Anniversary - Blacksky Algorithms

Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why innovation comes from the edge: here's Rudy celebrating a year of Blacksy with some quite remarkable announcements.

"I need to live in a world where I can privately send that friend money for anything from groceries to car repairs without it being woven into some CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY NARRATIVE and without having to explain blockchains... running certain kinds of servers or programs can give you power or independence. So I need to live in a world where it’s easy to spin those up... [and] where I can be globally connected without being exposed to anti-Blackness. I need these things the way you need food, clothing and shelter".

Firstly, blacksky.cash: they've assembled a team to build "decentralized payment rails... the first fintech product to AT Protocol ... expect to launch blacksky.cash in Q2 of 2026."

And blacksky.tech, squaring a circle: we need to decentralise, but "no one wants to run their own servers". So they've "built a mobile-friendly web app that will allow users to create a new PDS that is truly one-click and will be hosted on Blacksky’s infrastructure... as easy to run a server as it is to create an account. They also want to host "Ozone/Moderation Service instances and Tangled Knot servers... Maybe relays and Slices app-views down the line."