Timeline
From a crazy idea to a global movement shipping freedom tech.
2023
SEC-00 · Genesis →
The idea is born in Madeira: bring builders together, walk, talk, and ship. Highlighter, Lightning Prisms, and Data Vending Machines emerge from that original spark.
Jan–Mar 2024
SEC-01: The Beginning →
21 participants, 21 projects. The weekly Show → Talk → Build loop takes shape. Blossom, npub.cash, Wikifreedia, and Zapstore are born.
May–Jun 2024
SEC-02: Peer 2 Peer →
NIP-60 and NIP-61 define Cashu wallets on Nostr. Nsite brings websites to the protocol. TollGate reimagines network access. Shopstr launches decentralized commerce.
Oct–Dec 2024
SEC-03: Ecash →
The ecosystem matures. Nutstash gets a full redesign. TollGate gets branding and a landing page. Cashu tooling deepens with Safebox and Athenut, while Lightning tooling expands with Bolt12 prisms.
Feb 2025
No Solutions: Dialogues →
Walking dialogues go public. The No Solutions podcast launches at block 882,690 — conversations about freedom, code, and how to build things right, recorded on Madeira's levadas.
Mar–Apr 2025
SEC-04: Trilemmas →
The biggest cohort yet. 34 projects ship, including castr.me, HTTPN, Hypernote, DVMCP, gitworkshop.dev, and the nginx 402 payment module. The ecosystem goes wide.
Sep–Oct 2025
SEC-05: YOLO Mode →
41 projects — a new record. Marmot Chat, Boris, ContextVM, hashpool, Frontier Browser, and dozens more. The community now spans relay infrastructure, mining, browsers, and AI.
Mar 2026
SEC-06 · Identity →
Focus narrows to the identity layer: signers, key management, and the infrastructure that makes self-sovereign identity real.
Mar 30, 2026
SEC-07 · Networks →
The network stack. Relays, transports, connectivity — building the plumbing that makes everything else possible.
8 cohorts · 127+ projects · countless walks
