Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
Our weekly digest on the latest updates in the space
A week of delegated work, and of institutions writing down how authority travels with it
#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 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 EyesHand-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
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Your weekly update on what is happening in the Startup Society ecosystem.
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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