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We're Still Riding the Horse

May 2026, 4 p.m. Sitting at my mom’s house in Southern California. Homemade Italian beef, great conversations on the couch and a shower head that doesn’t go above my chest. I’ve been here two days after a stretch of work that left me exhausted in the

Just setting up my little convos agent

This is my first blog post I’m publishing from just messaging my little agent on the Convos app. (http://convos.org) The idea of blogging by simply talking to my agent, feels like one of those moments in the early days of Twitter. Except I trained my agent to

No One Arranged This

TLDR: Someone combined Bluetooth mesh messaging with XMTP's decentralized protocol, without anyone arranging it, and the result is communication no government can fully shut down. I got a notification yesterday that I've never gotten before. "Someone nearby is on Bitchat, the mesh network." I

You Could Make One For Your Mom, Though

This post was originally published on the XMTP blog. I've been thinking about this idea forever. I'd love to know if this resonates with you or if you're feeling this now, too. In 2004, Clay Shirky stood in front of his Social Software class

We Built A Cathedral In The Wrong City

I need to talk about something I don't see anyone talking about. And I think it might be the most important question of this entire era. We're all so busy celebrating how fast AI makes us move that nobody's asking where the hell we&

A Hardware Device For Messaging & Money That Can't Be Shut Down

The team at Freedom Factory has been working on a new device that will come out in 2026. This device comes with XMTP built in. A lot of people have a lot of opinions about this device, but I think most are missing the bigger picture. Let me explain... First

Base App by Coinbase Is Live for Everyone, Secured by XMTP: Create, Earn, and Trade — All in Chat

The Base App is officially live to the world. Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s a social and economic Superapp where you can create, earn, trade, and discover—all inside DMs and group chats. Chat is not just a feature but a foundation for users to

Group Chats Should Explode When the Party’s Over

Group chats are broken. Everyone's adding me to them, that's why I hate them. Group chats today are like getting married on a first date. It's a lifetime commitment that I have no idea if I want to be a part of. If we

What Happens In Vegas Stays Nowhere on Convos

We launched a secure chat app on XMTP this week with World Chat. We also released our own new chat app on XMTP called Convos this week. On one hand, I'm like I don't need another chat app. I feel ya. On the other hand, I

Hello, World: Proof of Human Comes to Messaging

Every major messaging system still assumes you can trust a username, a voice, or a video. AI has made that assumption obsolete. Today, that changes. World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption. For the first time,

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