Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
The movement takes its biggest stage to argue whether to fix a country or leave it, while quieter work funds clinics and documents a middle path.
#33Oct 6Nodes Digest #33 | Agents Move Into the City, Freedom Meets the Law
#32Sep 29Nodes Digest #32 | Praxis Picks Uruguay, Nigeria Sets a Deadline#31#31Sep 22Nodes Digest #31 | Próspera's Success Problem, Charter Cities on the BBC, an AI-Assisted Constitution
#30Sep 16Nodes Digest #30 | Goa’s Residencies, Waterfall’s Leaseholds, Civic Voice
#29Sep 8Nodes Digest #29 | Astana Opens, Montana Sets Conditions, Arc Chooses Sri Lanka
#28Aug 31Nodes Digest #28 | A House Leaves the Market, Citizenship by Contribution, Software That Stays
#27Aug 26Nodes Digest #27 | Network School Kazakhstan, Valley Starts a Commons Field Lab
#26Aug 17Nodes Digest #26 | Próspera’s Legal Defenses, Network School’s Local VetoesHand-picked references for going deeper into the space.
The durable shelf. Start here when someone asks what the movement is actually about.
The movement's reference book: a cloud-first path from online community to territory and diplomatic recognition.
The 1990s information-age precedent. Read beside Balaji to see what is old and what is newly possible.
A treaty-first countermodel: new states through host-country agreement, legal structure, and recognition.
The empirical commons counterweight: how communities govern shared resources beyond state or market defaults.
Recent articles from our network
We went to Brazil to observe a reformist political party struggling to change the course of their country. History tells us their road to power might be longer than expected.
And why politics, therapy, and spirituality can’t save us.
Originally presented during Devconnect 2025’s Legal Scholar Program. November 2025, Buenos Aires.
C-dramas by and for women are re-writing China's past... and future.
(3-min Read) A practical step-by-step at how a post-Phase 1 treatment moves from submission to a public review decision.
One of the most difficult problems in designing a voluntary jurisdiction is also one of the easiest to overlook.
The network met the state
A compact, non-exhaustive directory of people worth tracking.
The canonical vocabulary, strategic frame, and builder energy behind the Network State thesis.
Long-form writing on Ethereum, public goods, Zuzalu, coordination, and pluralist governance.
Psychology of new societies, network states, identity, and pseudonymity.
Commons, P2P, cosmolocalism, and civilizational transition from the P2P Foundation founder.
Taiwan's digital democracy, g0v/vTaiwan lineage, and practical pluralist technology.
Legal theory for DAOs, blockchain governance, commons, and code-mediated institutions.
Writing on DAOs, protocol memory, cultural narratives, and organizational design.
Institution-building, charter cities, governance markets, and the development side of new cities.
Infinita, Próspera, longevity biotech, and operator notes from a live startup-city experiment.
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