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Updates, insights, and reflections from the PL R&D team.

PL R&D · Jul 14, 2026

How PL R&D Accelerates Breakthroughs

The first in a series: how PL R&D moves frontier ideas from open research into deployed systems across four focus areas — how we drive, measure, and sustain breakthroughs, and what our track record teaches us.

protocol.ai · Apr 8, 2026

Announcing the Juan Benet Podcast: Launching With First Guest Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corp

Juan Benet Podcast launches with Max Hodak on neurotech, brain interfaces, Fast R&D, and more.

protocol.ai · Nov 7, 2025

Data Sovereignty in a Privacy-First Future

Builders redefining privacy and sovereignty — where control of data, identity, and computation is real, not just promised. Highlights from the teams working at the frontier of digital human rights.

protocol.ai · Oct 29, 2025

Can Attestation Follow in the Footsteps of TLS?

Attestation could follow TLS's path: standardize trust signals, clarify roles, and mature tooling. A look at what it would take for remote attestation to become infrastructure-grade.

protocol.ai · Oct 3, 2025

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination. Themes included TEEs, MPC, and the next generation of private computation.

protocol.ai · Apr 29, 2025

BitRobot and the Future of Embodied AI

Exploring how crypto incentives and decentralized infrastructure can accelerate embodied AI and robotics — and why open coordination matters for the next wave of physical AI.

protocol.ai · Jan 29, 2025

Driving Breakthroughs: The Impact of Our Innovation Network

Reflecting on Protocol Labs' 2024 impact across neurotech, digital human rights, AI, and economies — and the vision for 2025 and beyond.

protocol.ai · Jun 5, 2024

The Transformative Power of Neurotechnology

A deep dive into neurotechnology's potential to reshape treatment of brain disorders, augment human cognition, and accelerate our understanding of the brain. Why Protocol Labs is investing in this frontier.

protocol.ai · Mar 15, 2024

PL Vision: Driving Breakthroughs in Computing to Push Humanity Forward

At a crossroads of technological capability and institutional inadequacy, Protocol Labs articulates its mission: building the infrastructure for a more open, equitable, and resilient internet.