New week, new MOU: Holo Ventures and @coasys_dao have agreed to support each other's success. First step: Coasys will accept HoloFuel as payment for its services. Coasys is evolvable collaboration software. You invite local and cloud LLMs into your group to help you do work and — in a brilliant twist — also help you reshape the software itself. It's no surprise that some of our first Decent Directory members are AI-adjacent. Never before have we had the power to create our own digital tools, but with that comes the risk of being at the mercy of an even more powerful class of tool makers. Like Holochain, Coasys is about "choice architecture". The users are the best people to choose what works for them. You're all tool makers now. Choose the tools you can wield well, not the ones that wield you. Coasys is still in active development. Follow @coasys_dao for updates and visit coasys.org to learn more about their mission.

Holo Ventures × Kwaxala 🌲 Most investment in nature still treats a forest as an asset only because it can be cut down tomorrow. Kwaxala has flipped that logic right-side up again. It’s an Indigenous majority-owned regenerative forestry network and fund, established by a First Nation in British Columbia and now working globally. Its Living Forest Shares tie investment returns to the forest staying alive, so capital only thrives if the ecosystem does. Capital built to care. We’re collaborating with Kwaxala’s product team to explore how peer-to-peer value and identity tools can serve Indigenous Nations, supporting local self-governance and new ways to coordinate bioregional economies. Why #Holochain? Kwaxala’s model needs both sovereignty and coordination at scale. Control stays with the Nations and communities who nurture the forest. Each participant holds their own data, identity, and connections, and trust is built peer to peer, not handed to a central platform. Relation, not domination, built into the protocol. Unyt adds shared-ledger accounting, so value moves between participants without an intermediary taking a cut. Holo’s distributed infrastructure may follow as the work grows. Early-stage prototyping. More to come. Welcome to the Decent Directory, Kwaxala. 👇 holoventures.io/product/#dec…

Holo Ventures has signed an MOU with Lightningrod Labs to bring their products to market, starting with the groupware app, Moss. 🧵 Moss is local-first group communication and collaboration that doesn’t need servers. It keeps working where fibre doesn’t reach, when networks are saturated (events) or down (disasters), and wherever privacy is essential, like medical clinics or stealth startups. It’s open source, built on @holochain, and already in daily use. Together we’ll make it mature enough for more groups to adopt, including enterprises, civic institutions, and regen networks, so they can own their infrastructure without becoming IT experts.

Progress on Moss's local-first capacities: lightningrodlabs.org/blog/lo…

Been doing a bunch of work on Presence (Moss' video chat tool). Here's a blog post about the libraries we've pulled out that anyone in the p2p space can use: lightningrodlabs.org/blog/we…

Many of you have questions after the 30 July livestream introducing Cameron as the ED of Holo Ventures. Some were concerned about the integrity of Holochain's vision; others wanted to know whether he had the chops to deliver. In this interview, Sam and Anita sit down with Cameron to unpack his credentials, his motive for joining the team, and the Holochain Foundation's 'golden share'. happeningscommunity.substack… (Note on the quote text 👇🏽 It was hard to pick just one quote that we liked the most. There's a lot of good stuff in this short read.)

@WeAreFlowsta is joining the Holo Ventures Decent Directory and will be accepting HoloFuel for its pro features once the HOT→HoloFuel migration begins! There's a ton of justified hand-wringing about dwindling choice in the face of increasingly powerful companies and centralised tech. Flowsta is actually doing something about it. They make tools for you to take back your power — local-first AI that just works, self-sovereign sign-in, and more. Flowsta eliminates the gatekeepers, and, building on Holochain infrastructure, offers users true peer-to-peer connection. When you learn about flowsta.com it's clear they resonate with our mission. It's time to take back ownership of our digital lives, and Flowsta and Your Own AI are two meaningful steps. Keep your ears open for more Decent Directory announcements!

Holochain has potential because 1. Demand for data ownership: More people and businesses may want control over their information rather than giving it to large technology companies. 2. Lower infrastructure costs: Holochain's architecture could reduce some costs associated with central servers and blockchain consensus. 3. Scalability: Holochain doesn't require every participant to process every transaction. This could help applications grow efficiently. 4. Business adoption: Companies could use Holochain for supply chains, collaboration, identity systems and community platforms.