Ecosystem developer Sam | 🐑 $TDF 🚀 | 📍 Portugal is building infrastructure for a regenerative future through traditionaldreamfactory 🌱 $TDF 🐑—a land-based community prototyping tools for autonomy and resilience. 🌱🛠️ Catch him at FtCBerlin for a conversation on local and bioregional coordination.

A primrose can hear. It recognizes the sound of a bee and, within seconds, produces sweeter nectar in response. As Aza Raskin from @EarthSpecies reminds us, nature has been communicating all along. AI is helping us detect what we’ve been missing.

Join Tereza Bízková, beth mccarthy (🪄,✨), Kim, Anna Pats, and David Casey at Funding The Commons’ Infrastructures of Resilience - two days of public-good system design during Berlin Blockchain Week. 🎙️ lu.ma/ftc-berlin-2025

From identity to privacy to prosperity, Rene ◘ 🦇🌳 will join Funding the Commons Forum Berlin to explore what’s next for regenerative systems. 🌀🌱 The co-founder of Celo.eth/acc 🦇 🌳 and @selfprotocol will speak on privacy infrastructure for global-scale coordination.

ReFi aims to embed regeneration into the logic of finance. But how do we define regeneration — and how do we measure it? We explored this challenge in our latest article. Now we’d love to hear your thoughts.

What does it take to localize coordination—and resist extractive futures? 🌀🌿 luizfernando.eth of ReFi DAO 🪩 joins Funding the Commons Forum Berlin to explore the politics of network states, neocolonialism, and regenerative localism.

We can’t wait to see you tomorrow for the first-ever FtC Forum! 🪩🌀 Our Berlin program is co-created with partner orgs and YOU—more collaborative, more experimental. Explore the agenda: there's different views & every session is clickable. 👇 ftcberlin2025.sched.com/print/all

Crypto’s most promising use cases start with real-world needs. David Casey on how that idea led to Funding the Commons, exploring web3’s role in coordination and infrastructure for public goods. 🌐 Join us on that mission. Berlin starts tomorrow: lu.ma/ftc-berlin-2025

Thank you to everyone who showed up, built with us, asked hard questions, and made Funding the Commons Forum Berlin joyful. See you next time! 💙🌀

GainForest is hiring interns! 💚 Excited to announce that we're launching our first ever internship program, supported by Ethereum Foundation EF Next Billion 🌱✨ Learn more: gainforest.notion.site/gainforest-int…

Looking back at Funding the Commons Forum Berlin in numbers: 🌀 328 participants 🧭 82 sessions · 104 facilitators 🌐 40+ countries 💙 68.3% first-time attendees 🎨 1 exhibition · 4 artists & collectives Together, we explored how digital, social, and cultural infrastructure

The infrastructure you build carries values. Choose them with intention.

What kind of infrastructure do resilient, collective futures require? 🌀 In Berlin, we gathered builders, researchers, funders, and creators to answer that question. This is our Forum recap. 📽️

Impact is hard to measure. Especially when it unfolds slowly, unevenly, and across different contexts. Without credible metrics, even the most regenerative designs risk being ignored.

What needs to happen for innovation to take root? 🌱 Time, trust, and the right environment. That’s what the FtC Residency is designed to support. David Dao from Gainforest.Earth shares what made it work for him. Our next Builder Residency is coming up. Apply & get involved. 👇

RealFi 💪

2025 is the year of RealFi.

Build, live, and exchange ideas with peers shaping public goods infrastructure. 🌎🌱 The FtC Builder Residency runs October 24–November 14 in Buenos Aires—timed just before Devconnect. Made possible by Protocol Labs, Stellar, NEAR Protocol, Octant.eth, human.tech by Holonym, and

Amazing opportunity for builders: Funding The Commons is calling for applications for their Builders Residency to be held in Buenos Aires, 🇦🇷Argentina this Oct-Nov. Link in the comments 👇

Climate data shouldn’t live in silos. It belongs in the commons. As Diego Saez Gil of Pachama reminds us, it’s what helps scientists, policymakers, and communities protect forests and fight climate change. 🌱