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Attestation layer for scientific & ecosystem contributions on AT Protocol. A trail from claim to attestation. Physical crumbs (NFC/QR) you can tap. Decay is a feature.

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BreadcrumbsOct 9, 2026

From breadcrumbs to the toolcase talk: your records are the data

My slot at IOSP is a short showcase titled Computational Trust. It is about how a person, a community or a machine can tell whether to believe something. Some years ago, in a research track about rewarding contributors in DAOs, I drew trust as a graph where people are the nodes, with a wallet at the centre and the token balance standing in for credibility. We tested it on real funding data from NEAR. The result I keep coming back to: a token does not remove the gatekeeper, it moves the gate to w...

BreadcrumbsOct 9, 2026

The runway to IOSP: what a breadcrumb is, three days before Leiden

On Monday the ATScience workshop starts in Leiden. My station there is Live Data Streaming and Noizetoyz, and I'm adding one more thing on top of it: physical breadcrumbs. This post is the plain version of the last week, what exists, what I measured, what broke, and what I'm still not sure about. Part two connects it to the five-minute talk I'm giving there. Take a crumb. Tap it, log in with your own handle, and it's written into your own repo. That starts your trail. Tap a station magnet or sca...

BreadcrumbsSep 20, 2026

You Wouldn't Infer on a Tractor

I posted a small asset library yesterday — eight cartoon icons in a style I'm calling Cab & Hitch: a smiling tractor, a sleepy tractor, a stamp, a logbook. Illustration for CoCore Attractor, tagged to Devin Gaffney and Nick Gerakines, mostly because I was excited and wanted them to see it. CoCore's own account replied with a meme. You wouldn't download a car — the old, tired anti-piracy format — recut as you wouldn't infer on a tractor. It's a good joke. It's also, underneath the joke, exactly t...