Funding the Commons: Intelligence at the Frontier

1,000+ builders, funders, researchers, policymakers, and artists

FI Community discount code : FTCXFI20

A 16-FLOOR VERTICAL VILLAGE. EACH FLOOR ITS OWN WORLD.

🚀 Spaceship (Floor 2): The main stage. Speakers include the co-author of the Transformer paper, former White House science policy leads, and researchers from Harvard, UNICEF, the Internet Archive, and the World Economic Forum. AI-assisted funding, public AI infrastructure, and the coordination systems that determine whether intelligence serves everyone or just the people who own the compute.

🤖 Robotics & Hard Tech (Floor 4): Overnight hackathon with Protocol Labs. Open-source robotics, physical AI, and the question of who funds hardware for human flourishing. Show up with an idea, leave with a prototype and a grant.

🎨 Arts & Music (Floor 6): Creativity can't be automated. A curated gallery, talks on where technology meets the arts, and live music rolling through the afternoon. When the sun goes down, the building becomes a late-night electronic music venue. Both nights. Until sunrise.

🔧 Maker Space (Floor 7): 4,000 sq ft prototyping lab. Laser cutters, 3D printers, CNCs. Bring a napkin sketch, leave with something real.

🧠 Neuro & Biotech (Floor 8): Community biolab with hands-on workshops—test your own genetics, test your local water supply, hear how founders cured their own diseases. Pharia Health brain stimulation demos on-site.

⚡ AI & Autonomous Systems (Floor 9): Hands-on workshops, motion capture demos, GPU compute access, and salons exploring post-labor economics. If you're building agents, this is your floor.

🧬 Health & Longevity (Floor 11): Live long enough to see the far future. Biotech demos, longevity research, and the community building Viva City.

💎 Ethereum House (Floor 12): Live funding experiments in action. Quadratic funding rounds, open agent economy demos, and working sessions where researchers and builders leave with actual grants. Not a panel about funding. Funding happening in real time.

🌱 Flourishing (Floor 14): March 14th: inner, relational, and cultural commons. March 15th: Earth Commons. Two days of honest dialogue on whether AI can serve life instead of just optimizing it.