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@funding_the_commons • 418 videos • 8 events

We are individuals and organizations building new models of sustainable public goods funding and value alignment in open source networks. Our goal with Funding the Commons is to bridge the public goods community across Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy and industry.

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Open Conversations: Drawing the Memories of Exile (Stephan Zimmerli, Studiolo of Exile)

Sep 26, 2026

Revitalizing Communities and Civic Infrastructure: Tokyo 2024 | Funding the Commons

Sep 25, 2026

A Community Treasury, Allocated by AI Digital Twins: The Simocracy Experiment

Jun 9, 2026

Intelligence at the Frontier: Building for Human Flourishing in the Age of AI | FtC SF 2026

May 9, 2026

Intelligence at the Frontier Hackathon Recap | FtC SF 2026

May 9, 2026

Tricia Wang: Pi, Einstein, and the Choice We Face with AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

David Dao

David Dao: Can We Govern the Commons at Planetary Scale? | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Luke Drago: The Intelligence Curse | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Sheila Warren: The Acceleration of Dehumanization | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Augusto Ardiles Diaz: How Cities Become AI Innovation Labs | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Matthias Broner

Matthias Broner: UNICEF's Financial Rails for the Age of AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Shady El Damaty

Shady El Damaty: Human Flourishing in the Age of AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Liz Barry: Engineering Democratic Systems for the Age of AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Jamie Joyce: Scaled Democratic Reasoning | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Sam Klein: Building Libraries Any Agent Can Edit | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Joshua Tan

Joshua Tan: Incubating Networked Systems and Autonomous Orgs | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Aviv Ovadya: Democratic Infrastructure for the Age of AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Adam Russell: It's the Institutions, Stupid | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Adam Russell & Tom Kalil: What Do We Want AI to Do for Us? | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Al Smith: Sustainable Funding for Internet Freedom Tools | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Michelle Finneran Dennedy: Privacy Is the Heartbeat of Humanity | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Internet Archive: Public Data for a Public AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Evan Miyazono

Evan Miyazono: Alignment Is Not Enough | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Paul Riechers: Understanding AI, Unlocking Optionality | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Quentin Feuillade-Montixi: Why AI Needs Its Own Language | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Ryan Kidd: Scaling AI Safety and Security | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Ashutosh Desai: On the Shoulders of Capitalism | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Who Owns the Intelligence? Open vs. Closed AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Shaw Walters: Open by Default | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Cheryl Contee: We Asked for Flying Cars, We Got LLMs Instead | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Esben Kran: Superintelligence Companies and Humanity's Future | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Jeff Burnstein & Devinder Sodhi: Physical AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Brian Behlendorf & Tricia Wang: Shadow IT to Shadow Agents | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Athena Aktipis: From Multicellularity to Multi-Agent AI | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

De Kai: Why Empathetic AI Is the Mother of All Commons | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Juan Benet

Juan Benet: Thoughts for the FtC Community in 2026 | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Illia Polosukhin

Illia Polosukhin: Building a Secure Agentic Future | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Illia Polosukhin, Juan Benet

Illia Polosukhin & Juan Benet: Building the Agentic Future | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

May 9, 2026

Intelligence at the Frontier: Funding the Commons Festival for AI & Human Flourishing (SF 2026)

Apr 9, 2026

Open Conversations: You Can't Blockchain Your Way to Global Impact (Teo Petricevic, UNDP AltFinLab)

Apr 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Don’t Build in a Blockchain Bubble (Aaron Sanchez, Exponential Science)

Apr 9, 2026

Roger Dingledine

Open Conversations: Privacy Can't Ask Permission (Roger Dingledine, Tor Project)

Mar 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Can We Bring the Campus Economy Onchain? (Fernanda Tello)

Mar 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Funding Impact with Ethereum Staking (Jaydeep Korde, Lauchnodes)

Mar 9, 2026

Jarrad Hope

Open Conversations: Freedom Requires Privacy (Jarrad Hope, Logos)

Mar 9, 2026

Funding the Commons Builder Residency: Chiang Mai Recap

Feb 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Removing Barriers to Ethereum Adoption (Gonzalo Othacehe)

Feb 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Some Information Needs a Plan, Not Just Storage (Kieran Prasch)

Feb 9, 2026

Open Conversations: Technology for Life Outside Institutions (Alisher S.)

Feb 9, 2026

Open Conversations: When Crypto Meets Institutions (Fernando Boiero)

Feb 9, 2026

Building Privacy, Identity, and Financial Access for the Real World | Funding the Commons

Jan 9, 2026

Inside Our Builder Residency in Buenos Aires | Funding the Commons

Jan 9, 2026

Opening: Welcome & Year in Review - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Blockchain for Everyone: Free Mobile Real Utility and Mass Adoption in LATAM - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

P2P Markets in LATAM - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

RealFi Meets Real Payments, Real Settlement, Real World - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

The Future Home of Open Source - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

A Protogovernance Framework for Accelerating Humanity - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Rewiring the Commons: Hypercerts on AT Protocol - Buenos Aires

Dec 9, 2025

Public Goods Funding Keynote Presentation - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

AI4PG: Bridging AI Research and Public Goods Funding - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Turning ETH Staking into Education, Connectivity, Trees, and Cash Aid - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

The Tor Project: Privacy for the Commons - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

For The World: How ReFi will Reach Critical Velocity - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Decentralized Justice in Action The Kleros: Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

RealFi Lightning Talks - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good - Buenos Aires 2024

Dec 9, 2025

The Future of Public Goods Funding - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Roger Dingledine, Vitalik Buterin

Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

Surprise Announcement - Buenos Aires 2025

Dec 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Carbon Credits, Simply Explained (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Building Public Goods to Expand Human Freedom (Chris Szymczak)

Oct 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: DAOIP 5 Metadata Standard Introduction (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

Building Bridges for a Better Future | Funding the Commons

Oct 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Multidimesional impact dashboard with Decoland (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Introducing Toucan Protocol (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Capture Solution by Numbers Protocol (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Stellar & Mobile Money Networks (Oct 2024)

Oct 9, 2025

Scott Moore

Open Conversations: On Gitcoin, Digital Public Goods & Plurality Tools (Scott Moore)

Oct 9, 2025

Aya Miyaguchi

Open Conversations: On Ethereum's Path Forward (Aya Miyaguchi)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Making People, Places & Things Come Together (Frankie Colamarino, Will Wheeler)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Reconciling Public Goods with a Capitalistic Framework (Ken Suzuki)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: On Plurality & Harnessing Energy for Social Growth (Glen Weyl)

Oct 9, 2025

From Thailand to the World: Coordinating for Public Goods | Funding the Commons

Oct 9, 2025

Opening Words (Day 1) - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Thailand Digital Economy Landscape and Opportunities for Startups - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Catalyzing Systemic Change in Southeast Asia - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Humanitarian Aid Revolutionized by Blockchain: Non Custodial Wallet for Basic Phones - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

The 4th Industrial Revolution & the Impact on the Marginalized Sector of SEA - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Unlocking Financial Inclusion: Funding Solutions for Refugee Aid - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Building for Impact and Inclusion in Southeast Asia’s Local Context - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Stories of Impact Game-Changers: Innovations for Regeneration in SEA and beyond - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

So What? Why Monitoring and Impact Measurement Matter in Humanitarian Contexts - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Self-Governing Land Trusts - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Solidarity Primitives: How to fund your commons with an aligned community - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Tracking Real-World Impact In Grant Programs - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Lifecycle of a Commons - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Climate Positive DePIN - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Crypto for Real: From the Commons for Capital to Capital for the Commons - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Building a Global Operating System for Earth - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Degens & Dragons - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

State of Web3 Grants Report: Reflections & Directions - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Reputation Based Impact Attestations for Funding Allocation - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

From Public Goods Contribution to Professional Success - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

The Grants Metadata Standard by DAOstar.org - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized Intelligence - The Impact of User-Owned AI - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Funding the Future: Innovative Approaches to Financing Crypto Policy Work - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Retro Funding: Experts vs Data, reflections from two large scale experiments - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Designing Next-Gen Digital Climate Infrastructure & Systematic Valuing of Nature - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Climate Change & Why Satellite Technology Plays a Key Role in SEA Digital Transition - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Opening Words & Residency Update (Day 2) - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Risking Together: The Commons in the Anthropocene - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Full Stack Decentralization Now - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Decolonizing Money - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Human Key Infrastructure for Human Flourishing - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Scale-Free Money: A Public-Goods-First Economic System - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Illia Polosukhin, Juan Benet

Fireside Chat with Juan Benet & Illia Polosukhin - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Building Community Through Regenerative Rubber - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

On-chain Capital Allocation: From Present Mechanisms to Future Possibilities - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Hackathon & Design Jam Demo Presentations - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Priorities for PGF Builders in 2025 - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Unlocking Digital Democracy with ZK Identity - Bangkok 2024

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Decentralized AI: The Fight for Privacy and Trust (Jarrod Barnes)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Finance as a Tool for Regeneration (Monty Bryant)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Sustainable Mechanisms for Public Goods (Artem Brazhnikov)

Oct 9, 2025

Michel Bauwens

Open Conversations: Redefining the Commons: Global Coordination, Local Impact (Michel Bauwens)

Oct 9, 2025

Shady El Damaty

Open Conversations: Redefining Human Rights in the Digital Age (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal)

Oct 9, 2025

Alan Ransil

Open Conversations: Building the Digital Backbone for Earth's Future (Alan Ransil)

Oct 9, 2025

David Dao

Open Conversations: Bridging Nature, Data, and Human Opportunity (David Dao)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: From the Ground Up: Localizing Blockchain for Real-World Impact (Anke Liu)

Oct 9, 2025

Kevin Owocki

Open Conversations: Community Tools to Fund What Matters (Kevin Owocki)

Oct 9, 2025

Reclaiming Blockchain: Trust, Sovereignty, and Real-World Impact (Melyn McKay)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Breaking Barriers in Humanitarian Aid (Anna Whitson-Diaz)

Oct 9, 2025

Infrastructures of Resilience: San Francisco | Funding the Commons

Oct 9, 2025

Architecting Resilient Futures – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Privacy by Design: ZK, MPC, TEE – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized AI, from Open Data to AGI – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Biodiversity Data as a Commons: Sequencing Life on Earth – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Stewarding the Future with Wise Ancestors – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Beyond the Black Box Algorithm: Health Data and the Public Good – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Geospatial AI for Climate and Nature – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Investing in Climate Resilience – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

The Future of AI Is Specialized: Why General Models Aren't Enough – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Funding the Regeneration – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Sensemaking a Planetary Ecological Commons – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Ecoweaving with Beloved Intelligence – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Introducing Grassroots Economics and the Barter & Beyond Game – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Where Does Knowledge Come From? Funding Informational Commons – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

An Anthropology of Cyborgs, for Cyborgs – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Collective Intelligence vs. Superintelligence? – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Leading Through Subtraction – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Funding the Commons Update – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

"Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Building Sustainable Open Source: Open Core & Web3 Decentralized Clouds – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Funding Open Source & Decentralized Development, from Enterprise to AI Agents – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized, Confidential Machine Learning – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Computer Security in the Age of AI – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Biorisk as Common Resource: The Critical Digital-to-Physical Interface – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Decentralized Scenarios Under Short AGI Timelines – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Building the 21st Century Commons – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Culture & Community as Complex Systems – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

OMN: Towards a Robust Planetary Library – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Load Bearing People, Load Bearing Code – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Legal Infrastructure for Agent Transactions – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Powering Human Coordination Networks with Keys, Identity, and Wallets – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

"Seed Banks for Data": Stewarding and Preserving Climate Data – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Futures Worth Building – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Opening Words – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Frontier AI to Decode Animal Language – San Francisco 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Reclaiming the Internet as a Public Square (Wendy Hanamura)

Oct 9, 2025

Illia Polosukhin

Open Conversations: The Only Way Forward Is User-Owned AI (Illia Polosukhin)

Oct 9, 2025

Shady El Damaty

Open Conversations: Infrastructure Must Be Human-Centered (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: AI and the Language of Life (Aza Raskin)

Oct 9, 2025

David Casey

Open Conversations: Reclaiming Crypto for Public Goods (David Casey)

Oct 9, 2025

Infrastructures of Resilience: Berlin Forum | Funding the Commons

Oct 9, 2025

Robert Drost

Open Conversations: The Future of Open Source Is Funded (Robert Drost)

Oct 9, 2025

Isabela Fernandes

Open Conversations: Privacy Is a Civic Technology (Isabela Fernandes)

Oct 9, 2025

David Dao

Funding the Commons Builder Residencies: Chiang Mai Teaser (David Dao)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Climate Data Belongs in the Commons (Diego Saez Gil)

Oct 9, 2025

Open Conversations: Building the Systems of Tomorrow (Ethan Frey & Jake Hartnell)

Oct 9, 2025

9. Putting the "Design" in Mechanism Design - Berlin 2023

Oct 9, 2024

11. Public Goods Hackathon Winners Announced - Berlin 2023

Oct 9, 2024

1. FTC Bogota Introduction - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

2. Radicle Drips: The Latest Mechanism Design - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

3. Rewarding Impact with Hypercerts.xyz - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

4. FiatConnect & Connect the World - Using Competitions to Bootstrap Public Goods - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

6. Impact Evaluators: Existential Challenges and Opportunities - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

8. Workshop: Funding Mechanisms - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

9. Workshop: Impact Markets - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

7. Complex Products: Where DAOs and Funding Mechanisms Fall Short - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

10. Workshop: Funding Structures - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

5. Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms - Bogota 2022

Oct 9, 2024

2. Network Goods- Purpose, Brief History, Looking Ahead - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

3. Network Funding Updates - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

4. Network Research Updates - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

6. Funding DAOS with SuperPACs - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

5. Protocols: Foundations of Resilient Democracies - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

8. A ‘Governance Layer’ for the Decentralised Web - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

11. Blue Funds Fireside Chat - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

9. A Regenerative VC Alternative - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

10. Regenerative Value - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

7. Funding the Commons Q&A - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

13. Creative Commons - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

12. Hypercert Scenarios: Presentation and Workshop - Lisbon 2022

Oct 9, 2024

02. Funding the Commons Berlin Builder Residency Update

Oct 9, 2024

Funding the Commons in Taipei - Dec 2023

Oct 9, 2024

Funding the Commons Berlin Residency Recap, September 2023

Oct 9, 2024

What is a Funding the Commons Residency

Oct 9, 2024

Funding the Commons Taipei Recap

Oct 9, 2024