Uncommons

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A digital ecosystem, grown from the GreenPill Chinese community, focusing on innovative digital public goods governance, collaborative content and research workstreams, and unique community engagement practices.

Uncommons is a digital commons fostering a collective of Commons Builders, evolving from the GreenPill Chinese community.

It's a space where crypto enthusiasts, social builders, dreamers, and netizens collide with crypto-humanitarian ideas. Uncommons explores new governance methods for public goods, practices Green Pill's renewable economics, and has grown into a unique ecosystem of quality content creation and research.

It represents a new beginning, deepening our engagement with digital public resources and unconventional, innovative thinking. Our community, rooted in Habermas's concept of the "public sphere," aims to create a noise-resistant, ideologically united community. We emphasize individual sovereignty, rethinking network power structures for fairness, transparency, and decentralization.

The name Uncommons symbolizes our ongoing focus on digital commons, managed and maintained by communities rather than private or governmental entities. It embodies the spirit of exploring, reimagining, and challenging mainstream norms, infusing our mission to build public domains with uniqueness and creativity.

Uncommons' Notion homepage, serving as a record of current work and a platform for expression, can be found at: Uncommons Notion Page. Our daily discussions mainly take place on our Telegram channel: Uncommons Telegram.

Uncommons has established 6 workstream groups, which are:

  1. GreenPill Podcast Co-learning: Engaging with frontline individuals on the GreenPill concept, focusing on the development of ImpactDAO. Since October 2022, the GP podcast co-learning group has been recruiting long-term members who extract essence and co-learn from this podcast, enhancing attention and understanding of the international community. It has been running for nearly 10 months, becoming one of the community's long-term content outputs and providing a good workflow template for other workstreams.
  2. Uncommons x Protector: Governance through participation: In collaboration with Protector, Uncommons members are actively participating in the governance of DAOs like Nouns, Optimism, Arbitrum, and more.
  3. DeSci workshop (Decentralized Science): The Uncommons community has launched a six-talk series on DeSci, participated in DeSci-themed donations, formed groups for co-learning, and participated in the governance of Gitcoin DeSci.
  4. Wamo Summer One-Year Retrospective: Taking community participation in creating Wamo Summer as a case study, reflecting on it from the perspective of the Uncommons community on its first anniversary.
  5. ETS - Ethereum Translation Squad: Translating Ethereum content with other Chinese communities, exploring new forms of social structures using the decentralized societal ideology represented by Ethereum.
  6. Crypto Nomad: Exploring the novel political identity constructed by the 'crypto nomads' and the social structures emerging around this identity.

As a content and research-oriented community, we have also produced research content: Uncommons Research and translated Vitalik's blog into Chinese: Vitalik's Blog in Chinese. Additionally, Uncommons actively spreads its message on various social platforms to attract more Chinese-speaking builders:

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