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NSNODES WEEKLY #32Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min
Nodes Digest #32 | Praxis Picks Uruguay, Nigeria Sets a Deadline
Praxis names its first site, Próspera awards school grants, and Forma makes a home in Bristol
[ READINGS ]
Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
[ NSNODES WEEKLY ]
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
[ PREVIOUS EDITIONS ]
#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 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
Open full archive #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 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[ THE LIBRARY ]
Hand-picked references for going deeper into the space.
The durable shelf. Start here when someone asks what the movement is actually about.
Published 2022
The Network State
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Book2022
The movement's reference book: a cloud-first path from online community to territory and diplomatic recognition.
Published 1997
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
Book1997
The 1990s information-age precedent. Read beside Balaji to see what is old and what is newly possible.
Published 2026
Startup States
Julien Andrew Starr
Book2026
A treaty-first countermodel: new states through host-country agreement, legal structure, and recognition.
Published 1990
Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom
Book1990
The empirical commons counterweight: how communities govern shared resources beyond state or market defaults.
[ ECOSYSTEM RADAR ]
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[ VOICES ]
A compact, non-exhaustive directory of people worth tracking.
A starter map, not a ranking. We will keep refining it as the field evolves.
Balaji Srinivasan
@balajis
Network State thesis
The canonical vocabulary, strategic frame, and builder energy behind the Network State thesis.
Vitalik Buterin
@VitalikButerin
Public goods and coordination
Long-form writing on Ethereum, public goods, Zuzalu, coordination, and pluralist governance.
Parallel Citizen
@analogueusb
New societies psychology
Psychology of new societies, network states, identity, and pseudonymity.
Michel Bauwens
@mbauwens
Commons and cosmolocalism
Commons, P2P, cosmolocalism, and civilizational transition from the P2P Foundation founder.
Audrey Tang
@audreyt
Digital democracy
Taiwan's digital democracy, g0v/vTaiwan lineage, and practical pluralist technology.
Primavera De Filippi
@yaoeo
Blockchain law and governance
Legal theory for DAOs, blockchain governance, commons, and code-mediated institutions.
Kei Kreutler
@keikreutler
DAO and protocol culture
Writing on DAOs, protocol memory, cultural narratives, and organizational design.
Mark Lutter
@MarkLutter
Charter cities
Institution-building, charter cities, governance markets, and the development side of new cities.
Niklas Anzinger
@NiklasAnzinger
Startup-city operator
Infinita, Próspera, longevity biotech, and operator notes from a live startup-city experiment.
[ HELP CURATE THE STACK ]
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