Armor

art director @darkfisquad
editor/designer @agorismxxi

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

⛛ RELEASE: DarkFi Testnet Alpha v0.3 LIVE ⛛

Anonymous, uncensored, sovereign. 

The cypherpunk future we were promised, one step closer.

[Armor @zkArmor]

@DarkFiSquad divine grace is on our side

[Armor @zkArmor]

@plusarchstudio Look for an EXIF/metadata remover, lots of options depending on your setup.

[Armor @zkArmor]

we just found new ways to summon gods

[Forgotten History @4gottnHistory]

A bird’s-eye view of a pyramid, we still dont know who built.

teotihuacan Mexico.

[Armor @zkArmor]

@lunar_mining truth nuke

[r-r o'leary ⛛ 🕊️ @lunar_mining]

Neo-cypherpunk is lunarpunk.

For years I’ve been arguing for a reframing of cypherpunk along these lines:

From individuals to squads,
From anti-state to non-state,
From dystopian privacy to generative anonymity.

The original promise of crypto was pure. But it was co-opted by the system and by centrists who wanted to use crypto to perfect existing financial institutions.

Crypto generated an image of itself (weak, apologetic and defanged) that destroyed it from the inside.

The question I had was: is there something in crypto's memetic heritage that created this trap?

Perhaps cypherpunk was too reactive, too individualist. Everything in its aesthetics was focused on negativity and inversion. Perhaps this was limiting its scope and confining crypto to be a mirror image of the system, never truly able to surpass it.

We needed a new memetic landscape that was active rather than reactive. Oriented toward real revolution and guided by a utopian vision of what anonymity could do. We chose anonymity rather than privacy as our defining term since privacy felt too wrapped up in the old defensive paradigm. Privacy is sad and closed off. Anonymity is active, aggressive, vitalist.

We spoke of squads rather than individuals, not because we're collectivists but because we had a big, wide, expansive vision that required many people to work together toward massive change.

DarkFi calls this new paradigm "lunarpunk." The web3privacy crowd calls it "neo-cypherpunk." The aesthetics differ quite a lot. It doesn't really matter.

What matters is it feels that crypto has become trapped in a relentless discussion of terminology. I'm bored of discussing lunarpunk, solarpunk, cyberpunk, cypherpunk, and neo-cypherpunk.

This no longer feels like a healthy, energetic retvrn to the original values of crypto. Rather it feels more like a paranoid preoccupation with crypto's self-image.

Nick Land says: "An animal attending to the operation of its own organs is sick." Action happens on the outside. When it turns inward, it becomes pathological. Crypto's relentless self-questioning has started to feel like a disease.

I'm more interested in facing outward to the world and to the future. Escaping from the repetition of old symbols and self-referential purity spirals. I love cypherpunk and crypto-anarchy. But why are we still stuck in visions from the 90s? It's time to leave the old symbols behind and create something new.

We are in a fundamentally new paradigm. Everything has changed. No new terms can keep up with this relentless forward march. Nor should they.

Code is a cybernetic intensity capable of reorienting the world in ways we cannot predict. It's more powerful than language. It has a certain magical immanence since it does exactly what it says. That's why I spend most of my time today writing code rather than consciously creating culture. The culture follows us, not the other way around.

Crypto has been been a phenomena for over 17 years. It has made so many beautiful promises. It has delivered on much less. It's time we find out what crypto can actually do.

We haven’t seen anything yet.

[Armor @zkArmor]

POV: you just got called to the summoning pool

[Armor @zkArmor]

just get in the elliptic discombobulator bro

[Armor @zkArmor]

"time is a flat circle"
>well, actually...

[Codetaur @codetaur]

prototype of a recursive time helix calendar/history, with nested coils from centuries -> decades -> years -> days -> hours -> minutes -> seconds. labels need some work but it's the start of something. based almost entirely on @tr_babb 's sketch/idea. in threejs/webgpu

[Armor @zkArmor]

my two moods when roaming the forest

[Armor @zkArmor]

Facing the noumenon

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

Confession was voluntary.

You chose to speak​​​​​​ about your sin.

Restore the sacrament of silence.

[Armor @zkArmor]

We're bringing back scythian hats in 2026.

[Caucasus Visuals @caucasusvisuals]

"Sarmatians: Legends of the Steppe," a photo project by Olga Nagornaya

[Armor @zkArmor]

Envisioning the dark forest
(was referring here to @lunar_mining's article)

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

Memetic warfare

@zkArmor x @darkfisquad

[Armor @zkArmor]

wear darkfi merch

[r-r o'leary ⛛ 🕊️ @lunar_mining]

There is no meme ily 🪨

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

$ make darkfid drk

[Agorism In the XXIst Century @AgorismXXI]

Agorism is the art of using markets and technology to decouple from the state.

AXXI is the frontier of neo-agorist speculation.

AXXI-3 is a collection of texts on what happens after the end of the world.

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