Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
Seven North Oakland tenants use nonprofit ownership to make their home harder to sell, while Liberland, Sealand, and local chapters test what membership can actually decide
#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 Vetoes
#25Aug 3Nodes Digest #25 | Agents Run a Village Experiment, L2BEAT Documents Who Can Override Whom, Pop-up Cities Get a Field Report
#24Jul 27Nodes Digest #24 | Johor Revokes Network School, Kazakhstan Signs a Five-Year Path, DAOs Build Their Brakes
#23Jul 20Nodes Digest #23 | Network School Asks Malaysia for Terms, Logos Runs the Full Stack, Pop-Up Cities Get a Memory
#22Jul 13Nodes Digest #22 | Solana Votes, Cities Charter, Identity Hardens
#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 UnderwritingHand-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
I write weekly about how governance systems actually work and how new jurisdictions are being designed.
Your weekly update on what is happening in the Startup Society ecosystem.
One form, one payment in stablecoins, one transaction, and your startup is filed, EIN'd, and up and running.
A month after Network School left Malaysia, the new Kazakh campus days away from opening its doors, everyone has a theory on what can be done differently.
This is a guest post by Matthew Slater, sharing valuable lessons from his personal experience as a developer working with, and for, communities.
Renovation is revolutionary reform
Most people care about their community and the environment around them. What is harder to find is a place where that care is shared, supported, and carried forward. Rooted Northwest is a growing mission-driven cohousing community for those who want their home to deeply reflect their social and environmental values.
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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