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Built something for the @Zcash community using the @OfflineProtocol SDK: A shielded ZEC payment between two phones in airplane mode, over Bluetooth. → A café asks for 0.042 ZEC nearby → The customer's wallet verifies the café's key and opens an encrypted session before any amount is shared → They pay with Face ID, and the signed shielded transaction goes straight to the café's phone → The café's app accepts it and sends back a receipt → When the café's phone comes off airplane mode, the transaction goes to the network and gets mined Nothing is final until it's mined. Until then, both phones keep the same record and a receipt, and the chain still settles it. Shoutout to @megabyte0x for reaching out and inspiring me to share this feature from a larger offline payment network I was ideating on last year. @zodl_co @ZcashFoundation @zodl_app

BREAKING: If you own crypto, this is SCARY. Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warns that new AI models could break the cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum within MONTHS. His advice: Move your crypto to fresh, unused wallets.

This year, Offline Protocol has become a good company, but I haven't changed the world yet. This deeply bothers me and keeps me up at night. Two years ago I saw that connectivity had become the world's most fragile commodity. As an immigrant watching wars, natural disasters, slow relief efforts and persistent infrastructure gaps across developing economies, I kept returning to one question: why does people's ability to communicate, organize and help one another depend entirely on infrastructure they can neither own nor control? When that infrastructure fails or is withdrawn, people lose the ability to coordinate exactly when they need it most. Since then, we've given identity, communication and information to almost 500,000+ people across 140+ countries, with zero paid acquisition. This year, enterprises started building on the same components, and Offline Protocol has become the coordination layer that keeps machines, people and AI agents working together over whatever network remains. We have already started work with partners in wind energy, agricultural IoT, fleet telematics, aerospace and payments. This week we received official approvals for our listings on Claude, Gemini, Github Registry, AWS Marketplace, with many more coming soon. I started this company because I want to make a difference and establish a legacy that mirrors the greats of our generation. I did not start Offline Protocol to become a SaaS company and spend the last of my 20s pushing enterprise sales. This is the announcement of the announcement. We will change the world. Soon.

Every machine waits for a signal. When it breaks, everything goes blind. We started Offline Protocol by keeping people connected when networks failed. Today, that same technology runs on hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide. Now we're taking it further: resilient coordination for physical systems. Machines, people and AI agents that keep working together over whatever path remains. Where we are today: → 350,000+ devices across 140+ countries → Nearly 20,000 new accounts in August alone → 11,500+ local networks active this month → 60,000+ SDK downloads → 440,000+ location proofs received in the last 30 days → Zero paid acquisition Earlier this year, we closed a new round led by @DraperVC to turn our consumer scale into a rapidly growing enterprise business. Over the past month, we've begun working with partners including a global wind-energy manufacturer, an agricultural IoT provider, a fleet telematics platform, a physical AI operating system, and a data streaming platform, alongside teams in aerospace and satellite systems, embedded silicon and consumer wearables. Our pipeline also spans maritime and industrial monitoring, equipment custody, secure device identity, airline catering and restaurant operations. Wherever machines operate, Offline Protocol coordinates. Learn more at offlineprotocol.com

I just made an agent on my computer pay for an image capture and processing session on a connected hardware device that was authorized to provide this capability by another agent on another device. I accomplished all of this without any internet connections between these devices. The possibilities this opens up are endless, autonomous vehicles can coordinate with drones for route guidance, connect to sensors to receive weather updates, or coordinate with each other to exchange skills in a swarm. Productivity robots can talk to personal assistants to understand user preferences, or receive outage data from field technicians to perform repairs, all without the need for an active internet connection or expensive backhaul solutions. Useful intelligence has moved onto devices; autonomous systems are expanding from isolated machines into fleets; and connectivity continues to fragment across Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, satellite, and specialized radios. Those networks extend reach, but none supplies the shared application contract required to decide who may act, what capability is available, which route should carry the request, how state converges after disconnection, and what evidence proves completion. Offline Protocol packages the missing contract as one integrated stack and abstracts multiple transports with automatic failover; OfflineID provides device-owned identity that peers can verify locally; Messaging Layer Security protects sessions; serverless discovery lets a device advertise, find, and invoke a capability without DNS or a cloud directory; reliable delivery adds acknowledgment, retry, deduplication, retention, and replay; and the shipped CRDT data layer synchronizes application state through compact deltas and deterministically merges concurrent offline edits. Our protocol has reached 350,000+ cumulative deployed device instances, with 11,500+ network clusters active in the trailing 30 days, and 12,000+ SDK package installs. Within a month of starting our commercial motion, we've already signed 4 LOIs, 2 paid pilots, 6 more in technical scoping, and have several enterprise level distribution partnerships in negotiations. I have historically been too quiet and not outspoken enough about our work, a VC recently told me I am too humble about our trajectory and technology, and so for once I want to really share how confident I feel about the progress we're making and the brand new paradigm of machine coordination our technology opens up.

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