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🧠 Synchron roadmap: ramp clinical trials over the next 12 months, with a goal to achieve commercial approval for an implantable brain–computer interface. Advancing implantable neurotechnology.

The next interface isn’t a screen — it’s neural.

PL network team @precisionneuro.bsky.social is working at the intersection of neuroscience and digital interaction, exploring how neural signals can help people with neurodegenerative diseases.

In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.

In 2025, PL portfolio company @bsky.app grew from 25M to 40M+ users and shipped major progress on verification and decentralization, with 270K+ users self-verifying and 2,000+ community-run servers live - moving core infrastructure forward at scale.

The word "grapefruit" is objectively ridiculous.

It's like if there was an animal that we agreed to call a "dogmammal", that had nothing to do with dogs.

all this technology and person on the street interviews are the best we can do.

W — Trust your feed We believe in the need for a global, trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech.

The waiting list of wsocial, wsocial.eu is now operative - so we have gone from having no European Social media platform to two, both powered by ATProto, which means you can can just hop around with your original DID without starting from scratch and settle on the one you like most.

Shelter | Official Website | January 30 2026 Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Shelter on the official site. In theaters January 30 2026 brought to you by Black Bear. Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh. Starring: Jason Statham, Bod...

Movie directors: No one goes to the theatres anymore. In the streaming age, it's impossible to get movies into the theatres.

Jason Statham: shelter.movie?gad_source=2...

Native BioData Consortium This is "Native BioData Consortium" by MASS on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

We recently lost $6 million due to NIH budget cuts. Like many, we depend on public departments to fund vital research and infrastructure in Indian Country. We always reachout to philanthropists, but we feel people, like you can also take pride in fostering our mission. vimeo.com/1142541296/e...

43,000 builders. 87 events. One network driving real crypto progress in a city becoming the epicenter of innovation.

From digital rights to DePIN and decentralized AI, the momentum built in Buenos Aires during LabWeek Web3 keeps growing.

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

what a beautiful story: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Data Sovereignty in a Privacy First Future Builders redefining privacy and sovereignty—where control of data, identity, and computation is real.

Privacy is evolving — and so is data sovereignty.🛡️

Explore how @wills.co.tt of Protocol Labs and @andyguzmaneth.bsky.social of @ethereum.foundation discuss how data sovereignty is becoming measurable, enforceable, and real.

40,000,013 users on Bluesky 80.00003% of 50,000,000 user goal (currently estimated in ~522.3 days)

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It was getting dark all of a sudden and I thought, oh no, it's about to rain. Then I realized, no, it's November :(

Yet another year where it must be said: It's daylight saving, not savings. It's not plural.

Vision Restored Using Prosthetic Retinal Implant

Vision restored through an incredible breakthrough in retinal implant technology. Science Corp’s latest research is a glimpse of what’s possible. We’re proud to support it and excited about the road ahead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

Sharing a short writeup from a 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat, featuring our #eurosky project and the work of our friends at @germnetwork.com, among others: www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #2 · Luma First Congress was a blast: 2000 people, 50 speakers, 30 partners, Chelsea Manning & Vitalik Buterin speaking, Audrey Tang in the audience! Join our community…

10/ The Path Ahead

Berlin was just the start.

The goal: a fully private, decentralized internet. Next stop: LabWeek Web3 in Buenos Aires, during the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress.

If you’re building in this space, join us at lu.ma/u2sw5kpv

9/ Trusted Computing

Enterprises are driving early adoption for hardened supply chains.

The question now: how to extend those benefits to user-facing privacy systems.

Expect a position piece soon on this landscape.

8/ Wallet Privacy

Most wallets leak user info to RPC providers.

Two emerging directions:

1️⃣ Private identity mechanisms (ed25519 support helps here)
2️⃣ Shared conformance testing led by PSE, to make privacy more interoperable across wallets.

7/ Jurisdictions

Hosting infrastructure remains too concentrated in the U.S.
Builders discussed paths for distributed operators in lower-liability jurisdictions — with ongoing work through projects like eurosky.social.

6/ Grants for conformance testing could help map “equivalent DIDs” and reduce fragmentation in identity systems.

5/ Decentralized Identity

Builders are extending AT Protocol to handle payments (via Cashu) and bridge into private group messaging (via Germ).

Interoperability between DIDs — and even object-based DIDs — was a key theme.

GitHub - vpavlin/onion-press: A simple Docker Compose to run Wordpress as an Onion Service A simple Docker Compose to run Wordpress as an Onion Service - vpavlin/onion-press

4/ Dweb Server

One project already showing results: publishing content privately via a Tor-packaged web server.

The Internet Archive is testing how entities can host archival data slices with minimal liability.

👉 github.com/vpavlin/onio...

3/ Teams explored ways to make nodes appear generic: harder to fingerprint or probe by an active adversary.

Deniable introductions and common network behaviors are part of the design work continuing post-retreat.

2/ Secure Communications Adoption

A big topic: creating larger anonymity sets for peer-to-peer networks.

Centralized DHT bootstrapping remains a weak point — it’s how many protocols get blocked or surveilled.

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

@protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info recently brought together 100 leading builders outside Berlin to coordinate on privacy tech — from secure comms to decentralized identity and trusted computing. Here are takeaways from @wills.co.tt www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Draft Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

Thx @protocollabs.bsky.social for the invitation to this superb retreat! Was great to meet y‘all in person @tessa.germnetwork.com @rude1.blacksky.team @bnewbold.net @mosh.bsky.social @markmx.bsky.social @bumblefudge.com @robin.berjon.com @juanbenet.bsky.social @zoeweinberg.bsky.social

YouTube video by Protocol Labs What if we could prevent deforestation with data?

🌍 What if data could be worth more than deforestation?

GainForest turns local environmental knowledge into income, using web3 to incentivize protection rather than exploitation.

Exciting news update!

We’ve begun the process of cloning and migrating the NCA5 website to a new home & hope to make it public-facing in the next few weeks.

Your continued support sharing our campaign and donating will allow us to invest in the tools needed to secure these resources long term.