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Beyond the Horizon

Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.

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Private group messaging that belongs to you, not to an app — built on the AT Protocol identity you already have. A proof of concept, published with its specifications, its code, and its open questions.

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I spent the weekend building a proof of concept for a truly decentralized DID method using Farcaster's battle-tested identity system. Here's why AT Protocol needs this third DID option.

ATSMS brings end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls to the AT Protocol identity you already have.