What tools do we have to build decentralised governance systems now? What examples are there of them in action? And how can we conceptualise and build them? — Right now, in 2021, the tools available to build decentralised systems with democratic “on-chain” governance capabilities are very real, very awesome, and are in practice and working effectively (here is an example). Communities are making decisions on using voting, councils, referenda, and treasury proposal decisions. They are self-governing in a…

Tech companies What we learned about tech companies is that they can scale internationally, therefore network effects can be selected as a higher metric to optimise for than revenue would be. Many companies have raised money and have been valued based on their pursuit to monopolise an entire global market. The way…

In this quick how to we are going to send funds securely by signing a transaction from an “air-gapped” wallet. — Our aim is to send funds in a much more secure way than using a “hot” wallet… How can you send funds from a wallet that is not online you might be asking? The initial thought can be perplexing. But in this quick how-to you will understand the process. It…

This post should get you through the workflow of making a runtime upgrade for your parachain. — First you need to have a running parachain on a local or live testnet of some kind. The chain needs to be producing blocks, and you need to have the sudo key of the chain. Bump version and compile Make sure to bump up the relevant version in your `runtime/src/lib.rs` file, if its a…

Value distinctions for how we approach designing new systems with blockchain — In this short post, we share some value distinctions for how we go about designing our (multi-chain) systems, and building our new public infrastructure, or “network publics” as we like to call it. We find it most valuable of our time and energy to put our attention on building new parallel systems, rather than finding ways to improve the current, very centralised order. We can elaborate the many reasons for this in other posts, but a question that encapsulates what motivates me is…

This post will guide you through the stage where you have a rococo style relay chain and you want other validators to connect with you. Here we will show you how you can set up new validators of a substrate relay rococo style relay chain. — This post assumes you understand how to create your chain-spec.json correctly, and can launch a chain (in our case a “Live” staging relay chain) that can produce and finalize blocks.

An excerpt from a transcript with Gary Douglas from Access Consciousness, showing people how to choose from an energetic awareness. — Gary: We use belief instead of awareness. Every time you are trying to use belief in something, you are trying to cut off awareness. This is where you have to practice. You have to ask: “Am I doing belief or am I doing awareness?” “Oh, belief! How cool is that…