A comprehensive guide to understanding, building, and managing alternative communities. From DAOs to Network States to Digital Nations - everything you need to navigate the evolving landscape.
Introduction to alternative communities, market overview, key definitions, and community types.
Implementation framework, governance models, economic systems, and technology stack.
Successful DAO case studies, Network State examples, Digital Nation analysis, and lessons learned.
The Alternative Communities Guide provides comprehensive frameworks, case studies, and implementation strategies for building successful alternative communities including DAOs, Network States, and Digital Nations.
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Eric Miki maps the next technological layers of society: network states, charter cities, pop-up cities and other new communities.
His current ventures are Cartographers, investment tours to new country projects, and NS Nodes, a hub and live map of network societies. More at ericmiki.com.
Alternative Communities is a guide to DAOs, network states, pop-up cities and digital nations, and how to navigate, join and invest in them.
It comes as the $5 Quick Start Booklet, a short introduction, and the Complete Guide: the 2025 edition at $50, and the new 2026 edition at $500 (coming soon). Compare editions.
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