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Vol. 1   /   No. 001Monday, October 12, 2026The digital edition   ·   Est. 2026

The Sunday interview   /   Our featured story

An internet that
belongs to its users

Ty Everett on the promise of Metanet—and the hard, practical work of putting people back in control.

Proof of Claim podcast   ·   October 11, 2026   ·   9 min read
Newspaper-style engraving of a computer connecting people, identity, records and payments

The people’s internet   ·   Identity, data and value under one’s own control

What if moving to a better app did not mean leaving your identity, contacts and records behind? In a three-hour interview, Project Babbage’s Ty Everett lays out a different model for the web, built around portable records, interoperable wallets and direct exchange.

Continue reading the interview recap →

The ecosystem, at a glance

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Releases, announcements and ideas. Original summaries, linked to the source.

8 stories in this edition

Developers

Product passports move into a new beta

Experimental Digital Product Passport packages add token-carried records and peer discovery. An October 10 publication receipt records the beta release; production readiness and regulatory conformity are not established by the publication.

  ·   BSV Blockchain ↗
Developers

SPV wallet backend publishes v0.49.1

The SPV wallet web backend’s latest release updates session and real-time messaging dependencies and maintains its GitHub Actions workflows. A new checkpoint for developers following the infrastructure behind BSV’s SPV wallet stack.

  ·   BSV Blockchain ↗

From the archive   /   Earlier announcements worth following

Ecosystem

Five agent projects share $10,000 in hackathon prizes

BSV Association’s Open Run // AgenticPay competition recognized projects spanning autonomous newsrooms, molecular computing, film production, maritime insurance and language-model tools. The challenge: agents that discover, negotiate and exchange value.

  ·   BSV Association · PR Newswire ↗
Business

Onramp Money opens more local routes into BSV

An April announcement described local payment support in more than 60 countries across Asia, MENA and Latin America. The integration aims to connect purchases and sales directly with personal wallets. Availability remains subject to the provider.

  ·   BSV Association · PR Newswire ↗
Protocol

Chronicle sets out the next protocol restoration step

The April announcement introduced the SV Node v1.2 upgrade and scheduled activation at block 943,816. It described expanded Script flexibility and new opt-in functionality, with an upgrade required for node operators and exchanges.

  ·   BSV Association · Cision ↗