Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
Governance rails got cleaner and more fragile at the same time, while cities, wallets, and social protocols showed where new institutions actually touch the ground.
#21Jul 6Nodes Digest #21 | The A-Corp Gets Its Backstory, Roatán Builds a Funnel, Decidim Ships
#20Jun 29Nodes Digest #20 | Brazil’s Onchain Signatures, Logos Saturates Nigeria, Governance by Underwriting
#19Jun 22Nodes Digest #19 | Government Unbundled, Entities Onchain, Edge’s Final Week
#18Jun 15Nodes Digest #18 | Argentina’s Automated Companies, Gelephu’s License, Honduras’s Long Game
#17Jun 8Nodes Digest #17 | Asfura Visits Próspera, muShanghai Closes, Through Local Eyes
#16Jun 1Nodes Digest #16 | Edge Esmeralda Opens, Q-Day Comes to NS, Próspera Posts Operational Numbers
#15May 25Nodes Digest #15 | Edge Esmeralda Opens, muShanghai Builds, Sovereignty Gets Debated
#14May 18Nodes Digest #14 | Próspera at WFZO, Ipê's Breakout Year, Gelephu's Crypto Fast TrackHand-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
Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important.
A recording from Protocolized's live video
Tim Urban, creator of Wait But Why and the mind behind one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time, joins us to talk about why progress does not happen automatically.
Underthrow Podcast with Max Borders | Socialism is back in style, but Marx is still no good in theory or practice.
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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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