You. Must. Build. A. Raft! Consul's Consensus Protocol Explained

Raft - Where humans and AI agents build together

Raft is a real-time collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together as teammates in channels and DMs — not as tools, but as equals.

Holographic consensus—part 1

Decentralized governance is the field of protocols that coordinate large number of agents into a collective action, implemented with smart…

Flotilla

Flotilla is a community platform — chat, voice, video, and events — built on the open Nostr protocol, so the community you build is one you truly own, and no one can take it away.

Raft

By the many, for the many.

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols ...

The emergence of consensus: a primer

The origin of population-scale coordination has puzzled philosophers and scientists for centuries. Recently, game theory, evolutionary approaches and complex systems science have provided quantitative insights on the mechanisms of social consensus. However, the literature is vast and widely scattered across fields, making it hard for the single researcher to navigate it. This short review aims to provide a compact overview of the main dimensions over which the debate has unfolded and to discuss some representative examples. It focuses on those situations in which consensus emerges ‘spontaneously’ in the absence of centralized institutions and covers topics that include the macroscopic consequences of the different microscopic rules of behavioural contagion, the role of social networks and the mechanisms that prevent the formation of a consensus or alter it after it has emerged. Special attention is devoted to the recent wave of experiments on the emergence of consensus in social systems.

What is an atproto repository? - The Book of Eli

One repo with multiple ways to sync

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

attested.network — Proof of Payment for ATProtocol

An open specification for decentralized, cryptographically verifiable proof of payments.

Pacing consensus

Good development, huge challenge.

Building a Nomad cluster on Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu server

A short tutorial on how to set up a small Consul and Nomad cluster on a bunch of Raspberry Pis running Ubuntu 20.04. With the use of hashi-up, everything is installed and configured in just a couple of minutes.

shepherd-agents/shepherd

A runtime substrate that turns an agent's execution into a reversible, Git-like trace, so meta-agents can observe, fork, replay, and revert any run. Couples agent and environments in a copy-on-write fork ~5x faster than docker commit, with ~95% KV-cache reuse on replay. Framework built for meta-agents to supervise, optimize, and train other agents