Exploring the funding and governance of nature’s commons. Incubated by @FilecoinGreen @ProtocolLabs. 🌎

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What changes when climate insurance is built directly into a loan? In this episode of @Crypto_Altruism, our pilot partners break down what it actually takes to embed climate risk into credit, and what that unlocked for borrowers previously considered too risky. Listen: 🎧⬇️🎧
Climate shocks can create credit shocks for small businesses in vulnerable areas, & insurance is often out of reach ⛈️📉 In Ep 267 we explore how blockchain-based parametric insurance can help w/ @blockbima @Fortunecreditld @shambanetwork & RiskShield🎙️ cryptoaltruists.com/blog/cry… We discuss: 🌍 Their pilot in Kenya, supported by @MCSocialVenture, where climate insurance is embedded directly into microloans to help absorb credit shocks 🌧️ How blockchain is helping last-mile communities build financial and climate resilience, reaching people the traditional system has left behind 💡 How parametric insurance reduces the time and cost needed to deliver support to those impacted by climate shocks ⛓️ How blockchain-powered smart contracts and oracles are transforming traditional insurance into something cheaper, faster, and more people-friendly
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Our San Francisco Forum starts from a simple idea: the questions AI raises don't belong to one field, so the answers can't come from one either. Will you join us? 👇 Apply to speak: forms.gle/XmsYbz2W5YNPZvyP7 Register: luma.com/ftcforum-sf-2026
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Evolution doesn't select the most efficient organism; it selects the most robust. Biologist Olivier Hamant on why our hyper-optimized systems are fragile, and what robustness looks like instead. The Great Simplification w/ @NJHagens. piped.video/watch?v=Kzzr15cE…
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Early-bird tickets to the Funding the Commons Forum close this Sunday. On November 7-8, two hundred people gather in San Francisco to ask whether abundant intelligence ends up widely shared or narrowly held. Join us. 👇 luma.com/ftcforum-sf-2026
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Who's doing the most interesting work on the future of AI right now? Tag someone who should be in this room, in the Bay Area and beyond. 👇
If intelligence becomes abundant, what becomes precious? Come think it through with 200 researchers, builders, and funders in San Francisco this November. Talks, panels, fishbowls, and formats you invent. Apply to speak: forms.gle/ZVHNAgrA4UAjht5P9
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This year, Nvidia became worth more than Germany's entire economy. A few companies now hold more capital, compute, and reach than most countries. That means the decisions that used to belong to public institutions increasingly happen inside private ones: what rules a model follows, what billions of people see, which technologies get built next. But they answer to shareholders, not the public. Once our world runs on these systems, that setup is much harder to unwind, while the usual check, regulation, has been lagging behind. How did we solve for this before? Earlier eras built institutions to hold it: antitrust, public utilities, oversight. The AI age needs its own institutions, so answerability can be built into the systems. Think shared infrastructure, open models no single company holds, tools to audit them, and funding for public goods. Building that is our next frontier. On November 7 and 8, the Funding the Commons Forum brings two hundred researchers, engineers, policymakers, funders, and citizens to San Francisco to work on how power this large stays answerable. If you're building the models, mechanisms, or institutions this takes, come. Early-bird tickets close September 6. Join us: luma.com/ftcforum-sf-2026 Apply to speak: forms.gle/XmsYbz2W5YNPZvyP7
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If intelligence becomes abundant, what becomes precious? Come think it through with 200 researchers, builders, and funders in San Francisco this November. Talks, panels, fishbowls, and formats you invent. Apply to speak: forms.gle/ZVHNAgrA4UAjht5P9
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Finance is the biggest lever we have, and right now it is aimed at stripping the very systems all wealth depends on. Pointing it at regeneration instead is how a livable economy gets funded. re-generation.cc/en/longread…
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Will abundant intelligence become the widest shared inheritance in history, or the narrowest concentration of power ever assembled? On November 7-8, the Funding the Commons Forum comes to San Francisco. 200 researchers, engineers, policymakers, and funders, gathering to shape the answer.
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What a day in Zurich with @protocollabs_rd @FundingCommons and @ETH_AI_Center ! 🌱 On Wednesday we hosted our workshop on "Decision Sovereignty for Nature" and I'm still processing all the great conversations. Starting with a beautiful and engaging hike to Uetliberg, followed by intense and some of the best discussions ever at the ETH AI Center and a gorgeous dinner at sunset at the lake at AMERON. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us. Researchers, practitioners, funders and policy folks all in one room, wrestling with a hard question: who gets to decide for nature, and how can AI help without taking that decision power away from the communities and ecosystems it affects? The input was honest, sharp and generous. Together we are shaping the first draft of a declaration on decision sovereignty for nature, and that document only exists because of what each of you brought to the table. This is just the start. We'll carry the declaration forward to our next workshop at Columbia University in New York Climate Week, and ultimately to the UN Biodiversity COP17 in Armenia and COP31 in Turkey. Step by step, we want to turn Wednesday's ideas into something the world can actually use. If you were in the room: thank you. If you want to be part of what comes next: reach out, we'd love to have you. More soon on ai4pg.com 🌍 Thank you @milliechapma Kim and La Christa for co-organizing this event! With many friends such as @GainForestNow @GlowFND @humntech @hypercerts @maearthstudio @SimplexDNA and more
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In Zurich? Join us on Wednesday to put decision sovereignty for nature on paper 👇
Who decides how nature is valued and governed, when the deciding is done by AI built far from the ecosystems it affects? On July 22, we're hosting a workshop with @protocollabs at @ETH_AI_Center in Zurich to draft a joint declaration before COP17. luma.com/protocol-by21
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The systems we're building this decade will carry assumptions about human nature for a very long time. The question is whose. @Pericarus makes the case for Elinor Ostrom's 👇
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Who decides how nature is valued and governed, when the deciding is done by AI built far from the ecosystems it affects? On July 22, we're hosting a workshop with @protocollabs at @ETH_AI_Center in Zurich to draft a joint declaration before COP17. luma.com/protocol-by21
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Climate Innovation and Impact Projects on Epoch 12 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1DxLddMmP…
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Our new governance report is live. We gave six communities money, total freedom, and an AI that could spend it for them, then watched how they chose to govern. A field study in AI-assisted governance, with @protocollabs @GainForestNow @OctantApp @hypercerts 👇
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, fund the commons.
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Thanks to @maearthstudio for joining us for today's town hall! 🌱 A great session with @SophiaRokhlin & @bitbeckers on funding ecological regeneration and the open stack making it possible. Community donations for their next round open July 1, with a $500K matching pool.🙌
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The best part of any town hall is the people in it. 🌱 Today, 10am ET with @maearthstudio: what funding ecological regeneration takes, how they built for it, and breakouts where you meet others in the space. luma.com/townhall-maearth
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Happening tomorrow! 🌱
For our next Town Hall, we're joined by @maearthstudio. Their third quadratic funding round is launching this summer, with a $500K matching pool for community-led land and nature projects worldwide. 🌍 Come chat regeneration with us. June 2, 12pm ET luma.com/townhall-maearth
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Are you stewarding land? 🌱 Restoring watersheds, growing food, protecting biodiversity, building resilient ecosystems... 🧵
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