KERNEL is a custom educational community of unique individuals in(to) web3.
*KB5* is our next 8 week experience: an intro to KERNEL, co-created with 200 peers. It is a journey deep into the ♡ of web3.
Apps to KB5 (kickoff on Jan 28) are open 🗓👇
KERNEL is a peer-to-peer learning community exploring one question in many ways.
How can we cultivate more 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕝 relationships?
KB7 begins 9/9, bringing together the ♡'s & minds of 250 unique humans for 8 weeks.
Apps are now open📖
KERNEL is a peer-to-peer learning community for unique individuals in(to) Web 3.
*KB4* is our latest 8 week experience: a web3 learning environment for creative collaboration and constructive communication.
Apps for KB4 (starting 9/17 📆) are open 👇
Kernel is building a custom internet age institution, one peer-learning environment at a time.
♾KB8♾ is our current time capsule, with applications for the block closing Dec 1st. Why should you apply?
1) Each Kernel Fellow joins as an individual, first.
Kernel Fellows
KERNEL Showcase goes live in 60 minutes via
@KERNEL0x
featuring 25 teams from KERNEL Block III:
💸 10 DeFi startups
🎨 8 NFT projects
🌿 8 DAOs
💎 6 projects working on creator economy
👾 4 Metaverse(s)
🤖 Browser-based web3 app builder
Let's see the magic they have produced 👇🏼
KERNEL is a curated community of brilliant people in(to) Web 3.
KERNEL Block III (KB3) is our next 8 week experience, introducing ~200 KERNEL Fellows to each other via the KERNEL mempool, forevermore 🌀
📆 Kickoff is May 12th! Apply to join us today.
KERNEL is an experimental think tank, community, and homebase for top builders in Web 3.
Today, we open up applications for Block 2 of our KERNEL Fellowship, starting Jan 2021.
Apply today and learn about KERNEL below 👇🏽🌱
KERNEL Finale is here! 🔥
We will go live in 2 hours from
@KERNEL0x
featuring 23 teams from KB2:
💸 7 DeFi startups
🎨 5 NFT projects
🌿 4 DAOs
✨ 2 Social Token projects
⚡️ An alternate to Solidity
Let's see the magic they have produced in the past 8 weeks👇🏼
Today,
@KERNEL0x
is excited to announce signature economies ➰
Signature economies is an interactive experience exploring how ownership is changing
From control to *care*, from possession to *reciprocity*
🪐
@economiesofsign
🪐
Craft /kraft/: applied creativity, “the universal language of the hand.”
Kernel is a peer-learning institution dedicated to crafting a better web, together.
KB9 will be ~200 peers building online, onchain, and beyond ➰ will you craft with us?
KB9 apps close June 1
We expect ~150 peers in KB9, each honing:
🧶 A project or a craft
🦜 In an ongoing, p2p learning env
Kernel is about building the patterns required for a better web.
We'd love to see you apply.
INTRODUCING CULTURE 🔭
A
@KERNEL0x
track bringing 50+ creators, artists, musicians interested in crypto 🌀
A part of KERNEL Block III (8 weeks, May 12th kickoff).
Apps open thru 4/30. DM's open.
Introducing the KERNEL Security Track 🔐
A KERNEL track specifically for crypto (or crypto-curious) security engineers to build a safer open internet.
Apply below for the 6-week fellowship, run as a part of KERNEL Block 2 starting in Jan 21.
KB4 Showcase goes live in 30 minutes via
@KERNEL0x
featuring 22 Adventures from KERNEL Block IV:
💸 4 DeFi Legos
🎨 8 Innovative NFT Experiences
✨ 6 DAO & Tooling Projects
👾 4 Expansive Pluriverses
Let's see the infinite magic they have produced 👇🏼
Kernel Block 9 is off ☂️
Week 0 begins with the inimitable:
🌎 150+ fellows from 30+ countries
👷♀️ each working on their craft
📖 grounded by the Kernel Book
🛝 ready to co-conspire & support one another
KERNEL asks, how do we cultivate communities of care? How do we build a better web(3) & world?
Our Fellows’ projects are answers to these questions & tm we explore 23 manifestations in Alumni Showcase:
🌿6 Service Protocols
🎨6 NFT Communities of Care
💸4 DeFi Systems
✨7 DAOs
As we make a final push for KB5, we're extending the deadline through *this Sunday, 12/5*.
We'll be announcing 5 unique spirits as founding KB5 Fellows tomorrow.
Slowly, ecologically, through each of you - the kernel grows 🌿 please come say hi :)
KERNEL is a custom educational community of unique individuals in(to) web3.
*KB5* is our next 8 week experience: an intro to KERNEL, co-created with 200 peers. It is a journey deep into the ♡ of web3.
Apps to KB5 (kickoff on Jan 28) are open 🗓👇
Kernel appears in 15 ballots in Optimism's RetroPGF 3.
Here is an excerpt on Ether’s Phoenix, an inspiration for RetroPGF, from the Kernel (hyper)textbook.
🔴 Feel your heartbeat and lift your head, friend. Look out to the far horizon, for the phoenix awaits. 🔴
It is fire
2/ Timeless Space
Make Moment, Capture It Forever. To bridge the gap between the real world and the metaverse. Partnering with
@harmonyprotocol
to curate unique event experiences with one-of-a-kind 3D artwork NFTs.
KB5 Showcase Day II is live in 80 minutes via
@KERNEL0x
with 21 projects from KERNEL Block V:
💸6 DeFi Quests
🎨9 Innovative NFT Projects
✨9 Constellations of DAOs
👾6 Expansive Pluriverses
Want to co-create web3 adventures? Join us🌿
Join us at 12PM ET with
@thesarahshow
to chat about "redefining ownership, mediums of expression, definitions of value and even societal dynamics" in Crypto and NFTs.
We are super excited to Kickoff KB3 - Expo Week with DeFi x NFTs day. Check out this thread to learn more about the 22 DeFi and NFT Projects brewing in KB3.👇🏼
48 hours left to express interest in KB7!
KB7 decisions will be announced in one month ➰ and the adventure begins on 9/9/22
Please say hello if you have any questions, we are present :)
KERNEL is a peer-to-peer learning community exploring one question in many ways.
How can we cultivate more 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕝 relationships?
KB7 begins 9/9, bringing together the ♡'s & minds of 250 unique humans for 8 weeks.
Apps are now open📖
KB5 Showcase goes live via
@KERNEL0x
in less than 90 minutes & features 20+ Adventures from KERNEL Block V:
💸 6 DeFi Quests
🎨 9 Innovative NFT Projects
✨ 6 DAO Constellations
👾 6 Expansive Pluriverses
Join us as we revel in their magic✨
INTRODUCING: A NEW LANGUAGE FOR DAOs
today we launch , an open, living resource for DAOs
the wiki's home to a library, docs, and a pattern language describing problems & offering practical responses for orgs
read the announcement
KERNEL Alumni Showcase is on 6/14. 22 projects will share stories from their corners of web3.
We’d love to invite 25 new friends: web3 explorers, tinkerers, anyone curious. It will be interactive & fun.
Please DM or comment 🍃 if interested. We’ll send invites by 6/7!
A KERNEL Adventure
@surge_women
is on their mission to secure women’s place in Web3.
We’re grateful to know
@denise
/
@juliette
and to be extending a perk to Surge members as we explore co-creative spaces together 🌸
💙
@Surge_Women
x
@opensea
💙
Our PUBLIC Sale is now LIVE!
We’ve reserved 200 of our NFTs to be minted on OpenSea at floor price. The rest can be minted on our website.👇🏽
Happy Minting!!✨
💲Announcing KERNEL DeFi Track💲
Led by
@lmrankhan
,
@panekkkk
, and
@QwQiao
, the DeFi Track will host 40+ founders, builders, and researchers exploring decentralized finance together within KB2.
Building regen-finance? We hope you'll apply by Jan 8th 😉
If you're wondering what being a Kernel fellow feels like :)
Art called "Radiating Love Constantly to All Beings in All Places and Times" by
@this_is_silvia
We start with people. Who makes up KERNEL?
👥 1,000+ KERNEL Fellows
🌍 from 36 countries
📖 building 150+ Web 3 projects
Each KERNEL Fellow is unique. The collective creates a unique support structure for your own Web 3 adventure.
Crazy looking back.
- Do
@ETHGlobal
hackathons to meet cofounders like
@Evert0x
- Live at
@launch_house
for the best building/fundraising environment
- Join
@KERNEL0x
for an insane Web3 network
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned.
➰➰➰Signature➰➰➰
to bear and not to own;
to act and not lay claim;
to do the work and let it go:
for just letting it go
is what makes it stay.
-- chapter two, tao te ching
➰➰➰Economies➰➰➰
join us tomorrow, 6/24, for a significant reveal 🪐
13/ SkyFeed
Built on
@siatechhq
, Skyfeed is a Decentralized SkyDB-based alternative to Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram with a native iOS, Android, and web app. - by
@redsolver
The next generation of crypto builders are building on community owned infrastructure, like
@SiaTechHQ
.
We're excited to welcome these teams to the KERNEL Fellowship to build with a strong, like-minded community.
We are announcing today a partnership with
@gitcoin
and the
@openwebfounders
aimed at helping Skynet applications grow from products to sustainable Web3 businesses
We, along with our partners, would love to help take your products to the next level
Apply:
Announcing The KERNEL Scholarship 🌱
With support from
@she_256
and
@metagammadelta
, the KERNEL Fellowship is free for all women and members of underrepresented communities.
Learn more + DM us if you have questions on KERNEL Block II, starting in Jan 🙏
Today we bring you Day II of KERNEL B5 Expo Week 🌿
Here are 25 adventures exploring DAOs, education, & infrastructure - expanding & reimagining, slowly & with care. Please help us say hello ♡.
Tl;dr: Whomever said NFTs are dead is ngmi
The awesome Kernel builders are at it again, exploring and crafting some of the most innovative applications around NFTs. Check out these 25 🔥 projects👇🏼
This NFT funds afforestation efforts on Lamu Island for 0.01 ETH.
A whole village has navigated the beautiful complexities of local community to craft stunning music, plant a variety of indigenous trees, and traversed the aether to weave it together.
ADVENTURES
Everyone has an adventure. Some may look like:
🧠 Web3 x neuroscience research (
@0xstephb
)
🌿 Launching a DAO (
@WendiYan5
@divine_economy
)
☀️ Transformative web3 musings (
@j_asminewang
)
What is your adventure & how can KB5 support you?
Kernel ❤️ Ethereum ❤️ SEA
We'll be hosting multiple sessions in Asia-friendly timezones on the road to Devcon this year🌱
Here's to exploring digital locality and local digitality with the communities in the region via conversations like this one and the Keeping It Simple
Ethereum ❤️ SEA!
We're hosting a Twitter space with some Ethereum communities from SEA (👋
@ethereum_sg
@ethpadthai
@Eth63ph
@ETHKL1
@Web3Together
) as they talk about why Ethereum is important in their countries, and their plans leading up to Devcon SEA
7/ created by
@MelissaZhang13
@matt__alston
🔥 Bonfire is a Shopify-like platform to enable creators to truly own their audience and build enduring communities on their own branded websites, powered by their social tokens and NFTs
KB9 has 3 weeks left & we’ve had the honor to host many peers we respect in our Thursday fireside chats.
Each fireside theme corresponds to a module in the Kernel Book--the weekly framing.
Check out the playbacks below 🎥🧵
Guests include:
Dear Women of the Web,
We're at war for an open internet. Without you, we cannot win.
We'd love to introduce you to some of our best (
@ljxie
@Sim_Pop
@RachBLondon
). Join us this Fri?
Our best,
@KERNEL0x
P.S. Anyone reading this is welcome 🙂
👾 👾
T-4 days until KB8 apps close on December 1st.
We will accept late apps through 12/15, but the block may fill at any time.
The spirited, the creative, the curious, the builders are encouraged to please apply.
KB8 begins on January 12th.
Apply now 👇
Today KERNEL B5 Expo Week wraps up with Day III 🌿
We have over 25 adventures examining decentralized & regenerative financial tools & how they integrate into a variety of communities 👇🏾.
@owocki
@thegostep
@vsinghdothings
We stand on the shoulders of YC and many other Titans.
But alas: "The internet requires that we update the practices and customs we use to relate to one another and organize ourselves."
KERNEL is deeply rooted, but born anew. 🌱
Kernel fellow
@sdimantha
will be joining the wonderful folks at
@fdotinc
for
We're really looking forward to what unfolds from this event and are, as always, excited to see so many seeds being planted with love, in many different ways and worlds.
1/ Sherlock
@jack__sanford
's idea is to reduce the dependency on expensive audits, still providing trust to the users. It's a DeFi insurance platform.
@Sherlock_DeFi
🤔 Game economies are the best corollary to token ecosystems
⭐️ What if
@polats
x
@end3r
facilitate a game jam to mindfully apply game design principles to Web 3 projects?
🤖 KERNEL Gaming Guild is live. Apply to join us during KB2 by 12/15 👇🏽
Take
@Rebecca_Mqamelo
as an example ✨ she is:
💰 Head of Growth at
@zerion_io
🌳 Researches community currencies at
@grassEcon
✍🏽 A dazzling writer, poet, and human being
She & many others have shared their gifts with us since joining KERNEL 🎁
Come KISS Kernel 🥰
Keeping it Simple Series (KISS) focuses on simplifying web3 topics in collaborative learning sessions open to the public.
We host sessions all year & welcome your ideas that combine conversation & craft. Invite your friends & lovers.
Upcoming sessions, 🧵
We're really excited to be hosting a space with
@caseorganic
@notscottmoore
and
@cryptowanderer
entitled "Care > Optionality"
We'll be exploring the sorts of signs which might help us find and create communities of care.
Join us tomorrow, 11am EST here: "
More than anything, it comes back to people.
We are incredibly grateful for each individual who has trusted us for their KERNEL experience and who has created it alongside us.
We hope to see you join us soon 🌳 DM's open for KB5!
Everyone talks about the protocols; they forget about the people. After participating in
@KERNEL0x
for just four weeks, I've realized, DeFi is not only just composable protocols. It's a composable community.
First, who makes up the KERNEL?
🫂 800+ KERNEL Fellows
🌎 from 36 countries
📕 building 150+ Web 3 projects
💲 who have raised $25M
Each KERNEL Fellow is unique. The collective creates a unique support structure for your own Web 3 adventure.
Crazy looking back.
- Do
@ETHGlobal
hackathons to meet cofounders like
@Evert0x
- Live at
@launch_house
for the best building/fundraising environment
- Join
@KERNEL0x
for an insane Web3 network
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned.
2/ Reach
@chrisswenor
& team have created an alternative to solidity.
@reachlang
is the fastest, easiest, and safest way to build applications on the blockchain.
Introducing KERNEL x
@fairlaunchcap
👨🏼⚖️
The KERNEL Fair Launch Track will help teams explore distribution mechanisms which engage communities to build, maintain and govern projects over the long term.
ADVENTURES
Everyone in KERNEL is exploring... something. Our aim is to support you on your chosen journey. Maybe:
🌳 phD thesis research
📝 Collecting stories for an NFT
👷🏽♀️ Learning to audit smart contracts
🕴 Starting / joining a web 3 project
What is your adventure?
15/ Llama
@HelloShreyas
is building
@llamacommunity_
, A dashboard to manage crypto community treasuries. We make crypto treasuries accessible to communities.
22/ Creators
@zigyzoe
@sirsuhayb
aim to lift up culturally rich communities that have been erased, undervalued, and largely ignored.
The Well connects black artists with collectors of cultural works through crypto. Tap into the culture in progress
@wellisculture
23/ The
@CO2ken_io
team is kickstarting an open and decentralized climate finance ecosystem.
Carbon-as-a-money-lego: a new DeFi primitive for a planet-positive Web3.
How do we learn?
By co-creating KERNEL (& life) together.
We ask: “How do we seed a better web?” encouraging nuanced dialogue over an 8-week journey with 200 wonderful peers.
It is a guided dance between personal motivation and web3’s potential.
May we always be mindful of the signs on our own heart
May we bring them with resilience and care into the spaces where they are most needed
May we continue to honor the ways these signatures interact in the world of humans & seeds & stars
And the world beyond ➰
Last week KB9 hosted Kernel’s first co-created conference, inspired by the 'Health Unconference' we attended at
@JoinEdgeCity
's
@esme_institute
popup in Healdsburg, CA, on June 7 🐝
21 fellows co-hosted 20 sessions & ~60 fellows participated in discussions including:
Signature Spaces continue with
@_juliettech
&
@surge_women
today, friends of ours from KB4 🌸
We explore diversity as an “antidote to scarcity-induced competition”
& educational webs which heighten learning experiences through relationship and care ➰
who is dreaming of a better world & embodies it in their project / craft?
share projects & ideas you admire / what they're building👇, let's get them into Kernel 🤠
23/ A female-led community focused on educating and securing women’s place in Web3.
@surge_women
launched yesterday (!) and is off to a wonderful start 🌸
24/ RenaissanceDAO 🏴
A collective of content creators interested in Web3 technologies.
The DAO is a bridge between Web2 🌉 Web3 while providing an environment for content creators to experiment with the future of monetization.
By
@TheAlexYao
@ddwchen
@iamlizendary
6/
@madhavk1698
a decentralized collectible NFT metaverse on the
@zilliqa
.
@de_monsters
is a gamified community-driven NFT - enabled through a $DMZ utility token for collectors, investors, gamers and traders
KB8 applications are open through November 24th (one month from today). We read every application, usually the day it is received.
Please apply // share with a friend who might be interested. DM's open for any questions.
12/ INFLOW
@alex_inflow
's vision with
@INFLOW_music
is to allow artists and athletes the ability to not only mint their own tokens but also provide incentives, rewards, and governance for their community so their tokens are constantly being exchanged!