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Ontology Anniversary Space
Recorded: Dec. 4, 2025 Duration: 0:57:09Space Recording
Short Summary
Ontology celebrates its eighth anniversary with significant announcements including a major token burn, new partnerships with Circle for USDC integration, and discussions on the growing importance of stablecoins in the crypto ecosystem.
Full Transcription
Thank you. All right, Jam Jam.
Welcome back.
How are you doing, Jeff?
I am pretty good.
How are you?
I'm feeling better, finally.
Excellent.
Gosh.
Feels like it's been at least two months.
So I still started feeling under the weather,
and even though I'm not 100%, I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
That's good, that's good.
We've got warnings of our biggest flu epidemic ever
in the UK at the moment.
Jeez.
You know, I took my flu shot.
I did what was recommended.
And I was still laid out.
So, whatever.
Do what you want to do, y'all.
Wash your hands.
Do what we were taught as kiddos.
You know, stay away from people who are just sneezing in your face and
hopefully you'll uh you'll miss this one
easier said than done when you've got young children though right
that's true you know it's funny my seven-year-old stayed home This is actually when I got sick. So to your point, yes, 100%, yes.
Stayed home for two days because she wasn't feeling well.
This is about a month and a half ago.
And I caught the bug or whatever she had.
She went to school on the third day.
It's like nothing happened.
Meanwhile, a month and a half later,
I'm barely getting rid of all the nasty
coughing and gross phlegm and mucus yeah i'm sure everybody tuned in to hear that but
yeah so if you have kids there's sometimes no way of getting around it
There's sometimes no way of getting around it.
I think we hosted a space right after DevConnect.
I feel like everything's starting to blend together for me
with only clarity in the recent days.
But, Jeff, remind me, we hosted a space following DevConnect, yes? I think we did. We had a quick catch-up.
I believe so. I heard so.
But I'm being a bit like you.
I get back off a trip and everything blends into one thing.
It's like I've come back and there's a host of work that has piled up and
lots of things to catch up on and everything becomes one thing.
Yeah, I literally just did my
laundry this weekend and it was much needed uh because well i pretty much brought most of my
wardrobe to dev connect which is not much i'm a minimalist when it comes to clothes so yeah just
uh recovering in in always but if we didn't uh or if we did and you weren't here for that, Jeff and I met
up in Buenos Aires during DevConnect, and we spoke in two different panels about, you
know, for me it was the emergence of AI in the workspace.
I think for you, was something different.
But at the end of the day, you know, we were able to at least share our thoughts and some of the vision of what ontology is building in the space of privacy and AI even.
So, yeah, it was really great to be a part of that panel for me.
And it was great to be a part of that panel for me and it was great to see Jeff and it was also good to
connect with other people in the industry that are building in the space of privacy particularly
ZK seems to have been the winning uh narrative at least one of a handful of narratives at
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are struggling at implementation, how it's going to work, what they're going to do.
One of the things that really came to mind is that we actually use the term ZK in slightly
different ways, depending what part of the industry you're in. So when I speak about zero knowledge proofs, I'm often thinking in terms of individuals and identity
and things like that. And one of the things I've got to make sure I think about as well,
a big lesson for me was in terms of proving of blocks and proving of blockchain processes as
well in a slightly different way. And I thought was really interesting so lots of like a lot of things these things are much more complicated than we think
they are in the first place i guess so yeah great learning to me great experience really enjoyed
meeting people and always good to see you as well humtry i thought we had a really good week
yeah i think the last time we saw each other was at ECC, if I'm not mistaken, which was last year or was it this year?
I don't remember now.
Last year in Brussels, right?
Yeah, that's right.
Because this year ECC was in Cannes.
So that is the difference.
And yeah, it was great to see you.
I think we had some beers then and we had some beers this time around.
In fact, I think we had more coffee than beers together than this trip.
Coffee is essential, especially post-beer in the morning.
So, yes.
Absolutely.
I love that you have a ritual for finding the best coffee, as you said,
wherever you travel, and you certainly did.
And I enjoyed going with you and even separately to that coffee place. They had really
good coffee. In terms of ZK, I mean, you know, on my panel in particular, the conversation that I
had, and I don't even know if I did the best job at explaining this because I was making the argument for where ZK is lacking in terms of where
many other crypto-enabled or privacy-enabled tools have gotten to this year. And that is
more of the consumer experience. First of all, I guess the question is,
does ZK need to be consumer ready?
But for me, if it does,
it's nowhere near what I think
blockchain-enabled apps were able to do this year.
I feel like blockchain-enabled dApps,
or should I say blockchain-enabled apps, aka dApps,
really did a great job at shedding the D.
You know, as weird as that sounds, I don't think that people are really calling them
dApps anymore because they've jumped into the consumer space, where in the consumer
space, you know, you can't really be talking
about dApps.
You really drive a wedge in terms of their usability and adoption.
And so now they're simply just apps.
You know, we've done a really good job, I think, of abstracting away things like wallets,
abstracting away things like wallets, private keys, seed phrases,
so that you can log in with your email,
you can start using the app in a few steps.
Even using crypto for payments is slowly getting abstracted.
Some of it I got to use in Buenos Aires during DevConnect, where
you could pay with crypto. And the, what is it called? The retailer, the merchant,
didn't know on the other end that you were paying with crypto because it converted it
or exchanged or swapped to the local currency. So I think that in terms of where we're at with ZK,
we're nowhere close to that.
Thoughts, Jeff?
Yeah, no, I think that's a really important point.
As you say, I think we've seen lots of people
abstract the complication away on lots of different things,
and I think that works brilliantly.
It's where we need to be at.
And actually, i'm just
working on an article based on metamask incorporation of the prediction markets right
um because i i think my argument here is is that this is the perfect consumer app if you like for
zk proofs to come into which essentially is something that looks like and smells like and
acts like a gambling app prediction
markets are slightly different but it feels like a gambling app um we have an opportunity to put
some guardrails in to do some things to to make it better than the traditional experience of gambling
and i think zk would really enhance that i'd love to see people bring that in to that consumer focus where you don't
even know it's been done in a zk way you just know it's privacy preserving if you like so
abstracting the zk element away from it i think there's an opportunity with metamask you know
this is news they announced it in october it's gone live today it's a big deal this is um one of
the consumer facing apps the main positions that people come into the crypto space.
And all of a sudden, it's got this, what still to me feels a little bit like a degen play
with the prediction markets. And it's there front and center, ready to go in the same place that
you swap your tokens, you send your tokens, you have your savings, you have your investments,
it's just there ready to go. I think now it's crying out for ZK to be part of that stack
without people really realizing it.
So there's an opportunity.
It'd be really interesting to see how that opportunity plays out.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, I feel like also, and let me just rewind a little bit.
In terms of the production market thing,
I think that we are seeing so much innovation in that space.
You know, I think crypto is a casino.
You know, I think that that's an argument,
that's a narrative that people used to kind of be wary of.
But I feel like this year,
it's at least towards the latter end of the year,
it's almost embraced a little bit.
You know, not by everyone, obviously, there's people who are still, you know, kind of trying to
build things that aren't necessarily financial, or speculative in nature, which I think is
fantastic. But this idea that if there's going to be speculation, or if there's going to be some sort of market for kind of deterministic
gambling, if you will, there's a better way to do it.
And the way to do it is on chain because, you know, there's a lot of different things
that are enabled down to the ability to use different types of currencies in order to participate in
this social network, right? Doesn't just have to be crypto, I think. You know, there's other
ways of participating where if you're doing so with traditional apps, you have maybe a barrier to entry, like can only participate with US dollars and must be located in the US.
Whereas, you know, crypto and these global markets are global by default.
addition to that, they're able to create them for a niche audience and do so rapidly, which I think
many other app developers in the traditional space maybe can't do so easily or so quickly.
One that, and I don't know, Jeff, if you've had a chance, you know, if anybody who's been following
me for any amount of time knows, I'm going to talk about, you know, Farcaster and Base because that's where I do a lot of my networking, if you will, where I connect with
people and kind of co-build or co-create with them. And one of the ones that to me just stands
out is Bracky, which is really kind of like a sports market, where if you care about any sport in particular,
you can kind of wager or kind of signal what you think is going to happen.
You can predict what might happen towards the end of that event.
And I think it's really cool because it brings people together that share values and ideas or just care about the same thing
to participate in a market that's theirs. I think that's really cool.
The other thing to the point of like where we're at with ZK and maybe potentially where it could
bridge the gap with consumers, I think is an AI.
You know, I think you and I have been talking about this at length for some time now,
and I'd love to hear your thoughts going into 2026.
What are your thoughts about, like,
the convergence of AI and privacy with ZK specifically
and how that could be a way to bridge the gap with consumers?
Yeah, I think AI is the thing that will be the wind-up to get ZK moving, right?
And I'll go back to these prediction markets.
You know, what we see in Web2, what we see in traditional gambling-style markets, casino-style markets, is that data being harvested and used for addiction, to
build for addiction, to build for profit, to build for gathering of data and selling
of that data.
They're actually, you know, they're not run pretty well, very well.
I think AI amplifies that massively when you get big data platforms.
So at the talk in Buenos Aires, you know, I spoke about the fact that I believe we already live in a bit of a data dystopia where data is harvested rapidly.
And we have these big data sources.
And that is then processed for the benefit of the people who own that data.
AI takes that to the next level.
It increases the speed. it increases the processing,
it increases what it can do, and it increases the potential for manipulation of people towards outcomes that we don't necessarily want. So I think that what we will see is a drive by people
and by some companies and projects to incorporate ZK into that to avoid some of those outcomes that
are not what we desire in the space. And going back to Brussels, actually, Humji, I think we
spoke about the need for crypto consumer facing apps to give a better experience than the
traditional apps. You know, if we're going to see people take on these apps, they've got to offer
more than this is just on chain.
They've got to offer something different to say, we've just made this a blockchain thing now.
It's actually got to improve the experience.
And I think ZK with Web3, with crypto, with AI, actually will deliver precisely that for people a better experience in the long run.
Yeah, I think long gone are the days where, you know, everything, first of all, that everything needs to be on chain, right? Or that whatever's on chain is better, simply because it is on chain, right? lot of better product design where there's more thoughtful kind of design thinking into how you
solve a problem. If that problem is better solved with some blockchain tooling, or in this case,
with some ZK tooling built into it. I personally, I got to admit, I feel like 2026 is going to be a year
for me to dive deeper into the ZK space. So I could be a little bit more knowledgeable in the
way that I speak about it because I feel like also a lot has shifted from what ZK,
from what CK,
kind of the way that it was thought
and deployed and productized has changed.
And before, like you said,
I mean, it feels like it was a bit clunkier,
whereas now I think it's becoming
a little bit more fluid
and integrated with other kind of tooling,
even some like blockchain or on-chain tooling.
So I definitely want to be a little bit more knowledgeable in that space so I can contribute
more meaningfully in the conversation. With that said, I mean, if you're okay with it,
I'd like to now kind of jump into really kind of the intention of this space. And maybe we could have
placed that a little bit better at the top, but it's okay. And that is the eighth anniversary of
ontology and, you know, kind of just also framing this discussion around the things that have been
happening since the anniversary kicked off, which was a few weeks ago, things that have wrapped,
and celebrating also some of the contributions
to the campaigns that have been coming through for Ontology
since this all started.
What are your thoughts about that?
Yeah, that's what we're here for, right?
I noticed there's a few people in the audience
who have submitted their stories for one of the campaigns,
so it's great to see those people here. So yeah i'm looking forward to it looking forward to catching up
on everything that's happening awesome well if anybody's in the audience who's submitted a story
i'd love to just first of all invite you to come up so please raise your hand happy to bring you
up even if we're not discussing your uh yet. I'd love for you to be
up here anyways. And then, you know, you can join the discussion as you see fit in terms of what
we'll be talking about here, but obviously also to talk about your contribution as we get into
especially the storytelling part of things. I see Proxima raising your hand.
Go ahead and add you as a speaker.
Welcome up.
Anybody else, please do join us on stage.
Happy to have you here.
The first thing that I guess I wanted to really tap you, Jeff,
for more information, because I feel like I'm also a little bit disconnected
from this specifically here,
but the OHS or Orange Humanity
Score snapshot, can you, in just a few words, give us an explanation or more of a recap?
Why was that snapshot taken?
Yeah, so the idea on that, I mean, the Orange orange humanity score has been running as a competition
for some time now um we've been pushing that we've been pushing rewards on that to try and
get people signed up and get people moving um obviously what we want to achieve with the
campaign is to really get people using that ecosystem and using those things around there.
So there's lots of things coming across.
Oh, no.
There's stuff I want to talk about now, but I'm not even, even I don't talk about them just yet.
But there's stuff coming across, for instance, that maybe by the end of the year,
you'll get an announcement on, maybe by the start of the new year.
And I'm super excited, and it's really hard for me not to mention it um but things like snapshots for
our ancient humanity score may play quite nicely into that and nicely in some of the things that's
coming out um and so it was an ideal time to really say look we've got our anniversary we've
got our birthday celebrations coming up this has been going on for a while. Let's get this done, get people on. There's rewards for it, of course, but OHS is going to play a broader and more
important role in some of the things rolling out in the next year to one to two months. So yeah,
I'm going to stop talking at that before I give something away.
You know, I used to work with this one person.
We were co-founders in a project.
And my biggest thrill was to just keep him talking because he was going to leak some alpha.
And that always made the community pretty happy, not just because they got alpha, but because he was just known to be the one that dropped the alpha.
And you know what?
He was the CEO of the company.
So if anybody was going to drop the alpha,
it should have been him.
But yeah, it was a comical,
but also a very charming flaw of his
that he would always just say,
God, please let me stop talking
because I'm going to say something I shouldn't.
I know that feeling.
Yeah. Cool.
Well, thank you for kind of breaking that down for us.
Also, the final push for the Ontology and Me stories,
remind me, because I'm looking at the calendar on slack as well that is closed
unless i'm mistaken correct no you're absolutely right so that is closed however right we're still
um counting up the winners there's three winners to be announced and people with the most likes
on there people voted by the harbingers and people voted by the core team um so we are still
discussing we are still voting we are still discussing, we are still voting,
we are still counting up those likes.
I would really recommend for people,
until we finish counting, we've not finished counting.
So tell your friends to read your story,
tell them to get in, tell them to share it,
get them on there, you know,
and maybe try and influence me.
My vote's still up for grabs, who knows?
But yes, so there's lots of good prizes to go out.
We got some great stories,
really pleased with the contributions and interactions.
It was great to see the community,
so many people in the community,
particularly lots of the new members
that have come into the community
over the last few months,
take part in that and really contribute something
that was really interesting and great to see.
So yeah, very pleased with everybody.
So thank you everybody for taking part in that.
Yeah, same.
I mean, I don't know.
Have we announced who the people
who are voting on this is?
Because I also don't want to leak anything here
if it wasn't announced.
No, no.
So we are announcing it now
how the voting's working.
Let's go.
And so everybody who's contributed is eligible for a vote, right?
So if you reply to that tweet for the competition
and you put your story in, you are eligible to win.
Everybody on there is.
We will be looking, as I say, for the most likes.
That will form one of the prizes.
Our harbingers.
So, you know, I see Solo Turk in there.
I can't see anybody else.
Our Sonots in there.
So a couple of Harbingers.
And Janola's in there.
So we've got a couple of Harbingers in the chat now.
They will be voting as well for their favorite.
And that will be the second biggest prize.
And then the biggest prize will be for the core team.
And we are. Lots of people have already put their votes out,
but I don't know if you voted yet, Humpty.
Humpty's vote is still up for grab, everybody.
Buy my vote.
You know how you buy my vote?
Literally come up here and speak on it.
Like, honestly, that's my, I like people who show up, okay?
So call me old school. But, you know, yeah, I like people who show up. Okay. So call me old school.
But, you know, yeah, I see people who put in tremendous effort into some of those posts
that were shared.
But for me, if you come up and you talk to me, we have a relationship.
Grease the wheel, baby.
That's how we do it.
Also, if you are a harbinger and you are in the audience there is no excuse for you not being up
here on this space with us so you should be raising your hand as well and coming up with us
i understand that not everybody is uh as comfortable speaking in public i also understand
that not everybody feels comfortable with speaking in english but raise your hand. You could be on mute. Speak as comfortably as you are. I see
somebody just literally left with the harbinger, felt the pressure and said, never mind, I'm out.
But honestly, if you're a harbinger, there is absolutely no excuse. You should be up here,
you know, kind of joining us on these spaces, participating and also supporting the people who are contributing to this campaign.
All right.
I'm going to get to the storytelling pretty soon.
Definitely want Proxima to have an opportunity to speak.
Looking at the calendar.
I also see that, and I might be spoiling things here because honestly, they crossed it out, which tells me this is done.
But the OG tokenomics change was announced. And I might be spoiling things here because, honestly, they crossed it out, which tells me this is done.
But the OG tokenomics change was announced, and there should be some articles about that.
Jeff, did I just spoil something here?
No, no. So the articles are out. There's some stuff out there.
We'll be talking a little bit more about it in the coming weeks as that burn happens. And I think this is really interesting, right? So we hit our eight year anniversary. That's a long time for a crypto project. And one of the big things coming out of
that is this 200 million token burn. That's a lot of tokens on the ONG to be burned, taking it down
to 800,000. It actually goes beyond that. I think these articles are going of tokens on the ONG to be burned, taking it down to 800,000.
It actually goes beyond that.
I think, you know, these articles are going to focus on the 200 million burn.
And I get that.
I think that's important.
But what's really exciting on this, and this is the thing to really dig out on those articles,
and I think really important for the coming year, is this move to put a further lockup of,
I can't remember the exact number,
100 million ONG equivalent, I think.
Check the article for the actual numbers. But this lockup of even more tokens as liquidity.
So this is locked liquidity.
So 100 million ONG, half of that will be swapped for ONT.
And so there'll be a liquidity pool locked
with the burn done so So it's a permanent
lock to enhance liquidity for people building in the space, using the space and so on. I think that
is such a massive signal of intent. I think it's really important. And that reduces the supply of
ONG even further, but also reduces the supply for ONT as well, because this is a dual liquidity token lockup.
That, for me, is the most interesting part of that
beyond just the 200 million burn, I think.
So yeah, really important.
I think it's a big move.
And I think as we start bringing a DEX on board
and we start doing a little bit more on the EVM chain,
having that liquidity available and locked up for people to access
just breeds confidence for developers and investors alike.
So I think it's a really good move.
Wow. Yeah, thanks for breaking that down a little bit more for me.
I mean, look, like many of you, I like to have things sometimes a little bit more digestible.
And Jeff, if anything, you're probably one of the best educators I know.
So I appreciate you definitely breaking that down for us. If you have, because I was looking right
now, I'm pinning a few things on the bulletin board here. If you have a tweet that's linking
to one of those PRs, please do pin it, Jeff. That way people can find it. In addition, there's a few
other things here, including there was a letter from Lee Jun that was sent out or shared across
socials. I've seen it performing well on LinkedIn and on Reddit. So appreciate everybody who's engaging with that. Look, for me, it's about leadership.
I'm someone who strongly believes that, you know, good leadership does trickle down. And so if you
have people who are stating their intent from a very high level, that definitely will permeate
across the entire project. And so I like reading that.
I like seeing the engagement on that.
I want to see more of that.
You know, I personally call on Legion
to maybe put out a quarterly post
that serves as tentpoles for the year
in terms of where we are,
what we've succeeded at,
where we've failed,
because I think we learn from our failures and where we are, what we've succeeded at, where we've failed, because I think we learn from
our failures, and where we're going. And I will, and I have shared with the team some content that
I've seen shared recently from other projects that I think is a great example of how that should be
done. So, you know, I'm also in the ear of the team trying to improve communications, because I think that this definitely makes us all feel a little bit more comfortable and excited about the project.
upgrade reminder for nodes,
which was due yesterday
in order to
reflect
the total max supply of
ONG. So
there's information there. If you're a node
operator,
please do take a look at that. I think that's
very urgent news. And of
course, just shared
recently, as recently
as yesterday,
Ontology is a certified member of Circle.
Circle are the developers or maintainers of USDC.
So I think that that's really great news.
Personally, I'd love to see USDC on the ontology chain.
I think we've seen how valuable it can be or it is if a chain operates with a stablecoin on their network,
especially when it comes to facilitating funds and support for developers and development on the chain.
So if EBM is an emphasis of Ontology next year,
I think that that's going to be super critical.
And I'd love to see that Ontology
is a partner of Circle in that regard.
Jeff, anything else you want to add in that respect?
Yeah, I think this, you know, stablecoins in particular,
if we've seen anything
this last year of all the narratives they've probably won out across everything and uh natively
deployed stable coins are essential i believe so i would love to see that move further and i think
it's an important first step right i think I think, you know, getting that relationship moving is keen to any further steps that we can take.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, well, let's go and talk about the storytelling part of it,
which is very exciting.
Again, if you're new here, I hope you're not.
But if you are, I'm a creator first.
And in 2025, I kind of stepped back a little bit
on my own kind of creative endeavors, mostly because I've been focused on connecting and
engaging with people IRL around the world. And that is a massive lift. But into 2026,
my creator persona is coming back stronger than ever but I don't want to
get too deep into my own kind of vision for myself in 2026 I want to hear from
the people who are participating in this campaign the ontology and me
storytelling campaign you can see a few of the ones that at least have surfaced to me.
And the first one is that I have up here pinned is actually by Proxima who is on stage with us. So Proxima, if you are willing and able, you can unmute and kind of talk a little bit about
what you've written here with your ontology journey. GM. GM, GM, ontology, thank you very much for the chance
to speak. Okay, so I joined ontology back in 2024, January. Yeah, I stated in my post,
it started with a simple quest. That specific day, I was not planning to join in the quest but I was like
okay it is something simple I hope it doesn't get complicated I downloaded the application
and I actually like the interface I always tell my friend something that if I will use
a specific application it has to be beautiful it has to look nice. That's the bare minimum. And
on top of the job, I didn't disappoint. Then I was able to stake my tokens very easy. It
was super smooth. It was without stress. it made me curious that this community has a lot going for
it so i decided to investigate the discord we shall have to join when participating in that
quest i joined the discord i met till done till done and bella they were able to put me through
some things i didn't understand.
And I actually liked the way I interacted with them.
So I became a regular on the space.
I joined the monthly quiz.
I joined the telegram.
I used to join the Tuesday ontology, the idea Tuesdays,
before it was converted to Game Tuesdays.
I used to be a regular, I used to communicate, I learned a lot of things, especially from Frost.
He usually coordinates the DID Tuesdays before it was replaced.
So, I met a lot of people, I met a lot of nice people.
There are still some of them that I'm in touch with. So they, even though they are no longer in the community.
So that's just a brief summary of,
yes, and I also have an arching emesis.
I don't know if he's on this piece.
Where is the list?
Oh, he's not yet.
We usually compete.
Who gets the questions first in the quiz?
So he's a nice guy.
We talk, we communicate.
And I don't think I'm leaving Ontology soon.
Ontology is my favorite wallet.
It's up there with the major wallets I use.
I like it.
I use it every day.
I use it every time.
That is where I put my major seed phrase.
So it's a nice app to have.
It is a nice community.
It's a great experience.
And I hope other people get to experience it the way I did.
Thank you very much.
Amazing.
Proxima.
I see Jeff with your hand up.
I'm going to say, first of all, thank you for coming up and being first to speak.
That's usually the hardest part is being the first one to speak.
So I appreciate you doing that.
Second of all, I did go through your post here and I did read through it.
And one of the things that really stood out to me, well, two things, but the first thing
that stood out to me the most is you joining Ontology Africa, which is spearheaded by one
of our own, Barnabas, which I see in the
audience as well. Please do come up when you have a chance, if you can. And I'd love seeing those
initiatives that were put into effect by people like Jeff, who is our head of community, really
improve its impact, not just because Barnabas is an incredible leader himself, but also because
they are able to connect and onboard and support people like yourself. So that to me really stood
out. And so I think it's worth celebrating also people like Barnabas is in our audience.
The other thing that stood out to me is OntoWallet becoming your main wallet.
I personally wouldn't disagree, but like everything else, I'm always looking for ways to improve.
So I think one of the things that I would like to see is maybe into the new year,
and I don't want to put extra work on our head of community here,
so I could definitely help initiate this, is I'd like to see
people who are using our products join kind of like a sub-community that help improve our products,
right? So if you are using our products, join, you know, maybe a group chat or a channel on Discord
where we could have a conversation of like,
hey, what went wrong?
Or what would you like to see?
How can we improve something?
Or what is another wallet doing really well
that we should imitate or emulate?
Proxima, go ahead.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot.
I wanted to mention something.
I think we need to bring back the browser in the wallet. It
has been gone for a while and I really missed it. So I think we need to bring it back with
the dApps that are available on it. I think we really need to bring it back. I've really
missed that feature. We need to bring it back. Thank you very much. If you can get this to
the team, I really appreciate it i promise you the team listens to these spaces too so that's great jeff go ahead
buddy yeah yeah so three things before i forget i'm getting old i forget them really quickly um
did tuesday was and remains my favorite thing proximate i'm happy you enjoyed them
and first is an absolute legend along with with Sasson, for running those.
We had to move them because first could no longer attend on a Tuesday,
but they do still occur on a Wednesday.
So if you can find the time on a Wednesday, they do still happen.
But first had some clashes with his personal life or work life or something,
which meant we had to move them to a Wednesday.
So they do still exist and they will be there on a Wednesday
and they remain there to a Wednesday. So they do still exist, and they will be there on a Wednesday, and they remain there on a Wednesday.
Second, see, I can already feel all this information leaking out of my old brain.
Don't get old, people.
It's horrible.
Secondly, in terms of the product update that you spoke about, Humpty,
and improving products and so on, Dan, who Proxima mentioned,
TM Dawn on Discord, is in the middle of setting up individual channels
for things like Onto Wallet and Orange Protocol
and Ont ID and things like that,
which will be precisely that space
for people to come in with suggestions
and talk about what can be improved
and what's not working
and what can be done better and what they like.
And because it's also important
to get a grip of what people enjoy as well.
And so that's kind of happening as we speak.
That's moving along.
And Dan's working really hard on improving that Discord all the time.
And then thirdly was about onto Wallet in the browser.
I've got a suspicion, Proxima, that if you go on your settings,
what's happened is there's a separate
mode. There's an ID mode and a different mode. I can't remember the name of it, but it's literally
a little flick switch. And if you flick it, you should be able to shut your app down, relaunch it,
and you'll find that discovery relaunches and it's there for you. I believe that should happen.
If it doesn't, drop me a message either on Twitter or Telegram or Discord,
and I'll go through it with you.
But I'm pretty sure that should fix your problem.
Excellent.
Appreciate it, Jeff.
Appreciate it, Proxima.
I do have two other people here that I do see that we also pinned their content.
So we'll go in the order they came up.
RTD, GM, how are you doing?
RTDGM, how are you doing?
Maybe try disconnecting and come back up, RTD,
because you're not coming through at all for me.
All right, we'll go on to Godly
while we wait for RTD to try reconnecting
because that, at least for me,
Jeff, you'll let me know if I'm wrong,
did not sound like they were connecting very well.
No, it sounded like an invasion.
Like the aliens had turned up or something.
It was not right.
Okay, just wanted to make sure also it wasn't just me.
Godly, how are you doing,
When I put up ontology, this is
Godly, the voice of Web3.
How are you guys doing, GM
ontology? GM, I see you going to
pass. Wow, what an intro. Let's go.
Love the energy, brother.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. GM to you, Geoff. GM to you, Proxy.
And I see people down there. GM, GM to you guys.
Yeah, actually wanted to come up because I think since it's the anniversary space,
it is only proper. We are in the season.
The season of celebration of anthologies and anniversary at the same time,
the season, seasons. You understand what I'm trying to say?
So yeah, the energy has to be pumped up and yeah.
Do you want me to talk about my story?
I comment on that.
Yeah, please do.
Tell us a little bit about like, you know,
add a little flavor and I could tell you, sir,
have a lot of flavor, add a little flavor
as to like what you wrote uh to the okay okay okay okay
okay so um unlike um proxy yeah i i haven't i didn't come across ontology that early i came
up across ontology this year thanks to banabas yeah um i was hosting a space because I'm a space host and I was hosting a space one day and Banabas came to the space and requested for the mic.
I brought him up and he told me about ontology briefly.
I was like, you know what? I'm going to come to your DM to know more about this.
And just like that, the rest is history.
It's been very, very beautiful.
And I think if you have said he's old so probably
he might not remember a lot of things but yes i have hosted quite a number of um spaces for the
uh nigeria uh nigeria ontology um and i think joff has been speaker in a lot of them and it's
actually been a lovely ride yeah it actually been a lovely ride.
Yeah, it's been a lovely ride and yeah, shout out to everyone that's been part of this journey.
Yeah, there'll be ups, there'll be downs definitely, but it's been beautiful to be honest.
And I think we are just getting started. We just need to align better.
And to be honest, there is just like the theme of the anniversary yeah
we are unlocking impossible um a lot of possibilities and um yeah to be honest
it has been a crazy journey yeah i never knew it would be this um long i was thinking it would be
just okay one of those let's know about it what are they building and you just you understand
but long run you know that project you just want to peep out but it catches you and you ain't going
nowhere you ain't going nowhere until it's like a rooted day it's not just a protocol it's a
purpose i've connected with and it's a community i have and we continue to have viewed. Yeah, just like I said, this is Godly, the voice of Web3.
And trust me, we're just getting started.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Thank you, Godly, first of all, for coming up here and introducing yourself and also
for adding that context.
Great to hear.
I love to hear from creators.
Great to hear that.
Varnavas, again, that name keeps coming up.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
Varnavas is great for connecting with other creators where they are.
By the way, that was my mission for the year 2025,
was meeting creators where they are for meme
and physically going to them, talking to them, learning from them,
sharing what I've learned.
And so I'd love to see other people follow that same mentality when it comes to
growing their audience and connecting them to their story. So amazing, Barnabas, amazing,
Godly. Thank you so much. RTD, let's hear from you. Hopefully you have a better connection this time around.
this time around.
Yeah, same for me, Jeff.
Yeah, that's not working, unfortunately, RTD.
Yeah, I don't know if you hear RTD, but there's
like this very tinny kind of echo
with a lot of like interference i can hear you but
around your voice there's a lot of interference
there you go perfect now a hundred percent better okay thank you i think um the problem is
Okay, thank you. I think the problem is from my earpiece.
Yep, always is. Usually the headphones are the culprit, but I'm glad that we can hear you perfectly now.
Okay, good evening. I don't know who is behind the hand, but I think it is Humpty.
but I think it is Humpty.
So, good evening.
So good evening.
It is Humpty.
It is Humpty.
Okay, thank you very much.
This is my first time speaking here in ontology space.
So I'm more vocal with hand than with mouth.
I think everybody here can attest to that.
Good evening, Joff.
Good evening, Goli and the rest of the participants here.
Thank you very much.
My ontology story I think is very inspiring because when I first joined the Twitter in 2023, I barely even write anything, but after
I was being introduced to ontology by Barnabas and the Habinger, I think now he is the Africa lead, so he took his time to
take us through to the core knowledge of the blockchain itself and other stuff, and other stuff and other Web3 stuff and all of that. So I come back to X because of the
ontology network because I wanted to start writing on ontology, the solution that he brought, and so on and so forth.
Then I started writing.
So there was this African campaign, African writers campaign, that we hosted, I think it was last four months, so I wrote a lot of things concerning the ontology network.
So that has been groundbreaking for me because I gained a lot of, you know, visibility in X. So after that, I'm now presently working with so many protocols, you know.
I write to them. I am the, what can I call it?
I used to take care of the ATG group and so on and so forth.
So like a moderator?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Like a moderator.
Thank you for reminding me.
Of course, no problem.
Yes, yes, yes.
So from that, again, a lot of, you know, disability and again, a lot of jobs, you understand. So I think that is all I have to say because I'm still learning how to, how
to be, you know, how to be, you know, something in, in, in, in spaces like this, especially
in English. Had it been, it is in also a language I could have been, you know, more vocal.
Well, first of all, let me say thank you for coming up.
You did a great job of speaking English,
and the only way you get better at something is to keep doing it.
So I would challenge you to join us again next week
and keep coming up until you feel comfortable,
because I promise you, I was never
good at speaking in public. And now you can't keep me from talking. I love showing up. I love
speaking. But the most important thing that I love doing is I love helping creators get better,
especially at things that they're not very comfortable doing. So I would invite you
personally to join us again next week
and participate in the spaces.
But I appreciate you coming up and sharing your story
and talking to us about the contributions
that you've made here with this entry,
but also to other ecosystems, which I love seeing as well.
Of course, we've reached the top of the hour.
If anybody else was waiting to speak,
I'm going to ask that you please join us again next week.
We're going to keep talking about, you know,
the ontology ecosystem next week.
Let me look at my own schedule about what we're going to be talking.
Okay, we're talking about stinking nodes,
and we're going to be talking about. Okay, we're talking about staking nodes and we're going to be inviting some of our partners
as well as node operators to join us
to talk about growing staking communities.
But that doesn't mean that we're not going to continue
to celebrate our creators here.
So if I missed you for some reason today,
don't let that deter you.
Come back.
And if we spoke today,
don't let this be the last time that we speak.
Please join us again next week.
You know, Jeff, as our head of community here,
and Barnavas leading our Ontology Africa community,
I would say there's going to be a lot more here
to continue to build on.
And the more that you show up,
not just by submitting content in these challenges,
but also by, you know, participating on our Discord and our Telegram and, you know, through
these other kind of niche subsets of our community that we've been talking, like how to improve our
products, we're going to find new ways to engage and reward you. So, you know, keep showing up,
keep letting us know who you are,
what you're building,
how you're interacting
with the Ontology ecosystem.
For me, Jeff,
this was a great kickoff
to the Ontology anniversary celebration.
This is the first of four spaces
that we have planned.
Like I mentioned,
next week we'll be back.
Same time, same channel, same day.
And we're going to be talking to our staking nodes and partners about staking, growing those staking communities, but also talking about
what staking could look like into 2026. I know Jeff and I have talked at length about what we
think we'd like to see with AI in this space. And then on the third, excuse me, the third week Tuesday,
we have a special Tuesday event and a Thursday event. The Tuesday event is going to be around
wallet and growing token communities. And we're going to dive a little bit more deeply into the
OG tokenomics. We're going to talk about onto Wallet a little bit more deeply and potentially even announcing something new in that space on that date.
And then finally on Thursday, we're going to invite our decentralized identity partners
to come and talk about what we think DID and reputation
and all of that will look like into the new year,
and especially with the convergence of AI.
So a lot of fun stuff here planned
for the next couple of weeks with several events.
So please do join us again.
Jeff, anything else you'd like to add?
Oh, Barnabas, I see your hand raised.
Sorry, let's bring you up first
and then Jeff can close us out.
Yeah, GM, GM, guys.
Yeah, so sorry for joining late.
And I've been listening since i joined on uh what a story
you know uh from godly rcd and and the rest yeah their stories are expiring and uh i think i'm i'm
very proud of them and so happy to play a like a small role in in their web3 journey i think that's
that's all i have to say for now
because of the time.
Maybe I'll have more to say next time.
Yeah, thank you guys.
Yeah, and please let's not undersell your role, Barnabas.
I mean, I've been a big fan of you
since before you joined Ontology
as a Carbanger or even community lead.
The work that you've done,
just the authenticity with which you present yourself,
I think is super special.
And I think it shows
by the number of people
that show up here for you as well.
So thank you, Barnabas.
I appreciate you.
Jeff, go for it, buddy.
Anything I missed?
Anything you want to say?
No, all good.
I think it's been a great space.
And just to reiterate,
I mean, Barnabas does a great job.
And for anybody who deals with him
on a daily basis, just be aware that he's constantly in my ear to try and improve things and make things work
smoother and better um to pick up on something godly was saying you know we're learning together
on this this is the first time we've run a scheme like trying to push ontology africa out which
means there'll be hiccups and there'll be mistakes and there'll be bumps in the road and there'll be
some communication things we have to iron out but i i'm really really proud of the work
that's been done across that entire space and that entire continent i think we're moving in a great
direction and it can only get better so that's really cool uh dan i see you in the audience
we're talking nodes next week dude which means i'd love to have you up on the stage next week
because you you know what you're doing with node Operating. You've grown a great Australian staking community on that. I
think you've got a lot to offer in that conversation, so I would love to see you up on stage next week.
But yeah, brilliant spaces. Really enjoyed it. Thank you, everybody, for making it a great
anniversary space for our first one. Amazing. Thank you, Jeff, as always, for joining me on these spaces.
They wouldn't be the same without you.
In fact, we've tried it
and they're not the same without you.
So I appreciate you showing up
and helping to grow this community as well.
We'll see everybody again next week, okay?
On Thursday or whatever day that is
in your part of the world, same time.
We'll see you again next week.
Bye, bye.
