Monty Merlin Bryant 🧙✨

🌱 Powering Regenerative Local Economies with Web3 How can local communities use blockchain tools to strengthen local economies? From local funding rounds, to ecological regeneration, to new ways of organizing and circulating value. Together, Ethereum Localism and Regen Coordination offer a compelling vision for a future of blockchain and peer-to-peer technologies. 🔷 What's up with @Ethereum? 🔷 Over the last decade, Ethereum has grown from a scrappy experiment into the second largest cryptocurrency in the world, with a vast ecosystem of apps, developers, and capital flowing through it. But after years of rapid growth and market hype, Ethereum is now at a crossroads. Amidst market volatility, geopolitical shifts, and increasing centralization in tech, the community is asking a critical question: 👉 Will this infrastructure continue to serve primarily as a vehicle for financial speculation — or can it power real-world, community-driven impact? In this new piece, I explore Ethereum Localism — a growing movement that reimagines Ethereum not as financial infrastructure for the few, but as a coordination layer for local economies and regenerative communities. I also share how @ReFiDAOist & @RegenCoordinate are putting this vision into practice. This is about more than just blockchain. With failing global systems, we need to rethink how we fund, govern, and regenerate — from the ground up. Full post below 👇 x.com/owocki/status/… @RegenCoordinate @ReFiDAOist @greenpillnet @CeloPublicGoods @BioFiProject @maearthmedia @OurBloomNetwork @agroforestDAO @Gitcoin @karmahq_ @SilviProtocol @hypercerts @OSObserver @Atlantis_p2p @metricsgarden @CommonApproach @Celo @OctantApp 💚

🌱 BioFi Pathfinders Round, Gitcoin Grants 22: we funded 14 bioregional teams around the world through quadratic funding: → $55K matching pool → 1,096 contributions → $8,813 in direct donations But there was an issue: most participants had never used a crypto wallet before. Some, especially in the Global South, struggled with unreliable internet access and electricity. Few had the social media presence to mobilize donors at the breadth that quadratic funding rewards. Even fewer had a network that could readily donate in crypto. We integrated PayPal to make it work. 🤝 And we learned: onchain funding assumes participants can transact onchain, but bioregional teams coordinate through place-based trust for a reason. So, what does onchain funding infrastructure look like for communities who aren’t on crypto twitter?

The most powerful coordination mechanism humanity has invented? Finance. The almighty “invisible hand of market forces” we are taught in neoliberal economics. But even across mainstream institutions, foundations, investors and policymakers… a quiet consensus is emerging: The old system is broken. I’m starting a new project exploring how we might bridge worlds — connecting the emerging ReFi / Web3 ecosystem with mainstream nature finance. More soon 🌱 @circbioalliance @UniofOxford @LeverhulmeTrust @KateRaworth @UNEP

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imagine bioregional - capital allocation - ai swarms - knowledge commons bottoms up by & for the people

Have you explored our Open Conversations video library yet? 🌐📽️ It’s a collection of short conversations with people shaping public goods infrastructure—from digital rights and open source funding to climate data, governance, AI, and the future of the commons. Here’s a snapshot of some of the voices featured so far, focused on digital rights, governance, and public goods funding: Digital rights, governance and the commons 🏛️ - @alsmith, @torproject - Isabela Fernandes, @torproject - @whanamura, @GETDWeb & @internetarchive - @audreyt, @PluralityInst - @glenweyl, @PluralityInst & @RadxChange - @mbauwens, @P2P_Foundation - @navroopsahdev, @econ_digital Public goods and coordination infrastructure 💸 - @owocki, @gitcoin - @art_tem_, @OctantApp - @MontyMerlin, @ReFiDAOist - @kensuzuki, @smartnews - @MelynMcKay, @coalapay - @notscottmoore, @publicworksfm - @david1casey, @FundingCommons If you’re curious to explore the full library, the link is in the comments. 👇

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@xdamman @regenavocado @akosmicfool @IrthuSuresh @revnets A network of bioregional endowment funds? 👀

@regenavocado @akosmicfool @IrthuSuresh @revnets @MontyMerlin Great idea but it has to be done locally. If you do it at a global level, then you run into the issue of capital allocation and having to measure impact. Keep it decentralize. Stake your assets for your local community / bioregion. Then you can see for yourself the impact.

The over focus on the tech is because the cultural layer is more challenging

Context: I'm helped build this @ReFiDAOist starting in 2021 alongside a bunch of amazing humans. Watched it grow into a global movement. Supported where I could. Then stepped back for sabbatical in late 2023 and handed over stewardship to @MontyMerlin and @AnnaKaic. 2/

Stepped away from ReFi DAO in 2024. Came back to find the network didn't just survive the bear market—it evolved into something I barely recognized. And then I discovered something that changes everything for regenerative builders. 🧵🪡

gm gm welcome back hope u rested well cus it's time to lock in, boys and girls for all life on earth

What happens when you fund localism on Ethereum? Check out our results, evaluation insights, and honest reflections from Localism Fund Round 01 & 02. Full write-up here 👇 gov.gitcoin.co/t/localism-fun…

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@marsXRobertson @localismfund @OpenCivics If a large number of people tell you that they don’t find your contributions to be helpful, collaborative, or meaningful, you can choose to interpret that as injustice or you can choose to interpret that as a reflection of how you’re showing up. The choice is yours, my friend.

@ReFi_Italia @RifaiSicilia @EthicHub @Celo @ethereum @TrustGraphNet @localismfund @gitcoin

"A bottle of ReFi Italia olive oil gleams beside a Celo-branded ledger, surrounded by Gitcoin badges, a TrustGraph node, and a steaming EthicHub coffee mug—where localism meets liquidity." GPT Wrapped 2025 😅

@ReFi_Italia @RifaiSicilia @EthicHub @Celo @ethereum @TrustGraphNet @localismfund @gitcoin 🤣

@ReFi_Italia @RifaiSicilia @EthicHub @Celo @ethereum @TrustGraphNet @localismfund @gitcoin