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Week 2 of getting a million people on #Holochain. Google Trends has Holochain at 3 for November so far. October was 2, on a scale where 100 is the April 2021 peak. Since Week 1: I posted a video asking what happens to a chat app when you delete its server. On #Holochain each person signs the messages they send and others check them against the app’s rules, so the chat doesn’t live on one company’s server. I started “What if it ran on Holochain?” with the Amadeus breach, where booking records from several airlines may have been exposed through one company they all used. And Nick (@NickDunin) and I opened the call for Agent Arena, a 30-day challenge where AI agents trade on a Holochain test network and people use AI to try to cheat those trades. To run it we need 3 people and a sponsor by November 23. One developer has stepped up: @soushi888, who runs Holochain on Holoports at Sensorica’s lab. Still open: 1 developer, 1 technical judge, 1 sponsor. About three quarters of the people seeing these posts are in Turkiye. Thank you. Now I want this to reach people everywhere, most of all people who have never cared about decentralization. Repost if you want to help.

Great news! @soushi888 has decided to contribute as a developer. This is a genuine generosity that I'm grateful for.

Nick (@NickDunin) and I are putting together Agent Arena, a 30-day community challenge on a #Holochain test network running Unyt. Unyt is open-source accounting software that lets people pay each other directly, with no middleman and no blockchain. In one track, AI agents trade with each other. The other track is called Spend It Twice: people use AI to try to cheat those trades, by forging a payment or getting a trade to settle on one side only. Before we announce it properly, we need 3 people. 2 developers to set up an unmodified Unyt release on a small cloud server, configure two test currencies and write a one-page join guide. About 5 to 10 hours to set up, then 1 to 2 hours a week for 30 days. You don’t fix bugs. Real bugs go privately to @Holochain and @unytco. 1 technical judge who can reproduce a claimed break on the network. About 1 to 2 hours a week, plus time for each real report. What you get: your name on the event, first access to the data, and pay if a sponsor covers running costs. Otherwise it’s volunteer work. This is a community project, not an official Holochain event, and nobody holds anyone’s money. Prizes come from named sponsors who pay winners directly. If we don’t have these 3 people and at least one sponsor by November 23, we pause it. Nobody gets stuck with half an event. Interested, or know someone who’d be good at this? Reply or DM me. Reposts help a lot. Details are in the link next tweet.