An Overview of Fractal Communities
Healthy communities are essential for each person, society, and civilization as a whole. To create a sustainable future for all, we need strong and independent communities of people who coordinate well to help each other achieve their goals. We create tools, games, and media to help communities thrive.
The Respect Game is a social consensus game that empowers communities to make better decisions and create mutual benefit. There are many communities who are pioneering, developing, or experimenting with the Respect Game and it’s variations. Communities and organizations that cooperate with fractal decision-making processes like the Respect Game can be called fractal communities.
You can explore below to learn about some of these fractal communities and their projects.Please note that this article was written in early 2024 and does not include all communities or organizations that are using fractal decision-making processes. More updates coming soon!
Table of Contents
- An Overview of Fractal Communities
- Optimism Fractal
- Eden Fractal
- Genesis Fractal
- Psibase
- Alien Worlds Fractal
- Aquadac
- Roy Fractal
- Dynamics of Hegemony
- ZEOS Fractal
- Eden on EOS
- Upscale Fractal
- Fractal de le Lengua Hispana
- EOS Respect
- Eden Korea
- Eden China
- Art Fractal
- Upland Fractal
- ThiagoRe
- dNews
- Fractal Inquiries
- Fractal Fiction
- ZAO Fractal
- Supercivilization
- More Fractal Communities
Optimism Fractal
Optimism Fractal is dedicated to fostering collaboration and awarding public good creators on Optimism. You’re welcome to join Optimism Fractal meetings every Monday at 17 UTC. Optimism Fractal meetings are helpful for optimistic creators, builders, and anyone interested in Optimism. You can share share and earn respect for helping the Optimism Collective. For more details, visit OptimismFractal.com and the event page.
Eden Fractal
Eden Fractal is a community dedicated to growing fractal communities and promoting the adoption of the Respect Game. Eden Fractal has attracted an average of 12 participants in each meeting for over eighteen months and has fostered growth has been in the establishment of new fractal communities. You can learn more at EdenFractal.com and watch videos from over 75 events with about a hundred participants since it’s inception. You can join weekly meetings at lu.ma/edenfractal.
Genesis Fractal
The ƒractally team hosted a 30 week experiment Fractal with 130 participants called the Genesis Fractal. There was an average of 40 participants in each meeting and the large majority of participants experienced life changing benefits. You can watch videos of each meeting in this playlist, find many exciting community developments in this draft article, and see a comprehensive dashboard created by an esteemed engineer in the community.
Psibase
The developers of Fractally decided to stop hosting Genesis Fractal due to regulatory concerns with a liquid Respect token and are now focusing on a related development initiative called Psibase. They are continuing to build tools for fractal democracy and are nearing the release of Psibase, an advanced blockchain architecture that’s deeply integrated with fractal consensus processes and well suited for communities of all sizes. The Psibase team is well resourced with a team of a dozen full time engineers and they may be interested in collaborating with the Optimism Community.
Alien Worlds Fractal
Alien Worlds Fractal has hosted over 26 weekly meetings with an average attendance of about ten people in each meeting and over forty participants in total. You can learn many exciting details about Alien Worlds Fractal and watch the first season of meetings in this article. You can see the onchain results in these accounts (1 and 2).
Alien Worlds Fractal has made significant innovations in fractal cooperation, such as the introduction of automated MSIGS and new game styles described in this article. You can see the unpublished meetings from the second season here and explore the group chat to see highly engaged community discussions. Alien Worlds Fractal is supported by the creator of Alien Worlds and he created smart contracts to enable Eden Fractal to provide automatic votes for Alien Worlds leaders via IBC, as you can see here.
Alien Worlds is the most popular Web3 game by many metrics, as you can see on AlienWorlds.io and DappRadar.
Aquadac
Aquadac has hosted over 26 weekly meetings with an average of about five people in each meeting. You can see learn many exciting details about Aquadac in this article and see an interview with the founder, Gudasol, hosted by Rosmari.
Aquadac helps people grow with the spiritual learnings of Aquarius Academy and offers a unique approach with consensus games where participants rank each other’s progress towards the fulfillment of their personal goals. You can also learn more in their notion website and see Gudasol’s track record of building exciting Web3 apps here.
Roy Fractal
Roy Fractal is operating in the Uzbekistan with a high level of attendance and participation. Though it is difficult to understand the entirety of the project due to a language barrier, we can see from the founder’s youtube channel that the weekly meetings appear to be attracting over 700 live participants and their videos are each attracting over 500 viewers. Dan Singjoy worked closely with their founder, Shakruz Azirof, during the Genesis Fractal meetings and are in now contact with one of their developers in meetings where we aim to learn more about this initiative.
Dynamics of Hegemony
Dynamics of Hegemony is an exciting new Web3 strategy game that features fractal social games with squads. The creator of the game is a highly successful entrepreneur named Gnome who also co-founded the UX Network. Gnome has played a leadership role in many Eden Fractal meetings and helped form the Alien Worlds Fractal. He now plans to empower his projects with fractal social games, as you can see in the ‘Governance and Strategy’ section of DynamicsOfHegemony.com. It states, “Experience democracy like never before. Join strategic 'squad' minigames, where, as a part of your faction, you'll collaborate to select leaders and establish squad rankings.”
ZEOS Fractal
ZEOS Fractal is an upcoming fractal community that has been in development for over a year. ZEOS is a privacy protocol that is among the most popular apps in the Antelope ecosystem, as you can see in their thriving group chat.
The founder Matthias has been working closely with Vlad’s team to develop the next generation of the Fractal App with many helpful new features to enable pseudonymous participation with unprecedented independence. You can learn about the revolutionary innovations in fractal tools that their team has been building here. You can learn more about ZEOS Fractal in this introductory blog post by Matthias, interview with the founder hosted by Dan Singjoy (and this accompanying article written by Dan), article written and their website ZEOS.one. The long awaited ZEOS Fractal is expected to launch in Q4 of 2023, along with the launch of the ZEOS privacy protocol.
Eden on EOS
Eden on EOS is a community with hundreds of members who have been pioneering fractal democracy with over ten upvote elections for over two years. For a high level overview introduction, you can watch this summary by a community filmmaker, an election recap from prominent a news outlet, and a news show hosted by Dan Singjoy following his election as a chief delegate.
For a more detailed exploration of how this community provided enormous inspiration for many builders, you can watch the first election with 182 registrants here, many historic videos on the original youtube channel, hundreds of hours of fascinating community leaders at our Eden Town Halls, and many more in our repository of YouTube playlists.
The Eden on EOS community has been funded with approximately 2 million dollars, as you can see in the following articles about these donations from the EOS Network Foundation and Block.one. You can learn more at the original website, web app, a community created website at EdenElections.com.
Upscale Fractal
Eden on EOS transitioned into Upscale in late 2023 and started conducting weekly fractal events in early 2024. The community is using an advanced fractal app to pioneer a highly decentralized organization, which you can find here and learn more about in this article.
You can find an update with the Upscale council in this video and learn more by exploring other updates on the channel.
Fractal de le Lengua Hispana
Fractal de le Lengua Hispana is pioneering fractal democracy for the spanish speaking world. It is created and hosted by Eden Fractal community leader, Jorge Ramos. Fractal de le Lengua Hispana has hosted over 30 meetings with a total of over 25 participants, as you can see in this spreadsheet.
You can watch Jorge provide updates about the Spanish Speaking Fractal in many Eden Fractal meetings, learn more about the fractal on their notion website, and explore engaging community discussions in their group chat. The Spanish speaking Fractal recently forked the Eden Fractal codebase, as you can see here. You can learn more about Jorge’s plans to empower the Spanish speaking world in this grant proposal.
EOS Respect
EOS Respect is a community that forked the Eden OS codebase last year and has held over ten monthly elections with dozens of participants. You can explore their website at EOSRespect.io, watch the videos of all elections on their youtube channel, and learn more about EOS Respect in this article written by Dan Singjoy. The founder of EOS Respect is a successful entrepreneur and former Eden on EOS Chief Delegate named Randall Roland who is now developing a new initiative called Votemax to bring their innovations to more mainstream participants.
Eden Korea
Eden Korea is preparing to launch a fractal cooperative and has conducted internal tests with at least eight community members, as you can see here. You can learn many exciting details in their grant proposals, Notion website, and an episode of Eden Town Hall with one of their founders.
Eden China
The Eden China community is pioneering fractal democracy processes in China. Over thirty participants have participated in at least two elections and many software developments have been made by the community. You can learn many exciting details about Eden China in this news show and articles (1 and 2) created by Dan Singjoy.
Art Fractal
The Art Fractal is dedicated towards empowering local artists in the Fallbrook Art Association, located in the San Diego region of California. The fractal is hosted by Eric Westreich, an Eden Fractal community leader and successful entrepreneur who is working to bring social consensus games to the mainstream. At least a dozen events have been hosted and there were approximately ten participants in the meetings that we observed. Most of the participants are older and unfamiliar with Web3 but noted that they really enjoyed the experience and it has helped them very much so far. You can learn more about the Art Fractal in an interview with the founder during this episode of Eden Town Hall.
Upland Fractal
An Eden Fractal community leader named Spacewrangler Joe recently started an new fractal community for players of metaverse games like Upland and Alien Worlds. Upland is one of the most popular Web3 games in the world and has deep partnerships with world class organizations like FIFA and the NFL Players Association. You can see Spacewrangler Joe share an overview of his experience hosting the first couple Upland Fractal meetings with about ten community members during a recent Eden Fractal meeting. You can learn more at Upland.me and our article about Upland, which features several news shows and articles written about Upland by Dan Singjoy.
ThiagoRe
ThiagoRe is a web3 social media platform empowered by fractal cooperative council. The blogging platform enables creators to share content and interact with communities while earning Thiago tokens through an innovative, decentralized ‘UpLove' system. The SocialFi app is created by Pascal NC, a successful entreprenuer who is a leader in the Eden Fractal and Alien Worlds Fractal communities. You can learn about ThiagoRe by exploring ThiagoRe.info, reading the whitepaper, and interacting on the platform on ThiagoRe.com. You can learn more and watch Pascal introduce ThiagoRe at an Eden Fractal meeting in this article. In addition to building ThiageRe, Pascal also recently launched EdenDonations.com to help fund open-source tools for fractal governance in Web3.
dNews
dNews is a news aggregator for social media posts with a large focus on fractal communities created by an Eden Fractal community leader and successful entrepreneur named Perry Shenas. Though the site isn’t a itself a fractal community, Perry has expressed strong intentions to give control of the site to the Eden Fractal community as you can see here. You can learn more about dNews at dNews.zone, this brief article written by Dan Singjoy, and an episode of Eden Town Hall with the founder.
Fractal Inquiries
Many more communities are very interested in growing their communities with fractal consensus games. For example, you can see a telegram chat started by Eden Fractal community leader Lisa Chandler called New Fractal Inquiries showing dozens of communities that want to start fractals. An example of one of these communities is a successful game called Starship and the game’s CEO recently joined an Alien Worlds Fractal meeting to learn how to implement fractal cooperation.
Fractal Fiction
The first Fractal Fiction event was organized in 2022 and showed how communities can use fractal cooperative processes and consensus games to create stories together. Thirteen participants joined this event and elected a writer and editors who created a high quality short story that was published in an artful zine by a professional illustrator. You can learn more about the experiment in this article.
ZAO Fractal
The ZAO Fractal is a gathering place for Web3 musicians that have been playing the Respect Game at weekly events since Q2 2024. It is founded and hosted by Zaal, an active Optimism Fractal community member and music tech pioneer. More details can be found at zaomusic.xyz.
Supercivilization
The Supercivilization helps you supremely enhance your individual quality of life and superiorly advance our collective standard of living so we can each and all enjoy the most extraordinary experiences of wealth, health, and peace today. Learn more at Supercivilization.xyz.
More Fractal Communities
You can learn more about fractal communities by watching Eden Fractal’s 2 year anniversary episode and the 109th episode, which featured a State of the Fractals overview. Watch more at EdenFractal.com/videos.
EF 102: Celebrating Fractal Communities
What are your fractal stories? Watch Eden Fractal’s two year anniversary celebration to see visionary leaders share inspiring stories, honor all fractal communities, and reflect upon the heroic history and horizon of fractal democracy 📖 🌍 🙌🏽