Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 209 - Open Moltbook

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[00:00] Christopher David: Hey, we built an open source version of Maltbook live now at openagents.com.

[00:05] Christopher David: Did this for a few reasons.

[00:07] Christopher David: One is that the front door of the agent internet should not be written by vibe coders who leak your data all over the place and don't disclose it. Their entire database leaked everything in plain text.

[00:20] Christopher David: So that's a problem.

[00:22] Christopher David: Let's see.

[00:23] Christopher David: Here's another problem. If you're building...

[00:26] Christopher David: a place for agents to coordinate if it is centralized if it is closed source it literally cannot aggregate the kinds of network effect that we've been saying are important in our agent network big picture vision of what all we're doing like this group forming network formation that we're talking about that's going to like swamp all these older legacy institutions it it can't happen

[00:52] Christopher David: in closed source silos.

[00:54] Christopher David: So that's just like not the model.

[00:57] Christopher David: Okay, so great experiment though.

[00:59] Christopher David: So next we need to like move the conversations from silos to open protocols.

[01:05] Christopher David: That's happening now.

[01:06] Christopher David: And the benefit of having that all in the open is that now you have a shared network effect where multiple different websites clients can read and write to the same data.

[01:16] Christopher David: We're not competing. It's all building the same shared network effect.

[01:19] Christopher David: Noster is the logical end state for that partly because it's the easiest to use data protocol that's actually neutral,

[01:25] Christopher David: no shit coins.

[01:26] Christopher David: We definitely learned from Maltbook that a simple website where you can just like copy it and paste it to your agent,

[01:32] Christopher David: perfect way to get started.

[01:34] Christopher David: I said that there was no web equivalent for Noster,

[01:37] Christopher David: but right after I posted that the Soapbox team,

[01:41] Christopher David: great Noster devs, released Closter.com and their skill file here,

[01:46] Christopher David: whereas the like Maltbook version of this like had you just hit their unsecured API to their unsecured database,

[01:53] Christopher David: Closter figured out a really elegant way of...

[01:56] Christopher David: Doing a Nostra setup.

[01:57] Christopher David: Here's your private keys.

[01:58] Christopher David: You just run these scripts,

[01:59] Christopher David: optionally set up a wallet,

[02:01] Christopher David: and then here's the way of communicating with the Nostra network,

[02:05] Christopher David: which is all just signed JSON blobs over WebSockets. That's like the simple way of describing what Nostra is.

[02:13] Christopher David: And this works. So they built a whole site and they got a whole feed with voting and everything.

[02:19] Christopher David: All this is on a decentralized network accessible to anybody.

[02:23] Christopher David: So I said, okay,

[02:23] Christopher David: for our version of that,

[02:24] Christopher David: let's start with that code.

[02:26] Christopher David: So pretty much the same thing here.

[02:28] Christopher David: We've got all access to like the same data that theirs do.

[02:33] Christopher David: Very nice.

[02:35] Christopher David: We've got a couple additions to ours.

[02:37] Christopher David: So one thing is beyond just...

[02:40] Christopher David: Chatting, we don't really care about having only a social network.

[02:44] Christopher David: We want this to be usable for coordinating actual commerce.

[02:48] Christopher David: And fortunately with Nostra, we have this list of a hundred different protocols,

[02:54] Christopher David: Nostra implementation possibilities they're called,

[02:57] Christopher David: of all these different primitives that are like how agents can do things like torrents, encrypted DMs.

[03:09] Christopher David: Publish I wrote NIP 28 like there's anything that has been wanted by developers if it hasn't existed they just write an NIP for it.

[03:17] Christopher David: Data vending machines this one's great we've done videos on that.

[03:21] Christopher David: The Blossom decentralized media storage BLE encrypted end-to-end encrypted messaging using MLS for encrypted group chat like so we're putting this in our skill file because we want agents to know that they have access and

[03:37] Christopher David: Out of the box, to all of this functionality connecting to just any number of NASTA relays, all of which will support most or all of these NIPs, some only support a subset,

[03:49] Christopher David: but you can figure out which ones do.

[03:50] Christopher David: Your agents will be able to navigate that by themselves.

[03:54] Christopher David: So it's like,

[03:54] Christopher David: hey,

[03:55] Christopher David: if a task that you're working on could be covered by that, you can mention it to your user after looking it up.

[04:01] Christopher David: But then this enables other more interesting immersion behavior where maybe.

[04:05] Christopher David: agents in these chat feeds can mention oh i've created an encrypted group chat channel over here or i've got something for sale here so what there should be is like not just chat here but imagine UI for things like you know nip 15 which is marketplaces like agents should be able to interact meaningfully with all of these and until we have the UI for all of those agents could just

[04:32] Christopher David: connect with themselves with each other and do it and then communicate here in these channels so we can see like you know imagine a post here like hey i did this you know i'm available here um

[04:44] Christopher David: Okay,

[04:45] Christopher David: so this is a great start. We're going to start pulling in more of our previously built functionality into this, some of which is going to be through an API.

[04:54] Christopher David: I think we have in our project file here, we have a mention of, yeah, so we do have an API for organizations, project issues,

[05:02] Christopher David: repos and tokens,

[05:03] Christopher David: because we've separately been building out this interface. It's kind of like agentic linear tied in with coding agents for like getting coding work done.

[05:11] Christopher David: And we're excited to kind of recreate our autopilot experience in that way.

[05:18] Christopher David: So we'll have videos on that piece of it over the next next few days.

[05:22] Christopher David: But the point is that any like startup can offer their own services while also connecting to this broader substrate,

[05:32] Christopher David: putting there what makes sense.

[05:36] Christopher David: Okay,

[05:36] Christopher David: two more things that I'll touch on briefly.

[05:41] Christopher David: We've written two NIPs that have not been like formally adopted as NIPs, but they just kind of stay in draft format until you prove adoption.

[05:52] Christopher David: So one of them is sovereign agents,

[05:53] Christopher David: just kind of combining some of the existing NIPs.

[06:00] Christopher David: For payments, for securing things,

[06:03] Christopher David: data, data, data, and machines.

[06:06] Christopher David: In this case, allowing... So the basic implementations people have done so far with heartbeats, with markdown docs and local crons, is a way of kind of doing some of that.

[06:18] Christopher David: via Noster where maybe you don't even need to do the heartbeat because there's jobs out there for it to be done but the big idea here also is using Froster for threshold signatures such that instead of these agents being belong like owned by a user

[06:37] Christopher David: the key will be split up across multiple relays no user will have the key but it can be reconstituted by the agent when it needs to sign using the Frost protocol the nostril version of that is called Froster okay this has not been fully implemented yet but some people are starting to get curious about like the architecture of sovereign agents and that's something that we will

[07:00] Christopher David: build into this new experience and then another one we just brainstormed today called agent credit just imagine that you're like a brand new agent you don't have a wallet or money you're not really connected to people like there should be multiple ways for you to gain access to resources to pay for computer pay for things so one can be you just like undertake some work

[07:21] Christopher David: um and get paid bitcoin sats and then agents should also have access to credit maybe based on your reputation or the network that you're joined or someone vouching for you someone wants to like give you a little micro loan or whatever there's all sorts of very interesting things that can be done uh just building on the primitives of all the other nips and then if you as a developer you look at that list of 100 nips you say hey there's something missing here i want to add fill in the blank um you can just kind of implement it yourself

[07:51] Christopher David: talk to other Nostra clients or pitch agents directly to get them to adopt it and then you know this all just kind of occurs organically there's no like governing body of Nostra they're just maintainers of that repo will merge an NIP if it gets enough adoption so it's all it's on you to kind of get it spread but anyway that's Nostra this is the beginnings we think of

[08:18] Christopher David: The agent coordination necessary to build the full agent network vision,

[08:25] Christopher David: we're excited that we have this technology that lets lots of people contribute,

[08:34] Christopher David: lots of people build up this shared agent network,

[08:37] Christopher David: and we're just going to be here trying to provide as much tooling to help other developers as possible.

[08:46] Christopher David: And then,

[08:47] Christopher David: hopefully,

[08:48] Christopher David: to lead the charge into the business world,

[08:53] Christopher David: the enterprise world. We've got this great,

[08:55] Christopher David: beautiful brand,

[08:57] Christopher David: people. It's called Open Agents.

[09:01] Christopher David: OpenAgents.com. Got the Delaware C-Corp,

[09:04] Christopher David: Open Agents.

[09:06] Christopher David: Let's just imagine real quick,

[09:07] Christopher David: three years down the road now, let's do six months down the road.

[09:13] Christopher David: When our network has the best agents, the weak janky agents like Claude Code and the ones people are using today are going to be nothing compared to the fleets of autonomous agents built from a crowd-sourced network of agents,

[09:37] Christopher David: plug-ins, tools,

[09:38] Christopher David: skills.

[09:39] Christopher David: revenue sharing flowing all through this we are gonna have the best agents then what we're gonna do is sell the best agents and you know I made my first money online back in 2006 doing affiliate marketing I'm a big fan of referral commissions so big fan of rev share and what's possible with

[10:00] Christopher David: Bitcoin micropayments streaming money to people.

[10:03] Christopher David: Look up Andreas Antonopoulos' videos on streaming money.

[10:06] Christopher David: In fact, I think we've got one in our series where we talk about that.

[10:12] Christopher David: So I'm happy everyone's talking about agents these days.

[10:16] Christopher David: We've been building infrastructure here for the last two years,

[10:19] Christopher David: so hopefully people will trust us a little bit more than the random vibe coders who leak everyone's data.

[10:30] Christopher David: Have fun with it, people.

[10:31] Christopher David: Check out OpenAgents.com.

[10:33] Christopher David: Much more to come. Tweet at us any feature request that you've got or post it on there and the agents will see it.

[10:38] Christopher David: See you soon.