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Materializing the cloud upon the land, by turning internet communities into physical societies.

The Network State
Joined May 2007
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Network School Kazakhstan is now open! If you're a techno-optimist, join us at ns.com/apply.
Network School is back. We’re up and running in the beautiful country of Kazakhstan, which combines high tech, low cost, brilliant people, a competent state, and plenty of space to build. So: if you want to build a techno-optimist society with us, apply to Network School.
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Building the Virtuals Network State
Virtuals Protocol and Network School are coming together to bring the next wave of @base builders into the AI agent economy. As part of our mission to make AI agent building accessible to anyone, anywhere, Virtuals will provide @ns residents with Virtuals’ EconomyOS, the full vertical agent stack, together with @AskVenice private inference. Network School brings the builder community. Virtuals brings the full agent infrastructure.
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Building the Ethereum Network State. The Network School Ethereum hackathon is now live with $20k in prizes from Arkiv, Logos, and Crossbar.
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Today, we heard from @Jihoz_Axie on how crypto gaming continues to provide economic opportunity as well as entertainment for emerging markets like Southeast Asia.
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Building the Base Network State.
We're building the onchain home for AI & Robotics Base Batches 003 proved it, with @virtuals_io & @ns
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AI makes everything fake, and cryptography makes it real again.
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The defense against AI is ZK. Artificial intelligence is total surveillance, while zero knowledge is complete privacy. On that topic, here's the full podcast between cryptographer Uma Roy and Balaji. 0:22 - ZK is a powerful cryptographic technique 6:58 - AI makes everything fake 8:49 - AI detection is not robust 12:51 - No public undisclosed AI 22:17 - AI detection is a dead end 26:21 - Crypto makes it real again 44:26 - If the news is fake, imagine history 52:29 - Combating negative externalities of AI
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Solana Network State is bringing together builders, founders, and developers at Network School to ship projects for the Solana Colosseum Hackathon.
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Building the Zcash Network State.
Zcash Network State. @zkDragon on the architecture of freedom. 100+ builders and creators. $10k+ in ZEC prizes. Onward.
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Towards the Solana Network State
Solana Network State [Spring 2026] is here 🚀 Our first-ever pre-accelerator for @colosseum at @ns. Build, refine, and compete alongside top @solana builders in one of the most talent-dense environments on the planet. One mission. Ship something real.
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From tonight's Claude Code meet up. @balajis opened and then a bunch of NS members and entrepreneurs held a series of lightning talks to share how they use @AnthropicAI to get stuff done.
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Towards the Zcash Network State.
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Sovereignty requires privacy. If you are under surveillance, you are under control. 1:00 - Arjun's story 2:44 - Problems that Zcash solves 4:13 - AI and privacy 5:07 - What does privacy mean? 6:49 - Scaling Zcash is a moral imperative 11:38 - From L2 to App2 16:57 - There is no official currency of the Network State 18:29 - Genzcash 22:13 - Transparency and privacy are both useful
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A day in the life at Network School:
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There's no SNS without NS. Join the crew of Solana builders coming to NS in April.
Building is a choice you make every day. At @ns w/ @SuperteamMY, creators on @solana push boundaries and bring ideas into the physical world - and SNS Month celebrates the builders showing up and making it real. Hear from @balajis on why it matters. There's no SNS without NS.
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Environment > willpower.
Environment > willpower People think identity shifts when beliefs change. In reality, identity shifts when exposure patterns change. You don’t need to believe something for it to install. Repeated proximity is enough. @ns
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Today is NS Open Day!
Network School went to Catlumpurr, to give you a glimpse of startup societies. Now we’re bringing everyone to Network School for a day to learn, earn, and burn. Catch you on the @ns bus for open day tomorrow!
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Great to host Gnosis crew and friends at Network School.
Gnosis @ Network School 🙌 Yesterday, we spent a full day at @ns with over 40 founders, angels, and early-stage VCs from Singapore, along with our friends from LDU and Three Red Lines VC. The day featured a session with @balajis, followed by an informal pitch and networking event hosted by @James_of_Arc!
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Discuss everything from startup societies to internet capital markets to real-time apps at the NS community meetup in KL tomorrow.
The lineup for tommorow's @ns event is stacked. We are bringing startup societies to KL.🇲🇾 See you at the @AWSstartups office. We have lots of merch, food and perks for the attendees. What to expect👇
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Experience NS living for a day:
Hey, if you're in KL for Catlumpurr, we're organizing a trip to Network School on Feb 3 I've been based here for a while as a long termer and honestly some really cool things are happening right now (like the new Solana Outpost with @SuperteamMY) We have a bus from KL sorted, full campus tour, lunch with residents, Q&A with @ns core team link to RSVP 👇
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If you’ve been curious about Network School, this is your on-ramp. Come hang with the NS community in KL.
We’re hosting the first-ever Network School Community event in Kuala Lumpur during Catlumpurr, powered by @superteammy. If you’re in KL, come learn more about NS, Solana Outpost, and meet Network School members on February 1. Thanks to @AWSstartups for providing the venue. Looking forward to meeting y’all!
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It is our pleasure to help enable URL to IRL. Great seeing the builders you brought @SuperteamMY.
We are at the Solana Network School Outpost! Huge thanks to our amazing partners for making this possible: @KASTxyz, @impossible_, @sns, @birdeye_so, @MonkeFoundry, @MonkeDAO, @Scaling_X, @solanaspaces, @0xfluid, @meteora_my, @AirfoilStudio, and @bitrefill This is not the end, it’s the beginning of a new story for a stronger @solana presence at @ns 🚀⚡
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Towards the Solana Network State
Presenting the Solana Network School Outpost
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