An end-to-end, open source, P2P app framework. Creating an ecosystem of decentralized apps with distributed, user-controlled storage.

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Big thank you to everyone who supports our world changing tech with your attention and many likes, follows, and retweets! #WhatIsHolochain #Holochain
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"Patents protect how innovations can be used. This patent is intended to protect the Holochain open-source project from trolls who could file patents on our technical innovation and then use them to prevent us from implementing it." ✅Full Press Release: holo.host/holochain-patent/
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#Cardano is one of the most talked-about crypto projects today. #Holochain isn’t… yet. How do they compare? #AHolochainPerspective ➡️ Read more at blog.holochain.org/cardano-a…
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#Cardano aims to be a better blockchain and give #Ethereum a run for its money. But how does it compare to #Holochain? #AHolochainPerspective ➡️ blog.holochain.org/cardano-a…
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📣Holochain website has a new look. ✅Visit for a new experience: holochain.org/ #poweredbyholochain #whatisholochain #holochain
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🔥 The new Holochain Roadmap is now live! buff.ly/3LavazF We’re entering a very exciting phase for Holochain and we’re excited to share the new roadmap with you. Let us know which milestone you can't wait for Holochain to reach. Read more: buff.ly/3tCiY51
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Just released! Holochain v0.0.102 is here 🙌 Among other changes, Holochain now compiles on Windows! Read the full change log and DevPulse to get details on the latest version. ✅ Change Log: ow.ly/Ex0p50FNcKy ✅ DevPulse 101: ow.ly/DbQa50FNcKx
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Celebrating a huge success for Holo and Holochain. Elemental Chat testing represented a tremendous amount of effort and was critical for testing the infrastructure. Thank you to all who participated!
If you haven't noticed, we hit 5,000+ peers on Elemental Chat, with as many as 1,000+ peers simultaneously chatting! We're pleased with those numbers for three important reasons: 1) Elemental Chat is being hosted on HoloPorts in peoples' homes; 1/
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Holochain v0.0.101 released! ➡️ Storage engine moved from LMDB to SQLite ➡️ Network traffic for entry publishing throttled back ➡️ Wasmer updated to version 2 ➡️ 2 new HDK functions And more! Read the full post here: ow.ly/wX0U50Frdyd
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🧩 #HolochainOpenDev 🧩 Curious about how NFTs on Holochain would actually work? Watch the latest Holochain in Action for an in depth technical discussion! Holochain in Action: ow.ly/uiEP50GXcHo NFT Blog: ow.ly/YKGm50GXcHp
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The most recent Holochain in Action session explores the current landscape of modules you can use in your hApps already, along with the unknown territory at the edge of the map. Read the recap and watch now: ow.ly/azVL50GyeUt #Holochain #Web3 #Dweb
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#HolochainEcosystemSessions 📬SnapMail is an open-source P2P email app based on Holochain. It is the latest iteration of Snapmail from Glass Bead Software ✅ Watch Now: piped.video/1JYtyhKWH8s #PoweredbyHolochain #DistributedApps #Holochain
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The CEO of @DocuSign said that it would be impossibly expensive to run an electronic signature management tool on blockchain. He’s right. This is exactly the sort of collaborative-app use case Holochain is perfect for. ✅ Read more: ow.ly/jvJH50EHduq #PoweredbyHolochain
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Holochain is getting an overhaul. Faster gossip, preparations for implementing sharding (AKA 'infinite scaling'), and updated components. Some tasty tidbidts for hApp devs too! #Holochain #dapps #happs #P2P #WhatIsHolochain ow.ly/6iyK50F3v5L
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#Holochain 0.0.104 is out! We're aiming for weekly releases, so you might have missed 0.0.103 last week. ;-) Be sure to dig into the individual crate changelogs, which you can find under the top-level changelog on github: ow.ly/vyjt50FZGwW
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Reminder! This Tuesday we'll be hosting an online Meetup open to everyone across the Holochain ecosystem! Devs, Hodlers, Community Builders, Trolls, Philosophers, Cooperativists. All are welcome. When: Tuesday, April 6 @ 20:00 UTC Registration: ow.ly/u5ZT50EcrYK
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#Bitcoin's energy use got you down? 🏭 😕 #Holochain makes a bold claim: "Consensus is unnecessary for most of the things blockchain is interested in doing." 🌅 Read all about #WhatIsHolochain blog.holochain.org/satoshi-n…
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#NFTs are big. Here’s why they could be even bigger on @Holochain. Read the latest from @joshmzemel and @artbrock. ➡️ ow.ly/20Z650G1xLZ
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Check out the updated Holo roadmap featuring some key Holochain releases!👇
Hot off the press! Read the Holo Lead/Org update with a refreshed version of the project roadmap– Q4 2021: Update on Milestones and Progress. ✅Full blog: ow.ly/82wT50GrWzW #Holo #Holochain #Web3
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Attention creative technologist! The French government has announced a program to support cultural technologies and Holochain is mentioned as an emerging technology that creates important underlying structures for building. Read more: ow.ly/cJPs50FHiOy
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𝐐: Can I create an NFT on Holochain? 𝐀: Yup. ✅Read all about it and maybe you will decide to try it: ow.ly/pJXX50EjWhE #NFT #NFs #DigitalRight #DigitalArt #WhatIsHolochain #Holochain
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The most recent Holochain releases have a number of bug fixes that improve performance and reliability, along with a new feature (post_commit) and a few breaking changes. Read now: ow.ly/mV3t50Gyetx #Holochain #Web3 #Dweb
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#NFTs are so efficient and versatile on @holochain that they enable us to envision not just a future of collectibles but an entire #futureofownership that is digital, reliable, and independent of centralized government records. ➡️ Read the full article: ow.ly/Ewxy50G1xUf
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We're building a rhythm of near-weekly #Holochain releases that we're pretty pleased with. Building the framework for a #P2P web, one step at a time. For all you devs out there be sure to check the top-level changelog. github.com/holochain/holocha…
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We are stoked to announce the new dates for DevCamp, a 7-week community-run developer training, where you learn to build a Holochain app from start to finish! ☄️ When? Sept 28 – Nov 11 Where? Zoom! Who? Devs who want to build on Holochain More info: ow.ly/4PJE50G8bIC
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🧩 #HolochainOpenDev 🧩 Check out the latest video from Holochain in Action where community devs go into a deep dive about the "grammatics of location" in Where, the newest hApp from Lightning Rod Labs. Watch now: ow.ly/ItEp50GEsQP
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Get ready for a game-changer! Holochain Beta is out—the next step of our Holochain Beta release sequence, and our first major leap in Holochain development of 2023. 🥳 🎉 Let’s walk through what this means. buff.ly/3wD3Btq
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Universal Music went public last week, pushing its valuation to ~$50BLN--another story where profits get paid out to corporations. What if music platforms supported artists with direct connection to their fans using #Holochain? ➡️blog.holochain.org/music-and… #distributedmusic
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#NFTs are more straightforward, more versatile, and more efficient to run on @Holochain than on blockchain. ➡️ Learn more from @joshmzemel and @artbrock blog.holochain.org/holochain…
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Check out the progress made with the first public test of Elemental Chat, Holo's proof-of-concept application!! 👇 #Holochain #Web3 #Dweb
Our recently closed Elemental Chat test was remarkable. It demonstrated that Web 3.0 is possible throughout our digital lives, not just in a few highly specialized contexts. #GameChanger. 👉Read the details about our Successes and Learnings: press.holo.host/205474-eleme…
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💡 Here’s a tech business idea with a proven concept, a large addressable market, and multiple advantages over the competition. A #decentralized version of DocuSign would be near-impossible on blockchain but easy to run on Holochain. ow.ly/DZDu50EFfiZ #PoweredByHolochain
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This testing update deserves a retweet from the Holochain account. We are stoked to see this prototype hApp from Holo working well with more than 1000 peers chatting around the globe!
The massively exciting news is Elemental Chat is being used by 1,000+ people (and counting!) who signed up to test, and everything is going very, very well. Their chat experience is being hosted by ~300 HoloPorts around the world. 1/
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The past few Holochain releases have focused on increasing resilience and adding features for developers. Right now, the core dev team is doing extensive sharding tests, adjusting the algorithm, and testing again. Read the full Dev Pulse! ow.ly/XK4C50GOfjv
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The Holochain dev team is getting ready for the second public release of Holochain RSM, which will include all the changes since the first release in February. Read DevPulse 98: ow.ly/Amvm50Fh7pm
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🎉 🥳 🙌 Holochain 0.1.0-beta-rc.0 is now official! This is the first in a series of release candidates leading up to the #HolochainBeta release this coming January. bit.ly/3HWVy1R
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Congrats to @ethereum on the #LondonUpgrade. Though #Holochain is designed to pick up where blockchain leaves off, we are happy for every leap forward in decentralized computing, and this is a big one. #AHolochainPerspective on blockchain by Josh & Art: ow.ly/fc3x50FKVVu
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A couple months ago, @helioscomm talked to Holochain developers about how to build NFTs on Holochain and came up with a few simple designs. Read it here: blog.holochain.org/nfts-on-h…
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Blockchain: local synchronization of global state Holochain: global visibility, on demand, of local state Read the article: blog.holochain.org/blockchai…
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When an NFT is signed over to a new owner, the actual file can get sent along with it, without sharing a copy with the world, similar to transferring a physical art piece. ➡️ Learn more from @joshmzemel and @artbrock: ow.ly/fFzF50G1yxs
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The Holochain developer ecosystem is going through a flush of growth. We’re still young and small, but that means the developers generally know each other and support each other well, and we’re able to support them well too. Read a bit more! blog.holochain.org/a-develop…
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The best, shortest explanation of #whatisholochain. Previously watched (and loved) thousands of times in a private link, now public for everyone to see! ✅ Checkout Paul's show and tell: piped.video/EUfyHNGvnDo #Holochain #Dev #OpenSource #DLT #Zome #DHT
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Holochain devs, we're working on tooling for you!
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(8/9)Finally we've also been supporting a few efforts that are more geared toward the Holochain developer ecosystem. We're seeing steady progress on DevHub which is a developer hub for packaging and sharing Holochain applications.
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RedGrid is using Holochain tech to tackle one of the biggest challenges of the climate crisis -- how to coordinate our efforts. Paul's latest piece goes in depth on how @RedGrid_io and how @IOEN_tech works on Holochain. Read the full blog here: blog.holochain.org/redgrid-c…
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The sharding code is all written, integrated, and ready to be turned on with a configuration setting. Check out the release notes for Holochain v0.0.106! Read here: ow.ly/yfPM50Gctxl
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Tomorrow at 8:00am UTC, David Atkinson will be hosting an Ecosystem Session live with @IOEN_tech to discuss the power of minigrids unlocked with #Holochain technology. ✅ Stream here: piped.video/F3dO0NIIvSc
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#HolochainSolution Could Docusign work on #blockchain? hmm 🤔 What about Holochain? 😀 ➡️ Read all about it: ow.ly/IXQM50EVRxm #WhatIsHolochain #PoweredbyHolochain #Holochain
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#Countersigning is at the top of the Dev Pulse goodies for this release. Long story short: it makes a bunch of interesting new #hApps and features possible, that weren't possible before. ➕ v0.0.104 and v0.0.105 are right around the corner! blog.holochain.org/countersi…
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Is Holochain 'Web3'? If that means putting a price tag on all of our online activities, no. But if it means taking shared ownership of our online lives, then yes, maybe Holochain is 'Web3'. 💥 Read why #Holochain is fit for the real Web3 buff.ly/3rkwYiB
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A community member produced a table of all the most active Holochain-related projects, including hApps and the conductor itself. It shows the continuous integration status for all these projects in one place. Now they're looking for contributors! ✅buff.ly/3JoJchg
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Using #Holochain technology, @IOEN_tech enables homes anywhere to function together as an intelligent, cooperative electricity system. By connecting homes in this way, they become a local, virtual energy microgrid. Read Paul's piece on $IOEN here: blog.holochain.org/redgrid-c…
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"Analysts tell us that the most reasonable way to do this is to decentralise and digitalise the grid as we decarbonise." Read how #Holochain enables the Internet of Energy in the latest blog featuring @IOEN_tech: ow.ly/9xqN50GowQy
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What other legacy software projects can—and likely will—be re-built for a #HolochainSolution? #DocuSign is just one of many. #WhatIsHolochain #Blockchain
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Holochain NFTs could unlock massive new opportunities for the NFT marketplace with greater efficiency, lower cost, more accountability, etc, etc, etc. ➡️Wondering how? Have a read: blog.holochain.org/nfts-on-h… #NFT #NFs #DigitalRight #DigitalArt #WhatIsHolochain #Holochain
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#HolochainDevPulse "You know those words you see on a car’s side mirror that say ‘objects in the mirror are closer than they appear’?" ✅ Read more to find out what Paul meant by that: ow.ly/ppre50EOKu7 #WhatIsHolochain #PoweredbyHolochain #OpenSource #Dev
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Learn why #Holochain can serve more people with less energy than a #blockchain. @helioscomm has updated this graph which shows now the only metric that matters: How much useful work can you get done for a given amount of electricity? Read the update: buff.ly/3rVOf0q
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#HolochainEcosystemSessions Sprillow working with Harris-Braun Enterprises produced Acorn, a software application for creating the future by visualizing it. ✅ Watch Now: piped.video/IKvw4ChwFrI #PoweredbyHolochain #DistributedApps #Holochain
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Holochain is now at version 0.0.119 and the past four releases brought dependency clean-ups, gossip changes, performance improvements, and database refactoring. Read DevPulse 108 now: buff.ly/3EEz0yl
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Check out the progress @kizuna_fndn has been making in the latest Ecosystem Session. If you're interested in trying out the hApp for yourself you can install Kizuna using the Holochain Launcher! ✨ Demo: piped.video/rUJpneGAOZY ✨ How to Install Kizuna: piped.video/ck45A8j1-fs
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Blockchain has revolutionized how humans think about interacting, but will scalability challenges ultimately limit its utility? Is Holochain capable of fulfilling promises that blockchain cannot? Read here: ow.ly/TjCW50FBzQA #Holochain #TheBWord #Blockchain
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Sweettest is a Rust-based testing framework for Holochain apps. It has tools for creating conductors, loading hApps into them, and networking those conductors together. Read now: ow.ly/m2Ra50GyePY #Holochain #Web3 #Dweb
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#DevPulse "For those of you who are new to Holochain, or who want to share it with your friends, we’ve just publicly released a video, What Is Holochain?. It’s based on a talk I gave at this year’s FOSDEM conference." ✅ Read the full Dev Pulse: ow.ly/ej0Q50EDhGo
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For many people Holochain seems overly complicated but as Paul says in his #WhatIsHolochain video: "The level of complexity is appropriate to the problem at hand." ✅ Let Paul tell you more about it: piped.video/EUfyHNGvnDo #Holochain #Dev #OpenSource #DLT #DHT
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Imagine a future of music that belongs not to labels and distributors, but to a thriving network of music creators and lovers. Holochain is where the future of distributed music tech can thrive. Read the blog here: blog.holochain.org/music-and… #distributedmusic #Holochain
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Read all about the new Holochain release! ➕ Curious about why we're paying HoloPort owners? blog.holochain.org/dev-pulse…
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Huge thank you to all who participated in the Documentation Drive led by @Sprillow 👾 There is now updated introductory material, including a hApp building and client tutorial! If you want to learn more about how to get involved, read the latest DevPulse: ow.ly/qlYg50FNd8a
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🙌 Alongside the Holochain Beta release, we are pleased to announce that the #securityaudit of the Holochain’s Deterministic Integrity (HDI) has been successfully completed by @LeastAuthority. See the full report 👇 buff.ly/3HiMwu6
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💡 Here’s a tech business idea with a proven concept, a large addressable market, and multiple advantages over the competition. A #decentralized version of DocuSign would be near-impossible on blockchain but easy to run on Holochain. ow.ly/DZDu50EFfiZ #PoweredByHolochain
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Holochain Beta 0.1 “With Holochain Beta, the days of us regularly breaking your code are behind us. We will be updating a beta 0.1.0 branch of Holochain with non-breaking fixes and features for six months.” 👉🏼 Read it all: buff.ly/3wD3Btq
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Eric and Art got talking about how NFTs could work on Holochain, and luckily, we were recording. 📹 Watch now: ow.ly/wwxC50G6JN4 Dive deeper into NFTs on Holochain with our latest articles: ✅ ow.ly/9iiz50G6JN7ow.ly/Qzn150G6JN8
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🧩 #HolochainOpenDev 🧩 Last week's Holochain in Action explores signaling, DNA design, and state management. If you're interested in signing up for the weekly dev call, check the video description for the application! Watch now: ow.ly/c5IR50GJzbe
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Watch the latest Elemental Chess demo! You'll notice it highlights the importance of the HoloPort Alpha Program, because testing on only one HoloPort doesn't always work out 😉 ➡️ piped.video/j_Uhhwo_QxM
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Holochain Beta 0.2.0 Release As planned, Holochain Beta 0.2.0 was released today. Similar to the Beta 0.1.0 release, this will be followed by a 10 day interval of updates to all dev tooling. 🧵/6
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For many people Holochain seems overly complicated but as Paul says in his #WhatIsHolochain video: "The level of complexity is appropriate to the problem at hand." ✅ Let Paul tell you more about it: piped.video/EUfyHNGvnDo #Holochain #Dev #OpenSource #DLT #DHT
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Why it may not be too early to be talking about a post-blockchain application space. Read here: ow.ly/TjCW50FBzQA #Holochain #TheBWord #Blockchain
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🧩 #HolochainOpenDev 🧩 Holochain in Action is a weekly community meeting for: - Knowledge Sharing - Patterns and best practices discussion - Pair Programming - Analyzing and Designing hApps Watch now and apply to join: ow.ly/RV5R50GTs7R
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⚠️Remember⚠️ ⚠️At Holochain & Holo we are not giving away any cryptocurrency & we don't do airdrops. We will never ask for private keys or addresses or ny personal data.⚠️ ✅More details in this video: piped.video/HzBD59l3czg #ScamAlert #scam #Holochain #noairdrops #norewards
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#EcosystemSession with Coventina Foundation Lower cost and higher speed of transactions in Holochain. ✅ Watch the full episode: piped.video/kLihKJiiIPE ✅Watch this on YouTube: piped.video/mhJUqisQut8 @CoventinaFdn #PoweredbyHolochain #Holochain
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Neighbourhoods is a social organizing principle for the distributed web. Watch the latest ecosystem session demo with @SidSthalekar, @pospigos and @emalinus4: piped.video/RlYRSFxa_lE #Holochain #dweb
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DevCamp is back! Learn how to build decentralized, scalable applications with Holochain. ➡️ When: June 29 - August 5 ➡️ Tech stack: Rust (backend) & Lit (UI) ➡️Cost: Free ✅Apply here: ow.ly/agVy50EMZ17 #WhatisHolochain #PoweredbyHolochain #Dev #App #OpenSource
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🧩 #HolochainDev 🧩 In this recording of Holochain in Action, community devs look at the geolocation module that @5thingol created and review how to implement this module in your own hApp – check the timestamps for details! ow.ly/dHhh50FRGUT
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#HolochainEcosystemSessions 📬 Watch the demo of SnapMail to see what's possible in an open-source P2P email app based on Holochain! ✅ Watch Now: piped.video/DMV5mqtgH_E #PoweredbyHolochain #DistributedApps #Holochain
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Coventina Foundation exists to enable the growth of the Holo / Holochain Ecosystem by investing in the emergent community of innovators, creators, entrepreneurs that aim to create new social patterns and solid foundations for a thriving planet. Watch now: piped.video/kLihKJiiIPE
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DevPulse 101 is out and Paul has lots of exciting news to share about what's in the works! Sharding is a feature that will greatly increase performance speed and it's ready to be tested 🙌 Read now: blog.holochain.org/elemental… #Holochain #dApps #Web3
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🧩 #HolochainOpenDev 🧩 In last week's Holochain in Action session, community devs explored how to install and create projects in Acorn, a hApp by Sprillow. Check it out! ✅ ow.ly/eh3v50GuE81
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Holochain and @fluence_project are hosting a Web3 Devroom at @fosdem and we welcome all projects about #dWeb. Are you a developer of free and open-source software interested to share your project with a wide community? Proposals needed by 29th December. github.com/lekanova/Web3-FOS…
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#HolochainDevCamp begins in less than two weeks! DevCamp is a free opportunity to learn from community developers how to build a hApp from start to finish! When? Sept 28-Nov 11 Where? Zoom! More info: holochain.org/dev-camp
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We’re pleased to present the new, much-anticipated article series from @joshmzemel and #Holochain co-founder @artbrock on the future of communication and what it will make possible. ➡️ #ThePowerofPeertoPeer Part 1: buff.ly/3uGrX5U 1/3
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#DevPulse is here! This week we rolled out an update to all HoloPorts. The most visible changes are in the UI of Elemental Chat, our demo app. ✅Get the full picture here: ow.ly/5xAK50EhNzx #Holochain #OpenSource #ElementalChat #App #HoloPort
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For folks who want to go deeper into NFTs and Holochain, we're re-sharing this in-depth conversation between @PowerDada and @zippy314 on social cohesiveness, decision making, grammatic capacity and the possible new. ✅ Watch now: piped.video/dLuDMY5p_aY
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Build It! Episode 11 is out! Join Matt and David in the latest session to learn about tooling available for Holochain devs 💻 Watch now: piped.video/bwClS57a4Vo #Holochain #Web3
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In advance of today’s Holochain Beta Release Candidate, we are pleased to announce that the #securityaudit of the Lair Keystore has been successfully completed by @LeastAuthority! ✅
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👣 #HolochainDev 👣 Check out Holochain in Action where community devs take a deep dive into the Acorn hApp by @Sprillow. They review the DNA cloning pattern, profile & project zomes and validation rules – check the timestamps for details! ✅ ow.ly/INob50FQmPI
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Woke up to the best message this morning. @mhuesch ran the #reputationlanguage on his android phone, with binaries compiled on Raspberry pi! Pretty big deal imo: because it enables generation of reputation currencies on extremely slim devices (thanks to @holochain)... $hot
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Kizuna is available with Holochain Launcher now! Watch this short video with @kizuna_fndn co-founder Tatsuya Sato for instructions on how you can download and start chatting ☄️ ✅ Watch now: piped.video/ck45A8j1-fs ✅ Install: kizuna.foundation/en/install… #Holochain #Dweb #P2P
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Neighbourhoods creates a wallet for reputation data so individuals can move about the web more freely and groups scale more consciously, thanks to sensemaking about newcomers and other neighbourhoods. Watch the latest Ecosystem Session: buff.ly/3DJtklm #Holochain #Dweb
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