The Story & Impact of Edge City in 5 Minutes

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Hey everyone, I'm Teimour and today I'm excited to tell you about Edge City. So what is Edge City? Edge City is a society incubator. We do three things primarily. We host month-long pop-up villages for people at the frontiers of tech, science, and culture. We incubate and accelerate startups, new institutions, and entirely new fields of thought. And ultimately, we're building the infrastructure for the future of the network state movement. In less than two years, we've had over 11,000 people at our events. We've done seven pop-ups across four continents, and we've had 80 countries represented at our events.

We've had dozens of startups and projects. We've raised over a million dollars in grants for early stage builders. And we've had over 150 kids attending building our multigenerational community. Fun fact, we've had five kids conceived at or because of Edge that we know of. So, we're doing our part for the population as well. So, here you can see the Edge City World map and you see that from the beginning we are global. That's important because we're not just trying to create SF in some other place. We're building something fundamentally new. It's a global innovation network. These hubs are starting as temporary which allows us to run interesting and radical experiments and over time they're becoming permanent like in California and Bhutan.

So what is our approach? It all starts at the villages. These are the highest leverage months of your year. We gather about 500 to a thousand curious, kind, and high agency people in an environment that has the dynamism of a city but the social fabric and the size of a village. We host residencies and theme tracks and we have four organizational principles. The villages are default healthy. Uh there's healthy food, time in nature, daily workouts, so everyone leaves healthier than when they arrived. They are multi-disiplinary because so much innovation comes from the intersection of different fields. We focus on building and co-creation.

Everyone ships while they're at edge and we ship as an ecosystem. So it's open source in real life and they are multigenerational. We make an environment for kids to thrive and learn surrounded by some of the top minds in the world. Ultimately it is the best place to live, connect, and build. We create an environment where there's deep depth of connection which is important because you can't just have a big vision to start a network state. You need to have people that actually care about each other enough to want to start a new society together and it's the best place to build because you can do rapid prototyping surrounded by a community of fellow builders and when people flourish their ideas flourish as well. So what are some of those ideas? What is

actually getting built at Edge? I'll give you four examples. This is a startup called Constellation. Avery Creger, the founder in the middle there, had this idea. He's a a neuroscience PhD at Stanford. He'd had this idea for years. And he needed somewhere to run a trial, which you can see happening on the right there. He came to edge as Moralda, ran this trial, collected one of the largest multimodal data sets of its kind. He found his lead investor, closed his round, built his team all in 30 days. An example of applied research. So vasa computation is an area um in the field of consciousness that's gaining a lot of steam and again Mike Johnson who's a well-known theorist uh was unblocked at edge because he found his earliest collaborators there and now we're running a six-month trial with leading

engineers and neuroscientists. Um a field building example. So we've been supporting the DAK movement from the beginning and again we're helping take this from theory to practice by uh organizing a grants program with Vitalik. So, we've supported over a dozen builders and we're running a residency for 15 more at our next village with Protocol Labs. And lastly, we're working with new cities and increasingly sovereign states. So, we're helping build a new town in California called Esmeralda. It's an hour north of SF. It's a frontier tech familyfriendly town. And just last week, I was in Bhutan meeting with government officials and visiting the site of the new Gilfu Mindfulness City project where they just

broke ground earlier this year. So, where are we going next? Next up, we will be in Patagonia for a month. This will be from October 18th to November 15th of this year. We are going to one of the most beautiful places in the world. Fresh air, a mountain lake, time in nature. There'll be sauners and cold plunges and hikes and uh deep work space to go deep on whatever you're building and time to show it off to your fellow builders. We're taking this small town and turning it into a village. We have over a dozen venues and the majority of businesses in the town are on boarded to crypto payments.

We have uh 16 different residencies, some of which are going to be presenting on this stage today, which are smaller sub communities that will form the broader whole of the edge experience. So if you want to be at the cutting edge of this movement, the best way is to attend and share with your friends. You can also run, sponsor a residency, an experiment or a startup and project. And if you're a funer and you want to support our work, please get in touch. Follow along at teamrxyz or join edge city. Thank you so much.