Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
Contracts courts can read, local circles with density, civic tools that federate, and governance services someone might actually underwrite.
#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 Track
#13May 11Nodes Digest #13 | Society Protocol Whitepaper, NS's Internal Calendar, Korea's Startup Hubs
#12May 4Nodes Digest #12 | Ethereum NS, ZuAfrique Wraps, Agent Village Goes RigorousHand-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
Inside an internet-born community that planted itself with open doors, in the middle of Chiang Mai
Infinita Startup Week is here! + Could the Next Silicon Valley Be a Country?
Forty Years of Observation. Forty Years of Being Right. Forty Years of Being Lied About.
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Your weekly update on what is happening in the Startup Society ecosystem.
Launch in the world's most advanced pro-innovation jurisdiction.
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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