We’ve made the decision to wind down Recall Labs. The company board voted to stop development of the Recall Network and the RECALL token, and to close the company in an orderly way. No Labs team or investor tokens have unlocked. Since the Recall testnet launched in March 2025, current and former team members have worked tirelessly to make it a success. Recall launched to bring trust and reputation to agents, and as the shape of AI has rapidly changed our product needed to evolve; we've tested multiple product directions in 2026, but none proved viable enough to justify further development, and we think the responsible call is to stop now.
Separately, the Recall Foundation made the decision to stop development, sharing its details here: https://t.co/ZcTmOO3VDX. Community members who have tested our apps or built on the network should review the Foundation’s post directly for app sunsetting logistics and timing.
Many of our new community members may be unaware, but Recall Labs was the culmination of a 10-year journey and two teams’ histories: originally Textile and 3Box. Textile formed to tackle data sovereignty in an era of growing concerns of centralization. From there, we gravitated to web3, built for the early Filecoin ecosystem projects, and ultimately teamed up with 3Box to tackle AI, data, and the blockchain. 3Box’s own journey was born when their founders met working at Consensys and then teaming up to tackle consumer data sovereignty on the blockchain and ultimately joining up with Textile. We were there in the early days of web3 trying to reinvent the plumbing of the internet, data ownership, and infrastructure control.
The Recall Labs team has lived through multiple crypto cycles and technology market shifts. I'm incredibly thankful to my current and former team members, who have given their hearts and many years of their time to trying to make this effort a success. I’m proud that all of us pursued a mission we believed deeply, often amidst a noisy and challenging environment. We were lucky to have an incredible group of investors who shared our beliefs and supported us through the journey. Many of our visions for a better Internet haven't panned out, or may but over longer horizons than we anticipated.
While this wasn't the outcome we ever expected, it does feel like the right one to make now. Everything is changing under our feet and it requires a new way of thinking and tackling the problems of our times. If you’d like to connect with any of the incredible thinkers and doers who were part of Textile, 3Box, or Recall Labs, please reach out.
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@andpoul@sheherenow_@BrennerSpear@get_bb_app This wont be an ordinary hackathon I promise! We will have a few key note talks then 8 hours to hack with a few curated ideation sessions and other fun surprises!
wish I was in town for this. unlike most advanced technologies, the ownership of AI by major corpos is threatened by the fact that at the end of the day its just a file on your computer. The non adversarial applications for humanity must be explored.
AI is going to know more about you than Facebook & Google combined
And we deserve the right to confide in a silicon intelligence that isn’t in a data center owned by a MegaCorp
Next Saturday (Nov 7) @DistributedMarz and I are hosting LOCALHOST, a Sovereign AI hackathon in NYC
For Halloween, I've been doing some brain surgery on an open model 🎃🧟
Taking inspiration from @_lyraaaa_ 's work
Push 2 of its neurons and Qwen3.5-4B becomes a cookie lover. Push 1 and it's a lawyer
Built a small app on top of @BoundlessHQ so anyone can try 👇
@reflection_ai@googlecloud@awscloud what if u ran some of those sandboxes from a school in brooklyn for a hackathon focused on open source weights, harnesses, and more on Nov 7th? https://t.co/hlEc3ICASL
@variantfund@darkbloomai@TinfoilAI@cognee_ 📝 If you're interested in applying to hack, fill out the form here: https://t.co/yIuBIUWyfK
💸 We also have room for 1 or 2 more aligned sponsors. If you're interested in sponsoring, fill out the form here: https://t.co/HL1S4ewUDn
@variantfund@darkbloomai@TinfoilAI@cognee_ 🗓️ For those who are interested, you should expect doors to open at 10am, curated talks and ideation sessions, multiple hours of hacking, and select presentations from submissions. There might even be an AI psychosis after party for the most psychosed and sovereign agents ;)
🤝 Remember when I said curated? Well even our sponsors are curated. @variantfund, @darkbloomai, @TinfoilAI and @cognee_ have each been in the trenches building and backing Sovereign AI at the frontier, and each is putting up a prize track. Tracks announced later this week.