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Exploring new models & mechanisms for public goods funding, via events, residencies, hackathons & real-world pilots. Incubated by @ProtocolLabs. 🤝

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@iamnotstatic @BlockradarHQ Congratulations! 👏

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Factories that switched to electricity got almost nothing out of it for decades. The payoff came once plants were rebuilt with a motor at every machine.

In Science, @profjamesevans and @glenweyl argue our institutions are at that same point with AI.

https://t.co/mv4SZqcLn7

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@TerezaBizkova @BlueDotImpact 👏👏👏

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https://t.co/tBVsnsIPRv

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@samccarthy27 @ARIA_research @AO_Commons Can't wait to see what the future holds for @AO_Commons! 🙌

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Good morning from London! ☀️

FtC’s Kim Buisson is at #TC2026 today, in conversations on public interest AI and who it serves.

She’ll also be at the London AO Summit (@ARIA_research × AO Commons), focused on how autonomous organizations should be run & governed.

Come say hi!

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@Crypto_Altruism @timstirrup @BetterDotGiving This looks awesome!

[Marco @mbarrbosa]

Such an honor to support and mentor amazing startups from El Salvador 🇸🇻

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We’ve started a FtC community on Cuties, a social app built around communities and the people who vouch for each other inside them.

We’re excited to experiment and see whether it helps our network find each other! Come say hi 👇

https://t.co/9usLCJYMuu

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@GolemFoundation @Kairos_Res @ethereuminsti 👏👏👏

[Nelson Daniel Lopez | e/acc @lcce01]

El Salvador 🇸🇻 and @FundingCommons just hosted the first residency of its kind. From 106 applications, 4 public goods tech founders spent 6 days across the table from ministries, @UnitedNationsDP, funds, incubators, and development finance, with zero fees and zero equity thanks to @GSR_io. Grants and pilots are already rolling out, and more on this in the coming weeks. Thank you all involved!

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Thank you to our mentors @mbarrbosa @NanakNihal @0xcush, who worked with @lcce01 and @david1casey from our team, and to the local partners who led sessions, like @CoreNestVC, @innogencapital, and @IDB_Lab.

And to @foundation_gsr for making it possible.

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This October we ran our first program in El Salvador.

Open digital infrastructure is often funded to launch and rarely to last, so we brought four founding teams to San Salvador for six days to work on what keeps it running. 🧵

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No founder ever voted on their own money, and we have a written record of how each decision was reached.

We spend our time asking how shared infrastructure should be funded, so it felt right to experiment with our own money first.

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Anthropic is putting 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund, worth around $100B if its IPO goes as expected.

AI money like this is expected to chase measurable impact, a hard standard for open-source software and research.

https://t.co/CaTm0fGcvz

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@momack28 🙌🙌🙌