Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa
INTERVIEW: The CEO of @Cloudflare thinks
"we are on the cusp of a golden age of content creation"
....because AI Agents + Stablecoins can shift the internet from an ad-based business model, to direct monetization
Cloudflare is working on their $NET stablecoin in order to make the robots pay
Episode out Monday, Early access out today!
We’ve raised $50M led by @dragonfly_xyz to go all in on RWAs and bring TradFi liquidity on-chain.
Today, we're launching Phase 1 of our RWA rollout to stress-test our infrastructure before bringing 100+ TradFi markets on-chain this summer.
"Where is the real Alex?"
At the @worldnetwork livestream, multiple deepfake versions of @alexblania joined a Zoom, until proof of human verified the real one.
Blania: "We really need to know on the other side who we're talking to."
A bunch of people have written me back saying this was the best newsletter I have ever sent (flattering) ... so here it is for those who don't subscribe: AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.
I've been practicing vipassana meditation (goenka lineage) for many years now
Recently, my friends and I have found much more joy and consistency when we sit together
So we converted part of our office into a place for NYC friends to come and sit with us
We do weekly 30min-1hr sits. If you'd like to join one, just DM me!
1/ Natively tokenized @galaxyhq shares are now available on @Kamino’s Superstate Market.
Eligible ex-US investors can bring shares onto @solana through Superstate and use them as collateral to borrow stables.
The real shares of a major public company have entered DeFi.
Agentic capability is improving fast. We believe Proof of Human is becoming critical for the internet and many of the platforms we use (like X).
This paper explains why FaceID, face biometrics & government IDs won’t solve the problem, and what properties are most important.
1/ Proof of Human is becoming increasingly critical. In the limit democracy and human agency depend on it.
But building Proof of Human is unexpectedly challenging.
FaceID doesn't prevent one person to fabricate human presence for thousands of AI agents.
Government ID based Proof of Human is a surveillance risk and only 1b out of 8 billion people have verifiable IDs.
An anti-surveillance and effective Proof of Human that actually empowers people requires new technology [paper linked in thread] 🧵
@nikitabier@justalexoki For iPhone you can use apple’s app attestations to insure that the tweet was typed from a smartphone. This only works for iPhone iOS, but it could be a cool experiment in proving that a human wrote a tweet.