Crypto Resolutions for a 10/10 2020

People have engaged in the act of creating annual life-improvement plans since the time of the Babylonians, who made promises to their gods at the start of each year to return borrowed property and repay debts. It sometimes seems like a degree of undue importance is put, at least in

Dev

AWF - A Dev Team Overview

This year (2019) on World Press Freedom Day, we announced the AKASHA World Framework (AWF) - a tool for the creation and cultivation of bespoke networks - through the post AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later. The main purpose of the AWF is to facilitate the development of

Ethereum World

The Value of Values

Imagine a world in which Ethereum is simple to use, social in nature and global in adoption. Imagine the first billion people experiencing Ethereum as borderless social interactions powered by permissionless innovation.

Community

What is AKASHA Reloaded? What is Ethereum World?

This year (2019), on World Press Freedom Day, we announced that we were going through a process dubbed 'AKASHA Reloaded' through the post AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later. Since then we have been in constant awe of the positive response that has come back to

Research

How Do You Define the Word "Community?" A Deep Dive Into the World of Ethereum

Proving an Idea 💭 You can build in your mind the greatest, most revolutionary piece of technology ever, something which would change the world, improve lives, potentiate other amazing technologies, and recalibrate the course of history. Ideas created in a vacuum are isolated sparks of creativity; if you are only discussing

Research

How Do You Define the Word

Proving an Idea 💭 You can build in your mind the greatest, most revolutionary piece of technology ever, something which would change the world, improve lives, potentiate other amazing technologies, and recalibrate the course of history. Ideas created in a vacuum are isolated sparks of creativity; if you are only discussing

Research

A call for interdisciplinarity — generative identity and the Internet Identity Workshop

The post Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty (2nd September) has spawned a lot of conversation in private channels and on the ProjectVRM Harvard mailing list ... some 15,000 words in exchanges with more than a dozen people active in ‘digital identity’. This post is dedicated to the most salient parts by

News

Dev Team Update #1

With 2 Weeks Until Devcon 5 in Osaka, we put a series of questions to Dev Team member, Marius Darila, about a part of what the Team are currently working on. * The most interesting feature, to me, of what I/we are working on is... Designing the architecture for the

Holons

Berlin Blockchain Week: The Birth of an AKASHA Hub

On Thursday 22 August 2019, during Berlin Blockchain Week, AKASHA hosted the inaugural event for the AKASHA Hub Berlin. This event took place from 6:30-8:30pm in the Blockchain Embassy which is located at Manteuffelstraße 77. A big thanks to the hosts for having us! 🙏 The Blockchain Embassy is

Research

Generative identity — beyond self-sovereignty

With thanks to those who commented on draft versions: Matthew Schutte, Jonathan Donner, Martin Etzrodt, Andrei Sambra, Mihai Alisie. Hero image generated from the original image by Ryan Alexander. I'm going to outline three ways to think about digital identity to help move the conversation forward in line

Community

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Surveillance in 2019

Today, August 16th, is #SurveillanceDay, formerly called Wave at Surveillance Cameras Day. This  seemingly-quite-jokey annual occurrence,  once branded by Motherboard as the Laziest Protest Ever,  was possibly started by pseudonymous privacy activist, Zorbitor, who we expect will, once again, release a video on their YouTube Channel, in spite of their

Team

Team AKASHA: Martin Etzrodt

The Department for Biosystems Engineering of the ETH Zurich is an unlikely place to expect blockchain startups to emerge. Yet in 2016 two former colleagues of mine, a neuroscientist and a biophysicist, did exactly this. It took about six months until I myself also fell into that rabbit hole. It

Events

#Verbier - A Quick Debrief From The AKASHA Retreat

From July 15-20th, the majority of the AKASHA team met in Switzerland for an epic retreat to discuss next steps, and to plan the AKASHA Reloaded rollout strategy. 🚀 Unfortunately, we couldn't be joined by Andrey, Josh, or Mariana, and so we made sure that we took plenty of

Events

Blockchain, e-gov and e-union: presenting at Romania Blockchain Summit

During 21-22 June, a special blockchain event took place in the Palace of the Parliament of Romania, also known as the House of the People, with the official support of the Government of Romania through the Ministry of Communications and Information Society. For some context, this event took place in

Team

Team AKASHA: Ânderson Quadros

I first heard about AKASHA not long after the founding team unveiled the project on World Press Freedom Day 2016 - May 3rd, a date that today we celebrate as "AKASHA Day." Learning that one of Ethereum's co-founders, Mihai Alisie, mastermind behind AKASHA, was eager to

Team

Team AKASHA: Ânderson Quadros

I first heard about AKASHA not long after the founding team unveiled the project on World Press Freedom Day 2016 - May 3rd, a date that today we celebrate as "AKASHA Day." Learning that one of Ethereum's co-founders, Mihai Alisie, mastermind behind AKASHA, was eager to

Events

Stories from the Future of Work

On June 20th, the AKASHA Hub Barcelona hosted Ouishare and Enspiral for an evening book-launch event. Practitioners from both the aforementioned networks, spanning from New Zealand to Europe, came to share their stories and knowledge from the front lines of working together in their collaborative networks. Attendees heard about the

Community

A Quick Peek Inside How We Work: The Back End of the Revolution

The main thing which we have talked about extensively on our blog is how our outlook on the world intersects with the problems that we see with the current technologies and structures that people interact with on a daily basis. These articles serve an important purpose; they serve as a

News

New deals for science!

On May 10-11th, the AKASHA Hub Barcelona hosted a “STEPS” workshop. “STEPS is a grassroots, non-profit series of events focusing on the exploration of blockchain-backed applications for science, technology, education, publishing, and society” co-organized by “Blockchain for Science” a think tank founded by Sönke Bartling. It is not the first

Research

Verifying identity as a social intersection

Co-author of Radical Markets Glen Weyl invited me to review Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection, co-authored with his colleague at Microsoft, Dr. Nicole Immorlica, and Stanford University's Professor Matthew Jackson. The topic is so-called digital identity, a term that could be mistaken for how personal and group

News

AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later

On May 3rd 2016, 279 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we unveiled the AKASHA dapp and opened the signups for the alpha version to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. We called for brave people to help us test the idea of a decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS,

News

AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later

On May 3rd 2016, 279 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we unveiled the AKASHA dapp and opened the signups for the alpha version to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. We called for brave people to help us test the idea of a decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS,

Thoughts & Ideas

Diving Into the Oceans of Time: Metamorphosis Part II

The question “why would someone use AKASHA?” has been asked many times, both inside and outside of the Foundation. Some of our earliest answers include things like: “decentralization,” “censorship resistance,” and “freedom of expression.” We felt that these answers were good enough to justify years of active development and continuous

Thoughts & Ideas

AKASHA joins the World Wide Web Consortium

We are very excited to announce that starting April 1st, AKASHA has officially joined the World Wide Web Consortium! 🙌 While W3C is mostly about the Web, a lot of the work that takes place here is about more than just the Web. You'll notice that within this comprehensive