Jon | self.xyz 🌙

Head of Design at @selfxyz / formerly @celo / @plaid / @moment / @elevateapp / @consensys / @microsoft / @sunfoundation

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Big news: @googlecloud is partnering with @selfxyz to help bring a more human-first internet to life.

Together, we’re making it easier for developers to build Web3 and AI apps that are safer, more ethical, and rooted in real human identity — not bots or bad actors.

[Self @selfxyz]

🚨 Breaking news: @GoogleCloud is integrating Self's proof-of-humanity ZKPs to bring new use cases powering AI adoption & Web3 innovation for human users

🧵 Read more about how Google Cloud & Self are ushering in the era of data privacy ↓

[Celo @Celo]

@selfxyz “While Silicon Valley fights over token packages, the rest of the world is being priced out of the agentic economy before it has even arrived.”

Self’s identity infra makes Universal Basic Compute possible at scale, creating the conditions for prosperity in the agentic era 🙌

[Self @selfxyz]

https://t.co/3fueqRh7ee

[Rene ◘ @RegenRene]

Who's at Bloomberg's AI conference in SF today? Come say hi to Birju and me and talk agentic identity, commerce, proof of human and all things https://t.co/a8KXgSIQI8

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Said what I said

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Knicks in 4

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Knicks in 4

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Knicks in 4

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

Pay attention to the chicken supply chain.

[Self @selfxyz]

Self co-founder @marek_ and @googlecloud Head of Strategy, Web3 @RichJWidmann took the stage at @Celo’s @Consensus2026 event to discuss the first-of-its-kind stablecoin distribution platform, coming soon.

USA₮ for real, verified humans coming soon.

[Jon | self.xyz 🌙 @umiworkshop]

@brian_lovin So fun.

[Self @selfxyz]

275 million students' data was held ransom - the largest educational data breach in history.

When platforms store everything they collect, it becomes a target.

There's a better way. Self verifies identity without sharing or exposing underlying personal data.

[Self @selfxyz]

Last week, cosmetics company Rituals suffered a data breach, exposing customers' full names, phone numbers, home addresses, and dates of birth.

Why does a skincare loyalty app need all of your private information? It doesn't. Now, hackers have it.

[Celo @Celo]

Six years ago today, Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day! 🥳

The @Ethereum Layer 2 built for the real world has processed 1.27B+ transactions, bringing fast, low-cost stablecoin txs to 600K+ global users every day

What does this look like in practice? Here's a better look ↓

[Self @selfxyz]

A new dark web tool, JINKUSU CAM, breaks live video KYC in real time: face swap, voice clone, and virtual camera, all running together.

The problem is structural. Liveness detection is a model, and generative models are beating it.

Until now. Self solves this.

[Self @selfxyz]

One thing we've learned about agents: they're bad at keeping secrets.

Self ensures a real human signs off on actions, without compromising user privacy.

[Self @selfxyz]

Companies lose billions on failed KYC screenings every year. With Self, they don't have to.

Introducing Self Pre-KYC: a privacy-first advance screening that filters ineligible users before a single billable check is triggered, reducing costs, friction, and data liability.

[Self @selfxyz]

Today, users give up nearly all of their data to prove simple, sometimes even singular, facts about their identity.

Self is changing that. With infrastructure like Self Connect, users verify who they are with just a phone number

This is Web 4.0.

[Self @selfxyz]

At @EthGlobal Pragma Cannes, @RegenRene gave an exclusive first look at Self and @Google's upcoming USA₮ distribution network, which will give free money to verified humans.

[Self @selfxyz]

https://t.co/7j9CDDvJoC was breached, exposing customers' names, emails, phone numbers, and private data.

When your data is stored by a third party, it's a target waiting to be stolen.

There's a better way. Self verifies identity without storing or exposing personal data.

[Self @selfxyz]

"Identity has never been as extensible as it should be."

AI is transforming how people work and use the internet, widening the gap between how identity systems can operate and how they need to.

Self is built to solve this: a privacy-first identity layer for the agentic web.

[Self @selfxyz]

Yesterday, Self announced the acquisition of Loam, an AI company specializing in agentic workflows and intelligent automation.

Loam founder and new Self COO Birju Shah reflects on the ID spoofing problem he saw as @Uber's Head of AI and what it revealed about digital identity ↓