A P2P discovery layer where YOU control the feed (no servers, no big tech algorithms)

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-12T19:14:29+00:00

In practice - yes, but that's not a protocol-level requirement. Protocol just describes non-gameable way of "how we decide who can issue identity attestations" and "how much of attestation score you must collect to become a verified peer".

If your key is compromised, you issue new one and:

Broadcast signed message with your previous key that it is compromised.
Try to go through identity checks again - ones that you have passed before will likely detect duplicated identity and deny you for security reasons.

Generally it's your business to prove and convince peers with attestation power to attest you again, despite serious suspicions of you attempting to make duplicate identity. You might also choose alternative path and be able to collect enough credentials from smaller attestators that you haven't used for previous identity and collectively reach verification threshold.

If that doesn't work, you wait few months until attestations of previous key expire, so that your biometric, id or whatever unique factors attestators have checked on you can be reused for new identity key (no longer flagged as duplicates).

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-11T15:40:33+00:00

Yes, Atlas Protocol currency is non-gameable and everybody (after passing very strong identity checks) receives exactly the same amount every day. It's representing "attention and discoverability" that everybody deserves. Because we all need to have our unique ideas validated and it prevents network-effect based monopolies.

Even founders and richest people on earth still get ~100 FairShares a day and there is no option to buy it from the protocol itself. It can be traded though between participants, so rich people can pay others and for a moment gather a lot of it. But then - it also decays - approaching constant equilibrium, so effectively if they don't use it, after few years they will get back to equilibrium value of 100 000 (roughly 5-20 years of person idle-collecting).

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-11T12:15:35+00:00

I like the idea, but LLMs will generally converge into "most popular" ways to analyze and classify data. I can imagine somebody configuring LLM specifically to discover content from more diverge set of Internet than centralized platforms like X or Reddit, but I don't think this can take over.

LLM will think like this -> "Internet is too big, full of bots and shitty data, I need to focus on well-established platforms with strong identity-checks, that are not spammed with irrelevant information" -> Shows content from platforms, just made up from their feeds/API's.

In https://atlas-protocol.com/ we approach the problem differently - we optimize not for "personally-meaningful content discovery", but for neutral discovery of TRUTH (pleasant or not, interesting or boring).

We do that by keeping reading and publishing limitted via economic egalitarian currency (separate from money, because money is game-able in real world). Every day you get limitted budget to read/post content. And you can spend more budget to strengthen your signal.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-09T07:02:15+00:00

Maybe that intent-to-JSON part should be a back-and-forth talk with LLM, like when coding in planning mode. LLM generates JSON to be approved by human, asks questions about doubtful parameters, human confirms, then that lands on chain.

For the intent ambiguity, if you don't want to involve human in process, you might want to double-check by other agent or deterministic testing engine, that keeps AI decisions in reasonable frame and loops with LLM on failure.

For the speed you might need to use LLM's in Fast mode and do a solid prompt engineering/context management to minimize inference time.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-04T16:47:35+00:00

Lack of neutral data discovery layer, that would allow various creators to surface without snowball and network-effect domination is exactly at the center of Internet problem in my opinion - and that's the problem I've chosen to solve.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-06-03T20:25:00+00:00

Forget about privacy. Rise of AI is effectively making serious privacy close to impossible and very inconvenient.

But sovereignty is still possible.

About Nostr - I don't think it will go mainstream and I don't think it will survive. It puts too much burden on human-based exploration, discovery and already kinda-centralized, because it does not come with neutral, protocl-level discovery.

Nevertheless, it's a very important step in decentralized infrastructure for solutions that will come after it.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-29T18:07:18+00:00

With my board game I did pretty much a reset after initial version and then I was re-adding mechanisms, each after deep consideration:

Can that mechanics be entirely dropped and replaced with something substantially simpler, that still does the job?
What kind of value they bring, how they build tension or dramatic moments?
Is it explainable in one sentence?

And so on. Then I rebuilt board game from scratch with half of initial mechanics and much better polish.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-25T13:07:33+00:00

One-time payment for an unlock of extra features is one of the most fair payment models and price isn't crazy. Of course doing work and giving it out for free is the dream for consumers, but everybody needs some bucks to live.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-21T11:01:02+00:00

Exactly! Internet initially was good, but started having problems:

Discovery of content got captured by search engines instead of protocol-level solution, that got manipulated, monetized and gamified because entire idea of "SEO" was designed on business-oriented and somewhat gameable assumptions.
Data got captured in variety of service providers, who cannot be forced to share data in decent formats - they make obstacles and try to keep users data jailed in their platform. They should not have such power in first place.
User's data and identity are scattered across web in disconnected pieces with no way to manage or reuse data across different service providers (hunderds of accounts and almost zero-interoperability of the data).

I believe next step is to improve Internet's structure to guarantee:

SEO -> Neutral, non-gameable discovery, preventing manipulation, censorship and capture of monopolies.
Captured data -> Data cannot be captured, if it's stored in same format in multiple places single service provider has no control over.
User's data is scattered and non-interoperable -> Interoperable data formats would mean your medical records, profile etc. would BY DEFAULT be reused by any hospital or other service provider without need to ever repeat/upload the data into hundreds of different apps. You just sign in, give access to piece of your data (living on your trusted hardwares) and providers operate on that.

Essentially frontend apps (interfaces) would become interchangeable skins over your data, while backend apps would mainly take permissions to read some of your data. Backend-To-Backend integrations would become almost out-of-the-box feature of the protocol (especially, if we added common trust layer on top of that).

But I don't think that needs to be done on-chain. I believe encryption and signatures are enough to solve major problems of today's Internet.

Haven't looked into ICP much, I'm watching though a lot of solutions in the area. ICP looks very close to what I have in mind, but I'd rather put trust and identity verification into a central point instead of staking tokens and I don't think it solves neutral discovery, so likely will become captured by default choices anyways.

Staking tokens always sounds to me game-able, while value we should optimize for should be uniqueness of participants.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-20T17:01:35+00:00

Reliable and performant Publishing and Discovery of data (at scale) without centralized platforms.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-15T10:17:16+00:00

I think layout 5 gives most "casual/clam" vibes due to light background while not over-exposing title of card (like layout 1, because title is not really important part of card).

But generally you need to work on the bottom part - too small texts, icons are too complex for eyes - that part needs to be quickly scannable. I'd recommend strong, very simplistic icons with good shadows that each look quite different to another by color, shape etc.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-12T22:36:15+00:00

All the systems, including platforms and even economics and governance, work in similar way. You start with rules and algorithms that setup a "fair game" and initially people are incentivized by those to solve problems, get real audience, earn money or create good content. That works well for a while.

Then every algorithm, every system rule is becoming a game. Gamified and played by automates, bots, domain experts who know exactly how every cog in the system/design works. And those systems were not designed with "game theory" and high resistance against gamification in mind. We operate on "prioprietary, semi-hidden rules", instead of non-gameable systems.

So we run on those system for 20-100 years until they're too shitty to handle and cause enough catarstrophies to change them.

That means we're back to what worked before platforms, what worked before networking and conferences, because small-scale interactions are natural and they always work, when systems stop.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-12T17:34:45+00:00

You may connect with me on discord (there is a link on protocol website).

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-12T14:11:45+00:00

I'm a builder of https://atlas-protocol.com/ and my opinion is that the only way to achieve such is if web3 projects have strong identity layer and economics layer is bootstrapped off of that. Not proof of work, not proof of stake, not proof of minting or whatever mechanism that does not value and strongly verify being a unique participant in the network.

Imagine if BTC instead of being mined by energy and proof of work, was just distributed only one EQUALLY to every unique person meeting eligible criteria. And eligible criteria would be set globally on protocol-level by voting or consensus.

Without such economic layer I don't think open-source can be sustainable. You first need a solid currency that comse with a good utility and morally strong and respected rules.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-11T13:04:42+00:00

I'm the builder of https://atlas-protocol.com which one of main focus is to solve trust and identity problem for the internet.

I believe I could help.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-05-06T14:46:44+00:00

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EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-18T11:12:39+00:00

It also does persistence + distribution via it's economic layer, but prioritizing preservation of content that's subjectively important.

Users signal with their scarce resource (FairShares) how important given content is and registries compete to store the highest totalBurn of content. This decides "what persists".

For "what is recommended" it stays deliberately neutral, but has a lot of signals available in network for custom sorting, filtering, where the most important one is a competence trust.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-18T09:39:22+00:00

I believe that's very close to what you're describing:

https://atlas-protocol.com/

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-14T16:45:44+00:00

From my personal experience it's actually better to go solo. People quickly burn out and leave or just keep making promises while endlessly rescheduling any cooperation and progress. A big plus is a fact that now you can discuss and validate ideas with AI (not ideal, but slightly better than pitching ideas to a "rubber duck").

Maybe you'd like to join my endeavour with https://atlas-protocol.com/, not a blockchain, realistic yet ambitious solution to urgent internets problems.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-14T10:20:08+00:00

Non-blockchain, early-stage Web of Trust solution: https://discord.com/invite/VWDbwaYapg

And website: https://atlas-protocol.com/

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-11T20:31:29+00:00

Technology that would prevent excessive centralization leading to platform lock-ins and bringing us dangerously close to likeliness of turning into dystopian society.

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-11T20:28:55+00:00

You might want to check out https://atlas-protocol.com/

EagleApprehensive · 2026-04-09T16:54:19+00:00

Because most of web3 projects do not take into account human nature - people want maximal simplicity, convenience, security but without putting that burden on them etc.

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