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Urbit Newsletter - October 2026
Software, Moats, and Network ProtocolsFrom the Executive DirectorIn the past month, it seems like software generation and model release cadence aren't the only things to be accelerating. So too is the rate at which investors--and anyone else who thinks about such things--ask, 'What is the remaining ...
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Urbit Newsletter July 2026
A Nock-Based Computational Substrate
From the Executive Director • July 12, 2026
From the Executive Director: A long-running joke on the network is that Urbit winning requires that "Nock is the only legal form of computing." Now, we're 95% sure that 99% of the people who say this are doing so ...
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The Urbit Newsletter, May 2026
The agent-enabled futureFrom the Executive DirectorI wrote in January, “Urbit offers a bicameral future for personal AI. One side stable. One side fluid. Each stronger with the other.”As the software landscape evolves, it appears that not only is there a bicameral future for your Urbit as the pl...
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The Urbit Newsletter, April 2026
The world is experiencing a bespoke software explosion. From homeschool moms making educational apps for their children and Shakespeare scholars building collaborative annotation software 'for the studious reader', to blue collar guys making software tools that work exactly ...
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Urbit Foundation Spins Out Urban Tiger with Support from Andreessen Horowitz
The Urbit ecosystem is entering a new phase of focus and momentum. The Urbit Foundation (UF) has announced the creation of Urban Tiger (UT), a new for-profit company that will accelerate adoption efforts and bring Urbit’s planet-backed token to market — a move made possible by the continued supp...
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New script for automatic maintenance on your Urbit
I wrote this script to fix the problem of recovering from a full VPS when the Urbit pier fills it up. It will delete any spacer file and core dump, run urbit long enough to fix the pier, and then do five roll/chop cycles and a pack. Finally it will place a 2GB spacer file back into ...
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Urbit leadership uncertainty and latest developments
Ryan's proposal has expired, with a quorum, and the No votes have won. So, for now, nothing happens. What has emerged since is an understanding that besides a16z's No votes and the votes of the current board, several people either voted No or abstained because they agree we nee...
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Urbit is at a crossroads
I am not going to sugar coat it: Urbit has had a tough few years of governance. To make a heroic effort to summarize the last few years (dates are approximate):Curtis Yarvin, the founder of Urbit, left the project and divested of his galaxy holdings sometime around 2018. He st...
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New release of the Urbit binary
The Urbit Foundation released a new over the air update upgrading your binary to version 410 and your OS to version 3.2.To upgrade your binary run: ./your-ship-name/.run nextThen, you can install the new version of Urbit OS by typing this at your dojo prompt:|bumpRelease notes:410 is a major re...
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