GreenPill

New @greenpillnet pod out today!
Welcome to Greenpill IRL, a new season spotlighting three years of Green Pill Network development and the people carrying it forward.
In Episode 1, "Building a Coordi-Nation," Kevin Owocki sits down with Matt (Matty Compost) and Afolabi, two stewards of the Green Pill Network, to look back at how the movement grew from a meme and a book into a network of local chapters, and where it goes as we head into 2027.
Matt & Afolabi share how they found Green Pill and what chapters are building, from Regen Rio funding 21 local projects in Brazil to GreenSofa in Taiwan, Water Cup in Nigeria and air-quality sensors in Koh Phangan. They also take an honest look at what worked and what didn't: grant funding drying up, burnout, coordinating across time zones, and the loss of Izzy, whose vision lives on through Tech & Sun, a solar hub giving students in Awka, Nigeria reliable internet and energy.
Afolabi walks through Green Goods, Matt shares the Regen Knowledge Commons and the case for "boring" endowment-style structures, and Kevin closes with an updated thesis: right relationship with technology, with a more cosmolocal focus.
In this episode:
How Matt and Afolabi found Green Pill
What local chapters are building around the world
What binds the network together
Lessons from building a decentralized regen movement
Remembering Izzy and the Tech & Sun hub
The Regen Knowledge Commons
Green Goods: needs, promises, verified work and funding in one loop
Why the space needs more endowment-style structures
Kevin's revised thesis and a cosmolocal future
Find a local chapter, get involved and help shape what Green Pill becomes next. 
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
https://greenpill.network 
https://techandsun.com 
https://greengoods.app 
https://regencommons.com 
https://hub.regencoordination.xyz 
https://github.com/regen-coordination 
https://x.com/owocki 
https://x.com/mattycompost 
https://x.com/time_is_oba 
https://x.com/greenpillnet 
https://gitcoin.co 
Timestamps
00:00 — Introduction to the Green Pill Network
01:00 — How Matt and Afolabi found Green Pill
02:40 — What is greenpill.network?
05:30 — A tour of the local chapters
06:30 — Green Pill NYC: Gardens and Octant vaults
07:50 — What chapters are building worldwide
10:45 — What ties the network together
12:25 — Stewards Syncs and the Greenpill Garden
14:50 — Building the network's onboarding
15:55 — The Greenpilled book and pro-social crypto culture
17:20 — AI, burnout and the end of easy grant money
18:15 — What worked and what didn't
22:20 — Losing Izzy and keeping the network alive
25:00 — Tech & Sun: a solar hub in Nigeria
27:15 — Regen Knowledge Commons
29:30 — Regen Commons and knowledge sovereignty
32:40 — Passive knowledge sharing with local AI
35:35 — Green Goods: origins and evolution
37:00 — Gardens and local endowments
38:00 — Closing the full loop
39:20 — What's next for the Green Pill Network
40:40 — Stewardship, accounting and curation
42:00 — The case for endowment-style structures
44:25 — Kevin on rebuilding Gitcoin and techne
46:20 — A cosmolocal future for Green Pill
47:40 — Wrap-up and how to get involved
Subscribe to the podcast here https://pod.link/1609313639 
https://greenpill.network/

New @greenpillnet special season out now! 🌐
This guest season is by Akseli Virtanen, Jorge López and Jonathan Beller of the Economic Space Agency. The first episode kicks off Economic Media: A Laboratory, a new Greenpill mini-series exploring how protocols, ledgers, AI agents and computational systems are becoming the media through which economic coordination is recorded, interpreted and governed.
They ask what changes if the economy is itself a medium: how screens and platforms turned meaning-making into value extraction, why accounting has a grammar of its own, and why blockchain distributed computation without distributing economic agency. Who gets to define an asset, recognize a contribution or change a network's rules, and what would it take for care, community priorities and long-excluded people to count?
Along the way they discuss whether the economy is a medium at all, or an ecology of media, and close on why the series is a laboratory rather than a run of interviews: an experimental, interdisciplinary space for building economic literacy and new practices.
For more detailed field notes on this episode, visit https://ecsa.io/?L=2.podcast,4.e01-introducing-the-laboratory
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
- Digital Colonialism, a panel at the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center (April 21, 2026): https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/digital-colonialism/ (video: https://vimeo.com/1185587529)
- The Evolution of Economic Computation, from the Economic Space Agency: https://ecsa.io/?L=3.thesis,4.evolution-of-economic-computation-v2,4.evolution-of-networks-table
🌐 https://economicspace.agency
 | https://greenpill.network
🌐 Timestamps
00:00 – Introducing the Economic Media Laboratory and its hosts
01:02 – Kevin Owocki introduces the Economic Space Agency and post-AGI economics
02:47 – What if the economy is a medium?
03:58 – Jonathan Beller: from industrial labor to attention and screen-based extraction
05:20 – Jorge López: technology ownership, authority, and economic power
07:05 – Technology, social struggle, and the extraction of everyday life
10:30 – Computational networks, expressive fluency, and the distribution of power
12:03 – LLMs make programmability accessible to more people
14:03 – AI, digital colonialism, and contested technological futures
15:49 – AI capabilities versus economic intelligence: what economic media make possible
18:23 – Meaning-making and the hidden economic protocol layer
20:02 – Accounting and media: how grammars organize meaning
23:00 – Economic literacy and the asymmetry between users and corporations
24:47 – Accounting as a network of records and mutually recognized changes
26:01 – Accounting's syntax, semantics, and unexplored expressivity
27:59 – From shared economic memory to capitalism's growth rule
31:51 – Mapping capital's source code: intervention, extraction, and economic rule-making
34:46 – Paper-era constraints and the compression of value into money
37:56 – Accounting's efficiency, historical violence, and excluded realities
40:15 – From bookkeeping to blockchain: what changed and what persisted
43:08 – Bitcoin's limited expressivity, capital markets, and social goals
47:52 – Distributed computation versus distributed economic protocols
48:50 – Currencies as bets on futures: funding alternative possibilities
50:28 – What does economic agency mean?
52:26 – Redefining assets and recognizing care and plural values
54:05 – Social media rewards and control over what a network recognizes
58:35 – A disagreement: economy as a medium or a media ecology?
01:00:12 – Changing economic agents, events, resources, and their relations
01:02:22 – Recognition, sovereignty, and communities defining their own value
01:04:18 – Why a laboratory: experimentation, practices, and economic literacy
01:07:14 – Xerox PARC as a model for exploring a new medium
01:08:59 – Interdisciplinary inquiry and listening beyond disciplinary biases
01:10:16 – Disagreement, partial knowledge, and the fields needed for future inquiry
01:14:16 – Translation into code, economic literacy, and agency from the edges
01:15:16 – Closing and continuing in episode two

New @greenpillnet pod out today!
In this episode of the Green Pill Podcast, Griff Green returns to discuss Round 2 of the DAO Security Fund a new approach to funding and coordinating security initiatives across the Ethereum ecosystem.
Griff explains what the first round revealed about the Ethereum security landscape, why Round 2 is designed to go deeper rather than wider, and how the DAO Security Fund aims to become a Schelling point for security funding coordination.
The conversation covers quadratic funding, security initiatives, RFPs, grants, milestone-based funding, market adoption, formal verification, operational security, bug bounties, and the role AI could play in making Ethereum more secure.
Griff also shares his vision for the DAO Security Fund: making Ethereum safer than banks by building shared infrastructure and moving the ecosystem from a reactive security posture to a proactive one.
In this episode:
- The results of DAO Security Fund Round 1
- What changes in Round 2
- How the new funding mechanism works
- Grants vs. RFPs
- Why market participation matters
- Funding Ethereum's shared security infrastructure
- Formal verification and compiler security
- The economics of collective security
- Why Ethereum needs to stop funding hackers
- Moving from reactive to proactive security
- AI and the future of Ethereum security
- The role of DAOs and collective action
- How you can propose a security initiative
If you're an Ethereum security researcher, builder, company, or community member, Griff's message is simple: bring forward the security problems you want to see solved, and help the ecosystem fund them together.
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
https://x.com/Giveth/status/2036815581685350671?s=20 
https://x.com/griffgreen 
https://x.com/Giveth 
https://x.com/thedaofund 
https://thedao.fund 
https://gitcoin.co
Timestamps
00:00 — Introduction & Griff Green's Ethereum journey
01:36 — TheDAO Security Fund Round 1: What worked and what they learned
03:49 — From broad funding to deeper security initiatives
04:58 — How Round 2 works: Initiatives, multisigs & ecosystem funding
07:20 — Security Badge holders, rankings & the funding process
09:47 — Grants vs. RFPs and milestone-based funding
20:01 — Why security needs better market coordination
22:24 — Formal verification and the case for funding shared infrastructure
24:22 — The apartment-building analogy: Why collective security makes sense
25:45 — Why Ethereum needs to stop funding hackers
27:31 — Griff's goal: Making Ethereum safer than banks
29:13 — Moving Ethereum security from reactive to proactive
30:38 — Why coordinated security spending can save everyone money
30:44 — Lightning Round: Incentives & public goods
31:28 — Quadratic funding & participatory budgeting
32:02 — Are DAOs making a comeback?
32:37 — AI, robotics & the future of DAOs
34:11 — The most overrated crypto trend: TradFi in crypto
36:01 — How to get involved with TheDAO Security Fund
38:17 — Wrap-up & where to learn more
Subscribe to the podcast here  https://pod.link/1609313639 
https://greenpill.network/

New @greenpillnet pod out today!
In this episode, Kevin Owocki sits down with Matthew Monahan (Ma Earth) and Holke Brammer (Hypercerts Foundation) to discuss a bold new experiment: a $1 million Quadratic Funding round designed to bring public goods funding beyond the crypto ecosystem.
After years of learning from Gitcoin Grants, the conversation explores what comes next. How can communities fund local regeneration? How do Hypercerts create measurable impact? And what does it take to make coordination mechanisms accessible to everyday people not just Web3 natives?
Together, they unpack the lessons from Ethereum, the future of regenerative funding, and why building open infrastructure matters more than ever.
Topics covered:
The $1M Ma Earth Quadratic Funding round
Lessons learned from Gitcoin Grants
Bringing Quadratic Funding to local communities
Hypercerts and impact verification
Public goods beyond crypto
Open infrastructure and regenerative finance
Ethereum's role in the next generation of coordination
AI, collective intelligence, and future collaboration
The core idea:
Better coordination creates better communities.
Quadratic Funding and Hypercerts aren't just crypto experiments they're tools for building a more collaborative future.
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:

Ma Earth -  https://maearth.com 
Hypercerts -  https://hypercerts.org 
Certified - https://certified.app 
Hypercerts Docs - https://docs.hypercerts.org 
Gitcoin - https://gitcoin.co 
Greenpill Network - https://greenpill.network 
Follow Matthew Monahan - https://x.com/matthewmonahan 
Follow Holke Brammer -  https://x.com/holkexyz 
https://bsky.app/profile/holke.xyz 
Donate to the Ma Earth Quadratic Funding Round (July 1–21, 2026)
https://maearth.com 

Timestamps 
00:00 – Introduction & why this conversation matters
01:34 – Meet Matthew Monahan & Holke Brammer
04:17 – The $1M Ma Earth Quadratic Funding round
05:53 – How the funding round works
07:24 – Why Quadratic Funding still matters
09:04 – Lessons from Gitcoin Grants
10:37 – Hypercerts explained
13:56 – Measuring real-world impact with Hypercerts
16:44 – Why blockchain matters for public goods
19:49 – Ethereum's influence on the project
22:14 – Building beyond the crypto ecosystem
24:24 – Public goods, regeneration & systems change
26:52 – The future of regenerative funding
28:02 – Why the team remains bullish on Ethereum
30:08 – What success looks like in the next decade
33:02 – AI, coordination & the future of collaboration
35:30 – Finding builders and growing the ecosystem
38:01 – Final reflections & call to action
39:52 – Closing remarks

In this episode, Michael explores one of the most overlooked risks in crypto today:
Are stablecoins actually safe?
As billions flow into stablecoins, most users don't realize the hidden layers of risk from custodians and intermediaries to complex yield strategies happening behind the scenes.
This conversation breaks down the difference between centralized vs decentralized stablecoins, and why that distinction matters more than ever.
From early Ethereum days to building in DeFi, Michael shares how crypto unlocks true financial sovereignty giving individuals the ability to opt out of fragile systems.
Topics covered:
• What inspired Michael to build in Ethereum
• Peer-to-peer finance & financial sovereignty
• What "resilience" and "anti-fragility" really mean
• Stablecoins explained (simple breakdown)
• Centralized vs decentralized stablecoins
• Hidden risks in yield farming ("trust me bro" zone)
• Why your stablecoin is "traveling" behind the scenes
• Counterparty risk vs code-based trust
• Silicon Valley Bank & real-world failures
• Why optionality is the key to financial freedom
• Liquity, BOLD & decentralized stablecoin design
• The future of money, regulation & crypto systems
The core idea:
Not all dollars are equal.
Not all stablecoins are safe.
If you don't understand where your money is going,
you're taking risks you didn't sign up for.
Greenpill isn't just about building new systems.
It's about building systems you can actually trust.
greenpill.network
vdao.org
https://x.com/JoinVDAO
https://x.com/greenpillnet
https://x.com/svobodamichael
https://x.com/LiquityProtocol
Timestamps 
00:00 – Introduction
00:11 – Michael's "why" & discovering Ethereum
01:36 – Peer-to-peer finance & removing intermediaries
02:29 – Journey into crypto & early DAO era
03:31 – Early crypto vs traditional finance mindset
04:22 – Ethereum community & early DeFi innovation
05:28 – Resilience, sovereignty & optionality
08:27 – Why financial independence matters
10:16 – Introduction to stablecoins
10:58 – What is a stablecoin (simple explanation)
12:00 – Centralized vs decentralized stablecoins
13:25 – The "trust me bro" risk zone
14:09 – On-chain vs off-chain backing explained
15:04 – Why decentralization matters in stablecoins
16:28 – Stablecoins for payments vs savings
17:04 – Risk comparison: CeFi vs DeFi
19:17 – Sovereignty, control & censorship resistance
21:05 – Why most stablecoins don't give real claims
21:29 – Human systems vs code-based systems
21:56 – Risks in centralized finance (SVB example)
23:05 – Optionality & monetary systems
25:25 – Regulatory risks & future scenarios
26:58 – Why decentralized stablecoins matter
27:47 – Pegging to the dollar explained
30:39 – Scalability limits of crypto-backed stablecoins
31:24 – Stablecoins as "last resort" money
32:12 – Risk & resilience in DeFi systems
33:14 – How to earn yield on stablecoins
35:39 – The "journey" your stablecoin takes
37:46 – Why chasing yield increases risk
38:32 – Terra Luna & unsustainable yields
39:48 – Where yield actually comes from
40:20 – Risk vs reward in DeFi
42:45 – Regulation vs code-based trust
43:11 – Understanding hidden dependencies
44:19 – Rehypothecation & hidden risks
47:34 – Who should use decentralized stablecoins
49:00 – Network states & financial systems
50:23 – Why stablecoin adoption is hard
52:38 – The idea of an "Ethereum-native dollar"
53:48 – Future of stablecoins & regulation
56:43 – Risks of over-regulation
59:08 – Why decentralized systems need support
01:00:03 – Stablecoins & Ethereum security
01:00:58 – Why this matters for Ethereum's future
01:01:46 – Aligning with crypto values
01:03:40 – The need for stronger community voice
01:05:24 – Final thoughts & closing