Field Notes
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Before the Guardian: Who Checks a Payment Before It Leaves
Banks, brokers and wallet companies have all built a checkpoint between "I want to pay" and "the money moved". Here is that lineage, and what Exo's Chainlink CRE Guardian changes about it.
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Sixty-Five Years of Wearable Computers, and Why Now
From a roulette computer hidden in a shoe to AI glasses outselling expectations: what wearable computing got wrong for decades, what changed in the last three years, and the bet Exo makes.
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An Agent With a Wallet, a Human With a Key: Exo's Security Model
How Exo splits money across a cold key, an agent Safe and a gas-only hot key; the technologies that guard each step; the attacks they stop; and eight real incidents, from BadgerDAO to Bybit, measured against the design.
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Inside Exo: The Dashboard, the Voice Loop and the Agents
A tour for the onchain operator: every panel on the glasses, the buttons and voice commands that move between them, how push-to-talk replaces the keyboard, and how six open-source Hermes agents share a kanban board and build new chain skills.
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How Exo Talks to Four Chains Through NOWNodes, and Why the Approve Key Is a Keyswitch
Which chains Exo uses, every place it calls NOWNodes (from the Guardian's simulations to the wallet panel), how the client and proxy are built, and why a glowing NOWNodes keyswitch on the wearable is a security control, not decoration.
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The Chainlink CRE Guardian, In Depth
How Exo's Transaction Guardian works end to end: the policy format, onboarding step by step, what runs under the hood, what happens on approval and on refusal, how to change your rules and your address book, and a long list of transactions it will and won't let through.
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Designing exo-1: An Instrument, Not a Gadget
The concept renders for Exo's printed parts: a bone-white and warm-grey body, one signal orange, a glowing green approve key, tiny lowercase labels and exposed screws. Why each choice, what each part does, and what's still only a render.