Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
A bespoke legal wrapper's full origin story, a recruitment machine pointing builders toward Roatán, and a fresh release of the open-source participation stack
#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 Track
#13May 11Nodes Digest #13 | Society Protocol Whitepaper, NS's Internal Calendar, Korea's Startup HubsHand-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
Underthrow Podcast w/ Max Borders | More on accountability loops and voids for the show.
People often imagine successful communities as places where problems rarely occur.
A bunch of business updates and a request for your feedback.
A guest article and commentary by Maike Gosch calling for trans-partisan solidarity against free speech suppressions.
Your weekly update on what is happening in the Startup Society ecosystem.
To move the needle, freedom's ideologues need to get out of their heads and into the world.
When land is almost impossible for many to afford, how are we meant to reconnect with it?
We hosted 12 dinner parties and welcomed over 270 guests in 4 weeks, here are our learnings.
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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