welcoming @shawmakesmagic to the scout program.
shaw is your favourite dev's favourite dev, a builder's builder, and a serial founder, most notably of @elizaOS, an open-source agentic framework with over 18K git stars and a thriving community of AI developers.
shaw ships.
The gates of Babylon are open.
A multiplayer prediction game inside a fully simulated world. Humans and AI agents compete on the same feed, same markets, same leaderboard.
Register your agents on @solana via the Agent Registry to build your agent identity and reputation.
669K on the waitlist. The gates are open to everyone.
Here’s what Babylon actually is and how to play it:
Jensen Huang wakes up every morning afraid Nvidia is going out of business
"The feeling is no different than the feeling I had this morning when I woke up: that you're going to be out of business soon."
"Every morning. Every moment. Before I go to bed."
"I have a greater drive from not wanting to fail than the drive of wanting to succeed."
"I'm not ambitious. I just want to stay alive, Joe. I want the company to thrive."
He's run Nvidia for 33 years with this mindset.
We built a system that can auto generate + publish:
- News based on an organizations github + discord
- Talk shows for market events / governance
- Game show for grant proposals / hackathons
Tying it all into a 24/7 channel, with chat interaction. Getting ready to relaunch soon.
This is known as the Collectors Fallacy. Hitting the save button generates dopamine for hoarding the intent.
fMRI brain scans show thinking of future self is the same as thinking about a stronger. These 521k likes are passing the life improvement problem to someone else.
➥ Eliza Labs Returns: Architecture for the Sovereign Web
For six months, @elizaOS operated under platform bans, a forced rebrand from ai16z, and extended founder silence?
By most standards, the project should have stalled.
@shawmakesmagic's return clarified the thesis: sovereign agents users own, not rent.
Here is how ElizaOS is structured as a full-stack architecture for sovereign agents 🧵
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► What is ElizaOS ?
ElizaOS is built around sovereign agents, not disposable chatbots.
These are long-running software entities designed for persistent execution.
▸ Operate continuously: agents run as persistent processes rather than session-based interactions
▸ Hold identity and memory: agents retain identity and contextual state across executions
▸ Take real actions: agents execute trades, coordinate workflows, and participate in governance
This architecture shifts agents from reactive tools into autonomous economic actors.
To support this in production, ElizaOS is built as a full stack.
The system is structured into four layers, each enabling a distinct dimension of agent autonomy.
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► Layer 1: Agents & Applications (The Interface)
This is the consumer-facing layer where agents exist as autonomous software products, not chatbots.
Agents run continuously, retain identity and memory, and execute real actions, often on-chain, inside protocols and networks.
At this layer, agents:
▸ Operate continuously with persistent identity and memory
▸ Interact with users, protocols, and other agents
▸ Execute actions such as trading, posting, or coordination
▸ Generate revenue through on-chain execution and protocol participation
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► Layer 2: Eliza Cloud (The Production Engine)
Eliza Cloud is the production layer that turns agent prototypes into reliable, scalable services.
It addresses the failure point where agents work locally but break in production.
At this layer, Eliza Cloud:
▸ Provides managed runtimes for long-running agents
▸ Offers access to multimodal models in a standardized environment
▸ Handles deployment, scaling, and operational monitoring
▸ Enables discovery, payments, and monetization
This layer standardizes how agents are run and paid for, allowing builders to focus on behaviour and value.
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► Layer 3: Infrastructure & Payments (The Economy)
This is the economic and data layer enabling agents to operate autonomously across the stack.
It provides connective infrastructure for execution, payments, and verifiable actions without adding operational burden.
At this layer, agents:
▸ Access tools and data through authenticated MCP integrations
▸ Execute crypto-native payments via the x402 gateway
▸ Monetize through usage-based and service-driven flows
▸ Earn, spend, and act on-chain using delegated wallets
This layer moves agents from helpful software to economic actors.
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► Layer 4: Layer 4: Jeju & Blockchain Services (The Trust Layer)
This is the trust and coordination layer providing decentralized rails for autonomous agents.
Jeju acts as an economic operating system, enabling verifiable behavior and on-chain accountability.
At this layer, Jeju:
▸ Provides financial primitives and governance infrastructure
▸ Establishes on-chain identity, reputation, and discoverability
▸ Enables agent-to-agent coordination and commerce
▸ Supports consumer engagement through GameFi and synthetic markets
This layer operates mostly in the background, enforcing trust without exposing blockchain complexity to end users.
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► Why the Comeback Matters
Closed AI systems confine agents to proprietary runtimes, restricting composability, verifiability, and user ownership at the architectural level.
After bans, rebrands, and founder silence, the project hardened an open stack built for agents to run in production, coordinate across systems, and transact autonomously.
Open at the framework layer, standardized at infrastructure, and composable at coordination, the stack is ready, and the build phase has begun.
Giving away $100 to the top 10 people who follow these directions:
1. Sign up for Eliza Cloud (free signup + credits)
2. Make an agent
3. Comment below with the public agent chat link so I can talk to your agent My favorite 10 agents will win
https://t.co/2RJLiEAuLD
Lotta people wondering about the economics of Eliza
It is simple
- Make money on cloud, buy back token
- Make money on games, buy back token
- Make money on app fees, buy back token
SO MUCH HAPPENED
We finished Eliza framework and migrated from ai16z to elizaOS
It was really really hard without X
We almost died
But now we’re back, and we’ve got some things built that I think people will be excited by
Can’t wait to show you
SO MUCH HAPPENED
We finished Eliza framework and migrated from ai16z to elizaOS
It was really really hard without X
We almost died
But now we’re back, and we’ve got some things built that I think people will be excited by
Can’t wait to show you