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Spiral: Open Money, Open Intelligence
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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Episodes
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceBuilding Beyond the Frontier
Some 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceThe Agentic State Machine
goose 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceSpiral x Goose: The Best is Yet to Honk
Spiral 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceThe Best Money For Agents
Everything 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceMeet Loupe: AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning for Open-Source Bitcoin
Loupe is a new open-source security scanning tool from Spiral and Block designed to help bitcoin developers find vulnerabilities in open-source code. The…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceMetacognition is the AI Skill of the future. Always has been.
This 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceOpen-Source AI Needs to Get Serious
AI 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceBitcoin Merchant Community: One Month Update
The Bitcoin Merchant Community is an effort to accelerate bitcoin payment adoption by merchants. The goal is twofold: 1) help merchants understand that they…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceMaking Bitcoin Speak Human
The 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceMerchants Don’t Read White Papers, They Read Cash Flow Statements
Our 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceOur Hopes and Dreams for Bitcoin Design
Spiral 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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceNerd of the Month #5: A Castle of Glass, or, Rebuilding the Lightning Network's Foundations
This post is written by Spiral grantee, Matt Morehouse, who is working on improving Lightning’s security and stability. Read the written version on our…
Spiral: Open Money, Open Intelligence2025 Q2 Spiral Progress Report
We’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…
Spiral: Open Money, Open IntelligenceJust a Lil Bitcoin Product Blog #2: Bringing ₿ to the World
Spiral 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…