Episode 13 is out, with Octu Ventures partner and longtime Urbit enthusiast Nick Simmons (Halikaarnian)! We go in depth about what exactly Urbit is, its aesthetic inspirations, its future (AI, crypto, hardware), and much more. Chapters, links, and transcript are below. Enjoy!

Great conversation with kenny.urbit and Halikaarnian from Octu Ventures to discuss all things Urbit and venture DAOs. Topics included: -Kenny & Nick's history including early work in the Urbit ecosystem -What is Urbit and why is it an interesting category for startup

making a wallet

Unintentionally, there's basically a whole Urbit track at LambdaConf 2025 this year (4 - 5 talks). FYI Urbit is 'own your data and apps'. In the family of local-first / decentralized compute & storage. Albeit with a Unison | @unison-lang.org on bsky-style 'boil-the-ocean' strategy to get there.

Urbit's history is: people trying to do a safe (but unurbity) thing, it failing and taking more time and money than it would have taken to just do the urbity thing, followed by doing the urbity thing and it working the first time.

we are happy to announce that our mainnet beta for %fund is now freely available for download. if you already have an urbit, you can install %fund from ~tocwex in landscape, or from the dojo by running" |install ~tocwex %fund if you don't yet have an urbit, we have a free...

Thanks to Shrubbery, you can now run code within a spreadsheet that operates on any data in your Urbit's filesystem.

Legacy ID systems are a civilizational risk.

This should be as normal as having a refrigerator or an oven or a dishwasher in even a studio apartment. NativePlanet

Shrek 2 has been achieved internally youtu.be/jGRnYJF21jw?si…

welcome to v1.0.0 of %fund. sign up for a free Urbit id at tocwexsyndicate.com and if you need more convincing you can read ~sarlev (e/acc)'s post about "why use fund" on our blog: tocwexsyndicate.com/blog

Urbit's terms of service

One of my team's main objectives for Urbit is to make command line level tools accessible to non-programmer power users. Yun is making this real in Shrubbery with Tree, a UI that gives you a CRUD-style interface to all data on your ship.

"Private military companies could take debt or VC to launch the campaign itself, run all operations securely, establish verifiable rule of law, own and govern the territory itself de facto, and pay back its financiers all without any intermediaries or third-party veto points."

Ameen Soleimani OpenZeppelin Tally if you don't find one, we can help you crowdfund it's development and p2p release over Urbit. wispem-wantex has built this for the Uniswap Labs 🦄 front end and could probably work with kitscho.eth to make it happen. x.com/sicdev_pilnup/…

We are excited to announce the inaugural Subassembly. This will be an intimate event to discuss Urbit as coordination tech for new societies and civilizations. Topics will include identity, trust, reputation, and more. Limited to 50 people — apply soon to ensure your spot.

The American Diamond Age

We are unbanked

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people are riled up about Zorp's 'fair launch' of Nockchain . some of this is probably their fault for not more proactively defining 'fair'. personally, i take the slant that "life isn't fair", therefore when someone says 'fair', i do some work to see what they actually mean