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

In Kernel, akasha’s researched a simple, key question: “How do you get the blockchain to function with the same capabilities, range and enablement as a backend server?“ “The biggest challenge is finding a way to get a client-blockchain architecture where the blockchain

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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

[@alokvasudev] says “3 out of 20” people in crypto are currently aware of apptokens. he thinks more will be soon. apptokens are "creator" constrained tokens, like ERC-721C & ERC-20C. driven purely by developer demand, “the majority of new nft's across Ethereum are 721C's.”

"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:

join us in NYC, 28th October DM me if you're interested

grateful for the creativity you bring to kernel akasha

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.” akasha goes into detail on legacy web architecture and

confirmed lightning talks for kernel salon in nyc > end-to-end verifiable TEEs (Canvas) > AI-native memory models (vintro) > microIPOs & new asset classes (@AustinAdams10) > an agent-based discovery protocol (Index Network) a few spots left, join us in soho

“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 (Paul Gadi, KB0). “The most noble thing that people can do

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

this was a fascinating conversation, thank you Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇)

How can we build internet institutions to fix the problems of central banking without understanding where central banks came from? Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇) of Cycles traces their origins back to medieval times, when the first great banking collapse started to reshape money.

"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 shares what he learned about

Meet Luxo Pi, a lamp that moves, talks, and listens. With a background in robotics and personal hardware, Cyril Engmann built a functional robotic lamp fully contained within a Raspberry Pi. NPUs (neural processing units) give it sight, hearing, motion, touch – and soul. Inspired

What could a MicroIPO look like? To Austin Adams and the Whetstone Research 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

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

Growing up in Buenos Aires, Skeletor Spaceman (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" –

h/t to MacEagon Voyce for getting this series off the ground 🙏