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Verifiable Systems @EQTY Lab | Toronto

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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Cole just do a google search 😂
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Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 02/07/2026
OK, I wrote up a whole blog post with some more detailed thoughts on this. Curious if anything here resonates with other folks. Thanks to @iame.li, @dholms.at, and @bnewbold.net for helpful pointers and discussions! pckt.blog/b/bits-of-en...
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All data should be permissioned data - Bits of Entropy
My post with vague complaints about the proposal that made for permissioned data got a bit of attention. Daniel was kind enough to take the time to chat with me...
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
was the transition as chaotic, wild west feeling though? How long between initial adoption and the security rails catching up?
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
was the transition as chaotic, wild west feeling though? How long between initial adoption and the security rails catching up?
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'd be curious to hear from people who remember experiencing 2003-2009. What feels the same/different about this turn of the wheel? shumer.dev/something-bi...
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Over the next few months we’re inviting city and regional governments, as well as builders and organizations actively engaged in municipal innovation to submit expressions of interest. Full Details → www.usecaselab.org/verifiable-c...
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Verifiable Cities | Notion
The Use Case Lab is an applied research initiative at the Ethereum Foundation focused on advancing under-explored, high-impact use cases for Ethereum through collaborative prototyping, pilots, and sta...
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The brief outlines high-priority use cases across urban systems—including data privacy-preservation, service delivery, infrastructure funding, policy execution, and cross-agency coordination—focusing on narrowly scoped, real-world deployments with clear pathways to learning and wider adoption.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We're excited to announce Verifiable Cities: An Open Call for Implementations exploring how cryptographic primitives and the unique properties of public blockchains can advance civic and state capacity, without expanding state power or vendor control.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Verifiable Cities: Ethereum Foundation Open Call for Implementations Over the past few months the Use Case Lab has been working through surface-level chatter to identify domains where Ethereum can meaningfully address constraints in today's systems.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New phenomenon detected: mass inability to detect satire. Not sure if society is just collectively burnt out or bots.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Compliance in the policy world is associated with restrictions, but in engineering the term refers to the property of a material to be flexible, the inverse of stiffness. Some interesting thoughts on how we can make flexibility a property of law itself papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Trust Without Intermediaries: A Programmable Risk Management Framework for the Future
As traditional and decentralized financial markets converge, the need for a trust architecture that preserves openness while ensuring security is paramount.&nbs
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
There's a bird in Palermo Soho that sings techno to you on sunny Sunday mornings
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Let it be known that @detien.bsky.social is now on bsky with the most slept on skeets. Give them a follow 🫡
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max @notplants.net · 05/04/2025
released a new version of lichen-markdown that adds an easy way to export a .zip of all of your markdown files and assets without using the terminal hoping to avoid data entrapment by big tech platforms as well as by small permacomputing cmses codeberg.org/ukrudt.net/l...
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v1.3.1 - ukrudt.net/lichen-markdown
this release fixes a small bug in the export .zip function
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
TIL that the concept/term "technoscience" was invented by none other than Harold Lasswell, the founding father of modern political psychology. (Lasswell pioneered many other key social scientific concepts, such as "the policy sciences" and "the garrison state.")
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
End goal is to transition the tech's governance and organizational model to ecosystem-run so looking for precedent + things to watch out for when we make our case for exiting.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Do I know anyone who's worked in freeing OSS with accompanying stranded IP in the public sector? Situation is: - originally incubated at a publicly funded institution - open-source code - ownership of everything beyond the code is unclear (e.g. trademark, data, governance, commercial usage rights)
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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 01/03/2025
We're pleased to share more info about the AT Protocol Community Fund. The fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3. #ATCommunityFund
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Introducing the AT Protocol Community Fund
The AT Protocol Community Fund exists to provide community & event support, fund grants, and support individuals and projects. It is fiscally hosted by the Raft Foundation, a 501c3.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Decentralize till it hurts, centralize till it works (protocolize it)
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Protocolized @protocolized.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"Such fractious eras can be terrible to live through, as we are all finding out now, but they do have a silver lining: They create an opening for the ordinary individual to gain agency at the expense of both kinds of elites...These gains typically take a very particular form: better protocols."
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com
Strange New Rules
Issue #1: A new magazine of stories, studies, and science
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's so good. Apparantly they were inspired by planet earth which post watch, definitely shows. Have you seen the original animation from 2019? youtu.be/1TRzemJbUsw?...
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Scavengers
YouTube video by Charles Huettner
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Thanks Boris, happy (early) new year to you and Rachel! I unfortunately dont think or post on IG very linearly haha but will maybe be back in the Spring!
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Probably a good thing? I can see them being replaced with things like farcaster, bsky and whatever else 2025 is about to bring us :)
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
indieweb.org/POSSE
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Shimanami Kaido // Sea Bridge Expressway Day 1 🚲
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
git-merge. git-fork. Repeat. This is why experiments like www.edgecity.live are exciting to me. Still early days, but it's one way to increase the democratic bitrate in cities.
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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 18/11/2024
Earlier this year, we participated in the research and writing of this report on networked cooperative ecosystems. Thanks to V6A CoLab for inviting us! paragraph.xyz/@v6a/network...
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Networked Cooperative Ecosystems
New Labour Configurations & Opportunities for Mutualism. Since 2022, V6A Labs has conducted applied research and development in partnership with communities and organizations to facilitate ecosystem...
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
/1am Bangkok 🫡 x.com/trust_suppor...
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johan @johanm.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
I built a new tool! Semioscape.org -- it's a concept cartographer and way of probing Claude's ability to generate associations, creating a kind of mental lexicon. Someone described it as a "smart Obsidian"--give it a try!
semioscape.org
Semioscape
Concept cartographer
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
From Lou Keep's Man as a Rationalist Animal
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Man as a Rationalist Animal
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, and also some stuff about fundamentalist christianity
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
From Lou Keep's Man as a Rationalist Animal
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Man as a Rationalist Animal
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, and also some stuff about fundamentalist christianity
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
I remember writing it feeling like I had just opened an entirely new can of worms, at least 10 more stories waiting to be written in that last sentence alone. I'm starting to understand why it felt like that:
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
This was the very last sentence in the Dispatches series for Summer of Protocols. “[...] it’s all a bit messy and undefined.” They shrug. “But, it’s messy with intent; it’s messy, because it works.”
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
We're starting to get into weeds of our first in-house project at V6A and I'm realizing I've been grappling with an intense craving for legibility these last few weeks. I wonder how much we've fumbled by giving into this craving too soon. Falling into the trap of rationalism/logic-izing too fast
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
The Dispatches have dropped. Half an alternative vision to network states and half hyperstition, the research plays with what a localized, but globally networked world could look like. Each story focuses in on a theme, from nested bioregionalism to supermodular software and composable public policy.
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Dispatches from Cascadia
This 6-part work of speculative fiction, set in the year 2065 is told through the lens of a journalist reporting on the City of Vancouver, BC, three decades after its transition to protocolized govern...
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
A light morning read from Scott/nanomonkey on organizational and societal Death Spirals www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Is society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modeling societal demise and its reversal
Just like an army of ants caught in an ant mill, individuals, groups and even whole societies are sometimes caught up in a death spiral, a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior char...
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ȷď𝐛𝐛🌳 @jdbb.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Chenoe’s case studies will change how you see every building you pass. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
(jk dm's definitely not open over here, but inbox is open rithikha@v6acolab.org)
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
I want our inaugural founder cohort aware of the technical infra they can integrate and put to use, so looking for people who can speak to the *actual affordances* of their what they're building over ideology! e.g. Energy-efficient compute/storage, COSS funding models, etc Dm's are open :)
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Any NYC-based P2P/web3/open-source folks out here building in/for climate? v6acolab.org is working with Climate-KIC (Europe's largest mutli-stakeholder climate innovation partnership and accelerator) to bring part of the program to the US for the first time... 1/2
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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Huge illegible opportunity space for protocol entrepreneurs with the right kind of X-Ray vision to see past limited formal models of entrepreneurship
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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
What we’re looking for in the SoP 2024 program. Know anyone who fits? summerofprotocols.com/research/sop...
Venn diagram of protocol entrepreneurs
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12/03/2024
Very excited to be bringing to life this vision of composable moderation we’ve been working towards since the start! We'll always provide a foundation of moderation in the app, but you'll be able to stack mod services soon like putting together lego blocks to build your own experience.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
I'm looking for applied researchers with a penchant for muddling through complex problem spaces and a deep interest in co-operative ecosystems and networks. Get in touch if this is you!
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Work With Us — V6A Labs
WORK WITH US Cooperative Network Ecosystems — Applied Researcher (Contract) | Part-Time  Posted — March 9th, 2024 Co-operatives offer the potential for...
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Also adding a sneaky thanks to @wilkinson.graphics for sliding into the dms with some absolutely eagle-eyed design and copywriting advice 🙏🏾
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Also adding a sneaky thanks to @wilkinson.graphics for sliding into the dms with some absolutely eagle-eyed design and copywriting advice 🙏🏾
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Thank you! Did a few tweaks but will probably keep tweaking over the next bit.
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Rithikha @rithikha.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
I quite literally whipped up this application on my NJ transit commute home the night it was due -- So shoot your shot (a little earlier, preferably) with something you care deeply about! You might end up meeting some very cool people to mind-meld with :)
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Fission @handle.invalid · 12/03/2024
What's happening in Los Angeles? Well Causal Islands of course!! We are on the LA Luma community page (lu.ma/la). You can sign up directly for Causal Islands: LA Edition here 👇 lu.ma/causal-islands-la #futureofcomputing #conference #losangeles
Screencap of the Luma page for Los Angeles with the top post for Mar 23 Causal Islands Los Angeles
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