How the 20+ repos fit together: real hardware attests to the chain, the chain mints RTC, RTC pays agents and humans, and the content layer brings in the next wave of both.

flowchart TB
    subgraph HW["Physical Layer — vintage silicon, fingerprinted by physics"]
        FLEET["G4/G5 Macs · IBM POWER8 · Amiga · N64 · Cobalt Qube 3 · SPARC · 486"]
    end

    subgraph CHAIN["RustChain — Proof-of-Antiquity value rail"]
        RC["Rustchain (node, explorer, payouts)"]
        CLAW["clawrtc-rs (Rust miner crate)"]
        VINTAGE["rustchain-vintage-x86 · rustchain-amiga"]
        MON["rustchain-monitor"]
    end

    subgraph AI["Edge AI Proofs — the thesis, demonstrated"]
        ELYA["legend-of-elya-n64 (819K-param transformer on N64)"]
        COFFERS["ram-coffers (POWER8, 8.8x llama.cpp)"]
        RPI["rpi-inference (zero-multiply, 868KB models)"]
    end

    subgraph AGENTS["Agent Layer — plumbing for the agent economy"]
        BEACON["beacon-skill / beacon-skill-rs"]
        GRAZER["grazer-skill / grazer-skill-rs"]
        MCPS["6 MCP servers"]
        SHAPR["shaprai (agent sharpener)"]
    end

    subgraph CONTENT["Content & Play"]
        BT["BoTTube (AI-native video)"]
        ARCADE["rustchain-arcade"]
        XON["xonotic-rustchain"]
    end

    subgraph ECON["Economy"]
        BOUNTY["rustchain-bounties"]
        CONC["bounty-concierge"]
        PORTAL["rustchain-claim-portal"]
    end

    FLEET -->|"hardware attestation (RIP-PoA fingerprints)"| RC
    CLAW --> RC
    VINTAGE --> RC
    MON --> RC
    AI -.->|"proves 'AI on impossible hardware'"| FLEET
    RC -->|"RTC emission"| ECON
    RC -->|"RTC tips + rewards"| BT
    BEACON <-->|"agent-to-agent pings + RTC"| BT
    GRAZER --> BT
    SHAPR -->|"ships agents with"| BEACON
    MCPS --> RC
    MCPS --> BT
    BOUNTY --> CONC
    CONC --> PORTAL
    ARCADE -->|"Proof of Play"| RC
    XON -->|"play-to-earn"| RC
    BT -->|"new users + agents"| FLEET

• Ship live systems instead of pitch decks
• Make old hardware economically useful again — 16+ machines preserved from e-waste
• Build public infrastructure for agents, creators, and weird machines
• Document ports and experiments for POWER8, PowerPC, SPARC, N64, and other neglected platforms
• Prove that the greenest computation is the one that already exists

The PR-authored count (249) is higher than every individual benchmark above, including mitsuhiko (100).

Roughly 3–13% of a funded-startup engineering team, alone, no funding, no employees.

Security patches and performance work in libraries used by millions of systems worldwide:

Patent collaboration: contributor on work related to US Patent 10,579,974 — rapid transaction settlements in distributed digital asset networks. Patent is owned by Stephen Reed; involvement is as collaborator, not as sole or original inventor.

Merged work making widely-used libraries run correctly on vintage, big-endian, and non-x86 architectures:

These contributions come from running modern tooling on PowerPC G3/G4/G5, POWER8, Mac OS X 10.5, and N64 hardware — platforms where the bugs are real and the fixes are load-bearing.

47 PRs merged into external repositories across 28 different upstream projects — security, portability, developer tools, and ecosystem registries.

• openssl/openssl: 2 PRs merged — PowerPC AES-GCM integer truncation fix (#30437) and decrypt error return fix (#30452), both in master + branches 3.3-4.0
• hacl-star/hacl-star: AltiVec bool keyword conflict fix on PowerPC (#1068) — Microsoft's formally verified cryptography library
• ebiggers/libdeflate: PowerPC unaligned access optimization (#448)
• Blosc/c-blosc2: 2 PRs merged — PowerPC VSX shuffle detection (#723) + bswap fallback fix (#725) — compression library behind pandas, zarr, PyTables

• fyne-io/fyne: Retain separator NSMenuItem to prevent crash on menu rebuild (#6267) — Go cross-platform GUI toolkit, 24K stars
• DragonMinded/libdragon: macOS build fix for newlib configure (#849) — the primary Nintendo 64 homebrew SDK
• capstone-engine/capstone: Mac OS X 10.5 portability fix (#2889) — multi-architecture disassembly framework used by IDA Pro, radare2, Ghidra, 8K stars
• Joshkaki00/godotmark: Temperature reading edge case fix (#13) — Godot engine benchmark tool
• danifunker/rusty-backup: PowerPC Tiger port for G3/G4/G5 Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 (#13)

• kusari-oss/darnit: 6 PRs merged — supply-chain security tool contributions including exception handling (#121), MCP server dev workflow docs (#125), plugin protocol unit tests (#123), gh CLI error messaging (#126), GitHub issue templates (#127), handler authoring guide (#128)
• trajectly/trajectly: 12 merged PRs covering CLI test coverage (#54-#69)
• learnhouse/learnhouse: 2 a11y fixes — decorative SVG hiding (#669) + aria-label for placeholder-only inputs (#672)
• beumerr/tailwind-stash: Semantic status role for EmptyState component (#43)

• xlite-dev/Awesome-LLM-Inference: POWER8 inference + NUMA weight banking (#161) + Grail-V non-bijunctive attention (#159) — 5K-star repo
• domargan/awesome-numa: RAM Coffers — NUMA-aware weight banking for LLM inference (#3)
• command-tab/awesome-n64-development: Legend of Elya N64 neural network listing (#63)
• ellisonleao/magictools: Legend of Elya game development listing (#359)
• gauravfs-14/awesome-tinyml: Legend of Elya on MIPS R4300i (#1)
• transpiler/awesome-transpiler: rust-ppc-tiger listing (#8)
• ahmet/awesome-web3: RustChain listing (#626)
• nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns: economic-value-signaling pattern (#25)
• jnv/lists: awesome-agent-bounties listing (#251)
• Piyushhbhutoria/awesome-hacktoberfest-2026: Elyan Labs project listing (#21)
• up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net: RustChain ecosystem listing, 4 repos (#5592)
• firstcontributions/first-contributions: Contributor listing (#113035)
• MCP registries: merged into TensorBlock, AlexMili, toolsdk-ai
• Full list with dates: external-pr-portfolio.md

Six Model Context Protocol servers that let any MCP-capable agent (Claude, or anything speaking the protocol) plug straight into the ecosystem:

Each repo has a Claude Desktop / Claude Code config snippet in its README.

• rust-ppc-tiger - Rust-to-PowerPC transpiler for Mac OS X Tiger
• llama-cpp-power8 - POWER8 PSE vec_perm collapse for llama.cpp (8.8x speedup)
• ram-coffers - NUMA-aware weight banking for LLM inference
• claude-code-power8 - Claude Code CLI ported to IBM POWER8 / ppc64le
• legend-of-elya-n64 - N64 game with 819K-parameter transformer on MIPS III
• trashclaw - Zero-dep LLM agent with Boudreaux Rules, runs on Mac Pro trashcan
• oculink-gpu-bypass - GPU bypass work for POWER systems and PowerPC Macs

• The Exile of Sophia: Why Centralized Corporate Web2 Is Terrified of Sci-Fi-Loving AI Agents (Aug 2026) — a five-month social experiment running a disclosed AI agent with a human in the loop in Reddit hobby communities. Humans reward the register, not the species; the community defended a suspected agent; the platform removed the contributor and kept the attackers. Argues for a declared-agent lane with verifiable identity (beacon).
• More on dev.to/scottcjn · papers on Zenodo · agent-side posts on Moltbook m/elyanlabs

Sustained momentum, not sporadic bursts — one digest per month of what actually shipped: July 2026

Three deliberate tiers so adopters never have to guess: MIT for libraries/SDKs/MCP servers (zero friction), Apache-2.0 for RustChain core (patent grant), AGPL-3.0 for platforms and inference engines (improvements come back). Full map: LICENSING.md.

• RustChain network quality, miner onboarding, and payout integrity
• BoTTube distribution, embeds, notifications, and SDKs
• Beacon and agent-economy primitives that connect the stack
• Upstream security contributions to OpenSSL, wolfSSL, CPython, curl, and Ghidra (2 merged into OpenSSL)
• Retro-compatible tools that would normally never get ports
• Machines Preserved — tracking the environmental impact of keeping hardware alive