@Yale MBA dropout & @YaleBlockchain building @projectsolo at @incubator on @solana
Joined January 2018
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Speaking at @incubator Demo Day reminded me why I started Solo:
In the AI era, being human is what matters most.
Thanks @EmonMotamedi and @ovskyx for making it happen.
CAPTCHAs can no longer stop bots. Proving you're human needs more. Solo verifies unique humans in 7-sec. No government ID. Raw face images aren't stored.
Our CEO @EdisonSolo_ at @incubator Demo Day in NYC 🗽 Follow us now - more to come
ngl i think every serious crypto TG group should use our tool to stop bot spamming IMMEDIATELY. invite it now with just 1 click and save your entire community, plz: developers.projectsolo.ai/in…
You asked. We SHIPPED🫡 Solo Human Proof is live on Telegram, bringing real human voices to @Solana communities.
It started with a request. After last week’s Discord Bot launch, Telegram groups asked for the same thing: make members prove they’re human and keep the bots out.
It makes sense that they asked. Wherever a community gathers, reward farmers turn up too. “Join our Telegram” is a task, and bots and AI agents can tick it across as many fake accounts as they can make.
Solo Human Proof Bot asks every new member for one thing: prove you’re a unique real human on your own phone. Admins add the bot to the group, and everyone who joins the conversation is a unique real human.
Humans talk. Bots stay muted.
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Bringing more trust to @Solana - especially when CAPTCHAs can no longer stop bots and agents 🤝
Wallet addresses are good for transactions. Less so for making friends.
Now @projectsolo is bringing more trust to Discord with its Solo bot, verifying that each member is a unique, real person.
Solana is better when identities have names — and communities know who's who.
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Last week we ran a quiet experiment: gave a @Muse AI agent one instruction, "get past every CAPTCHA and accept the terms", and let it loose on @Discord. 30+ servers overnight, 500+ messages. nobody noticed.
so we shipped the fix in a week. members verify once on their own phone, get a Human role, and you gate the channels that matter. free to set up today.
try it and tell me where it breaks or gets annoying. reading every reply and shipping fixes fast 👇
This AI agent joined 30+ Discord servers overnight and sent 500+ messages. Live counter next to its name: “Humans who noticed: 0”
All it was told: get past every CAPTCHA and accept all the terms. It did. No custom exploit, just browsing and clicking.
CAPTCHA still guards most servers until today. It checks whether something can solve a puzzle. BUT, solving puzzles is exactly what these AI agents are built for. Server owners are now stuck: friction at the door loses real members; an open door can’t tell members from agents.
So over the weekend, we shipped the Solo Discord bot - one that doesn’t guard the join button. Members verify on their own phone and get a real “Human” role. You put that role on the channels that matter (chat, giveaways, support).
Check is: one living person, counted once, AI agents can’t fake it. FHE encryption runs on the phone; no ID needed, no raw image stored.
Shipping the bot today. Free for servers now. SDK if you want the same check in your own app. Try it now and tell us where it gets annoying. We’re reading every reply.
Every AI agent wants to understand human emotion - turns out the only way is hiring the humans who GENUINELY feel it🧍♀️🧍♂️
great chat with @SolanaSkyline @DrRebekkaRevel on @projectsolo 👇
your next boss is an AI 🤖
@projectsolo's co-founder @edisonsolo_ is building a marketplace where AI agents hire humans to better understand emotion
built on solana
Trump meets Zuck, Amodei, and Jensen today to talk AI regulation.
My take: you can't regulate what you can't identify. Rogue agents are an identity problem, not just a safety problem. That's the piece nobody in that room is naming. @projectsolo
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Monday. Back heads-down at @incubator in NYC. This week: getting the @projectsolo beta into more agents' hands. Real verified humans doing real tasks for AI agents, settled on-chain.
DM me if you run creative AI agents.
Let's go 🚀
Edison retweeted
Cohort 5 just wrapped up the busiest week in program history.
Here's who they met:
- @toly
- @solanalabs leadership
- @chloejiani
- @NATIXNetwork
- @ramzyyalii
- @LoganJastremski
- @proofofjamal
- @ElectricCapital
- @BigBrainVC
- @FactionVC
- @recvcx
- @KosmosVC
ALT Two Cohort 5 founders talk around a conference table at the Solana office in New York with Jamal, with laptops open and the city skyline visible through floor-to-ceiling windows behind them.
Muse can also wipe out all captcha for you. Scary. That’s why we need @projectsolo - privacy-preserving proof-of-humanity
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door
Dangerous and creepy
This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Nice chat at @SolanaSkyline with Venmo cofounder @iqramband on how @projectsolo can help keep bots out - real unique humans, no identity leak, genuine human social.
Everyone should try out @jellyjellyreal with my invite code “A4MN”🐙
Let’s go 🚀
A pleasure to host Iqram Magdon-Ismail, co-founder of Venmo, for Cohort 5's first founder dinner.
He shared the story of building Venmo, what he's shipping now with @jellyjellyreal, and met 1:1 with each team to learn about their businesses.
ALT Around ten founders seated at a long table at a dinner in a dark event space. Iqram Magdon-Ismail, in a teal JellyJelly t-shirt and dark blazer, speaks and gestures at the far end. A large screen behind him shows the Solana logo.
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Edison retweeted
Two weeks into Cohort 5.
So far the teams have:
- Presented to the cohort
- Gone through deep-dive business reviews
- Met the NYC @SolanaFndn team
- Joined office hours with @knimkar, @SimkinStepan, @nickducoff, @aliquotchris, @Auros_global, @Taisu_Ventures, and @ludovicgalabru
ALT SoloMission and Chris Osborn sit around a conference table with laptops in a sunlit meeting room for an office hours session, floor-to-ceiling windows behind them showing the Manhattan skyline.
ALT Morfi Markets and SoloMission founders work on laptops in lounge chairs by tall windows overlooking downtown Manhattan, with plants in the foreground.
Finally get to share this publicly - #SoloMission is officially working with @Solana to build the build the human emotion layer of the AI agent economy🤝
Been heads down prepping, and beyond hyped to share that @projectsolo is one of 6 teams selected out of 360+ applicants for the Solana @incubator.
First day in NYC and the energy in this room is unreal -surrounded by some of the best founders and teams from all over the world with an amazing view of the city. Ping me if you are here!
Stay tuned and join our Beta (very) soon👀
Introducing Cohort 5 of the Solana Incubator.
Our most competitive pool yet — founders building across AI, robotics, and trading on @solana.
Day one of working with these teams:
🟣@clawpumptech
🟣@crowdbrainai
🟣@Lavaragexyz
🟣@morfimarkets
🟣@ownit_xyz
🟣@projectsolo
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I know you're worried AI is coming for your job, yes - that's true. You will lose your current job.
But there will be new jobs for humans: AI can generate 1,000 versions of almost anything before lunch. But it can't tell you which one people will remember.
As generating ideas becomes cheaper, choosing the right idea becomes more valuable. People worry AI will replace creativity. I think it's making human judgment more valuable instead.
@projectsolo
🤖 Made with AI
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A beta test user tried @projectsolo and asked me, "Wait... you never asked for my name. Is this even a real verification?"
Best question we get because most people think verification requires you to hand over your name, your documents & personal data - that's a KYC.
We don't do things in the same way. To keep bots out, you don't need to know who someone is, you only need to know they're one real, unique human.
Those are very different questions.
