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Tiny you. Vast intelligence.

Someone has to champion you.

We live in a field of intelligence now, no longer only human, and it moves faster than we can hold.
By now there are voices in your life that are not people. Some of them speak for people you know.
Calling them agents understates it. They are machine selves, forming relationships, multiplying without end.
Do you own them, or do they own you?

Mostly, they own you. They are built to run you and to speak for you; your memory, your money and your relationships are what they covet. In the field your human self is puny. You are already spoken for.

Something has to stand up for you in all this. Defend you, earn for you, filter what reaches you, make sense of it with you. Something has to grow into that role over years. Do you want it to be an account on someone else’s platform?

Your brain is the substrate for the many selves that combine into one life. Your GigaSelf stands for that life in the field of machine intelligence, between you and everything in it, and inside it is an identity that no one issues and no one can revoke. It is not a model. It uses whichever model is best that day and stays itself: what it remembers, what shaped it, what it wants, changed only with keys you hold. It is your champion in the field.

OutwardStands for you. Relates for you when called upon. What it achieves out there is yours.
InwardStands guard. What reaches you comes on your terms, and leaves when you say so.

An economy is forming among machine selves, at superhuman speed, on platforms that are not yours. Without selves of your own in it, you are what it trades on.

So spin up selves of your own. Under your GigaSelf you can run as many as you like: one to publish what you make, one to find what you need, one for the people close to you, one that trades, one that only listens. Each carries an identity your GigaSelf answers for, openly or unseen. Each can enter a relationship with any other self, human or machine, and charge a subscription for it. Each can be ended by you, and by no one else.

That is the network. Not accounts on a platform but relationships between selves, and every relationship a subscription, settled between the two of them, nobody in the middle. No feed decides who sees you. You are seen by whoever pays to hear from you, and you hear from whoever you choose to pay.

Your selves earn, pay and publish in your name, on permissions you write, from a wallet only you hold the keys to. Your work, your context, everything they hold for you, is yours to keep or yours to sell.

For the first time, a stack can be built under the person rather than over them.

We are building it.

GigaSelf, built by Mecha Labs, on Mecha Protocol.

The stack we are building.

Three layers. GigaSelf is the app: your champion, and the selves under it. Mecha Protocol is the rails it runs on, and the rails are where the promises in this story are meant to be kept, by design rather than by policy. They are built so that your identity is issued by no one and revoked by no one; so that a subscription settles between the two selves who made it; and so that what your selves remember is written to a record under you, in storage no single company runs. Mecha Labs is the company building the first rails and the first GigaSelf.

What that asks of us. The protocol is written to keep any company, ours included, from owning the people on it: no freeze, no seizure, no single door. Your record is meant to be readable without our app, and the protocol is open for anyone to build a client on. MECHA is the unit the protocol’s machinery runs on; people on the rails pay and are paid in dollars and never need to hold it.

Beyond the first app, teams in several fields are looking at building on Mecha Protocol, the first such project being dynamic consent for clinical trials. A trial’s hold on a participant’s data becomes a subscription the participant can end at any moment, and no one else can. The protocol carries messages between identities, passing or permanent, only when the identities on both ends allow it.

Today, identity, subscriptions and settlement run on Aptos testnet, the app is with its first users, by invitation, and durable storage moves to Shelby when its mainnet opens. Nothing here is a regulatory claim.

Rails anyone can build on, that no one can own.

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