Network States

Network States

Discuss network states and startup societies

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GM builders Just dropped a new piece on what I'm calling "The Governance Stack." It reframes the nation-state as a legacy OS and outlines a composable, forkable model for its replacement. Think of it as a Schelling Point for those of us actually building the components of new societies: https://embassy.svit.la/p/governance-stack

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the state's monopoly on governance is over. the multi-trillion dollar market for sovereignty is finally open for investment. the proof is in the data: the "Trust Recession" is a quantifiable market failure. when 44% of OECD citizens distrust their state, it creates a vacuum. this vacuum is the single greatest market opportunity of our lifetime. capital will flow to new systems. this is the thesis.

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Home is a protocol. It’s a set of rules, interfaces, and agreements that provide security and opportunity. The crucial question is, who do you trust to write the code for your protocol?

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Solid lineup of recent network state videos by @balajis.eth with saylor, vitalik, jcal, hemanthM, etc. Gives so much new perspective and clarity

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Big thing incoming. My DMs are open to anyone interested in organizing core side events that will help the Startup Societies and emerging Network States movement grow.

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Come to Singapore on October 3. ns.com/conference2025

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A 17-year-old doesn’t get into Stanford. So she builds a nation instead. A short film about how today’s youth are learning to found the civilizations of tomorrow — @balajis.eth’ Network School. 🎥 RunwayML HiggfieldAI Pika Labs 🎵 Music: Suno 🎙️ Audio: ElevenLabs

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@zachharris.eth

The biggest risk for insufficiently decentralized architectural dependencies is you are subject to a company and shareholders whims regardless of the net benefit to you This is why I’m pretty bullish on $tao

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Those of you who want to go to Network School (or a similar popup city) but haven’t gone, why not? Would you be able to attend a smaller scale or US-based gathering of network-minded people?

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I think this observation is actually way more profound than many of the replies get at, and it’s worth taking a moment to think about how all interfaces should work in a world where AI is the end-user. It’s very obvious on the web that rather than navigating around a flashy web app, there will be more APIs, CLIs, and now MCP servers for the AI to leverage but the evolution of this in the real world is just as fascinating IMO in a world with abundant AI that’s with you at all times (think meta raybans 10 years from now), the entire environment will have to be retrofit for AI-legibility way more JSON, QR codes, and sensors tastefully embedded everywhere- hidden from human perception, but constantly exchanging data and informing the on-device copilot. The lived environment becoming an API you read/write to as you go about your day. I could see initial network states taking this concept and running wild with it https://x.com/karpathy/status/1943411187296686448?s=46

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@zachharris.eth

DeFi → CeFi CBDC didn’t work in America. Why will it be different down under? @benbodhi you have opines? @pjc or @joanwestenberg.eth how do the libertarian neighbors feel about this? Is the ethos of this vibe shift a leading indicator for the swing from self custody to qualified custody? Who do you trust with your bags?

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TIL theres commercial hotels in Antartica and all i can think is who is building the Antartica network state/society

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@degencummunist.eth

Which one of you network statooors is trying to work on developing New Gaza? https://youtu.be/XzCthQJxgAg?si=5rGtEmzZgUqkPx3q

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@zachharris.eth

@balajis.eth and @ted do raise a great point. What if users started to demand qDAU metrics, not just for users, but also for time spent around healthy content and unhealthy content … Quality time spent is a big missing north star metric across the board As a dad, my mental model is PBS Kids (edutainment) > Cocomelon (mk ultra singalong crack). As a user, I see Farcaster > X, because my cup is always filled here and always feels drained there Our global mental health is part reflection of positivity bias or negativity bias. Unfortunately, very few people actually use the Screen Time limits on their phones, touch grass, enjoy real dopamine hits, and there's a lot of perverse incentives around synthetic dopamine hits and the celebration of being terminally online. We often bow to false prophets. A lot of traditional social media preys on negativity bias because ad models requires more page views and that sort of engagement creates this needed supply (to monetize more eyeballs). I say, fuck that shit.

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Thinking about it now, I wonder if we actually have to bring about network states (or at least new economic jurisdictions) in which we can experiment with different administratively legal tooling for real estate, supply chain, and all the other facets of society blockchain can improve *before* we can actually proliferate the tech worldwide to disrupt this world of middlemen we have.

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