EarthCommons

Exploring the funding and governance of nature’s commons.
Incubated by @FilecoinGreen @ProtocolLabs. 🌎

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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 👇

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If you want to go fast, go alone.

If you want to go far, fund the commons.

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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.🙌

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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

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Happening tomorrow! 🌱

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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

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@Crypto_Altruism 💚

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@Crypto_Altruism 🫶

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Are you stewarding land? 🌱
Restoring watersheds, growing food, protecting biodiversity, building resilient ecosystems... 🧵

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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

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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

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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

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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

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@foundation_gsr @Crypto_Altruism Super awesome!

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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. 👇

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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

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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. 💫

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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.

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We built, debated, learned, prototyped, funded, wondered, connected, and danced. 🌆🌸

Intelligence at the Frontier—1,000 people, 16 floors, 229 sessions, 36 hours. Here's what it looked like from the inside.

Huge thank you to everyone who showed up, spoke, built, volunteered, and made this possible.

Presented by @protocollabs & @frontiertower

Sponsors included @elevenlabs @bittensor @activeloop @solana @NEARProtocol @FilFoundation @OctantApp @hypercerts @humntech @vesslai @velda_io @NomadicML @unbrowse @MeteoraAG @metaplex @LitProtocol @redwoodnorth_io @arkhai_io & SoloTech, BittensorCommons, Optimized Foods

In partnership with @torproject @internetarchive @foresightinst @AAI_Society @ethereumsf @UNICEFinnovate @metagov_project @founding @quorum_1 & Flourishing Systems Foundation, Biopunk Labs, https://t.co/54883nZzuz, UFB, https://t.co/lp377X7v7K, GTM at the Edge, KikiTora, Learning Layer Labs, Tea Tribe, Rich DDT

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Photos from Intelligence at the Frontier are live 📸

Still reflecting on an incredible first festival: 1,000+ researchers, builders, artists & organizers across 16 floors of the @frontiertower.

Huge thanks to @protocollabs & everyone who made it possible.

Sponsors include @elevenlabs @bittensor @activeloop @solana @NEARProtocol @FilFoundation @OctantApp @hypercerts @humntech @vesslai @velda_io @NomadicML @unbrowse @MeteoraAG @metaplex @LitProtocol & SoloTech, Redwood North, BittensorCommons, Optimized Foods

In partnership with @torproject @internetarchive @foresightinst @AAI_Society @ethereumsf @UNICEFinnovate @metagov_project @founding @quorum_1 & Flourishing Systems Foundation, Biopunk Labs, https://t.co/54883nZzuz, UFB, https://t.co/lp377X7v7K, GTM at the Edge, KikiTora, Learning Layer Labs, Tea Tribe & Rich DDT and many more.🌸

Gallery link. 👇
https://t.co/u6sITA8Yej