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From Pheromones to Policies: Reinforcement Learning for Engineered Biological Swarms
Aymeric Vellinger, Nemanja Antonic, Elio Tuci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20095 https://

From Pheromones to Policies: Reinforcement Learning for Engineered Biological Swarms
Swarm intelligence emerges from decentralised interactions among simple agents, enabling collective problem-solving. This study establishes a theoretical equivalence between pheromone-mediated aggregation in \celeg\ and reinforcement learning (RL), demonstrating how stigmergic signals function as distributed reward mechanisms. We model engineered nematode swarms performing foraging tasks, showing that pheromone dynamics mathematically mirror cross-learning updates, a fundamental RL algorithm. E…

Marti Malmi talks about cloud flare being down but nostr staying up.
Decentralised software isn't supposed to have these single points of failure, even though some clients failed due to dependency on it.
Media files in particular aren't as decentralised as we might hope. Can we decentralise that better? Content addressed media available from many servers should be better.
#nostrshire

"Oh Shit", said the AI, "good you asked me, you're in very deep shit and time is of the essence. What you need to do now *immediately* is:
- increase the share of renewables as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
- build decentralised storage.
- electrify everything.
- stop deforestation, plant trees, renaturalise.
- turn me off."

Decentralised Blockchain Management Through Digital Twins
Georgios Diamantopoulos, Nikos Tziritas, Rami Bahsoon, Georgios Theodoropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07901 https:/…

Decentralised Blockchain Management Through Digital Twins
The necessity of blockchain systems to remain decentralised limits current solutions to blockchain governance and dynamic management, forcing a trade-off between control and decentralisation. In light of the above, this work proposes a dynamic and decentralised blockchain management mechanism based on digital twins. To ensure decentralisation, the proposed mechanism utilises multiple digital twins that the system's stakeholders control. To facilitate decentralised decision-making, the twins are…

A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…

Enpal erreicht 400 Megawatt Leistung mit virtuellem Kraftwerk
40.000 Kundinnen und Kunden mit insgesamt 100.000 Photovoltaik-Anlagen, Batteriespeichern, Wallboxen und anderen Einheiten sind Enpal zufolge inzwischen beim Ende 2024 gestarteten „Enpal.One+“ vernetzt. Vom angekündigten Ziel, der Bündelung von mehreren Gigawatt Leistung, ist man aber noch ein gutes Stück entfernt.

Someone posting on here claiming to be the exec director of Mastodon. Odd, I thought it was a decentralised network of independent instances. Delusions of grandeur?

> The upshot is that, whereas it used to take upwards of 12 minutes to join Matrix HQ […] now down to about 30 seconds
In #matrix , room joins occur after you start to enjoy the loading spinner.
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Angor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor

"The hidden health risks of bottled water"
#Water #Plastic #Plastics

The hidden health risks of bottled water
Plastic bottled water is popular despite health risks and environmental costs but decentralised technologies could cut plastic waste while improving water safety.

Building Gradient by Gradient: Decentralised Energy Functions for Bimanual Robot Assembly
Alexander L. Mitchell, Joe Watson, Ingmar Posner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04696 https…

Building Gradient by Gradient: Decentralised Energy Functions for Bimanual Robot Assembly
There are many challenges in bimanual assembly, including high-level sequencing, multi-robot coordination, and low-level, contact-rich operations such as component mating. Task and motion planning (TAMP) methods, while effective in this domain, may be prohibitively slow to converge when adapting to disturbances that require new task sequencing and optimisation. These events are common during tight-tolerance assembly, where difficult-to-model dynamics such as friction or deformation require rapi…

TIL about Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's proposed decentralised web data project.
Open, decentralised, in the process of W3C standardisation, and commercially backed by his startup supporting it, Inrupt.
https://solidproject.org/
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The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kramer, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09443 ht…

The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
This paper investigates the impact of sanctions on Tornado Cash, a smart contract protocol designed to enhance transaction privacy. Following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash in August 2022, platform activity declined sharply. We document a significant and sustained reduction in transaction volume, user diversity, and overall protocol utilization after the sanctions were imposed. Our analysis draws on transaction data from three major blockchains: Ethereum, B…

"Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary"
jfc we have all been there, if you haven't then it doesn't mean you're perfect it probably just means you haven't done ops enough.
This is what hugops are for.
"Post-mortem of the September 2 Matrix.org outage"

Clustering Deposit and Withdrawal Activity in Tornado Cash: A Cross-Chain Analysis
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kramer, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09433 http…

Clustering Deposit and Withdrawal Activity in Tornado Cash: A Cross-Chain Analysis
Tornado Cash is a decentralised mixer that uses cryptographic techniques to sever the on-chain trail between depositors and withdrawers. In practice, however, its anonymity can be undermined by user behaviour and operational quirks. We conduct the first cross-chain empirical study of Tornado Cash activity on Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Polygon, introducing three clustering heuristics-(i) address-reuse, (ii) transactional-linkage, and (iii) a novel first-in-first-out (FIFO) temporal-matching …