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  • Agents Have No Childhood · Part 3 of 6

    Every Rule Passed

    Oct 15, 2026

    Five agents. Twenty permitted requests. One breached organizational ceiling. Why correct local rules still fail when a checker observes the wrong scope or runs at the wrong moment.

  • Agents Have No Childhood · Part 2 of 6

    The Line a Gate Can Hold

    Oct 1, 2026

    Before designing the gate, work out which promises a gate can keep. Seven laws on what deterministic enforcement can and cannot guarantee, from Schneider, Rice, and Saltzer and Schroeder to the July 2026 swarm breach.

  • Agents Have No Childhood · Part 1 of 6

    Agents Have No Childhood

    Sep 17, 2026

    Trust is learned through repeated exposure to a counterparty that persists. AI agents have no continuous self, no reputation at stake and no next round — so every instrument in the cooperation toolkit hits nothing, and the substrate has to do the work instead.

  • Moth: a Wallet for Midnight Developers

    Aug 17, 2026

    A wallet you run while building, not the one your users install. Four surfaces — extension, CLI, TUI and daemon — over one engine, built for the fifteen minutes when you need to know which coins are in what state and why.

  • Zero-Knowledge Non-Membership Proofs on Midnight

    Aug 8, 2026

    Four patterns for proving you're NOT in a set — without revealing who you are. Nullifiers, attribute blocklists, sparse Merkle trees, and indexed Merkle trees, all targeting Compact v0.31.0.

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