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The Commons Hub, established in 2022 but operating since 2021, is a co-working, co-living, and event venue located in the Austrian Alps, in Reichenau an der Rax. It aims at being a creative communal space where artists, digital movements, and decentralized communities converge to explore emerging social, technological and economic practices.
Its setting offers an intimate atmosphere conducive to forming deep, lasting connections among its diverse participants. Crypto Commons Association has been born in this place, after the Crypto Commons Gathering in 2021, with a community process leading to the functional separation of these two entities and the creation of the Commons Hub’s organization and brand. The venue is owned by the Fritsch family, which aims at progressively decentralizing its governance and expanding operations into the small village where it is located, purchasing and collectivizing other properties and pieces of land for regenerative purposes.
The Commons Hub manages a validator node where its community and allies can delegate their tokens to support it and promote Commons oriented governance of those protocols, in the following blockchain networks: Cosmos, Regen Network, Stride and Neutron.
Commons Hub is on CER as it’s been the physical epicentre of so many events and networks orchestrated by Crypto Commons Association, acting as a de facto hub for CER projects since before its formal existence—to date, more than half of the 20 projects had one or more of their members attending at least one event. It is also a general harbor for progressive communities around arts, politics, technologies, social practices, which we consider a crucial cross-contamination effort.
It intentionally wants to become an experimental hub for post-capitalist theories and practices, taking the best of what alternative spaces all around the world have done and learned so far. It’s one of the first physical spaces and communities managing a fully functioning validator node for blockchain networks, which could become a common useful practice for communities around the world, providing revenues and allowing them participate in the governance of these distributed protocols, suiting them to their local needs.
The Fritsch brothers have long term plans of expansion aimed at regenerating the small village of Reichenau an der Rax, which as many others has gone socially and economically deserted, and they hope to do so through all the resources offered by novel Commons centric infratructures as those featured in CER, with some of these alliances already established.