Research Objectives and Findings from Kolektivo’s First Collective On-site in Curaçao — Curaçao is an island nation located in the southern Caribbean. It houses close to 160,000 humans and thousands of other species on its 444 km2 — hundreds of which are rare and endemic. The island is especially biodiverse, rimmed by fossilized coral reefs and fringed by mangroves. …

Towards a Critical Yet Constructive Dialogue — Cryptocurrencies and Web3 are critical scapegoats for many — framed as overcomplicated vessels that rebrand an internet that does not need their benefits. Many critics allege that blockchains are a step back: they simply replicate traditional power structures and preserve structural inequalities. …

A Living Classification for Natural Capital Assets — “The only good classification is a living classification.” ― Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences Ecosystems were conceptualized in the 1930s by British ecologist A.G. Tansley as “a particular category of physical systems, consisting of organisms and inorganic components in a relatively…

🌱 Understand our design approach to incentivizing a rich, sovereign data commons — Distributed data markets appeal to the principles of a free and dignified society. Creating a transparent alternative to the monopolistic data hoarding models of today would lead to a more equitable overall economy and a democratization of price discovery across long-tail assets. We believe these outcomes require an ecological perspective…