#### an **autonomous ecologist**'s guide to **namada** & **anoma**  _{^{_Christopher Goes_ _Autonomous Ecologies 2_}} --- #### Alternative titles _wtf are these crazy people doing?_ _why are there so many names?_ _will they ever ship?_ ---  **&**  (are) **protocols** _for_ autonomous ecologies --- but what _are_ autonomous ecologies? --- our understanding: -- groups (organisms) that want to: - define their own boundaries - self-govern their internal operations - interoperate with others --- so, what's new? --- we live in the world of **westphalian ecologies**  --- **westphalian ecologies** _are characterized by_ a rigid, standardised set of articulable and enforceable relationship types --- some examples: - employer / employee - employed / unemployed - for-profit / non-profit --- this standardisation is _not_ the result of evil it is the result of optimisation for **state legibility** --- the state guarantees _enforcement_ of the commitments involved in these relationships fair enforcement requires **legibility** and **standardisation** --- in a sense, we ask too much of the state _sustainable self-governance_ requires internal commitment **accounting** and **enforcement** --- autonomous ecologies will rely on **protocols** to enforce their commitments themselves _"the other sort of state"_ this frees them from state legibility --- the **cambrian explosion** of _relational ontology_ - many tokens - many metrics - many types of relationships - subtlety, nuance, and context-specificity --- _early cambrian period examples_ - post-web society - coordination collective - vibecare collective - public goods laboratory --- _where do autonomous ecologies live?_ --- the now: _surveillance state of Ethereum_  and a patchwork quilt of protocols --- the hope: arboreal Taiga  and a unified protocol substrate --- what is required of the protocols? - value-neutral, but value-explicit - distributed accounting - programmable commitments - programmable information flow control --- takes a long time :sweat_smile:  ^ live shot of heliax engineers --- the soon: twilight zone  privacy where it counts most meet people where they're at ---  aims to help bridge these worlds -- _protocol-wise_ & _community-wise_ & _philosophy-wise_ --- what can **namada** provide for your AE? - private payments for previously public assets - shielded actions for public app interop - public goods funding for the private stack --- private _payments_ - one-hop from Cosmos - one-hop from Ethereum - shielded rewards for sitting tight - sharing is caring, privacy-wise --- shielded _actions_ - keep your assets shielded at rest - initiate an action on namada - unshield just what you need - send it elsewhere to use the public app - results routed back and shielded again - add FROST and you've got a DAO --- **public** goods funding for the **private** stack - PGF is as important as PoS - Stewards nominate (optimised fast-path) - PGF is not altruism - autonomous ecologies need collective funding for collective goods - namada offers a schelling point --- we can't do it alone! _safety in the twilight zone_ still requires some patchwork protocol quilting --- twilight zone privacy pack for your AE - signal for comms - namada for assets-at-rest - penumbra for swaps - nym for the network layer - skiff/cryptpad for the docs - (etc.) it's hacky, but workable --- approaching the **taiga**: sneak peek  --- what can **anoma** provide for your AE? - unified base operating system - the same P2P layer for chat and consensus - the same identity system for payments and poker tournaments - programmable information flow control - private consensus - private IBC - explicit commitments and assumptions - automated accounting - _fractal instances_ --- _our endgame (or really, the beginning of a new)_ -- **fractal instances** _for_ **autonomous ecologies** --- how to _think_ about fractal instances? - consensi created on demand - application data & logic move freely across trust boundaries - e.g. fork a discord chat - Anoma wallet = Anoma node - roles, but dynamic --- fractal instance _analogies_ - less blockchain, more (fancy) spreadsheet - built into the relational structure of usage - e.g. layered permissioning in chat - also a rollup (what isn't these days) --- _upcoming events_ --- **Namada key collection** [next several weeks]  --- ???  _catch Adrian's talk at EthCC on Thursday_ --- remember: we work for you come tell us what you want thanks!