Ipê News #35 is out! 🙌
This week we're sharing:
- Frontier Tower, a self-governed vertical village in San Francisco for AI, crypto, biotech, and longevity teams, positioning itself as the first node in a global mesh of community-run spaces,
@frontiertower
- ETH NS launches a genesis month at Network School in Malaysia, a permanent Ethereum residency built around five tracks: dAI, dData, dApps, Art & Culture, and Privacy
- The Canton Principle: how Swiss subsidiarity, where Cantons hold power first and lend it up, maps onto Houses, guilds, and network societies that scale without central bottlenecks
- Ipê Village Week 3: Artizen House takes over Privacy House's block; workshops covered coercion-resistant onchain voting (
@vocdoni), the KYA (Know Your Agent) framework for verifying humans and AI agents, and operational agent workflows with Claude
- Brazil's Q1 crypto surge: $6.9B in cross-border crypto purchases, 98% stablecoins, operating as a parallel dollar rail outside the fiat tax regime
- India stands up AIGEG, a single ministerial body to coordinate national AI policy with sectoral regulators at arm's length and "Innovation over Restraint" as a guiding principle
Other interesting news: PerturbAI releases an 8M-cell in vivo CRISPR atlas with
@nvidia and 10x Genomics; Singapore crosses 500 daily-updated geospatial datasets with open API access;
@Wikimedia and
@OKFN push to classify open knowledge as critical digital infrastructure.
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