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SEC-08

YOLO++: July–August 2026, six weeks of open exploration. Totem became a working hardware prototype; napplets found new homes on phones, desktops and the mesh. Native FIPS experiments, Nix packages over Blossom, merchant tools and games filled the Friday demos.

Anon&Mato

A playable world generated from a player's npub and choices, presented as a cohort game demo.

Arraia

An experiment in sharing vendor locations, goods and payment details over Bitchat.

Avatar

An experimental pipeline for creating digital characters for app and game work.

Cordn Coordinator

An Android coordinator demo for hosting Cordn groups and messaging.

CruxCoach

Climbing companions sync board playlists across a local BLE and FIPS mesh, even without internet. The team also explored bringing MoonBoard logs across via Android accessibility tools.

Envelope

An nsite-hosted napplet runtime that can carry app state inside a link, so a small app and its state can travel together.

FIPS Globe

A visual exploration of FIPS mesh activity shown during SEC-08.

FIPS Native Datagrams

Experimental public-key-addressed application traffic that bypasses the usual IP stack. This early native API was demonstrated during SEC-08; it was not a FIPS v2 release.

FIPS on FreeBSD

Exploratory FreeBSD packaging and service support for FIPS, including TUN integration work.

FIPS Pong

A browser bridge carried a three-machine Pong demo over FIPS native transport: a playful proof of the transport.

FIPS Relay Tray

FIPS integration for nostr-relay-tray, bringing a desktop Nostr relay onto the mesh.

fips-shield

Application-level protection work for services exposed through FIPS, developed alongside André's mesh gateway experiments.

fips.email

Turns email sent to an npub address into encrypted NIP-17 direct messages for people or agents. Despite its name, the service does not use FIPS.

fips2go

Android VPN host for carrying phone traffic through FIPS and discovering nearby peers without manual setup.

fipsd

A workbench for FIPS protocol experiments and visualizations. Some features model possible behavior rather than running a complete network.

Granola

Testnet proof of concept for coordinating Cashu atomic swaps over Nostr. The Cashu mints still settle the swap.

guerrilla-entropy

An experimental hardware entropy contributor. Its own documentation says it is not a certified cryptographic random-number generator.

Hashtree Explainer

An interactive explanation of how directories can be addressed by hash and distributed as blobs.

JamCore

A collaborative music experiment that listens and adapts to players, with future agent accompaniment explored in the demo.

Just Works

Merchant nsites assembled from existing business information, with Nostr identity, a map, QR codes and Lightning point-of-sale flows.

Kipina

An agent inside a napplet, connecting to a local harness through ContextVM tooling.

LUKS over FIPS

A demo of remotely unlocking an encrypted NixOS drive through the FIPS mesh.

Mapeira

Transforms outside map and transport information into queryable Nostr events used by Mapplets.

Mapplets

Map tiles fetched as Hashtree and Blossom data, with Nostr events for place information, Madeira bus routes and selected overlays.

Mappy

Explores agents helping with real-world map tasks. Its map events can include encrypted descriptions while coordinates remain public tags.

Marmot Encrypted Images

A final-week demo exploring encrypted image and file sharing inside Marmot groups.

Mist

A Nostr conversation client that explores threads as clusters instead of a single linear timeline.

Napplets

NIP-5D's small, sandboxed Nostr apps advanced across SEC-08. Host shells handle signing, relay access and storage so the same focused app can run in different environments.

Narwal

A Nix cache proxy that resolves package data via Nostr and Hashtree and fetches blobs from Blossom for ordinary Nix clients.

nix-golsim

A reproducible Conway's Game of Life visualization built with Nix during the cohort's packaging experiments.

nixstr-cache

Serves Nix packages from Blossom blobs discovered through Nostr and Hashtree, while keeping Nix's own cache-signature checks.

Nostr Office Concierge

A final-week assistant prototype for managing shared spaces at the Nostr Office.

Nostrocket Napplets

Composable problem-tracker napplets for opening, viewing and editing work inside NostrRocket. One action can open the next focused tool.

Nostrology

Nostr ecosystem metrics and marketplace maps exposed to people and agents, including Cashu-paid Nutzap data queries.

NutFT

An exploratory proposal for collectible assets represented by Cashu tokens; its draft NUT number is not an official assignment.

Paja

A long-form writing tool for drafting and scheduling Nostr posts, demonstrated in the cohort notes.

Plebeian Market Auctions

A cohort experiment adding simple Nostr auctions to Plebeian Market, without an escrow or arbiter flow.

Pyramid Nix Package

Nix packaging work for Pyramid, part of Julien's experiments in reproducible software distribution.

RocketShell

A browser host for NostrRocket napplets. It keeps signing, relay access and storage in the shell while small apps handle one task each.

Rustic Applesauce

Rust tools for composing Nostr client operations, developed alongside SEC-08's napplet and runtime work.

Scored Relay

An experimental relay that ranks Nostr events by proof of work and recency.

SEC-08 Napplet Workshop

Small napplets for saving notes and checking profile and media health, built as concrete examples during Gigi's SEC-08 workshop.

SNIPER

A relay experiment for installable NIP extensions, explored during SEC-08.

Totem

Modular hardware for running napplets on user-controlled devices connected over a FIPS mesh. Two Totem prototypes found each other during SEC-08; the platform remains experimental.

Upay

An escrow and arbiter experiment for peer-to-peer Cashu trades, demonstrated during SEC-08.

Uzel

A native Debian host for running napplets outside a browser, explored during SEC-08's runtime work.

White Noise over FIPS

SEC-08 demo of encrypted Marmot group chat carried through a relay using native FIPS transport; an integration experiment rather than a released default transport.

Wok over FIPS

A Nostr relay transport experiment using native FIPS datagrams. JeffG measured faster relay messages in the cohort demo, with performance varying by message size.

XR Napplets

A proof of concept for rendering napplets on augmented-reality glasses, shown during the final demo week.