Tools, guides, and communities we’ve found useful, from across the Ethereum Localism ecosystem and beyond. Sections are arranged by theme; browse what fits your interests. Within each section (except Ethereum), entries are listed alphabetically.
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Ethereum
Foundational reading on what Ethereum is and why it matters for communities experimenting with new coordination models.
- Introduction to Ethereum Localism
- Learn About Ethereum (ethereum.org) – A beginner-friendly guide to understanding Ethereum and how it works.
- Ethereum Whitepaper (2014) (ethereum.org) – The original vision for Ethereum as a programmable blockchain enabling decentralized applications and new coordination systems.
- "Crypto Cities" (2021) (vitalik.eth.limo) – Vitalik Buterin explores how Ethereum can support city governance, public goods, and new models of local coordination.
Ethereum Localism Playbooks
Hands-on guides for organizing locally. Starting a Fun DAO, hosting a GFEL, running a Regen Hub. Whatever your starting point, find inspiration here.
- Ethereum Localism Action Kit - Practical tools, templates, and guidance to start creating local impact.
- Ethereum Localism Implementation Guides
- Local Regen Guide #1 (gree. pill.network) – A practical handbook for creating regenerative systems through open-source collaboration and Web3 tools.
Regenerative Finance & Commons Economy
Local currencies, commons governance, financial infrastructure that actually supports people and place. Theory and practice from the ReFi and commons economy worlds.
- Bread Cooperative (bread.coop) – A collective federation of decentralized cooperative projects looking to advance a progressive vision for blockchain and its effect on society.
- Commons Economy Roadmap (commonseconomy.org) – A guide for transitioning from extractive systems to commons-based, cooperative economies.
- Commons-Based Peer Production (P2P Foundation) – An overview of decentralized, collaborative production enabled by digital networks.
- Eight Forms of Capital (P2P Foundation) – A framework that expands value beyond financial capital to include social, cultural, and ecological capital.
- Grassroots Economics (grassrootseconomics.org) – Community currencies and local economic empowerment.
- MycoFi.earth – A regenerative systems exploration inspired by mycelial networks, envisioning community-driven capital flows supporting diverse ecosystems and projects.
- Ostrom's Eight Principles for Successful Commons (earthbound.report) – A summary of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's principles for sustainable commons management.
- P2P Foundation Wiki (p2pfoundation.net) – A foundational knowledge commons mapping the ideas behind peer-to-peer systems, local autonomy, and global coordination.
- Regen Commons (regencommons.com) – A digital space for regenerative finance and land stewardship collaboration.
- Regen Coordination (regencoordination.xyz) – An evolving alliance of Web3 organizations fostering collaboration for ecological, social, and economic regeneration.
- Regen Foundation (regen.foundation) – Supports ecological regeneration through Web3 tools and community-led initiatives.
Cosmolocal Governance
Balancing local autonomy with global solidarity. Protocols, tools, and experiments in shared governance across place and distance.
- Community Rule (communityrule.info) – A simple tool for designing and sharing governance models for groups and communities.
- DAOHaus (daohaus.club) – A platform for creating and managing DAOs using Moloch smart contracts.
- Gardens.fund – DAO infrastructure for communities to govern shared resources with conviction voting. Built by the 1Hive ecosystem.
- Metagov (metagov.org) – A research collective developing governance infrastructure for digital communities and DAOs.
- Neighbourhoods (neighbourhoods.network) – A framework for building online communities with composable governance and cultural protocols. Built on Holochain.
- Open Civics (opencivics.co) – Tools and frameworks for participatory and inclusive civic processes.
Participatory Funding
Who decides what gets funded? Quadratic voting, retro PGF, place-based grants; experiments in letting communities fund what they care about.
- Allo IRL (Allo) – Participatory funding for in-person, place-based experiments using the Allo Protocol.
- CLR.fund – Permissionless quadratic funding protocol for public goods on Ethereum.
- Easy Retro PGF (easyretropgf.xyz) – Lightweight tool for retroactive public goods funding that rewards real-world impact with minimal overhead.
- Gitcoin Grants (Gitcoin) – Long-running quadratic funding platform for open-source software and public goods.
- Giveth (giveth.io) – Web3-native donation platform for public goods, with GIVbacks and regenerative incentives.
Community
Allies and fellow travelers in the space. People and organizations experimenting with new ways to coordinate, govern, and build locally.
- Ethereum Localism Initiative & Community Registry
- Bloom Network (bloomnetwork.earth) – A place-based social network and peer incubator for regeneration, mutual aid, and local resilience.
- citydao.network (Telegram) – Networking hub for members or aspiring builders of local city DAOs.
- Crypto Commons Association (crypto-commons.org) – A think/do tank in the Austrian Alps for crypto-commons, post-capitalist tech, and open knowledge.
- Ekonavi (ekonavi.com) – A community platform connecting agriculture, ecological activities, and bio-construction in Brazil and beyond.
- Ethereum Everywhere (Ethereum Foundation) – EF initiative supporting community hubs and local Ethereum ecosystems worldwide; physical spaces for co-working, events, and collaboration.
- greenpill.network – A network working to export regenerative digital infrastructure through the lens of the green pill meme.
- Regens Unite (regensunite.earth) – Immersive gatherings around regeneration, coordination, and trust.
Decentralized Tech Stack
Protocols and infrastructures beyond Ethereum that share localist values — peer-to-peer, community-run, no single point of failure. Complementary stacks you may encounter or integrate with.
- Althea (althea.net) – Decentralized mesh networking and community-owned broadband, with micropayments between routers so anyone can buy or sell connectivity peer-to-peer.
- Citizen Wallet (citizenwallet.xyz) – A mobile wallet designed for community currencies and local networks, enabling simple, accessible participation in Ethereum-based systems.
- Grassroots Economics (Sarafu Network) (grassrootseconomics.org) – Commitment pooling and community currency infrastructure rooted in indigenous coordination practices, blockchain-supported but locally governed.
- Green Goods (greengoods.app) – A mobile first tool that helps local communities document, verify, and fund their positive impact. Build by Greenpill Dev Guild.
- Holochain (holochain.org) – Agent-centric, DHT-based peer-to-peer framework for community currencies, mutual credit, and local-first apps like Neighbourhoods.
- Hypercerts (hypercerts.org) – Protocol for funding and rewarding impact; powers impact markets like Gitcoin and Funding the Commons.
- IPFS (ipfs.tech) – Content-addressed, distributed file storage for hosting open design libraries, governance documents, and knowledge commons without centralized servers.
- Logos (logos.co) – An open-source stack (with place-based chapters) for decentralized messaging, storage, and coordination, built to enable resilient, peer-to-peer networks.
- Open Source Ecology (opensourceecology.org) – Open-source blueprints for essential industrial machines—a global design commons enabling localized physical production.
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called." - Buckminster Fuller
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