- Block is launching Buzz, an open-source workspace integrating employees, AI agents, conversations, and code repositories behind a single identity system, aiming to reduce reliance on Slack and GitHub.
- Buzz uses a self-hostable Nostr relay with cryptographically signed events, giving both humans and agents the same identity structure, key pairs, and audit trails.
- The platform includes a built-in software forge with Git integration, allowing feature branches as channels and sharing search across repos, discussions, and workflow history.
- Buzz is decentralized in deployment and ownership, but currently relies on a single authoritative relay for reads, writes, and authentication within each workspace.
- Features include channels, threads, direct messages, canvases, search, audit logs, desktop app, and YAML workflows, but it is still early with mobile clients and push notifications in development.
- Buzz positions itself as a broad replacement for chat, code hosting, workflow automation, and agent orchestration, competing with mature tools while being open-source and unproven externally.