Intro: Network States & Startup Societies - Austin
The Network State: Emerging mechanisms, models and paradigms for land ownership, community resilience, and freedom through liquidity.
“A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.” – The Network State - Balaji Srinivasan
In the face of growing social unrest, authoritarianism, economic manipulation, grid instability, and resource consolidation, we naturally look for solid ground to make our stand. Our capacity for resilience and deepest sense of sovereignty is rooted in the land we occupy, but generations of bureaucratic decay enabled by complacency and a steady digital decoupling from reality has diminished property rights, debased individual liberties, and delegitimized contemporary models of governance.
A newly invigorated global movement of “new earth” visionaries and builders, once limited to hippie communes of the ‘70s and cultish compounds of the ‘80s, is now forming digital communities with broad reach, advanced skillsets, and deep pockets. Dreams for ideological alignment, community ownership, member governance, decentralized finance, and independence from traditional societal constructs are merging with blockchain solutions and experimental protocols to create new neighborhoods, cities and even nations.
Are you freedom-curious? A remote worker or nomad-adjacent? Do you want to find a place to get away in nature, or looking to cross paths with low-key friends in low-key places? Are you thinking about new ways to govern, decentralized ways to invest, and sustainable ways to prosper?
Join us to meet others who are enjoying lifestyle liquidity, those who are building new models of society for the future, and visionaries who are guiding the movement forward. There is a global community forming, come share in the connectivity!