
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. spiralxyz.substack.com
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyEducation | |||

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 goose into the goose Development Kit (GDK), an SDK that lets developers build their own ... more
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 to intervene frequently to help agents log in to services and obtain API keys to bypass cr... more
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 episode explores how Loupe works, why AI-powered security tooling matters for the future of bi... more
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 Austin Krauss, it argues that the most important skill is not mastering any one tool, but d... more
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, Stripe/OpenAI, Google, and Coinbase are racing to define “agentic payments,” but the stand... more
The 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% credit card fees by accepting bitcoin, and 2) empower bitcoiners to locally ... more
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 from necessary. Human Bitcoin Addresses (BIP 353) are a worthy replacement and a huge UX u... more
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 haven’t been many places to spend it.
This is why we’re spearheading a peer-to-peer commu... more
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