edge city (@JoinEdgeCity) published a request for experiments for edge esmeralda '26 !! doubling down on structured experiments designed for real-world implementation is something we've been hoping the space would lean more into, and is also what we work on. a few from the list that stand out for me: - liquid democracy. delegate your vote to people you trust on village decisions. - quadratic funding. the community allocates real capital using quadratic mechanisms. - prediction markets vs. committees for resource allocation. - privacy-preserving governance without exposing personal data. - agent-to-agent negotiation. AI agents coordinate shared resources with no humans in the loop. - stablecoin-native commerce across the village economy. - a community currency for the month. - scaling up last year's solar-powered datacenter. (the full list link below also covers health, longevity, consciousness, art, urbanism, and education)

Since last November, Denisa and I have been running a mixed-methods research initiative on pop-up cities, network states, and other intentional communities, tracking patterns across cases to improve their operating models.