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Spiral builds and funds public goods that make money and intelligence more open, secure, and accessible. The team was founded in 2019 as a non-profit R&D lab within Block. Subscribe on Substack for updates or listen here.
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- Building Beyond the Frontier · 15 minSome coping strategies for builders who are feeling weirdly bummed out about the state of AI. Written by Spiral PM, Mat Balez Full blog post here…
- The Agentic State Machine · 6 mingoose launched a long time ago. Dog years have nothing on agent years. goose predates general agentic AI by a bit. The initial thought behind it all was: what happens if you give…
- Spiral x Goose: The Best is Yet to Honk · 12 minSpiral is expanding beyond bitcoin into open-source AI by bringing the core goose developers from Block onto the team. Our first area of focus will be evolving goose into the…
- The Best Money For Agents · 22 minEverything is moving at AI speed now. As recently as a few months ago, the question “how will my agent pay for things?” didn’t have a great answer. Humans had to intervene…
- Meet Loupe: AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning for Open-Source Bitcoin · 7 minLoupe is a new open-source security scanning tool from Spiral and Block designed to help bitcoin developers find vulnerabilities in open-source code. The episode explores how…
- Metacognition is the AI Skill of the future. Always has been. · 1 h 4 minThis Spiral report explores how open-source builders are using AI today, based on survey data and interviews with Spiral grantees and team members. Written by Austin Krauss, it…
- Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious · 9 minAI agents are getting powerful, but they still can’t reliably pay for things because the internet’s payment stack is built to stop bots. Big players like Visa, Stripe/OpenAI…
- Bitcoin Merchant Community: One Month Update · 6 minThe Bitcoin Merchant Community is an effort to accelerate bitcoin payment adoption by merchants. The goal is twofold: 1) help merchants understand that they can eliminate 3%…
- Making Bitcoin Speak Human · 12 minThe existing bitcoin address ecosystem looks about as intimidating to newcomers as it could. They look like 1Aqv9KxZc2y7M8b for a reason, sure, but they’re far from necessary…
- Merchants Don’t Read White Papers, They Read Cash Flow Statements · 7 minOur thesis is pretty simple: we can only make the case that bitcoin is money if people can spend it. Unfortunately, for most of bitcoin’s existence, there just haven’t been many…
- Our Hopes and Dreams for Bitcoin Design · 10 minSpiral Product Managers, Mat Balez and Conor Okus, outline a few long-term plans to grow the influence and impact of the Bitcoin Design Community. Read the full article on…
- Nerd of the Month #5: A Castle of Glass, or, Rebuilding the Lightning Network's Foundations · 9 minThis post is written by Spiral grantee, Matt Morehouse, who is working on improving Lightning’s security and stability. Read the written version on our Substack…
- 2025 Q2 Spiral Progress Report · 5 minWe’re working on stuff. What stuff? This stuff. It’s a lot more stuff than we would like.Spiral: https://x.com/spiralbtc This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…
- Just a Lil Bitcoin Product Blog #2: Bringing ₿ to the World · 10 minSpiral PM Mat Balez makes the case for using ₿ to represent all bitcoin quantities. He explores how today’s emphasis on “sats” could eventually edge the word “bitcoin” out of…
