Urbit, an audacious and idiosyncratic project to rebuild the internet computing stack from top to bottom, is throwing a coming-out party, and it’s invited the cryptocurrency industry.
Developers are finally shipping usable apps, including mobile apps, on the peer-to-peer computing network nearly a decade after it was launched. In addition to San Francisco-based Tlon, the company that has led core development for most of Urbit’s existence, there are now a handful of other startups building software on top of the protocol.
“This is the year where we focus less on Urbit, and more on what’s built using it,” said Josh Lehman, executive director of the Urbit Foundation, speaking of the community broadly. The nonprofit was spun out of Tlon a year ago to foment community growth and write grants to developers.
According to Lehman, about 500 people are expected to attend Urbit Assembly 2022, the community’s second annual gathering, which kicks off Saturday in Miami. While that’s small by...
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