We build bridges between builders, researchers & funders transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
Transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
RealFi meets Argentina
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RealFi Hack: Virtual Hackathon
September 23 - October 16, 2025
Building the infrastructure for everyday use, everywhere.
Crypto's most impactful tools start with real-world problems: Sending money, building trust, unlocking access. RealFi is about building in that same spirit: grounded, usable, and ready for the world.
Builder Residency: Buenos Aires
October 24 – November 14, 2025
A co-living and collaboration program for builders, researchers, and system designers developing decentralized tools and infrastructure for the commons.
Set in Argentina and co-timed prior to Devconnect, the residency supports focused work, peer exchange, dedicated mentorship, and public visibility—giving builders the structure and network to accelerate their work. More details coming soon!
FtC Conference, DevConnect
November 19 · Location TBA
A conference on financial inclusion, public infrastructure, and systems built for real-world use—happening during the FtC, DevConnect week in Argentina.
Argentina’s builders are constructing resilience in real time—developing tools for payments, coordination, and governance in the face of inflation, capital controls, and institutional fragmentation.
Achievements
Growing the Network = More Commons Funded
13 Succesful Conferences
9 Countries
3 Continents
Appearances in other conferences
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
650M+ Connections
50+ Speakers
1000 + Attendees
5000 + Online Community Members
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
Conferences
Live events featuring high-potential projects, speakers, funders & workshop opportunities
Builder Residencies
Are you a builder or researcher working on public goods?
Explore this unique collective experience to propel your project forward. Our next residency in Buenos Aires Argentina includes:
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1-month co-living experience
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collaborative community workshops
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mentorship & peer-support
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connection & continuous education
Hackathons
To fuel innovation!
Organized to produce new public goods funding infrastructure for web3, and integrate existing public goods funding infrastructure.
Sponsor challenges, prizes, and mentorship to directly engage with hackathon participants
Collective expertise of partner organizations will be leveraged to support projects.
Existing public goods funding infrastructure will be leveraged to fund and incubate winning hackathon participants.
Community Love
Audrey Tang
Taiwan's Former Minister of Digital Innovation
What I really like about the Funding the Commons community is that people openly talk about failures—talking about issues that are instrumental, things that really didn’t work right. And so, this particular venue, Funding the Commons, brings together not just the visionaries but also the actual engineers that can make such visions even more feasible for the future generations.
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Aya Miyaguchi
Ethereum Foundation
This type of event is great because it brings not just experts of technology but also the conversations that can happen at the intersections of different expertise. […] It’s something that anyone can be a part of.
Al Smith
Tor Project
I started participating in Funding the Commons because I was looking for other ways to fund open-source software. We were running into these problems of sustainability at the Tor Project, and Funding the Commons was offering a completely new vision of what it looks like to fund something that's open and free.
Media Lab
Curious about public goods funding culture?
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Stay updated on news & culture of funding the commons
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Toolbox: Explore the best tools and mechanisms for your project
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Feature your work: Contact us to have your article, paper, or project featured.
Earth Commons
Check out our sister conference focused on the transformation of funding and governance of nature’s commons
Earth Commons was originally incubated as Sustainable Blockchain Summit from within the Filecoin Green Team at Protocol Labs as a conference series sitting at the nexus of Web3 and Climate.
Today, the Funding the Commons Team has inherited the conference series. We are building out an ecosystem focused on underscoring the systemic, interdependent changes necessary for progress in governing planetary commons, such as forests, fisheries, oceans, biodiversity, freshwater reservoirs, and other ecosystem services, by uniting the forces of Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, and industry.
Building a Better Tomorrow
We accelerate the development and implementation of blockchain-based infrastructure for public goods funding. By nurturing a diverse ecosystem across Web2, Web3, academia, public sector institutions, philanthropy and industry, we aim to cultivate the interdependent systemic changes necessary for better management of public goods.
We envision a world where human coordination at scale inherently prioritizes commons, with the brightest global talent focused on public good innovation, backed by robust impact evaluation systems, and sustained by continuous capital flows.
