Ethereum Localism Book
Ethereum Localism reimagines Ethereum not as a disembodied financial protocol, but as an infrastructure for local connection, trust, and coordination. The book explores how onchain tools—from DAOs to allocation mechanisms—can support the needs of physical communities: neighborhoods, cities, cooperatives, and bioregions.
Rather than defaulting to global, placeless scaling, this AlloBook argues for grounding technology in lived experience and local context. It showcases examples of communities using Ethereum to allocate shared resources, steward commons, and fund local initiatives—with transparency, accountability, and collective input.
The book blends political theory, civic design, and practical tooling. It introduces mechanisms for participatory funding, localized DAOs, community rounds, and regenerative economic models rooted in specific geographies. It also surfaces the tensions: between protocol logic and cultural nuance, between digital abstraction and embodied place.
Whether you’re a city steward, local organizer, or Ethereum builder interested in civic infrastructure, Ethereum Localism offers both a vision and a toolkit for using Web3 to strengthen the commons where we live.