In 1993, Wired launched with Marshall McLuhan on their masthead. Silicon Valley loved “the medium is the message.” McLuhan was famously faith-driven, a converted Catholic. He (alongside Ivan Illich) have served inspiration for @left_pad. Best known as a steward of the pivotal open-source JavaScript compiler Babel, Henry (KB4) has spent much of his life creating open source tools – a social annotation layer for the web, a receipt printer, a faith-inflected OSS podcast. Throughout, he remains keenly aware of the effects of his “electric engineering.” “Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as spiritual substance,” McLuhan wrote. “It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electric engineer.” Those searing words anchor @left_pad’s (KB4) nascent Bible App. “When God creates everything, he says that he creates humans in his image,” Henry told Kernel. “What that means is that we are meant to create.” His feed-based Bible App is a new message in a familiar medium. It’s a tool built to subvert TikTok “brain rot,” and to create precedent for technology that provides more signal and less noise. Cursory McCluhan readers may be surprised that he had more to say on his most known quote. "In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message,” he wrote in the 1974 essay, Liturgy and the Microphone. “It is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same." Henry tells his story of where the medium & message intertwine, and along the way, encourages each of us to create our own.

KERNEL is a custom educational community of unique individuals in(to) web3. *KB5* is our next 8 week experience: an intro to KERNEL, co-created with 200 peers. It is a journey deep into the ♡ of web3. Apps to KB5 (kickoff on Jan 28) are open 🗓👇 kernel.community/en/

KERNEL is a peer-to-peer learning community exploring one question in many ways. How can we cultivate more 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕝 relationships? KB7 begins 9/9, bringing together the ♡'s & minds of 250 unique humans for 8 weeks. Apps are now open📖 kernel.community/en/

KERNEL is a peer-to-peer learning community for unique individuals in(to) Web 3. *KB4* is our latest 8 week experience: a web3 learning environment for creative collaboration and constructive communication. Apps for KB4 (starting 9/17 📆) are open 👇 kernel.community/en/

𝙺𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚛-𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 [ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴄɪᴘᴀᴛᴏʀʏ] 𝚠𝚎𝚋, 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙺𝙱𝟾 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝙹𝚊𝚗 '𝟸𝟺 ♾ [ᴀᴘᴘꜱ ᴏᴘᴇɴ] kernel.community/en/

KB4. 🤍🥰💜🙏🏽💚

Kernel is building a custom internet age institution, one peer-learning environment at a time. ♾KB8♾ is our current time capsule, with applications for the block closing Dec 1st. Why should you apply? 1) Each Kernel Fellow joins as an individual, first. Kernel Fellows represent 50+ countries, top institutions, and vocations like technologist, (circus/DAO) director, (product/industrial) designer, (bestselling/internet) author, (hardware/software) engineer, and ecologist. 40% of us belong to underrepresented groups. Kernel primarily attempts to welcome KB8 fellows as individuals first, encouraging one another as peers. 2) Personalized building/creating support Each fellow has something to build or create. Kernel fellows have created projects like @sherlockdefi, @pushprotocol, @halofi_me, @Showtime_xyz, @llama, @jokerace_xyz, and @verses_xyz. Nearly 100 Kernel Fellows have raised significant funding ($1mm-$10mm). Fellows have also started DAOs, written PhD theses, launched art collections, and planted gardens. Each has meaningful space within a Kernel block. 3) Learn a wider lens of technology Crypto is a part of the greater evolution of technology, economics, and society. Kernel draws from library science and time designers as much as from cryptographers and technologists. The wider lens of technology (Gr: 'techne' - art, skill, craft) is key. We explore eight @Kernel0x modules in KB8 with technical and personal inquiries, in efforts for our personal growth to match our technical excellence. 4) Kernel Firesides x Office Hours Each week, we host two capstone events. Kernel Office Hours on Wednesday to support *you* & your work, via deep-time with peer mentors: @jack__sanford, @0xzak, @Sim_Pop, @jenilt, @_juliettech, @johnx25bd, + 20 more. Kernel Fireside on Thursday to learn *collectively*, on topics like internet age institutions, the evolution of trust, gift-giving, and local financial systems. Guests include @owocki, @ljin18, @xochitlcazador, @brewster_kahle, @maira, @keikreutler, @samecwilliams, and @VitalikButerin. 5) Host or join a ‘Convo’ Kernel Fellows propose convos on any topic. If it’s over an IRL meal or a class, Kernel funds it. We never underestimate the magic of a meal (or a learning session) shared amongst friends. 6) Engage in peer-learning Subjects as wide-ranging as solidity, smart contract auditing, token primitives, mindful movement, death, poetry, indigenous protocols, open data, de-school, and gratitude filter through Kernel via the 1,800 fellows who come before you. 7) Building a better web starts with you Kernel provides a reflective and supportive environment for honing your unique strengths and aligning your work to your gifts. We hope it is a place where you pursue your life's [current] work and find it supported by the environment. 8) Take a step back from the highs and lows. Relationships are an antidote to both FUD and FOMO. We offer an environment where the priority is the way in which we interact with each other. This extends well beyond Kernel. We'd love to hear from you in KB8. Please apply if interested ♾️

KERNEL Showcase goes live in 60 minutes via @KERNEL0x featuring 25 teams from KERNEL Block III: 💸 10 DeFi startups 🎨 8 NFT projects 🌿 8 DAOs 💎 6 projects working on creator economy 👾 4 Metaverse(s) 🤖 Browser-based web3 app builder Let's see the magic they have produced 👇🏼

KERNEL is a curated community of brilliant people in(to) Web 3. KERNEL Block III (KB3) is our next 8 week experience, introducing ~200 KERNEL Fellows to each other via the KERNEL mempool, forevermore 🌀 📆 Kickoff is May 12th! Apply to join us today. blog.kernel.community/post/l…

KERNEL is an experimental think tank, community, and homebase for top builders in Web 3. Today, we open up applications for Block 2 of our KERNEL Fellowship, starting Jan 2021. Apply today and learn about KERNEL below 👇🏽🌱 apply.kernel.community/

Exploring "Trust-full Web3 Spaces, Beyond The Financial" with @VitalikButerin at the first KB4 Fireside 🌳 We will go live in ~ 1 hour at 11AM EST. nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1ynKOZEVw…

KERNEL Finale is here! 🔥 We will go live in 2 hours from @KERNEL0x featuring 23 teams from KB2: 💸 7 DeFi startups 🎨 5 NFT projects 🌿 4 DAOs ✨ 2 Social Token projects ⚡️ An alternate to Solidity Let's see the magic they have produced in the past 8 weeks👇🏼

Today, @KERNEL0x is excited to announce signature economies ➰ Signature economies is an interactive experience exploring how ownership is changing From control to *care*, from possession to *reciprocity* 🪐 @economiesofsign 🪐 sign.kernel.community/

𝐊𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐗. 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟑𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓. We’re calling for KBX apps from “technologists”: founders, researchers, artists, designers, ecologists, engineers, and beyond. KBX will be ~150 people each working on a project or practice. Read more + apply to KBX.

Gmaen, KB5! Week 0 Fireside (feat. @VitalikButerin) is live 🔮 nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1lPJqmqPg…

Craft /kraft/: applied creativity, “the universal language of the hand.” Kernel is a peer-learning institution dedicated to crafting a better web, together. KB9 will be ~200 peers building online, onchain, and beyond ➰ will you craft with us? apply.kernel.community/

KB9 apps close June 1 We expect ~150 peers in KB9, each honing: 🧶 A project or a craft 🦜 In an ongoing, p2p learning env Kernel is about building the patterns required for a better web. We'd love to see you apply. apply.kernel.community/

it's happening ⚡⚡⚡

𝕋𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟𝕤 & 𝕄𝕖𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕞 𝔻𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕟: 𝔸 𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝔸𝕣𝕨𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖 & 𝔸𝕆 🐘 In this KBX fireside, @TateBerenbaum (KB3) explores Tokens & Mechanism Design—starting with 200-year incentive models in @ArweaveEco, and building a new foundation for the web a la the decentralized supercomputer, @AOthecomputer. 00:00 Intro 01:40 What is mechanism design? 04:20 Reward vehicles & incentive design 05:40 Moral vs. economic incentives 10:15 Aligning incentives 12:50 Arweave’s architecture 17:10 Deflationary effects 19:15 AO: secure, generalized compute 22:45 Fair launch token design 25:15 Permaweb Index 27:30 Dual-token model: compute vs storage 29:00 Broader use cases: LLMs, oracles 31:15 Closing thoughts

INTRODUCING CULTURE 🔭 A @KERNEL0x track bringing 50+ creators, artists, musicians interested in crypto 🌀 A part of KERNEL Block III (8 weeks, May 12th kickoff). Apps open thru 4/30. DM's open. notion.so/gitcoin/CULTURE-59…

Introducing the KERNEL Security Track 🔐 A KERNEL track specifically for crypto (or crypto-curious) security engineers to build a safer open internet. Apply below for the 6-week fellowship, run as a part of KERNEL Block 2 starting in Jan 21. gitcoin.co/blog/announcing-t…

KB4 Showcase goes live in 30 minutes via @KERNEL0x featuring 22 Adventures from KERNEL Block IV: 💸 4 DeFi Legos 🎨 8 Innovative NFT Experiences ✨ 6 DAO & Tooling Projects 👾 4 Expansive Pluriverses Let's see the infinite magic they have produced 👇🏼

Kernel Block 9 is off ☂️ Week 0 begins with the inimitable: 🌎 150+ fellows from 30+ countries 👷‍♀️ each working on their craft 📖 grounded by the Kernel Book 🛝 ready to co-conspire & support one another

KERNEL asks, how do we cultivate communities of care? How do we build a better web(3) & world? Our Fellows’ projects are answers to these questions & tm we explore 23 manifestations in Alumni Showcase: 🌿6 Service Protocols 🎨6 NFT Communities of Care 💸4 DeFi Systems ✨7 DAOs

As we make a final push for KB5, we're extending the deadline through *this Sunday, 12/5*. We'll be announcing 5 unique spirits as founding KB5 Fellows tomorrow. Slowly, ecologically, through each of you - the kernel grows 🌿 please come say hi :)

KERNEL Fireside feat. Vitalk Buterin @VitalikButerin pscp.tv/w/cwZwNDFWR2p2ZFJxZ3…

Kernel appears in 15 ballots in Optimism's RetroPGF 3. Here is an excerpt on Ether’s Phoenix, an inspiration for RetroPGF, from the Kernel (hyper)textbook. 🔴 Feel your heartbeat and lift your head, friend. Look out to the far horizon, for the phoenix awaits. 🔴 It is fire which does not consume, but gives flight to what is true; to what cannot die; to what was not born; to what gives you life in return for how you choose to recycle. This essay’s purpose is to start your regen journey. We’ll do so by turning to the trees, and asking a man who cuts them for a living what they truly have to teach. 'Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees' by William Bryant Logan is where we hope to catch a glimpse of Ether’s playful phoenix. This is not a series of instructions. It is a web of co-relations. Kernel cannot tell you exactly how to regenerate your environment, but we can discover together why it is a virtuous goal. ‘Regen’ is neither regressive nor progressive. It does not make the twin mistakes of thinking we can conquer our environment, nor of imagining that we are separate from our environment and can return it to some pristine state by retracting our participation. There is no escape. There is no ‘right’ way. There is no ‘good’ solution. There are no righteous few. There is no ‘them’. There are none who are not complicit. There is attention. There is awareness. There is thanksgiving. There is reciprocity. There is awe. There is humility. There is listening, learning, and love. “(Trees are) a living cathedral dedicated to the power of sprouting. As often as you cut it, all by itself it grows its pillars again.” So, we begin with what may seem like heresy: trees are for cutting. However, this does not give us a free licence, and it does not mean trees are for cutting in some existential sense. It means that our relationship with trees revolves around cutting, its right rhythm, and the sort of respect and reverence required for life to be continually revived in generation after generation. Ether’s Phoenix is the idea that an abundant future of public goods will indefinitely and retroactively reward the contributors who helped create it. Moreover, as the Optimism team puts it in their blog: “It is also a mindset: that optimism prevails, that better systems are possible, and that humankind will be rewarded for its cooperative revolution.” However, even well-intentioned religions and traditions, who create potentially good future attractors can fail to move towards them over time. Something more than an 🔴optimistic 🔴mindset is required. Logan and the trees offer us a further consideration: “The work in which head and heart and hand participate, at once, yields the only objective knowledge. It employs the ratiocinative capacity, the ability to discriminate and choose.” It is not only mind. It is not only heart. It is not only hands. It is all three in concert, with reverence for this world as it is, and how it resists even the faintest glimmer of our own projections. Moreover, there is a tekne (both technique and art) to understanding how our present actions may affect the future. Such craft combines scientific knowledge, lived experience, and tender care. In attuning to the consequences of our actions, we are more capable of understanding what the right decision is, at the right time, in the right place.

Join us and @nicksdjohnson (the founder of @ensdomains) for an ENS Research Session tomorrow. Interop is an ecosystem-wide effort. ENS is building key pieces of the puzzle (eg. multichain primary names & metadata). Jam with Nick & other builders. 3 spots left, RSVP below.

2/ Timeless Space Make Moment, Capture It Forever. To bridge the gap between the real world and the metaverse. Partnering with @harmonyprotocol to curate unique event experiences with one-of-a-kind 3D artwork NFTs. timeless.space/

𝕂𝔹𝟙𝟙 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐠 𝟏𝟓. ꜰᴏʀ ~50 ᴛᴇᴄʜɴᴏʟᴏɢɪꜱᴛꜱ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ɪɴꜰʀᴀꜱᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ, ɪɴᴛᴇʀꜰᴀᴄᴇꜱ, & ɪɴᴛᴇʟʟɪɢᴇɴᴄᴇ (ɪɴ ᴄʀʏᴘᴛᴏ + ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ) 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊?

KB4 showcase is live 🔥 nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1mrxmadVM…

KB5 Showcase Day II is live in 80 minutes via @KERNEL0x with 21 projects from KERNEL Block V: 💸6 DeFi Quests 🎨9 Innovative NFT Projects ✨9 Constellations of DAOs 👾6 Expansive Pluriverses Want to co-create web3 adventures? Join us🌿 bit.ly/KB5-Showcase-Day2

Join us at 12PM ET with @thesarahshow to chat about "redefining ownership, mediums of expression, definitions of value and even societal dynamics" in Crypto and NFTs. nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1BRJjnppZ…

We are super excited to Kickoff KB3 - Expo Week with DeFi x NFTs day. Check out this thread to learn more about the 22 DeFi and NFT Projects brewing in KB3.👇🏼

48 hours left to express interest in KB7! KB7 decisions will be announced in one month ➰ and the adventure begins on 9/9/22 Please say hello if you have any questions, we are present :)

KB5 Showcase goes live via @KERNEL0x in less than 90 minutes & features 20+ Adventures from KERNEL Block V: 💸 6 DeFi Quests 🎨 9 Innovative NFT Projects ✨ 6 DAO Constellations 👾 6 Expansive Pluriverses Join us as we revel in their magic✨ bit.ly/KB5-Showcase-Day1

KERNEL Alumni Showcase is on 6/14. 22 projects will share stories from their corners of web3. We’d love to invite 25 new friends: web3 explorers, tinkerers, anyone curious. It will be interactive & fun. Please DM or comment 🍃 if interested. We’ll send invites by 6/7!

We're really excited to help this unfold and look forward to exploring it in a participative way in the next Kernel Block, beginning 9/9.

A KERNEL Adventure @surge_women is on their mission to secure women’s place in Web3. We’re grateful to know @denise / @juliette and to be extending a perk to Surge members as we explore co-creative spaces together 🌸

We are Live! KERNEL Expo Week - DeFi Day, 2/16 pscp.tv/w/cvqSozFWR2p2ZFJxZ3…

Welcome to Fellow Features #0 — highlighting the craft of Kernel Fellows re-patterning our webs & our worlds🌐 🧶 @paulcowgill (KB0) 🧱 @jenilt (KB2) 📸 @divine_economy (KB4) 🦖 @garysheng (KB5) 🎨 @markredito (KB5) 🗺️ @estmcmxci (KB7) 📝 @kithkui (KB8) Kernel is bc they are🎈

we're all about the "choose your own adventure" vibes at Kernel 🌱

💲Announcing KERNEL DeFi Track💲 Led by @lmrankhan, @panekkkk, and @QwQiao, the DeFi Track will host 40+ founders, builders, and researchers exploring decentralized finance together within KB2. Building regen-finance? We hope you'll apply by Jan 8th 😉 notion.so/gitcoin/KERNEL-DeF…

Welcome back to Fellow Features, highlighting the work of fellows re-patterning our web, including: 📷 @futureprimitive 🍊 @elenita_tweets 🌀 @omeragoldberg 🌿 @mayazdentzel @TerezaBizkova 🤓  @devinawalsh 🐛 @azeemk 🌳 @agroforestDAO 🔐 @viv_boop 📋 @pumpernikhil 🧵👇🏾

Welcome to our first Fellow Features of 2025 where we celebrate fellows working toward healthier webs 😻 📝 @AnnalieseMilano 🤖 @vintrotweets @courtlandleer 🎙️ @ddwchen 🇪🇹 @kokebsolomon 🎥 @cult_leader_en 💸 @thurahdex 🌿 @regencrypto 🧵

Looking for the most innovative ideas and startups around DAOs and Token space. Checkout 20+ teams and builders, brewing goodness at KERNEL Block 3 👇🏼 bit.ly/kb3_expo2

incredible news for @cjhtech and @revrfg, who joined forces on @atlantis0x in Kernel Block 3 🌱

If you're wondering what being a Kernel fellow feels like :) Art called "Radiating Love Constantly to All Beings in All Places and Times" by @this_is_silvia

👋🏽 hi! new to our page? We’re Kernel, a virtual fellowship program that cares about building a better web together. - We hold 2 blocks per year for 9 weeks each. - Blocks are anchored by our homegrown curriculum with peer-mentorship opportunities, firesides chats, showcases and discussions for horizontal dialogue. - The next block, KBX, begins January 31, 2025. Apply below! We feel so much gratitude for the fellows who make our peer-learning environment come alive. A few KB9 Fellows share experiences from the environment we co-create together below, thank you ❤️: @Venture_This @DWSimon @GraceRachmany @oyealmond @p0nk5

➰➰➰Signature➰➰➰ to bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay. -- chapter two, tao te ching ➰➰➰Economies➰➰➰ join us tomorrow, 6/24, for a significant reveal 🪐 nitter.app/i/spaces/1lPJqmLWRVPJb

We start with people. Who makes up KERNEL? 👥 1,000+ KERNEL Fellows 🌍 from 36 countries 📖 building 150+ Web 3 projects Each KERNEL Fellow is unique. The collective creates a unique support structure for your own Web 3 adventure.

Today we bring you Day II of KERNEL B5 Expo Week 🌿 Here are 25 adventures exploring DAOs, education, & infrastructure - expanding & reimagining, slowly & with care. Please help us say hello ♡. bit.ly/kb5expo-day2

The next generation of crypto builders are building on community owned infrastructure, like @SiaTechHQ. We're excited to welcome these teams to the KERNEL Fellowship to build with a strong, like-minded community.

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We celebrated the end of KBX with 30 fellows & a home-cooked meal, c/o @mschneiderortiz  & @iggy_gl. It was good food & good company, learning about fellow projects like @plasticlabs, @TinyCloudLabs, @AlexandriaLabs & @koodos. Soon we'll share what's cooking for KB11.

13/ SkyFeed Built on @siatechhq, Skyfeed is a Decentralized SkyDB-based alternative to Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram with a native iOS, Android, and web app. - by @redsolver notion.so/gitcoin/SkyFeed-f9…

Announcing The KERNEL Scholarship 🌱 With support from @she_256 and @metagammadelta, the KERNEL Fellowship is free for all women and members of underrepresented communities. Learn more + DM us if you have questions on KERNEL Block II, starting in Jan 🙏 gitcoin.co/blog/t-kernel-sch…

Just the kernel stewards preparing Block 8 for the incoming fellows. Starting in 5 days!

do we build? Across 5 tracks: 💸 DeFi 🎱 CULTURE 🎗Tokens 🔒 Security 🎮 Gaming With 1:1 support from KERNEL Peer Mentors from around Web3: @Anne_Connelly, @panekkkk, @WuCarra, @corpetty, @lindaxie, @harshrajat, @jenilt, @tklocanas, @mkriak, @bramanathan + 50 more.

Tl;dr: Whomever said NFTs are dead is ngmi The awesome Kernel builders are at it again, exploring and crafting some of the most innovative applications around NFTs. Check out these 25 🔥 projects👇🏼bit.ly/kb3_expo3

How is Kernel searching for the people of Kernel Block 8? 🧵

we can only offer apologies for bringing everyone in block 8 to this crossroads 😓

UPDATE: KB11 apps extended to 8/31. We've already received incredible apps from people exploring crypto & beyond. Kernel is about researching & producing in good company, with clarity & excellence. On Sept 19, we begin with ~50 fellows. We'd love to learn your @Kernel0x.

How do we build? Across guilds & juntos: 💸 DeFi @tomhschmidt 🌍 Web3 Community @IDEOVC 🎗DAOs @GnosisGuild 🎮 Gaming @OPGames_ ❓ 30+ peer-led juntos (by KB5!) With support from web3 peer mentors: @WuCarra, @lindaxie, @harshrajat, @ljin18, @tklocanas, @bramanathan, & more

Join us today for a special Kernel fireside at 15 UTC, our first on @unlonely_app! @evabeylin of @GraphProtocol & @AnjanKatta of @daylightco help us 'Take Back the Web' with their intentional approaches to evolve our technologies & the patterns they shape. Link in 🧵👇

ADVENTURES Everyone has an adventure. Some may look like: 🧠 Web3 x neuroscience research (@0xstephb) 🌿 Launching a DAO (@WendiYan5 @divine_economy) ☀️ Transformative web3 musings (@j_asminewang) What is your adventure & how can KB5 support you?

This NFT funds afforestation efforts on Lamu Island for 0.01 ETH. A whole village has navigated the beautiful complexities of local community to craft stunning music, plant a variety of indigenous trees, and traversed the aether to weave it together. earthart.africa/

Kernel ❤️ Ethereum ❤️ SEA We'll be hosting multiple sessions in Asia-friendly timezones on the road to Devcon this year🌱 Here's to exploring digital locality and local digitality with the communities in the region via conversations like this one and the Keeping It Simple Series (KISS)!

KERNEL Finalé is live! 🔥 pscp.tv/w/cxkAzTFWR2p2ZFJxZ3…

Kernel invites you to our free & public KISS sessions: 🖥️ @cryptowanderer on @arweave’s @aoTheComputer 🎹 @markredito on @StabilityAI's @stableaudio 🤡 @divine_economy on @jokerace_io 🔍 @_liviade @LisaWocken @NathaliaScherer on @tokengineering stakeholder study 🧵 RSVP 👇

KB9 has 3 weeks left & we’ve had the honor to host many peers we respect in our Thursday fireside chats. Each fireside theme corresponds to a module in the Kernel Book--the weekly framing. Check out the playbacks below 🎥🧵 Guests include:

7/ created by @MelissaZhang13 @matt__alston 🔥 Bonfire is a Shopify-like platform to enable creators to truly own their audience and build enduring communities on their own branded websites, powered by their social tokens and NFTs trybonfire.xyz

Today KERNEL B5 Expo Week wraps up with Day III 🌿 We have over 25 adventures examining decentralized & regenerative financial tools & how they integrate into a variety of communities 👇🏾. bit.ly/kb5expo-day3

Grateful we'll also host builders from KERNEL Genesis Block tomorrow 👾👩‍🎨 🦕 @RafaellaBaraldo, co-founder @PodsFinance ⚒️ @realChainLife, OSS developer @IPFS ⏰ @richajoshi, co-founder @epnsproject Come hang + consider applying to KERNEL Block II :)

𝔽𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔽𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤 #𝟝 | 𝔽𝕖𝕓𝕣𝕦𝕒𝕣𝕪 ‘𝟚𝟝 🧱@sagrawal on pod 🧉@michellehuang42 on craft in Japan 👛@fragosti on @phantom fundraise 🤖@patel0phone on Uni v4 🦎@nichanank on onchain rules 👷‍♀️@revrfg on Commit 🤝@jimchang on mentorship 📝@jasminewsun on China

3/ @metaverseOrg is bridging the Metaverse, Web3 & Blockchain with infra & dApps. MetaverseAI.org

T-4 days until KB8 apps close on December 1st. We will accept late apps through 12/15, but the block may fill at any time. The spirited, the creative, the curious, the builders are encouraged to please apply. KB8 begins on January 12th. Apply now 👇 apply.kernel.community/

@devinawalsh @MaraSchmiedt @Rebecca_Mqamelo @Sim_Pop @caitlinner888 @AEdge0420 @RachBLondon @lindaxie @iamlizendary @JKim_Tran @ddwchen @ZayiRey @realChainLife @monamhamdy @BlackMagicBank @chaserchapman @MelissaZhang13 @RafaellaBaraldo @blackboxdotart @sebnem @Vonnie610 @nichanank🌱

The KBX application window is extended to 𝕁𝕒𝕟 𝟚𝟚. KBX will now begin on 𝔽𝕖𝕓 𝟚𝟙. ~50 slots remain for technologists pursuing clear, significant, and spirited work. All current applicants + all who apply by 𝔻𝕖𝕔 𝟛𝟙 (!) will receive interview decisions by 𝕁𝕒𝕟 𝟛. For KBX, we're going deeper than ever with each participant. While we initially aimed for ~150 KBX Fellows starting Jan 31st, we’re adjusting to focus on quality. With ~100 applications (~75 high quality) so far, we're confident in beginning Feb 21st with ~125 KBX Fellows. Kernel is evolving. Our most significant work is creating a responsive learning environment for a diverse range of technologists to thrive. Our focus is on developing 'foundational architectures of participation', both for Kernel and in support of the work of Kernel fellows. KBX’s transformation includes new modules on cryptography and artificial intelligence, a revamped mentorship program, whiteboard sessions with top technologists, and "Augmented Locality" (more to come here). We remain committed to fostering the technology and customs we want to see in our web. This will require us to imagine radically new ways of living well together. We look forward to your applications and hope to welcome you to KBX very, very soon.

Kernel fellow @sdimantha will be joining the wonderful folks at @fdotinc for web3sf.com/ We're really looking forward to what unfolds from this event and are, as always, excited to see so many seeds being planted with love, in many different ways and worlds.

We stand on the shoulders of YC and many other Titans. But alas: "The internet requires that we update the practices and customs we use to relate to one another and organize ourselves." KERNEL is deeply rooted, but born anew. 🌱 kernel.community/module-4/

More than anything, it comes back to people. We are incredibly grateful for each individual who has trusted us for their KERNEL experience and who has created it alongside us. We hope to see you join us soon 🌳 DM's open for KB5!

This era of technology will require peer-to-peer tools which "help us help each other". In this spirit, we welcome KBX apps from "technologists" in the broadest sense, so we might help each other in surprising ways. KBX begins on January 31, 2025. kernel.community

🤔 Game economies are the best corollary to token ecosystems ⭐️ What if @polats x @end3r facilitate a game jam to mindfully apply game design principles to Web 3 projects? 🤖 KERNEL Gaming Guild is live. Apply to join us during KB2 by 12/15 👇🏽 notion.so/gitcoin/Gaming-Gui…

We're really excited to be hosting a space with @caseorganic @notscottmoore and @cryptowanderer entitled "Care > Optionality" We'll be exploring the sorts of signs which might help us find and create communities of care. Join us tomorrow, 11am EST here: nitter.app/i/spaces/1OyKADYgjOrxb"

Come KISS Kernel 🥰 Keeping it Simple Series (KISS) focuses on simplifying web3 topics in collaborative learning sessions open to the public. We host sessions all year & welcome your ideas that combine conversation & craft. Invite your friends & lovers. Upcoming sessions, 🧵

Take @Rebecca_Mqamelo as an example ✨ she is: 💰 Head of Growth at @zerion_io 🌳 Researches community currencies at @grassEcon ✍🏽 A dazzling writer, poet, and human being She & many others have shared their gifts with us since joining KERNEL 🎁

At KBX Showcase, 20 fellows presented their work towards a better web. Topics included: credible commitments, p2p private commerce, serverless crypto orchestration, spatial computation, collective inference tooling, novel venture funds, and AI sovereignty. Here are 10 of them:

1/ Sherlock @jack__sanford's idea is to reduce the dependency on expensive audits, still providing trust to the users. It's a DeFi insurance platform. @Sherlock_DeFi gitcoin.co/grants/2035/sherl…

First, who makes up the KERNEL? 🫂 800+ KERNEL Fellows 🌎 from 36 countries 📕 building 150+ Web 3 projects 💲 who have raised $25M Each KERNEL Fellow is unique. The collective creates a unique support structure for your own Web 3 adventure.

2/ Reach @chrisswenor & team have created an alternative to solidity. @reachlang is the fastest, easiest, and safest way to build applications on the blockchain. gitcoin.co/grants/194/reach-…

this thursday, we have a special signature space x kernel fireside ➰ @caseorganic 🧶 @aaronzlewis 🪺 @Rebecca_Mqamelo the topic is “resilient, local communities of care” convo.kernel.community/rsvp/…

This week, privacy is centerstage in crypto. The Roman Storm trial serves as a reminder of the heated ongoing battle for privacy happening right now. SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce said “where, by design or deficiency, the law will not protect us, technology might,” referencing zk-proofs, privacy pools, and mixers. Meanwhile, the tools our industry is building are improving rapidly, in search of better answers to fundamental questions about privacy. How do you give people the ability to transact privately with a technology that is fundamentally transparent and traceable? How do we find balance between privacy and mixing? How can we do so that we don’t obfuscate or abet the transactions of malicious actors? How do we build privacy-preserving blockchains that enable trust with whom we transact? @pumpernikhil joined us recently to discuss @0xPredicate and shared his thoughts. “Philosophically one of my reasons for why I got interested in blockchains and crypto was on privacy.” “In the past, you [did] some type of identity verification and share[d] all of your information. I think that's the wrong way to do it.” “The world we have to envision is a bottoms up view around how we enforce our own requirements for privacy.” “I don't think this means that I should be giving up KYC the entire time.”

𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚎'𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙺𝙱𝟾. 𝙳𝙼'𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗. ᴛᴏ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇꜱ ᴋᴇʀɴᴇʟ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ, ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ. kernel.community/en/blog/Edi…

read about "Asking Better Questions" at kernel.community/en/learn/mo…

Negation Game by @connormcmk: a tool for collective decision making, collaborative inference, sensemaking, and governance.

21/ PR1S0N ART Digital art which pays back prisoner debt, restoring justice and the dignity of returning artist citizens. By @abrahamuccello @hollygrimm @cryptowanderer pr1s0n.art

Introducing KERNEL x @fairlaunchcap 👨🏼‍⚖️ The KERNEL Fair Launch Track will help teams explore distribution mechanisms which engage communities to build, maintain and govern projects over the long term. notion.so/gitcoin/KERNEL-Fai…