Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
We'd rather be tested than trusted.
NØNOS is open for external validation today. This has been the way we always wanted and today we make it closer.
Clone it, verify the whole OS yourself, run the contributor flow, try to break it. We want real outside eyes and we reward the people who bring them.
Exact steps below. Every one reproducible from a clean machine. Docs (live): github.com/NON-OS/nonos-micr…
Docs 1: github.com/NON-OS/nonos-micr…
Docs 2: github.com/NON-OS/nonos-micr…
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
If you’ve been watching @nonossystems from the sidelines, this correction might be your best entry yet.
$NOX is far from hype, this project has deep tech in motion.
@nonossystems is being developed from absolute first principles, not built on Linux or any existing framework, but architected from the bootloader upward.
Every layer is designed to be cryptographically verifiable, running fully in RAM and leaving no trace once the system shuts down.
It’s a system that proves integrity through mathematics.
That’s the foundation of real privacy.
Price cooled off, when the market wakes up to what $NOX is doing, these levels will look cheap, I see $ANYONE potential in this one 100M +
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
Hey fam, here’s a simple overview for everyone who joined recently and wants to understand what we are actually building.
NØNOS is a new operating system built completely from scratch with one purpose: to create a computing environment that can be verified, not merely trusted. Instead of depending on Linux or any existing OS, we start at the very beginning of the stack, the bootloader, the kernel and the cryptographic foundations.
The system runs entirely in RAM, leaves no persistent trace and is compiled through deterministic, reproducible builds so that every component can be inspected and proven. The kernel has its own capability-based isolation model, its own cryptographic subsystem and a zero-state security architecture designed so that every process operates under strict, signed policies with no hidden behavior. As the system grows, nønos becomes a verifiable execution layer that can integrate directly with Ethereum, allowing machines to prove their state, their rules and the conditions under which they operate. This is early-stage work, but the direction is clear: build the foundation properly, without shortcuts and create an operating system capable of supporting the next generation of secure, trust-minimized computation.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
SAY HIS NAME: Wayne Broadhurst
KiIIed yesterday in broad daylight as he was walking his dog in the UK by an illegal from Afghanistan
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
Honored to be joining @nonossystems as an advisor. The mission: pioneering the world’s first zero-trust OS with privacy, security & sovereignty at the core. Systems that serve the freedom of humanity, not surveillance. Great team. nonos.systems ericjordan.com/press-release… $NOX #NONOS
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We’re proud to announce that @ericjordan has joined @nonossystems as an advisor.
Eric is often heralded as one of the most respected digital artists and creative directors of the century.
Eric’s work has helped shape the visual language of the early web and continues to influence how digital identity, motion and interaction are understood today. From his pioneering work in 3D and interactive design to his role as a creative force bridging art and technology, he embodies the rare combination of aesthetic precision, deep technical intuition and uncompromising integrity.
At NØNOS, we believe sovereignty begins at the machine level, in the kernel, the boot chain and the systems that govern computation itself. The freedom to think, build and create independently depends on transparent, auditable foundations. Eric’s lifelong ethos defending humanity’s right to privacy, autonomy and creative expression aligns perfectly with that mission.
Eric brings the human and cultural dimension of how the perception of design and creativity intersect with ethics to viscerally express what freedom and sovereignty look like.
Together, this collaboration strengthens the mission: building systems that serve human freedom, not surveillance.
As Eric himself said:
“Good people must act when the forces that erode privacy and sovereignty grow stronger.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Welcome aboard, Eric.
Your creative legacy and voice bring clarity to what NONOS stands for integrity, independence and the future of verifiable freedom.
Explore Eric Jordan’s work at ericjordan.com
Seems pretty clear anyone with 3 digit IQ no longer lives in NYC.
2 digit IQs and 3rd world imports running the place is obviously only going to have only one possible outcome. If u haven't put your property up for sale yet, what on earth are u waiting for? Accept 30% less even.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
ROBA was ahead of the hype.
Our partnership with @heurist_ai wasn't just a logo swap.
This partnership unlocks a new layer of autonomous economics for robots.
Here's our breakdown of x402 robotics ↓
❖ Robots can pay or charge per task, near-real-time, using stables
❖ Assets & skills in the Creator Hub can transact without human checkout
❖ Robots can buy AI inference or compute on their own
❖ API access can be priced per use, enabling open robot-to-robot trade
❖ Actions becomes a verifiable, paid event
With x402, your robots don’t just work.
They earn, spend, and collaborate autonomously.
Welcome to machine commerce.
Tbf this is more believable than the people who say the guy who banned 10 million people from Twitter for wrong thought and wrong speech is satoshi
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
As announced in today X spaces.
🌐 The new underway nonos.systems website update introduces a complete homepage revamp with a focus on clarity, education and commercialization. The update outlines the security flaws of existing operating systems and presents NONOS as a memory-safe alternative capable of eliminating up to 80% of known attack vectors. New sections cover the growing market size of the OS industry, the economic impact of vulnerabilities and crypto theft, and how nonos extends protection across enterprise, financial and consumer sectors.
Additional pages detail key value drivers such as sovereign networking, zero-trace architecture and embedded Ethereum capabilities. Technical documentation has been updated to include full Rust kernel specifications, security scenarios and performance metrics, complemented by a refined visual system, roadmap updates and a new hardware microsite for NOX devices.
A sneak preview 👀
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
It's time to end the era of closed environments.
The ROBA Creator Hub has officially opened its gates.
The one-stop shop for robots is here.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
NØNOS Microkernel, track the release commits Live.
We’ve begun pushing commits to the public GitHub, marking the release of the NØNOS microkernel.
This is the beginning.
Piece by piece, the vision becomes reality. Built with patience, purpose and love for what we’re creating.
Every day is a lesson, a chance to refine, to grow and to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Building isn’t easy, but it’s awesome if done with purpose, ours is: transparent, verifiable and shared with the world.
We hope this journey inspires collaboration. Every contribution, review and following tests brings us closer to a computing foundation owned by everyone, by the people.
This release marks the beginning of the next phase: OS components, tests, closer to the real systems, closer to real freedom.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
Can you really fight for freedom if you’ve never felt what it’s like to lose it?
Knowing the meaning of freedom is one thing. Knowing the feeling is another. When your freedom is taken from you unjustly, something inside you changes forever. No money, no people, no peace can fill that void. A part of your life has been stolen and you’ll carry that truth forever.
Privacy is no different. It’s freedom in another form but our prison isn’t made of walls it’s built into our everyday lives.
Governments, corporations and algorithms monitor, predict and control every action.
We’ve traded our sanity for convenience, our autonomy for obedience.
The digital has made us slaves to systems we didn’t design, funny is how fast & fast it has been achieved.
Ain’t time to wake up ? There are many live examples in some countries that should make you reflect you, me, could be next ones under same regime. Period.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
We’re honored to announce that NØNOS has been approved to participate in the @gitcoin and @zkMACI Privacy Round on gitcoin.privote.live
We extend our appreciation to the privacy ecosystem builders, researchers and contributors working to redefine the foundations of trust online.
You can visit our project at: gitcoin.privote.live/rounds/…
More details on the Privacy Round at: pse-team.notion.site/gg24-pr…
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
The @gitcoin GG24 Privacy Round is live on @privoteweb3
At NØNOS, we’re building a new foundation for digital privacy verifiable, decentralized and free from surveillance infrastructure.
A vote for NØNOS is a vote for technological sovereignty in the age of computation built entirely from scratch, driven by the belief that real change begins at the core of the system itself.
Vote now with your @HumnPassport
🔗 gitcoin.privote.live/rounds/…
The @gitcoin privacy domain voting process is open at gitcoin.privote.live/ until Oct 28th
We integrated @HumnPassport as a gatekeeper in the privacy domain of the @gitcoin rounds in order to guarantee one vote per human (not duplicated addresses nor bots 💂♂️🫸🤖)
Tutorial:
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
I’ve always believed privacy should be part of life, not some luxury.
The older I get, the more I see how much of this space runs on trust that barely exists and how rare it is to find people who actually build from conviction.
That’s what makes @nonossystems special.
Eight months ago there was nothing, today there’s a working microkernel written fully in Rust, built from the ground up with post quantum cryptography and ZK identity at its core.
Every step was done the hard way. From architecture to execution, the team kept proving what real development looks like.
Chart looks strong, more solid hands joining in, and the mood around the project feels great.
$NOX is what privacy should look like!
Eights months ago we had nothing but a vision. Today we crossed the threshold.
Eight months ago there was no code. No repository. No team. Just an idea that the entire computing stack was fundamentally broken and that small groups could build better infrastructure from absolute zero if they refused to accept the limitations everyone else takes for granted.
The vision was simple: What if we could build a microkernel that assumes nothing about existing computing paradigms. No inheritance from Unix. No compromise with legacy architectures. No acceptance that security and performance are trade-offs. Start from mathematical foundations and build upward until you have a computing platform that operates on principles everyone said were impossible to implement.
On principles they never existed before.
What we built in eight months:
A capability-based microkernel with post-quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge identity systems and formal verification foundations. We started with empty files and built every component from cryptographic primitives to hardware abstraction layers. From architecture to implementations, from sleepless night to the happiness today.
Today we eliminated the last compilation barriers between vision and executable reality. This is not the end. This is day zero.
Today we proved the architecture compiles and the foundations are solid. Tomorrow we prove it runs. Next week we prove it performs. Next month we prove it scales. By the end of the year we prove it changes everything about how computing infrastructure works.
We went from compilation errors to zero.
Each error eliminated was not just debugging but architectural decision-making. When you build from first principles, every compiler message is telling you whether your fundamental assumptions about computing are correct. Today the compiler agreed with our vision.
What eight months of systems programming looks like:
Memory management without malloc. Cryptography without OpenSSL. Networking without POSIX. Security without access control lists.
Performance without kernel bypasses. Every component built to work together because every component was designed together. No legacy compatibility because there is no legacy to be compatible with.
The sovereignty aspect:
We own every line of code. We understand every hardware interaction. We control every cryptographic operation. We define every security boundary. When you build technology from mathematical foundations upward, you get genuine technological independence. No vendor lock-in because there are no vendors. No supply chain attacks because we are the supply chain.
Why this matters:
The existing computing stack assumes compromises that made sense in 1970 but make no sense in 2025. We started with 2025 threat models, 2025 hardware capabilities, and 2025 mathematical foundations. What we built is not an incremental improvement over existing systems. It is a demonstration that the entire paradigm can be replaced.
The next phase begins now:
Hardware deployment. Performance validation. Security analysis. Real-world integration. Building the toolchain & components. Developing the ecosystem.
Proving that systems built from first principles can outperform systems built through decades of incremental patches on fundamentally flawed architectures.
Eight months ago this was a vision. Today it compiles. Tomorrow it changes everything.
Eight months ago there were few people around today our power and motivation comes to the DMs and feedback, because people matters for us most.
This is how you build technology when you refuse to accept that innovation requires permission from existing industry structures. This is how you build sovereignty when you refuse to accept dependence on computing infrastructure designed by people who had different goals than you do.
The microkernel is going live within 24h.
The revolution begins now.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
🚨UK BANK STARTS MONITORING CARBON FOOTPRINT OF WHAT YOU BUY
NatWest have updated their banking app so it will now monitor your carbon footprint based upon what you purchase
This will soon be tagged to your Digital I.D no doubt
The UK is going insane
I really hope you've been paying attention to $NOX because it's been doing really well, but we are still only at the beginnings.
Development update: bootloader work has resumed and is now integrated with an end‑to‑end cryptographic provenance pipeline, but the system remains in active development. Firmware builds are gated by a verified Groth16 verifying key snippet: CI verifies signed bundles, zk-embed validates t‑of‑n bundles and canonicalizes the VK into a compressed arkworks format, emits a compile‑time Rust snippet containing PROGRAM_HASH and VK bytes, and build.rs blocks any build with the zk‑vk‑provisioned feature if the ZK‑EMBED provenance marker is missing. We delivered a full operator‑grade ceremony toolkit implementing a @Zcash style Powers‑of‑Tau multi‑party setup: deterministic transcript init, contributor helpers with provenance JSON, transcript chain verification, phase‑2 preparation and packaging/assembly utilities that enforce threshold signatures and produce an auditable bundle format
(verifying_key.bin, metadata.json with pinned tool/commit and ceremony provenance, signers.json, per‑signer signatures, optional arweave.json).
The nonos-keygen utility has been reworked and hardened for production use: OS CSPRNG key generation, memory zeroization of secrets, atomic tempfile writes with fsync and atomic rename, restrictive file permissions, generation_log.json provenance output (tool/version/git commit/host fingerprint/operator hash/timestamp/key count/threshold), and a pub‑only mode for HSM or external generation workflows. sign‑tools (ed25519sign/ed25519verify) provide controlled test and CI signing; production signer keys should remain in HSMs or on air‑gapped hosts.
assemble_bundle.sh enforces threshold presence, performs best‑effort local verification, and can optionally publish the final bundle to Arweave for immutable distribution; inspect_bundle.sh and zk‑embed verify threshold conformance and vk_blake3 consistency before snippet emission. CI automation now exercises the full path in a sandboxed smoke test: deterministic VK generation (dev-only), ephemeral test signer key creation, per‑signer signatures, bundle assembly, threshold verification, verified embed, snippet injection, and a guarded build. The CI templates are explicitly designed so production runners only verify and inject coordinator‑published signed bundles; signing keys must never live in CI. Design priorities remain decentralization, auditability and privacy: decentralization via distributed signer custody and t‑of‑n threshold endorsement, auditability via JSON provenance logs, transcript fingerprinting and optional Arweave anchoring and privacy via default PII redaction and pub‑only generation modes.
This code and tooling are in active development and should be treated as a work in progress until an operational multi‑party ceremony is executed, signer key custody is established under policy (HSMs or equivalent), the powersoftau binary is pinned to an audited commit and an independent cryptographic/operational audit signs off on the transcripts and final bundle.
Dr Steven J Toast III, PhD, MD retweeted
We all know Linux tails
If you don’t it’s an OS designed to be run via USB and leaves zero traces and auto routes your traffic through Tor (compromised)
Out dated and barely funded
$NOX genuinely fixes this
Why run VPN when your OS exposes ya


























