End of an era 🥹

The night before the Forum. 🌙 We can't wait to see you 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! 💙🌀

The energy at Funding The Commons Berlin was out of this world—a great mix of core community and newcomers to the space exploring the latest innovations in web3 privacy, public goods funding, art, and even humanitarian aid. 🤩🚀 Thank you for inviting me! 🙏

Thrilled to have chaired today’s session at the 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons IASC COMMONS on 'Advancing Governance in Web3 Public Goods’ with Kelsie Nabben noturhandle mel.eth 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔢 leoglisic.eth 💡✨

The future of coordination is onchain. At 5PM UTC today, join Funding The Commons’ David Casey & Bio’s Erik for a conversation on building new economic engines and ecosystems. 🔗 Set reminder: x.com/i/spaces/1YpKk…

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. 📽️

📍Day 2 in Cannes for EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference MiniPay’s Head of Commercial & Ecosystem Murray Spark joined voices from Funding The Commons and Celo Public Goods ♻️ on today’s Blockchain4Good | ETHCC📍 panel — discussing blockchain use cases for financial inclusion and humanitarian aid. Crypto meets the real world 🌍

Say no to cookies, browser tracking, and login walls. Isabela Fernandes from The Tor Project on how anonymity protects freedom & why little acts of digital disobedience change everything.🔒

I remember the first time I met Randy Fine when he was a candidate before he barely won Florida’s deep red 6th district seat, as we were being told he might actually lose the seat because the strong Trump district couldn’t relate to him and didn’t like him. He was telling me that

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. 👇

NEW POD - sharing my vision for @Gitcoin 3.3 today - we explore how Ethereum’s biggest problems can be solved with smarter, faster, and more pluralistic funding systems. 00:00 – Intro 01:10 Vision for Gitcoin 3.0 and the Post-AI DAO Structure 02:43 Switching to Visual

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 👇

If you care about making technology usable in the real world, this is for you. We're introducing RealFi Hack: A global virtual hackathon bringing together builders creating practical solutions to real problems. 🛠️ Sep 23–Oct 16 · $80K+ in prizes ⚡ Powered by Protocol Labs,

Shoutout to arunphilips and all the incredible alumni of our residencies. 💙 Tomorrow is the final day to apply to our Buenos Aires edition (Oct 24-Nov 14): three weeks of focused work, peer exchange, and building for the real world. 👉 fundingthecommons.io/builderresiden…

Present and future of Public Goods♥️

New bounty alert! At our virtual RealFi Hack (Sep 23-Oct 16), Edge City is inviting builders to design civic tech for tomorrow's societies. 🌐🏘️ Will you join us to prototype tools for coordination, governance, and resource sharing in pop-up & network cities? 👇

RealFi Hack starts today! 🛠️ Join our Kick-Off event at 12 PM ET and hear from Al Smith (The Tor Project), Eliza Pancake 🧉 0x3liza.eth (Ethereum Foundation), Juan Benet (Protocol Labs), and more. We’ll introduce the RealFi vision and set you up for 3 weeks of building. 🌐 👉 luma.com/realfi-kickoff

currently brainstorming with devs at the Funding The Commons RealFi hackathon and everyone's saying the same thing: privacy and identity are the missing infrastructure for web3 to actually serve real people. the challenge isn't the tech complexity, it's making it accessible and

We're launching a collaborative initiative with Funding The Commons and @TorProject to support the development of practical privacy tools with real and immediate use cases. Privacy is often taken for granted or dismissed as abstract and unnecessary. But we know it's a critical