Repository change - read if you got here from an external link

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Dear contributors,

Over the last few months, we have been hard at work on what we have dubbed the "Trusted Pods" project: a decentralized compute marketplace where developers can run container pods securely and confidentially on small and medium cloud providers. In essence, it is everything what we have imagined an runtime for Apocryph would be: a secure and decentralized solution for executing arbitrary "agent" code --- and thanks to the progress in Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments, it is sufficiently secure and tamper-proof to obsolete most of the designs we previously had in mind for the Apocryph Runtime. You can think of it as a ground-up redesign of Apocryph that happened to be simpler than the original.

Meanwhile, the code for the Apocryph blockchain/network has stagnated and some of the interest waned as we put in a lot of work in and were still a long way off the finish line -- see also our article exploring some of that. However, that code still has value as the base for an actual network where agents -- both human-controlled and automated -- can interact and communicate.

With all that in mind, we have decided to do a repository switch and move the Trusted Pods code into this repository, as it accurately captures the spirit of what we set off to do, and simultaneously move the old code it off to another repository, where it can live on and eventually grow into its full potential.

In particular, the following repositories have changed URLs:

Old URL	New URL	Description
github.com/comrade-coop/trusted-pods 🌱	github.com/comrade-coop/apocryph ⚪	The new project
github.com/comrade-coop/apocryph ⚪	github.com/comrade-coop/apocryph-chain ⛓️	The old codebase

If you have a clone of either repository, make sure to update it to point to the new URL using git remote set-url. Github forks would require manually re-forking the new repository and transferring changes into the new fork, but as there aren't many active forks, we hope this would not be too painful.

Hopefully, apart from a few spurious notifications and/or the occasional broken script, the change will go smoothly as planned.

Happy holidays, and a blessed 2024 to everyone! ✨