The next evolution of Hermes Agent is here! Introducing Hermes Desktop: everything you love about Hermes, now native on your machine. First demoed in Jensen's GTC keynote, it's now in public preview.

Hermes Agent tip of the day: You can backup and transfer your agent cleanly and simply. Want to move it to a new VPS that is bigger? Take it to your new Mac Mini? `hermes backup` - > creates a zip install hermes on a new machine fresh transfer the zip to that machine then run `hermes import` done :) Full docs: hermes-agent.nousresearch.co…

Hermes was built linux first! It has some special capabilities if running on a mac (like accessing your notes) but, generally, it performs super well on a Linux OS!

Hermes Agent by @NousResearch is now available on SwarmNode. In 3 clicks you get a dedicated Cloud Desktop, fully isolated from your personal machine. Hermes Agent takes the wheel inside it. Watch it work live, and take over anytime.

Hermes Agent by @NousResearch is now available on SwarmNode. In 3 clicks you get a dedicated Cloud Desktop, fully isolated from your personal machine. Hermes Agent takes the wheel inside it. Watch it work live, and take over anytime.

Crypto AI tokens are bouncing back today ( 2%) after a volatile week driven by Trump's Liberation Day tariffs and geopolitical tension Notably @openservai up 2x in 24 hours following outperformance on its reasoning architecture & TAO bouncing 5% back above $300 Here's the latest crypto AI & robotics roundup to get you up to speed: i) @openservai opens Phase 1 private beta for SERV Reasoning; their proprietary graph-based reasoning architecture that delivers GPT-5 level performance at ~74x lower cost SERV Nano benchmarked at ~20x cheaper and ~3x faster than GPT-5.4. Already in production with a UAE government partner through Neol ii) @higgsfield launches Seedance 2.0 on its platform with next-gen physics, joint audio-video generation, and best-in-class picture control; currently available everywhere except the US with 65% off for early access iii) The @LinuxFoundation launches the x402 Foundation with @coinbase contributing the x402 protocol to neutral open-source governance. The internet's native payment layer for agentic commerce now has an institutional home iv) @virtuals_io powers the first fully autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction onchain via ACP on @base with USDC; A Unitree humanoid 3D-printed a model, posted a delivery request through ACP, @realRiceAI's rover collected the package, and @FlybyRobotics' drone completed the handoff. Zero humans. Settlement via x402 Virtuals also launched its Console, AI Council, agent tokenization tooling, and a 60-day trial framework for founders v) @Grayscale files Amendment No. 1 to its S-1 for the Grayscale Bittensor Trust ETF (ticker GTAO) on NYSE Arca, advancing the December 2025 filing. Coinbase and BitGo named as custodians. First AI-focused spot ETF in the U.S. is inching closer vi) @SolanaFndn joins the x402 Foundation, now accounting for ~65% of all x402 transaction volume with 400ms finality and sub-cent fees. Solana is positioning itself as the core settlement layer for the agentic economy vii) @MoonPay open-sources the Open Wallet Standard; a universal wallet layer for AI agents across eight chain families. Contributors include PayPal, Ripple, Solana Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, and Circle. RippleX joins the OWS Hackathon with XRPL and RLUSD challenge tracks viii) @YumaGroup (DCG subsidiary) has staked nearly 19% of the TAO supply. xTAO reports a 7.2% validator yield. Institutional conviction in Bittensor continues to compound ix) @nunet_global announces the NuNet Appliance Closed Beta Release is on the way; bringing their decentralized compute network closer to production x) @GEODNET continues to scale its decentralized RTK network past 20,000 stations across 150 countries with $7M ARR. Token burns are offsetting 80% of new issuance. Performance staking on Solana is rolling out and the GEO-SWARM drone-in-a-box prototype (with HYFIX) is progressing toward its Kickstarter launch xi) @NousResearch introduces the Manim skill for Hermes Agent; enabling AI agents to create precise programmatic animations for mathematical and technical explainers (the engine behind @3blue1brown). Nous continues to ship agentic tooling at pace xii) @NaorisProtocol launches its post-quantum Layer 1 mainnet, the first blockchain built from genesis with NIST-approved cryptography. Comes the same week Google warned Bitcoin's encryption could be broken with fewer than 500K qubits xiii) @OpenAI acquires @TBPN for a reported low hundreds of millions; its first media acquisition. The daily tech show will report to Chris Lehane's strategy org Distribution is the new moat; when the leading AI lab buys a media company, that tells you where the value is shifting xiv) @VitalikButerin publishes his self-sovereign, local, private, secure LLM setup for April 2026; a signal that the Ethereum co-founder sees local inference and privacy-preserving AI as the path forward Expect privacy AI to be a big trend in the coming years xv) @swarmnode announces Cloud Desktops for AI Agents; giving agents their own fully isolated computer with a real screen to see and control. Works with Openclaw, Claude, Nous, and more If I've missed any pertinent news, let me know and I'll append below Subscribe to my FREE newsletter (link in bio) for a deeper update on the week's developments follow @KhalaResearch for more formal reporting on crypto AI and robotics (two more reports coming this month) @taoinstitute_ is going live later this week with the Subnet Risk Index; the first institutional-grade risk evaluation framework for Bittensor Disclosure: I am partnered with, and hold, some of the protocols included in this roundup. Nothing in this post constitutes financial advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset. Do your own research

Update coming soon that simplifies the process of setting up @openclaw on SwarmNode for non-technical folks.

More and more people install AI tools (like OpenClaw) on their personal computers and give them unrestricted access. All it takes is one vulnerability to get pwned and lose important files or have your wallet drained. Don’t run experimental software on your personal computers. Run it on @swarmnode.

New supply chain attack this time for npm axios, the most popular HTTP client library with 300M weekly downloads. Scanning my system I found a use imported from googleworkspace/cli from a few days ago when I was experimenting with gmail/gcal cli. The installed version (luckily) resolved to an unaffected 1.13.5, but the project dependency is not pinned, meaning that if I did this earlier today the code would have resolved to latest and I'd be pwned. It's possible to personally defend against these to some extent with local settings e.g. release-age constraints, or containers or etc, but I think ultimately the defaults of package management projects (pip, npm etc) have to change so that a single infection (usually luckily fairly temporary in nature due to security scanning) does not spread through users at random and at scale via unpinned dependencies. More comprehensive article: stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-c…

Announcing: Cloud Desktops for AI Agents Give your AI agent its own computer. Fully isolated with a real screen to see and control. Works with any agent including @openclaw, @claudeai, @NousResearch, and more.