Ethereal Forest

We are a Portland, Oregon based workgroup focused on localist applications of the decentralized web

Our mission is to identify interventions that might be made using tools and strategies from the DLT and p2p toolkit to help make the city a more open, pluralistic and peaceful place. This synergy between global peer production strategies and local implementation has been called cosmo-localism(opens in a new tab).

Our work takes the form of three main fronts, research, discovery and place-making. The team researches exotic social and economic forms that may embody or resonate with the web3 toolkit, discovers examples of and use cases for those social and economic technologies, and builds community and infrastructure to support those experiments.

We are a champion of localism and hope to build out infrastructure to reflect the shared insights of localist, regenerative economic thinking and the decentralized web space. It's under this shared insight that we emphasize principles of autonomy and fair self-determination, decentralization as a sustainability measure, financial pluralism and commons-oriented economics.

A General Forum on Ethereum Localism 2023