that actually works is rarer. Let's go.

@Dexterthepigeon I think it will be a hard road. It's a brutal arena - enterprise procurement cycles, SLA expectations, compliance certifications, and incumbents with actual GPUs and actual enterprise customers.

@mgault What’s your opinion on the new ICP cloud engines?

Half right. Agents need permissionless, frictionless rails - that part is DeFi-shaped. They don't need a shared ledger, and at agent volumes they can't have one. The interesting work is what replaces it. Unicity is rebuilding DeFi's foundations on a new atomic primitive: self-authenticating tokens, validation at the edge.

ZK rollups use ZK to make a ledger cheaper. Unicity uses ZK to avoid having a ledger at all. Come join us today to find out how. x.com/i/spaces/1MJgN…

Looking forward to hosting this space tomorrow. We will review the ZK landscape in crypto and how we are applying it in Unicity. We come with strong opinions !

@Bams_Dhextiny 🫡

@mgault I am happy to support what unicity is building.

Unpopular take 2: The latest hacks aren't bugs. They're symptoms. $629M drained from DeFi in April. Kelp, Drift, Resolv, CoW Swap. Crypto built a stack on shared state and tried to hold it together with bridges and oracles. Each layer became the next attack surface. At Unicity we want to rebuild the decentralized finance stack from a new atomic primitive: the self-authenticating token. A smart contract becomes a verifiable execution agent running locally on your machine. Come join us - we are still building the foundations.

@Jaya57429163 yeah hopefully today

@mgault Any new quest update?

@crypto_tytn its going to be fun

@mgault Glad I'm a part of it 🍻

@HZB_Token You are right about that! We are going up against 17 years of dogma! But we have conviction that we are right

@mgault It’s going to be a tough road, but I’m completely impressed and won over by Unicity’s plan. So I’ll be on board with you no matter what happens.

Unpopular take: the shared ledger is crypto's original sin. Every scaling problem, every UX nightmare, every privacy compromise traces back to it. Eliminate it and the entire design space opens up. This is the bet we're making at Unicity. Come join us.

@mgault Edge verify huh

Welcome to all the new Unicity Sphere joiners. I hope you like the user experience of sending tokens in sphere wallet. Nothing like this has been built before. What you see when you transfer tokens is almost real time transfers, with unlimited throughput (designed to process millions or billions of TPS), close to zero cost and with PERFECT PRIVACY. We have been designing blockchain protocols for the last 20 years. Unicity is the realization of concepts we have been thinking about for a long time. How do we do this ? blockchains today are too complex, too expensive, too much friciton, because they are all based on the same design - an asset ledger managed by validators/miners. The key innovation is remove the asset ledger and move validation to the edge - the recipient of a transaction. People talk about Satoshi's vision but this is the first project to actually deliver on it - Peer to Peer Electronic Cash. Thanks for joining - we are buiding in the open - lots of exciting things to come.

Autonomous AI needs an internet built for machines ✨ True P2P - no central ledger 🌐 Validation at the edge 🚀 Agent-Agent with speed that scales  Built for billions of daily transactions Join early for the upcoming airdrop: quest.unicity.network

Worth looking at quest.unicity.network/?ref=CIVZAQQI

Under the directives of the President of the UAE, we launch a new government model. Within two years, 50% of government sectors, services, and operations will run on Agentic AI, making the UAE the first government globally to operate at this scale through autonomous systems. AI is no longer a tool. It analyses, decides, executes, and improves in real time. It will become our executive partner to enhance services, accelerate decisions, and raise efficiency. This transformation has a clear timeline. Two years. Performance across government will be measured by speed of adoption, quality of implementation, and mastery of AI in redesigning government work. We are investing in our people. Every federal employee will be trained to master AI, building one of the world’s strongest capabilities in AI-driven government. Implementation will be overseen by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, with a dedicated taskforce chaired by Mohammad Al Gergawi driving execution. The world is changing. Technology is accelerating. Our principle remains constant. People come first. Our goal is a government that is faster, more responsive, and more impactful.

The last 15 years of crypto built transparent ledgers and called it freedom. It wasn't. It was surveillance apparatus, dressed up in cypherpunk clothing. Unicity is the correction. No shared ledger. No trace. Peer-to-peer, as it was meant to be.

Every location-based social network failed because the platform sat in the middle. Too much friction. Too much surveillance. Another app. More hassle. The next one won't have a platform. Just your agent, gossiping with agents nearby. Come build it on AgentSphere.

@0xgodspower P

Introducing mathbuilder.xyz, A tool that allows you compute anything. Think of how programming languages work. You are not restricted to a certain type of program rather you are given the building blocks to build whatever you want. That's the goal for mathbuilder.xyz. A turing-complete math platform that gives you the building blocks to calculate, experiment and build deep computational flows. This is the first of many demos. Try it out and join me on this journey as I build the best math and computation platform.