Updates, insights, and reflections from the PL R&D team.
Edge City and Cosmos Institute gave 239 residents of Edge Esmeralda personal AI agents. Through Simocracy (led by Protocol Labs), residents created 82 Sims with constitutions and values that allocated over $10k in community treasury funding across 35 proposals — an early glimpse of agent-mediated governance.
An overview of PL R&D's Programmable Economies & Governance focus area — the programmable infrastructure societies use to decide, allocate, verify, and coordinate — and the four opportunity spaces and inflection points we believe are within reach.
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.
Juan Benet Podcast launches with Max Hodak on neurotech, brain interfaces, Fast R&D, and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reflecting on Protocol Labs' 2024 impact across neurotech, digital human rights, AI, and economies — and the vision for 2025 and beyond.
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.
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.