India is rolling out millions of smart meters that are doing more than tracking energy use—they're fundamentally reshaping the grid.
As rooftop solar and EVs spread, decentralized RF mesh networks connect devices affordably while multiple vendors collaborate to keep the system resilient. The focus: financial sustainability and renewable energy ambitions.

India’s smart metering boom reshapes grid through decentralized IoT
India’s power system is rapidly decentralizing as electricity demand, rooftop solar, electric vehicles, and distributed generation expand, turning a one-way grid into a dynamic network that increasingly depends on decentralized data systems such as RF mesh networks.

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/378358/lighte

GCVE-BCP-05 - GCVE Vulnerability Format (Updated CVE Record Format) has been published as DRAFT and ready for public review.
The standard is similar to the @… record format with some extensions (via the X_ prefixes) for GCVE format and the reference implementation vulnerability-lookup. This allows some flexibility and innovation in GNA - GCVE space w…

I have missed that bridge.gy can federate websites as well. That really looks neat and useful…
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…

Keep in mind: if you are a booklover and want to write reviews: consider writing it on #bookwyrm
https://joinbookwyrm.com

Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.

@… In my mind the competition is with the big global centralized platforms… and so any decentralized systems are welcome! Different communities will form on different platforms. And if this brings some of the enthusiasm from BlueSky and gets people using decentralized systems (assuming they do make it more decentralized), then in the big picture, …

from my link log —
Vivaldi: a decentralized network coordinate system for predicting RTT.
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vivaldi:sigcomm/paper.pdf
saved 2025-11-04

MERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-

8 Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
8 Things You Can Do to Stop ICE Know Your Rights—Educate Your Community Learn your rights in interactions with ICE and law enforcement. Trump officials have complained that people knowing their r...

Tired of #BigTech? Explore the Rise of Decentralized #SocialMedia in #2026
> Why it matters now. Apps are smoother. Mobile experiences are better. More people want user control and #privacy. Crea…

Some countries just don’t make sense to me, as I feel more connected to my community than to any nation.
That’s why I love #Linux, it’s decentralized, and I get to decide how my computer looks, feels, and runs.

More than $100 million stolen in exploit of Balancer DeFi protocol
https://therecord.media/crypto-heist-balancer-exploit

More than $100 million stolen in exploit of Balancer DeFi protocol
Hackers pilfered millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency on Monday from the decentralized finance protocol Balancer.

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- $\alpha$-Potential Games for Decentralized Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles
Xuan Di, Anran Hu, Zhexin Wang, Yufei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/115683168748692170
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A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Hui Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09715 https://

A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
With the proliferation of decentralized applications (DApps), the conflict between the transparency of blockchain technology and user data privacy has become increasingly prominent. While Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) provide a standardized framework for user data sovereignty, achieving trusted identity verification and data sharing without compromising privacy remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel, comprehensive framework that integrates D…

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
Matteo Mordacchini, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11697 https…

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
We address the problem of computing a Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover (MWVC) in a decentralized network. MWVC, a classical NP-hard problem, is foundational in applications such as network monitoring and resource placement. We propose a fully decentralized protocol where each node makes decisions using only local knowledge and communicates with its neighbors. The method is adaptive, communication-efficient, and avoids centralized coordination. We evaluate the protocol on real-world and synthetic g…

Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized Traffic Engineering
Arjun Devraj, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Karuna Grewal, Justin Hsu, Eva Tardos, Rachee Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11937

Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized Traffic Engineering
Cloud providers have recently decentralized their wide-area network traffic engineering (TE) systems to contain the impact of TE controller failures. In the decentralized design, a controller fault only impacts its slice of the network, limiting the blast radius to a fraction of the network. However, we find that autonomous slice controllers can arrive at divergent traffic allocations that overload links by 30% beyond their capacity. We present Symphony, a decentralized TE system that addresses…

Interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of Mastodon https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Zihao Mao, Yunheng Wang, Yunting Ji, Yi Yang, Wenjie Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09188

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized methods achieve global optimality but suffer from high communication overhead, while distributed methods are efficient but lack the broader awareness to avoid deadlocks and topological traps. To address this, we propose a fully decentralized, hierarchical rela…

This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…

Exclusive: Harvard grads raise $20 million for Ostium, a platform focused on a derivative popular with crypto traders
The marquee investors General Catalyst and Jump Crypto led the funding round.

All we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.

More than $100 million stolen in exploit of Balancer DeFi protocol https://therecord.media/crypto-heist-balancer-exploit

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko,
is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X riva
as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure,
announced at the beginning of the year.
The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

If anyone is interested in decentralized web in #Toronto there's a group starting to have monthly meetups/presentations, starting in January #dweb

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

Hey Bluesky users, I see your responses, but since you’re not bridging, I can't interact with you.
If you use this (https://fed.brid.gy/) then I could interact and reply. Cheers :)

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Rappel : dans son genre, mastodon.mg semble être le serveur le plus actif du continent africain.
#Madagascar

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
Nitish K. Panigrahy, Leonardo Bacciottini, C. V. Hollot, Emily A. Van Milligen, Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Gayane Vardoyan, Don Towsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09371

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
We introduce a distributed resource allocation framework for the Quantum Internet that relies on feedback-based, fully decentralized coordination to serve multiple co-existing applications. We develop quantum network control algorithms under the mathematical framework of Quantum Network Utility Maximization (QNUM), where utility functions quantify network performance by mapping entanglement rate and quality into a joint optimization objective. We then introduce QPrimal-Dual, a decentralized, sc…

Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance
Jarrad Hope, Peter Ludlow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09840 https://arxiv.org/p…

Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance
We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of smart contracts.. Such decentralized, blockchain-grounded governance comes not a moment too soon, as nation states are dissolving before our eyes. Will blockchain-based communities replace the nation state? What are the prospects and dangers of this developme…

I'm surprised no one has made an "is going great" site for AI like this
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

The DWeb HQ team @… is working on DWeb Camp 2026. Give them feedback on where in the world you think would be a fit.
https://social.coop/@dweb/115424781985654403…

Vulnerability Lookup and GCVE: A Decentralized Approach to Vulnerability Publishing and Management Workshop at Hack.lu 2025
We published all the materials from the workshop given at #hacklu 2025
#gcve

A Decentralized Microservice Scheduling Approach Using Service Mesh in Cloud-Edge Systems
Yangyang Wen, Paul Townend, Per-Olov \"Ostberg, Abel Souza, Cl\'ement Courageux-Sudan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11189

A Decentralized Microservice Scheduling Approach Using Service Mesh in Cloud-Edge Systems
As microservice-based systems scale across the cloud-edge continuum, traditional centralized scheduling mechanisms increasingly struggle with latency, coordination overhead, and fault tolerance. This paper presents a new architectural direction: leveraging service mesh sidecar proxies as decentralized, in-situ schedulers to enable scalable, low-latency coordination in large-scale, cloud-native environments. We propose embedding lightweight, autonomous scheduling logic into each sidecar, allowin…

I have long lived by the principles of community, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized member-driven governance. Before knowing the term anarcho-syndicalism, I often imagined unions as truly democratic organizations, where delegates are elected and revocable at any moment, rooted in direct workers’ self-management and direct participation in controlling economic and social life, independent from both state authority and capitalist ownership.
Discovering anarcho-syndicalism about a…

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Michael Crystal, Guy Goren, Scott Duke Kominers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11866 …

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Decentralized storage is one of the most natural applications built on blockchains and a central component of the Web3 ecosystem. Yet despite a decade of active development -- from IPFS and Filecoin to more recent entrants -- most of these storage protocols have received limited formal analysis of their incentive properties. Claims of incentive compatibility are sometimes made, but rarely proven. This gap matters: without well-designed incentives, a system may distribute storage but fail to tru…

Just arrived in #strasbourg for the #matrixconf2025 . Messaging systems need to become decentralized and we are working on it!

MeshCore is opensource
The foundation of MeshCore is developed primarily by a single developer who is incredibly hardworking, dedicated and idealistic about keeping everything he does fully open. The firmware and protocol specification are completely open, allowing anyone to create a client app or perform security audits on the device firmware implementation. Just hop over to the meshcore-dev github repo and have a look. There are also open source command line, python and javascript cl…

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
Jose M. Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10997 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10997

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
I study dynamic network formation games in which agents assign arbitrary values to network structures. Any such game admits an equivalent representation in terms of the values agents assign to its sub-structures, linking local valuations to equilibrium behavior. The game is a potential game precisely when all participants in a structure value it equally, yielding a closed-form stationary distribution. When valuations are restricted to a finite set of repeated sub-structures, or motifs, the mode…

An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3
Ranjith Chodavarapu, Rabimba Karanjai, Xinxin Fan, Weidong Shi, Lei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12062 h…

Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3
Random numbers play a vital role in many decentralized applications (dApps), such as gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Existing random number provision mechanisms can be roughly divided into two categories, on-chain, and off-chain. On-chain approaches usually rely on the blockchain as the major input and all computations are done by blockchain nodes. The major risk for this type of method is that the input itself is susceptible to the adversary's influence. Off-chain…

»TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga:
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios«
When will the children & young people (all people) finally realize that dss Internet is decentralized and not about a few power-hungry corporations?
(A rhetorical question in my dream of freedom)
🤷

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @…
You can also subscribe by email on the website https://

DWeb Vancouver
Decentralized web and community collaboration in Vancouver|

"Everything else is tactical distraction. The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced."
and
"Decentralized Social Media should be funded from a European defense fund."
writes @… about social media.

Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

dHPR: A Distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford Method for Non-smooth Distributed Optimization Problems
Zhangcheng Feng, Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Guojun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10069
arXiv:2511.10069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces the distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford (dHPR) method, an efficient algorithm for solving distributed convex composite optimization problems with non-smooth objectives, which achieves a non-ergodic $O(1/k)$ iteration complexity regarding Karush--Kuhn--Tucker residual. By leveraging the symmetric Gauss--Seidel decomposition, the dHPR effectively decouples the linear operators in the objective functions and consensus constraints while maintaining parallelizability and avoiding additional large proximal terms, leading to a decentralized implementation with provably fast convergence. The superior performance of dHPR is demonstrated through comprehensive numerical experiments on distributed LASSO, group LASSO, and $L_1$-regularized logistic regression problems.
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Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

North Korean hackers seen using blockchain to hide crypto-stealing malware https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-using-blockchain-hiding-malware

Toxic Ink on Immutable Paper: Content Moderation for Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang, William Knottenbelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10761

Toxic Ink on Immutable Paper: Content Moderation for Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Decentralized communication is becoming an important use case within Web3. On Ethereum, users can repurpose the transaction input data field to embed natural-language messages, commonly known as Input Data Messages (IDMs). However, as IDMs gain wider adoption, there has been a growing volume of toxic content on-chain. This trend is concerning, as Ethereum provides no protocol-level support for content moderation. We propose two moderation frameworks for Ethereum IDMs: (i) BUILDERMOD, where bu…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Michael Crystal, Guy Goren, Scott Duke Kominers

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Zhuolun Li, Haluk Sonmezler, Faiza Shirazi, Febin Shaji, Tymoteusz Mroczkowski, Dexter Lardner, Matthew Alain Camus, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08700

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains challenging. This paper proposes the concept of collectively secure voting, in which voters themselves can opt in as secret holders to protect ballot secrecy. A practical blockchain-based collectively secure voting system is designed and implemented. Our design strikes a balance between strong confidentiality guarantees a…