New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...
Practical Decentralization
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
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some thoughts on how to implement public community spaces in atproto. I think it is important for us to stretch what the protocol can do; and there are some great opportunities for self-hosting, moderation, customization, etc
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)@bnewbold.net · 6mo agoit's pizza time
As we transition into 2026, here’s a reflection on how hypercerts is evolving — and where we’re heading next. Grateful to all the collaborators and contributors who helped shape this work.
Transitioning from 2025 to 2026: Building Hypercerts on the Open Internet
In 2025, hypercerts shifted toward an open, networked architecture built on ATProto, enabling shared records of action, evaluation, and value. In 2026, we are putting this infrastructure to work—connecting action, evaluation, and funding through real-world use cases.
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"You're absolutely right to be disappointed." -- using Claude Code as a therapist for managing frustration / self-congratulatory ego stroking when all the LLMs fail and waste hours of your time and you realise you should have not bothered using them in the first place
Holke recently joined Matthew from Ma Earth on the podcast The Regeneration Will Be Funded to explore how hypercerts can act as a foundational “Lego block” for fixing a core failure of today’s financial systems—their inability to adequately fund public goods like nature restoration.
Ma Earth Interview with Holke: The Moment is Ripe for Hypercerts
Holke recently joined Matthew from Ma Earth on the podcast The Regeneration Will Be Funded to explore how hypercerts can act as a foundational “Lego block” for fixing a core failure of today’s financial systems—their inability to adequately fund public goods like nature restoration.
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Get your typing fingers nimble, the #ATmosphereConf call for proposals is open!
ATmosphereConf 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open
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Wrote about my wish-list item to have a `client_id` claim in inter-service authentication JWTs.
Why Inter-Service Auth Needs Client Identity
ATProtocol's inter-service authentication currently has no way to identify which client is making a request on behalf of a user, forcing services to rely on forgeable headers or clunky workarounds to establish trust relationships. Adding an optional client_id claim to inter-service JWTs would solve this cleanly, enabling service-to-service trust, rate limiting, and feature flags using the cryptographic infrastructure we already have.
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How did people write full kernels and games without a split keyboards, 45” ultrawide 120Hz OLED monitors, 640TFlops I/O or noise cancelling headphones with conversational awareness?
Biggest unlock in AI productivity over the last year: switching from Cursor and juggling models to Zed with Claude (enabled via ACP). Way less negotiating solutions and better understanding of the code so the DX is back to pair programming instead of begging bots.
Main take-aways from @devcon.org: - privacy and scaling get most attention - DAOs are dead. Or have at least lost the headspace by. - Public Goods funding is focussing on building frameworks for comparing mechanisms and impact. - great move to connect in Argentina, I felt welcomed and educated. 🧉
Yeah finally the vision of mixing ATProto with on-chain provenance for @hypercerts.org is on stage 🔥 Great talk @holke.xyz
This feels like a big move from the EF. Building on ATProto, sign in to app with email (sneaking in an embedded wallet). No hastle with signatures, seed phrases or gas. @hypercerts.org could do some interesting stuff with the public event data @holke.xyz 😏
ligi@ligi.de · 9mo ago
It’s humbling to learn more about impactful projects that made it up to this point without complex governance tooling. It’s equally impressive we have showcases for impactful projects that utilise effective on-chain governance. They are probably not the same people and don’t need to be.
