Network Nations Ep:1- Building Trust at Scale — A New Season with Primavera & Felix Beer
Release Date: 10/24/2025
NN Ep:14 - Networked Diasporas: The Case of SeeDAO with Helena Rong
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, host Felix Beer is joined by Helena Rong, Assistant Professor at New York University Shanghai, to explore SeeDAO as a real-world case study of a proto Network Nation. They unpack how SeeDAO evolved from a Web3 startup into a translocal, diasporic community rooted in Daoist philosophy, kinship, and the pursuit of a “good life.” The conversation dives into co-presence, emergence, non-coercive governance, social ledgers, on-chain identity, and how SeeDAO blends digital infrastructure with physical...
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NN Ep:13 - Intentional Communities & New Jurisdictions with Jessy Kate Schingler
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi is joined by Jessy Kate Schingler, co-founder of the Embassy Network, to explore how intentional communities and new jurisdictions can give Network Nations real-world grounding. Jessy shares lessons from over a decade of building translocal co-living communities, explains why the Embassy Network thought of its spaces as “embassies to the future,” and how identity, culture, and entanglement emerge without formal membership rules. The conversation then turns to jurisdictional...
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NN Ep:12 From politics to protocols to protocol politics with Santiago Siri
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In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi speak with Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth, DemocracyOS, and Proof of Humanity, to explore a central question of the digital age: Can we escape politics with protocols or do protocols simply create new political arenas? Santiago shares his journey from building Argentina’s internet political party Partido de la Red, to creating open-source democratic infrastructure, to running one of the most ambitious on-chain identity and governance experiments in Web3. They discuss identity as the core bottleneck of digital...
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NN Ep:11 Let a Thousand Societies Bloom with Vitalik Buterin
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer are joined by Vitalik Buterin to reflect on one of the most influential experiments in recent community-building history: Zuzalu. Vitalik shares the motivations behind Zuzalu, what actually worked (and what didn’t), and why many pop-up cities risk drifting into “long conferences” instead of becoming real communities. Together they explore kinship vs telos, culture vs mission, permanence vs mobility, governance by forking, and how zones, tribes, and regulatory...
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NN Ep:10 Burning Man: Seeding a Network Nation
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi explore one of the most influential community experiments of the last 40 years: Burning Man. They’re joined by Erika Blair, who leads engagement and network strategy at Burning Man, to unpack how a one-week event in the Nevada desert evolved into a global, year-round network of communities bound not by territory, but by shared principles, rituals, and identity. The conversation dives into the origins of Burning Man, the emergence of the 10 Principles, regional burns around the...
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S.10 Ep.8 Hyperstitions: How Beliefs Become Reality in Networked Systems with Jake Hartnell
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki sits down with Jake Hartnell reality engineer, builder, and the mind behind ENOVA to explore the idea of hyperstitions: beliefs and narratives that become real by spreading through networks. Jake explains how hyperstitions operate as a new coordination primitive, why technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and AGI can be seen as successful hyperstitions, and how tools like hyperstition markets blend prediction markets, incentives, and storytelling to drive collective action. They discuss ENOVA, egregores,...
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S.10 Ep.7 Prosperous Software: Rethinking Open Source Funding Through Licensing
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki talks with Raymond Cheng software engineer, researcher, and co-founder of Open Source Observer — about the Prosperous Software Movement and why open source licensing needs to evolve. Raymond explains how today’s open source economy underfunds its own foundations, why existing licenses fail to reflect modern financial realities, and how a new class of revenue-sharing licenses could sustainably fund open source dependencies. They explore the history of free software, the limits of voluntary public...
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NN Ep:9 A New Political Landscape in the Digital Age with Nick Srnicek & Sofia Cossar
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, host Felix Beer is joined by Nick Srnicek (author of Platform Capitalism and Silicon Empires) and Sofia Cossar (BlockchainGov) to explore the emerging concept of Network Sovereignty. They unpack how power is shifting from nation-states to digital networks, why platforms now function like political infrastructures, and how algorithms, protocols, and platforms increasingly shape governance, speech, and economic life. The conversation examines platform empires, AI infrastructure, state power, civil society...
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VDAO Ep.6 Everyday Resilience Building Anti-Fragility in Suburbia with Gardner
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the VDAO × Greenpill Anti-Fragile Network States mini-series, host Kris Miller talks with Gardner, a tech founder exploring how local resilience and self-sovereignty can be built without going off-grid. Gardner shares his hands-on journey of transforming a suburban home into a more resilient system from rainwater harvesting and food forests to community reciprocity and mindset shifts. They discuss why resilience doesn’t mean bunkers or isolation, how small actions compound, and why investing in community, not fear, is the real...
info_outlineNew @greenpillnet season out now! 🌐
Hosted by Primavera De Filippi and Felix Beer, this episode kicks off a new Greenpill Mini-Series exploring Network Nations — translocal communities that use technology, shared culture, and bottom-up governance to organize beyond borders.
They discuss how Network Nations differ from Network States, the roots of this idea in commons-based governance, and how digital sovereignty, culture, and Web3 tools can empower civil society to act collectively across the world.
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🌐 Timestamps
00:00 – Cold start
01:05 – Welcome to the new season hosted by Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer
02:30 – What are Network Nations and why they matter
03:50 – Network Nations vs Network States: key differences
05:00 – Season formats: Deep Dives and Community Spotlights
06:00 – Origins of the Network Nations concept
07:40 – Early gatherings: Zuzalu, EdgeCity, and Emerge Lakefront
09:30 – Bridging theory and practice: researchers meet practitioners
11:30 – Defining Network Nations: translocal and interconnected communities
12:30 – The meaning of translocality: networks that empower local nodes
14:00 – From online groups to shared culture and identity
15:20 – Networks of networks: building community at scale
16:50 – Internal vs external purpose: culture and collective impact
18:00 – Collective action as a way to strengthen community
19:10 – Balancing scale and trust: connecting networks and communities
20:50 – Building trust-rich relationships across global networks
23:00 – Case study 1: Burning Man as a translocal culture
25:00 – Case study 2: Regen Network and regenerative coordination
27:00 – Comparing cultural and infrastructural approaches
28:30 – Cross-pollination between Web3 and social movements
29:15 – Why use the word “Nation” instead of “Community”?
30:40 – Reclaiming the term “Nation” beyond nationalism
32:00 – Detaching nations from states: a new political lens
33:20 – Functional sovereignty: autonomy without territory
34:00 – Balaji’s Network State model and its limitations
36:00 – The Network Nation’s non-territorial approach to governance
38:00 – Communities coexisting with states through functional sovereignty
40:00 – Sovereignty as a collective good, not a product
42:00 – The commons as a third path beyond market and state
44:00 – Overlapping sovereignties vs exit-based systems
46:00 – How Web3 enables distributed governance infrastructures
48:00 – Independence from big tech and value-biased algorithms
50:20 – Empowering civil society through translocal coordination
52:00 – Network Nations as a meta-political framework
54:00 – Diversifying global governance and emerging experiments
55:00 – Building the Network Nations Alliance and community platform
57:00 – Beyond Web3: connecting bioregional and intentional communities
59:00 – How to get involved: calls, Telegram, and collaboration
01:00:20 – Closing reflections: building the next generation of network-native institutions