Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson of the Spritely Institute presented at QCon London 2026 on building decentralized internet infrastructure. They outlined the problems with centralized systems — fragility, user loss of control, and legislative capture — and proposed three foundational solutions: Object Capabilities (via Goblins) for access control instead of ACLs, the Actor model and OCapN protocol for secure inter-process communication, and Petnames for human-readable yet decentralized naming. They also introduced Hoot, a WebAssembly compiler that translates Scheme to Wasm, enabling browser-based deployment of these decentralized primitives.
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