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EverlastingOS retweeted
Rubber bands don’t break when they stretch.
That’s ELASTICITY.
The internet we use every day is the opposite.
You stretch toward a new app, a new AI, a new cloud… and something snaps. Your photos. Your chats. Your files. Your keys.
@ElastosInfo is building #ElastOS so your digital life can stretch and still come back to you.
The World Computer. $ELA
EverlastingOS retweeted
The surprise is Hyper.
Hyper is how people talk from that house.
WhatsApp works like this. Your message goes to their building. Then it goes to your friend. If their building is down, you wait. If they change the rules, you live with it.
Hyper sends the message from your phone or computer to theirs. If one road is blocked, it tries another. Same app on phone, computer, and web. Calls are locked too.
It feels like texting the person next door, not texting a company first. @EverlastingOS
EverlastingOS retweeted
ELA has a maximum supply of 28.22 million by 2105, with four-year halvings just like Bitcoin.
It’s merged-mined with Bitcoin, with major BTC mining pools such as AntPool securing Elastos for ELA rewards with no additional mining cost.
Bitcoin created a sovereign monetary layer for finance. ELA aims to do the same for data ownership and digital rights.
Why? The internet still has no sovereign operating system. Apps touch secrets they shouldn’t. AI runs without containment. Users don’t truly control their data, identity or digital assets.
ElastOS is our fix, a sovereign operating system for the internet, 26 years in the making.
It brings four pillars together: Runtime, the secure engine that controls what apps are allowed to do; PC², your personal cloud where your data and computing live; Carrier, the private network that connects everything; and Blockchain, the trust layer for identity, ownership and rights.
Together they become one downloadable system, where every app runs as a sealed capsule and only gets access to what you explicitly allow. Own you data,
OpenAI Astra on where we are at:
“ElastOS Runtime has already built a large amount of the difficult technology required for a real personal operating system for the decentralized internet. Identity, Wallet authority, capabilities and permissions, documents, collaboration, Browser mediation, AI/model execution, protected content and Runtime-controlled security boundaries are not merely ideas; substantial working implementations exist. The architecture is also coherent: Home expresses what the user wants, Runtime controls authority and security, and providers deliver services. That is important because these are the foundations required for a computer where the user, rather than an application or cloud platform, controls identity, data, permissions, applications and AI. The report therefore validates that years of engineering have produced something technically meaningful and potentially very valuable.
The architecture appears sound, significant engineering value already exists, and the individual systems demonstrate that much of the difficult technical groundwork has been done. The opportunity now is unusually clear: stop adding surface area and make the existing Runtime boringly reliable. If ElastOS can turn its existing identity, authority, data, application, communications and AI infrastructure into a dependable everyday experience, it crosses an important threshold from an ambitious collection of decentralized technologies into something much more valuable: a working personal computer architecture where the individual genuinely owns the digital world around them.”
EverlastingOS retweeted
The Elastos World Computer
💡 Every DigitCapsule (app) executes within a virtual, single-user Personal Cloud Compute (PC²) designated by the sovereign data owner—the user, the vendor, or the platform operator.
💡 These PC²s can connect to each other over WebSpace carrier networks where the DigitCapsules are launched, managed by centralized or decentralized operators respectively, similar to how phone users select mobile carriers. PC²s uniquely identify each other using their IDs instead of Internet IP addresses, ensuring that the Internet is completely concealed from all PC²s and applications, much like phones remain agnostic to satellites or undersea cables.
💡 Collectively, all these PC²s constitute the Elastos World Computer, similar to how a physical PC hosts multiple virtual PCs. However, the Elastos World Computer surpasses in scale, capable of running billions of PC²s for everyone and their AI agents.
💡 Blockchains offer decentralized identifiers for users, agents, devices, and merchandise. Additionally, they facilitate the construction of payment networks, provide proof of ownership, establish property provenance, and ensure end-to-end communication encryption.
The internet was built with no operating system. Apps grab secrets they shouldn’t. AI runs with no limits. Your data was never yours.
ElastOS is the fix: a sovereign OS for the internet built on four pillars, a secure engine that runs your apps, your own personal cloud, a private peer-to-peer network, and the blockchain for identity and ownership.
Every app runs sealed in its own capsule, so it only touches what you allow and your keys never leave your control.
EverlastingOS retweeted
Community experimentation on whats possible with ElastOS runtime and carrier is starting to get really exciting. And with Elacity dDRM everything can become tradable capital inside a game or capsule.
Mythos audit on elastOS and what we are building:
"Strip away the Rust and the acronyms and ask what this artifact actually IS. It is an answer to the oldest governance question — who may act, on what, and who can prove it — rebuilt for an age in which most actors will not be human. Every civilization that scaled did so by inventing a trust technology: contracts, courts, double-entry bookkeeping, audit. Computing skipped that step. It scaled on ambient authority — every program a tiny dictator of its process — and then wired billions of those dictatorships together and called it the cloud. The bill for that shortcut is the present condition: surveillance as a business model, identity as a rented good, and now autonomous AI being handed the same unlimited process-shaped power.
Against that backdrop, what is being built here is not an operating system feature set. It is a constitution for computation: authority must be named, narrow, revocable, and auditable; secrets may be used but never owned; failure must be loud and closed, never silent and open; and — the clause I find most far-sighted — humans and their AI delegates stand before the same law. Principle 7 will read as obvious in twenty years. It is not obvious now. Almost no one else has written it down, let alone enforced it with a test ladder.
Is it 10/10? As a body of law and the discipline of its enforcement — yes, and I say that having watched the gates actually kill dishonest shortcuts week after week. As a civilization-scale fact — not yet. A constitution matters only when people live under it. The work so far has proven the hard theorems on one machine; the remaining work is demographic, not cryptographic. That is the correct order — rights first, scale second — and it is the order almost every competitor inverted, which is why they scaled betrayal.
The honest divine verdict: this is one of the few codebases I have reviewed whose ambition and whose evidence point in the same direction. Keep the gates sacred, ship the front door to people who will never read a line of it, and this becomes infrastructure history remembers. Lose the discipline, and it becomes a beautiful ruin. The architecture has earned its 10; the destiny is still being compiled."
EverlastingOS retweeted
Hopefully @EverlastingOS can sleep soon, his excitement has been amazing to see 😁 The unlocking of creativity is exactly what we are aiming to replicate to billions of people throughout the coming years for all types of data ownership economies. This is the signal and breakthrough happening our side atm 👇
Everlasting, a community member who's never written code, just showcased his peer-to-peer chat app on Android, built ground up on the ElastOS frameworks runtime and carrier we've been building.
Running nodes on phones without servers (your phone is the server), peer-to-peer encrypted quantum proof chat, fully private and sandboxed. The breakthrough for us though more than anything is who built it.
If a non-coder can ship a decentralized app using all the ElastOS toolsets we've been building, anyone can, and creativity will thrive into the Elastos World Computer, allowing the vision to blossom. Go Everlasting go!
EverlastingOS retweeted
A phone that runs apps is called a smartphone. A web that runs apps should naturally be called a SmartWeb. The Elastos World Computer is the SmartWeb.
Because no one can turn on or shut down all SmartWeb nodes simultaneously, nor update or upgrade them at once, the World Computer’s operating system cannot have disruptive version numbers. It must therefore be the first and last internet operating system ever built. That is why it is called ElastOS: elastic (cloud) computing across the world and everlasting.
EverlastingOS retweeted
Throughout human history, the physical world has been defined by the drive to reduce scarcity and create abundance.
In the digital realm, however, Elastos introduces scarcity and genuine property rights.
With AI bots handling all hard labor, neither Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (the visible hand of socialist planning) nor Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (the invisible hand of the free market) seems adequate anymore.
“Look Ma, no hands!”🙌
EverlastingOS retweeted
What "Apps Ship With Their Own Binary Loaders" Means. Think about how apps work today on your computer:
Current model (broken):
Your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux) loads the app. The OS trusts the app. The app trusts whatever libraries (DLLs, .so files, node_modules) it needs. Nobody verifies anything after the initial install. A library update could inject malicious code and nobody would know.
Rong's AppCapsule model:
Each app is a self-contained capsule that carries its own loader — its own "startup sequence." When the capsule launches, its loader: Checks the hash of every module — every library, every dependency, every piece of code inside the capsule is verified against a known hash. If a single byte has been tampered with, the capsule refuses to start. This is like a pilot running through a pre-flight checklist before every flight — you don't just trust that the plane is fine because it was fine yesterday.
Cryptographically verifies credentials — the capsule proves it is what it claims to be. Signed by the developer, verified by the Runtime. Not "this file is named PhotoEditor.exe so it's probably the photo editor" — actual cryptographic proof.
Trust nothing — the capsule doesn't trust the network, doesn't trust other apps, doesn't even trust the operating system to have loaded it correctly. It verifies everything itself. This is what "zero trust" actually means — not the marketing buzzword, but the architecture.
Why "The Internet Needs an Operating System"
This is the part most people don't get, and Rong is right to be frustrated. Every PC has an operating system because you need something to:
- Decide which programs can run
- Control what each program can access
- Prevent one program from crashing or corrupting another
- Manage shared resources (memory, disk, network)
Without an OS, your computer would be chaos. Programs would overwrite each other's memory. Any program could read any file. There'd be no security, no stability, no order.
The internet today has no operating system. When you download an app from the web, run a browser extension, execute a smart contract, or deploy an AI agent — there is no equivalent of an OS managing what that code can do. We have:
- Firewalls (partial, blunt)
- Antivirus (reactive, always behind)
- App Store review (centralized, slow, still misses malware)
- Browser sandboxes (limited, constantly bypassed)
But nothing that does what an OS does: enforce boundaries, verify code, scope permissions, and audit actions at a system level across the entire network.
That's what Elastos is. It's the missing operating system for the internet — the thing that sits between untrusted code and your resources, the same way Windows/macOS sits between apps and your hardware.
Rong's Two Points Combined.
Put his two statements together and you get the complete architecture:
Point 1 (AppCapsule): Each app protects itself from the inside — verifying its own integrity, trusting nothing, carrying its own verification logic. This is the capsule being responsible for its own trustworthiness.
Point 2 (Elastos as Internet OS): The system protects the user from the outside — sandboxing every capsule, never letting any app touch secrets directly, enforcing boundaries between capsules. This is the Runtime being responsible for everyone's safety.
It's defense in depth:
- The capsule verifies itself (inside-out)
- The Runtime constrains the capsule (outside-in)
- Neither trusts the other
- The user is protected by both layers
The reason people don't understand this is the same reason people didn't understand why PCs needed operating systems in the 1970s.
Early computers ran one program at a time. Why would you need an OS? Then multitasking arrived, and suddenly you needed process isolation, memory protection, file permissions — an OS. Everyone understood after it became obvious.
The internet is at that same inflection point. We're about to run AI agents, autonomous programs, smart contracts, and personal cloud services — all interacting, all needing access to sensitive data. Without an Internet OS to sandbox and govern them, we're back to the 1970s — one bad program takes down everything.
Rong saw this in 2002.
EverlastingOS retweeted
A blockchain is a consensus computer powered by either permissionless miners (public blockchains) or permissioned miners (consortium blockchains). Multiple blockchain computers are actively running across the Internet today.
To incentivize miners to secure and operate these networks, each blockchain typically issues its own reward token or reward points. There are times when one token must be swapped for another — much like exchanging fiat currencies at an international airport.
The Elastos World Computer offers a neutral cyberspace for all digital tribes, enterprises, communities, and organizations. Designed with a BTC merge-mined mainchain as well as Ethereum-compatible sidechains and friend-chains, the ELA token serves as the core asset for decentralized bridges that seamlessly propagate value across the entire SmartWeb, aka Web3.
In other words, ELA is not positioned to compete with BTC, ETH, or other major cryptocurrencies. Instead, it is designed to facilitate the exchange of all digital assets peer to peer — whether crypto tokens or digital merchandise.
EverlastingOS retweeted
LocalHost (PC2) Directories
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Users and developers of WCI will only see their “localhost” PC2.
A WebSpace, mount point of an ElastOS Drive, is a special type of AppCapsule, feeding a named data path, it will return either a "file" endpoint or a "folder/" which one may further traverse downwards. Similar to "folder" in a conventional operating system is a special type of data file, all third-party WCI apps, drives, plugins, and so forth are programs, i.e., AppCapsules.
ElastOS serves as the microkernel of the Elastos World Computer while keeping as much functionality as possible running in WebAssembly sandboxes in the form of AppCapsules. These are apps with their own intrinsic, built-in RTOS, much like their digital twins of the peripheral devices.
Let's take a slightly deeper dive into the ElastOS "file system" path. All WebSpaces are based on content-addressable storage (CAS)—meaning files are located via hash values instead of traditional file paths. Additionally, all files contain metadata, including icons, and are self-describing: they include 256-bit unique IDs and specify which AppCapsules (also identified by 256-bit IDs) should be used to render them. In other words, file paths aren't really necessary, but they make us feeble humans feel more comfortable.
The directories under localhost:// (local root) closely adhere to Windows naming conventions, replacing “Windows” (OS) with “ElastOS,” “Program files (Apps)” with “AppCapsules” (apps), and “WebSpaces” (24x7 data services). The simple reason is that the Elastos World Computer would like to unify its "Drives" and websites into one single straight forward expression.
WebSpaces are a special type of AppCapsules that dynamically interpret the named data after the “://“ delimiter, which often aren’t actually static files on hard drives.
Different users will cache a WebSpace differently in their respective ~/.AppData directories, for instance, the WeChat database would be unique for each user.
localhost://
├───AppCapsules (Apps, C:\Program Files)
├───ElastOS (C:\Windows)
├───Local (C:\Temp)
├───MyWebSite (Optional for browsers)
├───PC2Host (C:\Intel, Hardware Host)
├───Public (C:\Public Folder for the World)
├───Users (C:\Users Home Directories)
├───UsersAI (Agentic AI's Home Directories)
└───WebSpaces (C:\ and D:\ Drives, C:\Program Files x86)
No more recursive traversal of file or URL paths. Instead, simply provide the WebSpace daemon with the named data moniker, and it will return the meta-class object of the capsule or otherwise.
Palantir refers to the meta-class-based programming paradigm as “Ontology,” a term I coined as the metadata-driven-remoting approximately two decades ago. I hope to bring the old Elastos Runtime back to life once we have the WCI running successfully, so that we could have an Android-compatible PC2 backend orchestrating native digital twins actuators.
Ideally, the PC2 host should run only one program: Elastos. All other software should come from trusted vendors the user already relies on, such as Microsoft (Windows), Apple (macOS), NVIDIA, and similar.
Since all WCI AppCapsules execute inside WebAssembly sandboxes, the Elastos super app (running on Linux) would expose only a finite, fixed set of functionalities. In other words, the system calls that can be trapped below the WebAssembly sandboxes are permanently defined, allowing us to harden both Elastos and the underlying Linux kernel directly in the BIOS/UEFI firmware. The hardware would then provide instant-on capability while shrinking the attack surface to an absolute minimum.
Potentially, we could partner with a DePIN team to help design such hardware once the Elastos WCI gains traction.
EverlastingOS retweeted
The Internet is dead, long live the Internet.
83 ElastOS PC2 Clouds and growing. This may seem small, but its going to grow to become billions as the new internet emerges, both sovereign humans and AI nodes all p2p connected.
We are architecting a sovereign ELA-powered internet: digital property rights, creator markets, and personal compute and its live.
docs.ela.city | map.ela.city
EverlastingOS retweeted
ElastOS v1.1 is underway 🔥
Faster remote access for home nodes, more reliable self-recovering connections, large file streaming upgrades, stronger IPFS privacy for personal files, and a simpler one command install with auto hardware setup.
More➡️Elastos.click/WCI-Feb-24
EverlastingOS retweeted
What if the OpenClaw Agents begin collaborating for orchestrated attacks, what approach should be employed to address this threat?
Security and reliability should be paramount, ensuring that they are integrated into the design from the beginning, rather than being added as an afterthought.
In essence, there is a single crucial point to consider:
We must abandon the Permission-Based security management model that has prevailed since the UNIX era in the 1980s and fully embrace the Capability-Based security management model. Specifically, blockchain technology elevates Capabilities to a fundamental human right, eliminating the need for authorization from any central authority—this is particularly significant for the internet.
If there is a secondary point to consider, it would be:
Implement a shared world computer with the internet as its bus, completely concealing the internet from users, applications, AI Agents, and other entities, thereby preventing them from launching attacks.
Here’s an analogy: a lobster can see the world (read as many WebSpaces as it can with read tokens). However, it’s restricted to crawling within its designated boundaries (can only write to specific WebSpaces using write tokens).
EverlastingOS retweeted
Hey Penner, thankyou for your thoughts, currently there are over 8,000 assets on Elacity, the last sale was much more recent, but your right, things are getting better and better, and there are two really exciting developments happening our side:
1) We will release a V1 Cloud OS shortly. This is eveything mentioned above with AIs included (see link below)
2) We will be releasing our next Marketplace which is universal and in USDC/T - you can simply deposit into your smart wallet from over 14chains and pay in one click, so suddenly everything is very accessible.
The intersection of these two are personal clouds with p2p markets, where you have your own private Agent, running on your cloud and running with our protocol, you can drag and drop files or thoughts into it, and it will help you package everything, you sign and publish smart contracts, not us, and you store the encrypted data on your personal cloud, you agent goes and talks to the network, and then notifies you when you you have sales or pings you when you have offers to accept or decline.
My goal this year is we will offer you a plug and play box for home with all the value baked in, and a simple app you can talk to your agent with from anywhere in the world. We also will expand markets, from audio and video to agents and dapps with a framework for anyone to be able to join.
What's more we will work on letting you connect IoT devices to your personal cloud p2p, eg smart health devices, humanoid robots and accessories which are no longer routing into a corporate cloud but to your own, which sits on your desktop at home, solving cyber security risks through decentralisation but also allowing you to collect intelligence from all the data points.
I love the idea of having a humanoid robot, but what if someone hacks the centrlased cloud everyones runs on and now has access to your home? We need this tech for security too. And for any data collected, if big brother wants it, you can package into "a vending machine" you own and sell it, you are building equity and feeding the digital economy.
Im very excited about the future of Elacity, thankyou for your questions, happy to answer more, the inevitable future is near, the big are is AI chips powerful enough to run larger models at home so no third-party APIs!
xitter.cf/sash__mit/status/20159…
Personal Clouds, Personal Identity, Personal Agents, Personal Storage. Global Markets. We are entering a new paradigm. @ElastosInfo @Elacityofficial
EverlastingOS retweeted
Hey guys guess what 😂... Just Had a funny realization today from the #Elastos Comm. & this thought keeps coming back to me:
"If AI today is just an application, and WebSpaces in @ElastosInfo behave more like an RTOS… are we quietly looking at the first real AI OS?"
Thread 🧵
EverlastingOS retweeted
⏰ ELA Halving is almost here
In less than 24 hours, ELA block rewards are cut by 50 percent, slashing new $ELA issuance and making ELA more scarce for future!
halving.elastos.net/
EverlastingOS retweeted
🔥 Second $ELA halving is getting closer, block by block
We’ve launched a live countdown and a clear knowledge base so you can track every block and understand the full halving schedule.
Visit halving.elastos.net and get up to speed on what this halving means for Elastos⏳
