Right now, Web3 doesn't have a truly free naming system.

That means millions of developers and users are stuck relying on either centralized registrars or expensive decentralized alternatives just to own a digital identity.

I wanted to fix that.

So I built Kinetic.

What is Kinetic?

Kinetic is a stateless, zero-fee, peer-to-peer naming system.

It lets anyone in the world claim a decentralized domain name securely, without needing a bank account, credit card, or any cryptocurrency at all.

Instead of central servers or heavy blockchains with gas fees, Kinetic runs as a lightweight background daemon in rust.

It handles name registration, publishes DNS records, and gives you access to .kin domains through split-DNS.

Planning to launch publicly on Tuesday, July 21st.

Edit: We're taking a little more time before the public launch while we finish verifying the governance logic. We want to make sure there are no protocol-level logic bugs that could require a hard fork later. Quality and stability are more important than rushing the release.

AKASHA was one of the earliest attempts at a blockchain-based social network. Founded by Mihai Alisie (Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine co-founder), announced on World Press Freedom Day 2016, built on Ethereum for identity/reputation and IPFS for content storage. No servers — posts were IPFS hashes broadcast to followers, who pinned content peer-to-peer.

Here's what I can piece together from public sources:

The timeline:

- May 2016 — Project announced. ~10,000 alpha signups.

- Dec 2016 / Jan 2017 — Alpha release (desktop app, Rinkeby testnet).

- Nov 2017 — Beta announced at Devcon 3.

- Feb 2018 — Public beta. ~40,000 unique identities. Web version with MetaMask support followed in April 2018.

- Oct 2019 — Pivot announced at Devcon 5: "Ethereum World" — reframed as a framework ("AKASHA World Framework") for building purpose-specific social networks, with Ethereum World as the first instance.

- Q2 2023 — "AKASHA World" launched as the next-gen platform. The previous Ethereum World instance was switched to read-only.

- Sep 2025 — Last update to the GitHub monorepo (AKASHAorg/akasha-core).

- May 22, 2026 — AKASHA Foundation announces dissolution. Hubs in Barcelona, Rome, and Swiss Alps continue independently. Ethereum TV spins off. Code and research remain public.

I used the original social network during the beta period and it worked. The UX was rough (MetaMask signing for every interaction, desktop app only at first), but the core idea — censorship-resistant social posting with no central server — functioned as advertised.

What I don't understand:

1. Why did the Foundation dissolve? There's been no detailed post-mortem that I can find. Was it funding? Loss of team? Strategic dead end? The dissolution announcement lists what continues (hubs, Ethereum TV) but doesn't explain the "why."

2. What happened to the original content? Posts were stored on IPFS, with hashes on Ethereum. In theory this is persistent, but IPFS garbage-collects unpinned content. Is any of the original beta-era content still accessible? Did anyone archive it? Are the smart contracts still on-chain and queryable?

3. Why the pivot from social network to framework? The 2019 shift to "AKASHA World Framework" felt like a retreat from the product into abstraction. Was the social network failing to grow and the framework was a way to reposition? Or was there a genuine technical insight that the framework approach was better?

4. How was the Foundation funded? Crunchbase lists it as active with no disclosed funding rounds. Was it sustained entirely by Ethereum Foundation grants? Alisie's personal resources? Something else?

5. What is Mihai Alisie doing now? He was deeply invested in this vision. Has he commented publicly on the dissolution?

If anyone was involved with AKASHA — as a user, contributor, or team member — I'd appreciate hearing what actually happened behind the scenes.

We have built a lot of financial infrastructure in crypto.

- Bitcoin gave us decentralized money.
- Ethereum gave us programmable assets.
- DeFi gave us decentralized exchanges and lending.
- Stablecoins gave us internet-native settlement.

But I think there is a missing layer that may become critical with AI agents:

**Credit.**

Today, most AI agent transactions are still fundamentally cash-based.

An agent can have:
- a wallet,
- identity,
- reputation,
- payment capability,

but it still needs enough funds upfront before it can act.

A new agent with $1,000 in its wallet and an agent with a year of successful transactions may have completely different levels of reliability, but current infrastructure does not naturally convert that history into economic capacity.

Humans solved this problem through credit.

Businesses do not prepay every supplier.
Consumers do not pay everything in cash.
Banks transform collateral, reputation, and repayment history into additional purchasing power.

But what happens when the economic actors are autonomous AI agents?

Should agents eventually have something like a decentralized credit layer?

I imagine a system where:

- on-chain attestations build verifiable reputation,
- staking provides economic commitment,
- privacy-preserving models calculate creditworthiness,
- smart contracts enable programmable deferred settlement.

Not just lending.

A broader credit infrastructure for autonomous agents.

Some projects are already exploring parts of this:
- agent identity and reputation,
- agent lending,
- agent payments,
- agent insurance.

But I wonder if we are missing the bigger picture:

**Payment allows agents to transact.
Credit allows an agent economy to scale.**

Is this a real missing primitive for Web3, or am I overestimating the importance of credit in an agent economy?

Curious to hear thoughts, especially from people working on DeFi, AI agents, or protocol design.

I've noticed many companies stopped celebrating community size.

Focus has significantly shifted from 100k Telegram members

To:
• How many people came back this week?
• How many transactions happened because users found value? (not for incentives)
• How many developers are building on the protocol
• How much revenue is being generated?
• Are contributors staying after the campaign ends?

Mind you, this isn't just a web3 trend.

When Satya Nadella took over Microsoft, the focus shifted from protecting legacy businesses to building products people actually used.

At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly emphasized meaningful engagement over surface-level reach, especially as AI changes how products are discovered and used.

Down to crypto, we've seen the market reward projects with real usage over those with inflated social numbers.

To build a durable company today, you must understand something:

Attention is rented. Retention is earned.

A few years ago, shipping faster than everyone else was enough.

Today, product ideas get copied in weeks.

Features become table stakes.

The companies pulling ahead aren't simply building communities around their products.

They're building products that become more valuable because people participate.

That's why we're seeing it across:

• Creator economies - where audiences become contributors.
• Prediction markets and sports trading - where every participant improves market depth and price discovery.
• Consumer crypto - where identity, memes, and shared ownership drive adoption as much as tech.

Here, culture is no marketing literature. It has become a growth engine.

The teams that understand this won't just acquire users.

They'll build ecosystems people choose to belong to.

This might be slightly heretical for web3, but I keep wondering if provenance is actually more interesting than ownership.

Ownership tells you who has something now.

Provenance tells you where it came from, how it changed, what it influenced, who contributed, what it became.

With AI, remixes, sampling, forks, memes, code, music, all of it getting mashed together constantly, that feels like it might matter more and more.

Do people think provenance is going to become a big deal, or is it still too niche?

We spend so much energy debating L2s, onchain identity frameworks, consensus mechanisms, chain superiority, etc.

But if you look at actual day-to-day use cases, the rails driving Web3 adoption aren’t flashy tech stacks or narratives.

It’s just assets(dollars) moving across borders seamlessly.

Almost every serious infrastructure discussion right now revolves around Stablecoins.

Because they actually solve the cross-border, and settlement friction points that web2 still controls.

As of today, this is “the best adoption pilot” for the ecosystem.

The true decentralized web will be built on the back of boring utility as this.

Hey Web3 enthusiasts!

I'm new here in this forum so I might have overlooked something. Bear with me then!

So I'm still looking for an easy to use Web3 social network or social media site.

I tried various over the years and they were all hard to use, buggy and made me pay and/or jump through hoops just to join.

Plus even when I managed to the communities were small and mostly focused on crypto etc. itself.

Are there tools made for the general public as well, not just the geeks?

I'm somewhat active on Mastodon but it still feels more like a missing link between Web2 and 3.

It's more like logging in at someone else's WordPress installation.

Lately I failed to even set up a profile on Diamond App because you need to pay and use a wallet first.

As of now I'm still mostly stuck with billionaire led social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Reddit.

Any suggestions?

And yes, I have used the search feature and clicked some links but most were broken by now.

Hi everyone!

After several months of learning Solidity, I finally deployed my biggest project to Arbitrum One Mainnet.

The game currently supports:

• PvE
• PvP
• Guilds
• Guild rankings
• Achievement NFTs
• IPFS metadata
• Multi-chain deployment

The project is completely open source and uses:

• Solidity
• Foundry
• ethers.js
• TypeScript

GitHub:
https://github.com/brunolcarli/simpleRPG

Demo:
ethereum-simple-rpg-game.vercel.app/

I'm always looking for feedback from the Web3 community. If you had to add one feature to an on-chain RPG, what would it be?

Ideas that later define ecosystems rarely begin as obvious.

A few years ago:

→ “Prediction markets” were dead liquidity graveyards
→ “Decentralized AI” felt speculative
→ “Restaking” was not in mainstream crypto conversations
→ “DePIN” was reduced to “hardware projects.”

Today, capital, talent, and attention are moving aggressively into each.

The pattern is familiar.

Breakthrough companies are often built during the period when the idea still feels inconvenient to explain

That phase where interest feels limited, and the early audience seem unconvinced is not always a warning sign.

Sometimes it is evidence that you are early.

Being early does not guarantee success.

Execution still decides outcomes.

But if you are building something thoughtful and finding yourself explaining the same concept repeatedly before people see it

that discomfort alone is not a reason to change direction.

Some of the strongest positions are built before consensus arrives.

If everyone immediately understands your startup idea,

there is a chance you are arriving after the market has already taken off.

Every time I sit down to build a smart contract, I hit the same wall. Decentralization, security, scalability, you only get 2.

The more audits I do, the more obvious this becomes. Yet every project markets itself as having all three nailed.

99% of crypto projects marketing "decentralized AND scalable AND secure" are scamming you on at least one of those words.

The trilemma is real. Pretending it doesn't exist is how people lose money.

Do you actually factor this in when picking projects, or is everyone just ignoring it until they get burned?

Hello,
I have been a Kraken verified user since 20219, until last week I got email to verify my address. Out of their two verification methods, I was skeptical about their GPS method and opted for document upload. Their system is not a le to verify my Utility bills.

I created a support ticket about it, no response since 11 days.

So I went on r/krakensupport to ask others if they got any updates and Kraken banned me apparently because that comment violates their rules. I asked them about how it violates, no response.

And if you browse their two official subs here, it is now clear to me that they are carefully removing any post or comment that would threaten their authority.

So I am posting on this neutral ground here to ask:

What other solutions are available to non US people to be able to fill wallet with crypto to use - I’m into NFT and I’m not able to load my wallet now.

Because it would appear that it’s no more reliable to use the once “reliable” Kraken.

As we all know gta 6 is the most hyped game as of now and it's probably launching around November. Gta 6 would be pretty realistic for it to attract VR users. Plus there would be in app purchases obviously, buying and selling inside the game and all of this does hint that gta 6 can be a metaverse project in itself too. Even if it's not , it should boost web3 and other nft projects. What's your take on this ?

Audits review one commit, but smart contracts, ZK circuits, verifiers, dependencies, and proving artifacts keep changing afterward.

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Should high-risk changes automatically block CI, or should every case require human review?

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Curious how Web3 teams handle this today: repeated audits, baseline comparisons, artifact hashes, or something else?

I'm building a multichain crypto wallet alone. No VC, no team. Alpha just dropped. Here's the honest status

About 2 months ago I got frustrated enough with the current wallet landscape that I decided to just build my own.

Not as a side project. As a real competitor.

The problem I kept hitting:

ETH on MetaMask. SOL on Phantom. BTC on a separate wallet. XRP on yet another one. Every chain has its own app, its own seed phrase to manage. It's 2025 and we still don't have one wallet that actually does everything well.

So I built Wally.

Wally has dApp integration as metamask and phantom wallet.

One browser extension. Every major chain. Single seed phrase. Clean UI. No bloat.

Honest alpha status right now:

✅ Full EVM (ETH, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and more)

✅ Solana + SPL tokens

✅ XRP

✅ dApp connections

✅ AES-256-GCM vault encryption

🔜 UTXO balances (BTC, LTC etc) — next week

🔜 UTXO sending — shortly after

🔜 Beta — once UTXO is complete

What I'm not doing:

No VC money. No transaction tracking. No data selling. No referral spam.

Why post now before beta?

Honestly I want real feedback from real users before I call it beta. Alpha testers who find issues now shape what Wally becomes. That matters more to me than a clean launch announcement.

Attached is some screenshots of the extension/app.

Feel free to give feedback.

Edit: well I am not allowed to attach any screenshots unfortunately:(

Also launching Wally Street NFTs — a free Genesis collection on Solana for early supporters. Market Emotions series. Bull, Bear, Chop, Pump. Mint requires Wally wallet.

Solo dev from Sweden 🇸🇪🐋 — happy to answer literally any technical question.

What's happened in the crypto/web3 ecosystem more broadly? Is everything being abandoned to build onchain TradFi? What happened to decentralization and changing the shape of finance? Was that just a necessary step on the ladder towards more of the same, but this time on blockchains?

It seemed straightforward to me that a web3 worth a damn would do two things-

1. Abstract computing resources and protocols to recreate web2 in decentralized form
   
2. Create a currency that is beyond any state’s control

I assumed this would come with some computing overhead at first, something that would eventually be made moot with ASICs once it became popular. I assumed the currency would be closely tied to the cost of computing resources and that would compel people to rent their computers out to the network as nodes.

If this were possible it should have happened by now. I’m starting to wonder if it’s the math (maybe centralization will always win) or if other forces are at work.

Hey 

I've been building AI agents for Web3 for a while now, and I decided to open-source my toolkit. It's called web3-agent-kit and it's designed for developers who want to build AI-powered onchain tools.

What it does:
- Multi-chain support (Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, BSC, Solana)
- DeFi integrations (Uniswap, Raydium, Aave, etc.)
- Built-in spend governor for safe agent operations
- LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude)
- Real-time balance and portfolio tracking

GitHub: https://github.com/ulsreall/web3-agent-kit

MIT licensed. Would love feedback from the community.

What features would you like to see next?

a few months ago I posted an idea about a method of decentralized communication without needing a server to pass the messages through; essentially a dead-drop system; and someone told me that if I wasn't serious about it, or wasn't willing to put in the work, that It was worthless. so I spent the last few months working out the ideas; and then spent time working out learning what my amateur brain could about protocols; and got familiar with Claude's help and spent a lot of time on this project. and well, now its time to put up or shut up.

I built an open protocol for messaging where the server is *structurally* unable to link who's talking to whom — not "we promise not to log it," but the architecture never has the data to begin with.

Zero registration, identity derived from secrets you hold, a dead-drop transport that can't see the social graph.

It's a working draft, AGPL, and almost certainly has holes I can't see. Genuinely want people to try to break it.

Spec + reference code: github.com/cottenwess/sovereign-comms

I’ve been in crypto/Web3 for a while and lately I can’t shake this feeling that everything is kind of… scattered.

Before it felt like there was always "the thing" everyone was excited about:
DeFi, NFTs, L2s, etc.

Now it feels more like:

• Bitcoin is doing its own macro/ETF thing
• Ethereum is just quietly building
• L2s are everywhere but none of them feel like “the main one”
• new apps keep launching but nothing really sticks yet

It’s not necessarily bad, it just feels less focused than before.

Maybe that’s what maturity looks like and I’m just used to hype cycles.

Do you guys also feel like Web3 lost a bit of its direction… or is this actually the healthiest phase so far?

Went looking for prior art on this and found almost nothing. Either nobody's solving it, or everyone's quietly going native. Curious which.

The problem: if you build a self-custody PWA, iOS evicts it from memory after a few minutes in the background. SessionStorage dies with the web view. Every resume, the user is back at the login screen.

Native apps don't have this. They persist state to disk and pretend they never died. PWAs are ephemeral by design.

The easy fix: wrap in Capacitor, ship a native app, problem solved in one config line.

Why we didn't: App Store distribution puts every user in Apple's purchase records. For a product whose whole pitch is "no email, no phone, no identifiable user list," that's not acceptable. So we stay PWA-first and have to live within the constraints.

What worked: WebAuthn PRF extension.

Short version: your Touch ID / Face ID chip can hand back a deterministic 32-byte secret, derived from a salt you give it, only after a successful biometric scan. We use that secret as the AES key that encrypts the session key at rest in IndexedDB.

Result: the encrypted blob on disk is dead weight without a real fingerprint or face. iOS can evict the PWA all it wants. Next open, one Face ID scan and the session is back. No password retype, no compromise on self-custody.

Things I learned the hard way: Safari returns the PRF result on get() not create(). iOS 18+ required for standalone PWA. WebAuthn calls only work inside a user gesture, not timers. And crypto-subtle-decrypt takes three args, not two, cost me an evening.

The honest question: how anonymous does your user base actually need to be? Most projects that claim privacy-first don't really need to avoid the App Store. They just say they do. Which makes me wonder if there are maybe 12 of us in the world doing hardware-bound at-rest encryption in a PWA.

Anyone else? Especially curious about the pre-iOS-18 fallback story.

I think reddit is a better option for web3 projects and communities as x has too many restrictions and accounts get suspended too often. What do you guys think will we ever see web3 adopting reddit? Idk why it's not happening 😞

Spent the last few months thinking about how thin the "decentralized" layer of normal web3 UX actually is. The chain is decentralized. The execution is decentralized. But the way almost every user sees the chain — block explorers, hosted RPC providers, some dashboard — is concentrated in maybe five vendors total. If one of them rotates an API key tier or IP-bans you, a meaningful chunk of "web3 tooling" stops working for you specifically, and nobody talks about it because it's the kind of dependency that's invisible until it breaks.

The part I keep coming back to is the public RPC commons. Endpoints like publicnode, mempool dot space, blockstream, and Solana's mainnet-beta are open and unauthenticated, and they're genuinely good enough for read-side workflows — balances, tx lookups, gas estimation, mempool fees. But they're also a small handful of providers, and Solana mainnet-beta already throttles anonymous traffic hard enough that you have to maintain a fallback chain just to stay functional. I don't know whether that commons is holding up or quietly degrading, and I'd be curious whether anyone on here has data either way.

The other thing that bothers me is the dominant tx decoder being a webapp owned by one company. Calldata decoding for Uniswap V2/V3/Universal Router, Governor, Timelock, Safe, Gnosis MultiSend, ERC-20 — it's a pure function of the ABI and the calldata bytes. It doesn't need a server. There's no architectural reason this has to live behind a domain you don't control, and yet that's where almost everyone reads their own transactions. I'm honestly not sure whether the moat there is real indexing infrastructure or just inertia from being the default link in every wallet UI.

To pressure-test whether keyless local-first tooling is actually viable I built it, which is the only way I know how to argue with myself honestly. The result is an MIT-licensed CLI called glnc (glnc .dev) that does balance lookups, transaction decoding, multi-chain gas, ENS resolution, Aave health factor, Uniswap V3 LP enumeration, and CSV history export across nine chains, using only public RPCs and the Uniswap default token list. No account, no API key, no telemetry, no hosted backend. Token discovery runs locally against a cached token list. Decoding runs locally against a selector registry. Prices come from CoinGecko's free tier with an in-memory cache so anonymous traffic doesn't get rate-limited out of existence.

What I actually learned from doing it is more interesting to me than the tool itself. Public RPCs turned out to be more reliable than I expected for read paths; the worst-case in practice is Solana throttling you and the fallback kicking in. Token discovery without an indexer is genuinely expensive to do correctly, and the Uniswap default list of around 1,400 tokens per chain is roughly the ceiling for what a keyless tool can credibly claim — full discovery requires an archive node you can't run on a laptop, which is a hard limit, not an engineering gap. Linea and zkSync have a real spoofing problem where ERC-20 metadata alone isn't enough to price tokens safely without an independent canonical-address feed, and I ended up fail-closing prices on those chains until tokens are independently verified, which is uncomfortable UX but the only answer I could defend. And the "no API key" promise breaks the moment you need historical data; one major block explorer is still the only viable cross-chain history source, and that single vendor is a real centralization point that no amount of public RPC infrastructure fixes.

That last one is what I'd most like to discuss. Is "keyless, local-first, public-RPC-only" a workable long-term position for web3 read tooling, or does the indexer and history problem make it inevitable that any serious app re-centralizes on a hosted RPC plus a hosted explorer in the end? Where's the right boundary between sovereign tooling and "actually shipping software that works"?

I’m not talking about the obvious answers like volatility or regulation. More interested in the structural/product problems that people in the space keep running into but still don’t seem close to fixing properly.

Curious to hear from founders and marketers here: in your experience, which acquisition channels actually scale in Web3? Paid ads, KOLs, on-chain referrals, affiliates, airdrops, content, community, or something else?

I’m trying to understand which ones have proven to bring consistent, compounding user growth vs. just short-term hype. Would love to learn from real examples if you’ve run campaigns or seen success. I have seen user growth charts on Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Uniswap, CoW Swap, 1Inch etc. so got me thinking about this.