Joining Nation3 DAO
January 1st, 2023
Joining Nation3 DAO Solar guild
Towards the future of human digital sovereignty.
- Primarily in a Product role, leading the user side implementation and front-end + design system of the protocol and ecosystem.
- Abstracting the primitive aspects of the future protocol into a usable Web3 product for each of the stakeholders.
- Building the foundation of a public Design System of the products ecosystem.
- Focus on deliver > perfection.
After a series of personal and professional shifts that took me back a decade or more, I am joining Nation3 DAO as part of the team that will be called SolarGuild. SolarGuild is a small group curated from inside the DAO to push its main goal forward: building a real implementation of the ideas behind what Balaji (@balajis) called the Network State.
The team is led by Luis Cuende, Anastasiya and 0xGallego, the people who have been pushing this from the start, especially on how to actually implement it.
Why this one
This idea hits me from both sides, research and real application. It connects directly with the work on the future of cities I have been doing for more than eight years, Grid Housing, born from my architecture thesis.
Grid Housing explores how blockchain could help reinvent and democratize what we call cities today. In that work we talk about "global exchangers": cities that, because of their location and their cultural evolution, are more and more detached from the country around them. They drift so far socially and politically from the countries that host them that we need new words to explain how they behave. Does New York have more in common with London than with the rest of the United States? Probably.
They are building economic, cultural and social cores so distinctive that people already call them city states. And there is plenty of research on how these cores grow, their density, their footprint, their activity.
Micronations
The city state is not a new idea, it exists. And there have been many individual and collective attempts to create sovereign states from scratch, the so called micronations. They have been studied, tried and failed for centuries, and they were part of my own research too. Each one has a wonderful, sometimes completely crazy story. Go read about them: micronations.
Rebuilding a state from the bottom
What Nation3 does is question state sovereignty as we know it and let imagination run on how a future state could be structured. Use as much technology as possible to get to a model that is as horizontal as possible, with power closer to the individual. What is a state? How are its pillars, executive, legislative and judicial, founded? And from there, rebuild from the bottom.
That includes a new Constitution (IPFS) and a new way of representing legal text where definitions can be inherited, an evolutionary primitive for law: LinkedMD.
First goal, and the one our team starts with: the core base layer, the legal jurisdiction of Nation3.
Special Economic Zones
The long term idea is to end up with a Special Economic Zone: an agreement with an existing country to create a zone governed by its own legal autonomy. Land. Because a jurisdiction that never touches the ground stays a protocol.
This plan resonates with me deeply. It's half revolutionary, half state of the art, half research, half digital product, many wonderful halves of a unique project.
It is long term, and it delivers to the future.
Looking forward to it! 🚀 ❇️