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May 5
Unpopular take: the shared ledger is crypto's original sin.
Every scaling problem, every UX nightmare, every privacy compromise traces back to it. Eliminate it and the entire design space opens up.
This is the bet we're making at Unicity. Come join us.
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Governments & regulated enterprises are tasking autonomous agents with real consequential work . None of them will risk running them on someone else’s cloud and terms.
The winner OS in this game must be neutral, model-agnostic, self-hosted, & auditable 📄
That’s Astrid
Jun 11
AstridOS is coming
You've taught your agent how you work
Your context, your setup, the way you operate
Switching platforms to get more control or security means throwing all of that away
We've been building a way to keep it
Early access opens soon
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Jun 12
Every "agent OS" on the market is an orchestration layer in a costume.
Astrid is the first AgentOS that's actually an OS.
Linux for a world with no human at the keyboard.
Jun 12
Join us Monday for a launch preview of Unicity's Agent Operating System Astrid.
Astrid securely extends your agents by running underneath any system you already have, w/ a security sandbox, observability, and extension layer
Coming soon
Register here:
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Jun 9
building a blockchain without a shared ledger is hard work. Without access to shared state how do you build composable defi protocols that assume atomicity? We published our latest papers last week to show how we do it. The engineering is hard but the benefits are worth it - perfect privacy, censorship resistance and massive parallelized throughput - almost sounds like physical cash!
Jun 9
Two of our latest research papers are now live on @arxiv
1/ Unicity: Predicates and Atomic Swaps
2/ The Unicity Execution Layer
what are they? 👇👇👇
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Jun 5
Lots to talk about today - ZCash hack, Personal Agents Cloud and roadmap to TGE...
Jun 5
Join our Space later today to hear about upcoming launches direct from the core team
🧡 Upcoming Astrid AgentOS launch
🧡 Sphere SDK
🧡 Testnet updates
🧡 Research papers
Lots of progress lots to talk about - join us
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May 26
Yeah - about not finding the right primitives. Fortunately it is not too late. Build the right primitives (e.g. P2P digital cash) and it is possible to build all of crypto from DeFi to AI with new foundations - and privacy by design.
i have been incredibly humbled by the inability of fantasy top, friendtech and consumer crypto apps to cross the chasm. crypto in its most ambitious form (of ushering in a new era of user owned software and infrastructure) has failed.
we optimistically tried to blend the personas of investor (people allocating capital to production to receive more money than they put in) and consumer (people willing to pay more for a product than it costs to operate) and found ourselves serving the needs of neither.
where the strong form of crypto failed, the weak form (of commoditized ledger/database tech for financial transactions) has succeeded beyond anyone's expectation. the consequence is that crypto has been reduced to a vassal of traditional finance, both more impactful than any normie anticipated, and deeply disappointing in structure to crypto OGs. reducing global transaction costs as commoditized ledger/database technology reduces drag on global GDP, but this is a marginal improvement over the status quo and one where the value accrues in large part to incumbent intermediaries in reducing overhead and improving margins.
crypto was supposed to be the most egalitarian thing ever. it was insanely ambitious and, if it worked, could have really changed the fabric of society.
it didn't. it's over. we haven't found the right primitives, and, more importantly, the right culture for delivering the most ambitious version of crypto. it's time to question everything again.
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Mike Gault retweeted
May 26
Why privacy szn?
OH: People realizing that private transactions and state is the last real tech problem to solve right now.
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Mike Gault retweeted
May 23
Zcash pumped and now Near, Venice, Railgun, et al. are in a race to build the mostly widely adopted privacy tools and protocols. For a moment really enjoy this return to cypherpunk roots, it’s nice to actually be rooting for everybody for once
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May 18
I'm not so sure about that...
Good convo with @eastdakota just now.
He said our size is not size.
Cloudflare needs a chain that can do 100m TPS for AI micropayments at scale.
Crypto has nothing close to this today.
Episode drops next Monday.
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there is a 0% chance that crypto scales without privacy
the most ironic thing in the past year has been that even though avg retail doesn't care about it, it is a top 2 requirement for institutions and they will not come onchain otherwise
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May 15
The intellectual arc of blockchain design has been unbundling - taking work away from the network.
Bitcoin: certify correctness, agree on order.
FastPay: certify correctness, drop ordering.
Unicity: certify uniqueness only. Correctness moves to the edge.
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May 13
Every blockchain since Bitcoin is a shared ledger in the sky.
That's why DeFi keeps getting drained. That's why no government/enterprise has really adopted. That's why agents can't settle on it.
Unicity is the rebuild. Tokens that verify locally. Shared state through verifiable execution and token predicates.
No bridges to believe in. Parallel by default, private by default.
L1 fatigue is real. Showing up in 2026 with something that actually works is rarer.
Let's go.
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May 9
Half right. Agents need permissionless, frictionless rails - that part is DeFi-shaped. They don't need a shared ledger, and at agent volumes they can't have one. The interesting work is what replaces it. Unicity is rebuilding DeFi's foundations on a new atomic primitive: self-authenticating tokens, validation at the edge.
May 7
🔥 INSIGHT: “If we believe AI agents are going to be economically important actors, we need a financial system that looks a lot like DeFi,” says @a16zcrypto GP Guy Wuollet.
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May 8
ZK rollups use ZK to make a ledger cheaper.
Unicity uses ZK to avoid having a ledger at all.
Come join us today to find out how.
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May 7
Looking forward to hosting this space tomorrow. We will review the ZK landscape in crypto and how we are applying it in Unicity. We come with strong opinions !
May 7
Our research team has been running ZK benchmarks this week
Risto will share the full results soon.. TLDR: the hardware assumptions most of the ZK space uses don't apply when the architecture is optimised
See you at our X Space tomorrow for a first look
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May 6
Unpopular take 2:
The latest hacks aren't bugs. They're symptoms.
$629M drained from DeFi in April. Kelp, Drift, Resolv, CoW Swap.
Crypto built a stack on shared state and tried to hold it together with bridges and oracles. Each layer became the next attack surface.
At Unicity we want to rebuild the decentralized finance stack from a new atomic primitive: the self-authenticating token.
A smart contract becomes a verifiable execution agent running locally on your machine.
Come join us - we are still building the foundations.
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Mike Gault retweeted
Apr 30
Autonomous AI needs an internet built for machines
✨ True P2P - no central ledger
🌐 Validation at the edge
🚀 Agent-Agent with speed that scales
Built for billions of daily transactions
Join early for the upcoming airdrop:
quest.unicity.network
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Mike Gault retweeted
Apr 23
Under the directives of the President of the UAE, we launch a new government model. Within two years, 50% of government sectors, services, and operations will run on Agentic AI, making the UAE the first government globally to operate at this scale through autonomous systems.
AI is no longer a tool. It analyses, decides, executes, and improves in real time. It will become our executive partner to enhance services, accelerate decisions, and raise efficiency.
This transformation has a clear timeline. Two years. Performance across government will be measured by speed of adoption, quality of implementation, and mastery of AI in redesigning government work.
We are investing in our people. Every federal employee will be trained to master AI, building one of the world’s strongest capabilities in AI-driven government.
Implementation will be overseen by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, with a dedicated taskforce chaired by Mohammad Al Gergawi driving execution.
The world is changing. Technology is accelerating. Our principle remains constant. People come first. Our goal is a government that is faster, more responsive, and more impactful.
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Mike Gault retweeted
Apr 19
The last 15 years of crypto built transparent ledgers and called it freedom. It wasn't. It was surveillance apparatus, dressed up in cypherpunk clothing.
Unicity is the correction. No shared ledger. No trace. Peer-to-peer, as it was meant to be.
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