Our new governance report is live.
We gave six communities money, total freedom, and an AI that could spend it for them, then watched how they chose to govern.
A field study in AI-assisted governance, with @protocollabs@GainForestNow@OctantApp@hypercerts 👇
Thanks to @maearthstudio for joining us for today's town hall! 🌱
A great session with @SophiaRokhlin & @bitbeckers on funding ecological regeneration and the open stack making it possible.
Community donations for their next round open July 1, with a $500K matching pool.🙌
The best part of any town hall is the people in it. 🌱
Today, 10am ET with @maearthstudio: what funding ecological regeneration takes, how they built for it, and breakouts where you meet others in the space.
https://t.co/sGAUjdS2qV
For our next Town Hall, we're joined by @maearthstudio.
Their third quadratic funding round is launching this summer, with a $500K matching pool for community-led land and nature projects worldwide. 🌍
Come chat regeneration with us.
June 2, 12pm ET
https://t.co/sGAUjdS2qV
In our next town hall, we're sitting down with the team at @OctantApp.
We'll hear from @nicnode on the new Octant v2, and @arlery on what gets a public goods project funded, drawn from a dozen epochs and thousands of applications.
May 18, 12 pm ET. 👇
https://t.co/J7ugqAHNU5
What happens when AI digital twins help allocate a treasury?
Our experiment with @dwddao's Simocracy: at Frontier Tower, community leads' AI twins read the proposals, argued their priorities, and deliberated together.
With @hypercerts@OctantApp@ProtocolLabs@GainForestNow
Applications are open for Ma Earth Funding Round 3.
$500k in matching grants for 100 grassroots nature projects worldwide.
Apply through Ma Earth's new collective funding platform, purpose built for community-led regeneration.
Learn more at https://t.co/kAbfw5q0lR
Dunbar's number says humans can maintain stable relationships with about 150 people. Ostrom's principles hit the same limit.
@dwddao of @protocollabs@GainForestNow on how to govern something the size of the Amazon and why AI might make it possible. 🌿
https://t.co/SAkwY0U8cQ
Did you know the walkaway rule in AI governance came from kombucha? That cancer biology might be our blueprint for AI agents? And that only 0.1% of AI researchers are working on frontier safety?
Enter the rabbit hole. 🐇
Talks from Intelligence at the Frontier are LIVE. 👇
We’re hiring a Co-Founder/Head of Incubation at Commons Lab. 💻
You’ll back founders building coordination infrastructure for the AI era—leading selection, residencies, and PMF coaching.
Strong AI judgment + daily use of tools like Claude/Cursor.
https://t.co/32pcQeNIft
The hardest questions in AI right now are not technical.
They are about power, purpose, and who gets a say.
This was Funding the Commons SF: Intelligence at the Frontier. We will be back this fall, stay tuned. 💫
You can't solve global challenges from inside your own ecosystem. 🌍
@XtXeXo from @UNDP AltFinLab on what real cross-sector collaboration looks like when the stakes are high.