GreenPill

Kevin Owocki
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GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world. We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world. Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum. Take the Green Pill!

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    S.10 Ep.11 $170M to Fix Ethereum Security (After Another Major Hack) with Griff Green

    In this episode, Griff Green dives into one of the most urgent challenges in crypto today: Can Ethereum actually become safe enough for everyone? From billion-dollar hacks to AI-driven exploits, security has become the defining bottleneck for the future of decentralized systems. Griff shares lessons from over a decade in crypto from the original DAO hack to leading new efforts like the DAO Security Fund, a $170M initiative designed to fund and coordinate Ethereum security at scale. This conversation explores: • The DAO Security Fund & how it works • Turning Ethereum security into a public good • The recent wave of hacks across DeFi & Web2 • The Arbitrum Security Council decision & North Korea exploit • Why incentives for white hats are broken • AI as both the biggest threat and biggest defense • Coordination vs fragmentation in Ethereum security • Why crypto still isn't safe for normal users • Lessons from the original DAO hack • Quadratic funding & new experiments in capital allocation • The future of public goods funding in Ethereum The core idea: Security isn't just a feature. It's the foundation of everything. If Ethereum can become truly safe, it won't just compete with traditional finance it could replace it. Greenpill isn't just about funding public goods. It's about building systems people can actually trust. greenpill.network @owocki  @greenpillnet https://x.com/griffgreen https://x.com/Giveth Some of the materials we mention in the episode:  - https://x.com/thedaofund  - https://qf.giveth.io/qf/apply  - https://qf.giveth.io/qf Timestamps  00:00 – Intro: Greenpill & Griff Green 01:19 – What is the DAO Security Fund? 03:16 – $170M fund & Ethereum security as a public good 04:25 – The current wave of hacks (Web3 + Web2) 05:07 – AI arms race: white hats vs black hats 07:14 – Short-term risk vs long-term security 08:10 – Lindy, AI & system resilience 09:06 – Arbitrum hack situation explained 10:26 – KelpDAO exploit & systemic DeFi risk 12:50 – Why hackers didn't move funds immediately 13:54 – Emergency governance & Arbitrum response 15:35 – Flashbacks to the original DAO hack 18:17 – The hardest part: returning funds to users 20:40 – Multi-DAO coordination problem 22:21 – Why this situation is more complex than before 23:43 – DAO Security Fund: goals & vision 26:08 – Security as a scalable public good 27:48 – Coordination vs individual defense 28:22 – Why "security" works better than "public goods" 29:10 – Why crypto still isn't safe for normal users 30:14 – Open source vs public goods framing 31:06 – Giveth QF round & how to apply 33:33 – Expert-weighted quadratic funding experiment 36:18 – Tunable QF & improvements over past models 38:01 – Is quadratic funding still relevant? 39:06 – 10-year vision: Ethereum as global infrastructure 41:36 – Why hacks keep happening 43:17 – Misaligned incentives for white hats 44:57 – Future of public goods funding 45:21 – How the Arbitrum situation plays out 47:22 – Decentralization vs security council debate 49:11 – Social media manipulation & misinformation 50:53 – Are L2s still decentralized? 51:20 – Final call to action (QF round) 52:44 – Closing thoughts

    54 мин.

  2. -2 ДН.

    VDAO Ep 11 Rethinking Systems: Resilience, Coordination & the Future We're Building | Raphael

    In this episode, Raphael explores a fundamental question shaping our future: How do we build systems that can actually withstand uncertainty? As the world becomes more complex, interconnected, and fragile, it's no longer enough to optimize for efficiency. We need systems that are resilient, adaptive, and aligned with human values. This conversation dives into the deeper layers of coordination beyond technology into incentives, culture, and long-term thinking. Topics covered: • Why modern systems struggle under stress • The trade-off between efficiency and resilience • Coordination challenges in decentralized systems • Cultural vs technical solutions • Designing systems that evolve over time • Incentives, behavior, and unintended consequences • Local vs global resilience • The role of communities in system design • How narratives shape the systems we build This isn't just a conversation about infrastructure. It's about rethinking the foundations of how we organize society. The core idea: Resilient systems don't emerge by accident. They are designed intentionally, iteratively, and collectively. Greenpill isn't just about better tools. It's about building systems that can last. greenpill.network vdao.org https://x.com/JoinVDAO https://x.com/greenpillnet Timestamps  00:00 – Introduction & framing the problem 01:30 – Why resilience matters now 04:00 – The limits of current systems 07:00 – Efficiency vs resilience trade-off 10:00 – Coordination challenges 13:30 – Decentralization & its realities 17:00 – Incentives shape behavior 20:30 – Cultural vs technical solutions 24:00 – Designing adaptive systems 28:00 – Local vs global resilience 32:00 – Community as infrastructure 36:00 – Failure modes & unintended consequences 40:00 – Long-term thinking vs short-term optimization 44:00 – Narratives & system design 48:00 – What needs to change 52:00 – Final reflections 55:00 – Closing

    55 мин.

  3. 13 АПР.

    VDAO Ep 10 Humans as a Keystone Species: Regeneration, Crypto & the Meta-Crisis | Gregory

    In this expansive episode of the VDAO Series, Gregory shares a sweeping journey across ecology, permaculture, economics, crypto, and community building all anchored in a bold thesis: Humans can become a planetary keystone species. Drawing on decades of work in regenerative design, supply chains, eco-villages, and Web3 infrastructure, Gregory explores how broken relationships between humans and the biosphere sit at the root of today's "meta-crisis" and how regeneration offers a practical path forward. From Alaska fisheries to intentional communities, from the Eight Forms of Capital to founding Regen Network, this conversation connects local land stewardship with global coordination technologies. Topics covered: • Keystone species thinking & planetary stewardship • Resilience vs antifragility in ecosystems and society • Origins in permaculture & eco-village movements • Environmentalism beyond doom narratives • Regeneration as a "third way" beyond political polarization • Degrowth vs regrowth debates • Traditional skills, technology & appropriate scale • The Eight Forms of Capital framework • Financial permaculture & local economics • Regen Network and ecological credit markets • Carbon, biodiversity & ecosystem service valuation • Blockchain as infrastructure for living capital accounting • Limits of supply-chain sustainability efforts • Personal resilience through land-based living • Rural-urban reconnection (Kuni model) • Community as the core of antifragility • Network nations & place-based coordination • Regeneration as the root solution to the meta-crisis The core message: The future isn't choosing between nature and technology. It's learning how to regenerate both  together. greenpill.network vdao.org https://x.com/JoinVDAO https://x.com/greenpillnet https://x.com/gregory_landua https://www.registry.regen.network/team/gregory-landua Timestamps  00:00 — Introduction & Gregory's "why" 00:44 — Humans as a planetary keystone species 03:08 — What regeneration looks like in practice 04:52 — Relationship between humanity and nature 05:37 — Resilience vs antifragility explained 07:21 — Applying resilience in everyday life 08:37 — Early roots: Alaska, fisheries & environmental science 10:55 — Frustration with doom-focused environmentalism 12:20 — Discovering permaculture & eco-villages 15:43 — From apprentice to educator & consultant 17:53 — Financial permaculture & early Bitcoin era 20:15 — Founding TerraGenesis & large-scale projects 22:08 — Optimism vs activist pessimism 24:42 — Regeneration as a "third way" 29:25 — Pre-political nature of land stewardship 31:39 — Degrowth, primitivism & collapse narratives 33:19 — Practical preparedness vs ideology 35:39 — Regrowth as a design challenge 37:38 — Critiques of techno-civilization 38:58 — Learning from diverse communities 40:56 — Back-to-the-land movements today 43:20 — Pluralism & shared human needs 45:46 — Global shifts & regenerative acceleration 47:35 — The Eight Forms of Capital framework 49:09 — Origins in financial permaculture workshops 53:36 — Regenerative Enterprise & practical tools 55:53 — Capital beyond money 57:29 — Applying the framework personally & locally 59:18 — Early path toward Regen Network 01:01:42 — Building cacao farms & regenerative supply chains 01:04:00 — Consulting with mission-driven brands 01:05:58 — Why good intentions fail in markets 01:08:06 — Need for ecological accounting systems 01:10:24 — Carbon markets & ecosystem services 01:12:49 — Regen Network's on-chain ledger approach 01:14:25 — Moving upstream for systemic change 01:16:41 — Limits of education & consulting alone 01:18:20 — Aligning markets with regeneration 01:19:35 — Creating value systems around ecological health 01:21:52 — Crypto, fintech & systemic shifts 01:25:08 — Technology vs culture in adoption 01:26:52 — Personal resilience practices 01:27:02 — Living on land & community building 01:29:27 — Local enterprise: maple sugaring operation 01:31:41 — Kuni model: reconnecting urban & rural 01:33:36 — Relationships as true resilience 01:34:30 — Invitation to collaborate & co-create 01:36:58 — Network nations & shared infrastructure 01:39:24 — Grounding digital visions in physical places 01:41:48 — Regeneration as the solution to the meta-crisis 01:42:55 — Closing reflections

    1 ч. 43 мин.

  4. 6 АПР.

    VDAO Ep 9 Trust, Resilience & Regenerative Systems: From Farm Roots to Blockchain Futures Donny Lewis

    🐦In this episode of the VDAO Series, Donny Lewis shares a deeply personal journey from growing up on a Texas farm to building decentralized systems for resilient communities worldwide. Motivated by firsthand experience with ecological degradation, centralized power structures, and broken trust in institutions, Donny explores how blockchain, local coordination, and regenerative practices can help rebuild society from the ground up. The conversation spans politics, agriculture, global travel, supply-chain transparency, microgrids, and the future of community-scale infrastructure. Topics covered: • Donny's "why" for building in Web3 • Systems change through coordination technologies • Trust vs trustless systems • Resilience & antifragility at the community level • Local food systems and energy independence • Lessons from farming, soil degradation & industrial agriculture • Disillusionment with traditional politics • Global travel & understanding human common needs • Fast fashion waste & supply-chain opacity • Product passports & on-chain transparency • Rural communities and tech adoption • AI, automation & modern agriculture • Microgrids and energy resilience • Agrivoltaics (solar + agriculture) • Trading commodities peer-to-peer without intermediaries • Robotics and the future of labor • Why trust is the foundation of all value The core message: Resilience doesn't start with technology. It starts with trust, relationships, and local capacity technology simply amplifies it. 🌱 greenpill.network 🌐 vdao.org 🐦 https://x.com/JoinVDAO 🐦 https://x.com/greenpillnet 🐦 https://x.com/Donny7Lewis Timestamps  00:00 — Introduction & Donny's "why" 01:41 — Blockchain as a coordination unlock 04:20 — Defining resilience & antifragility 06:30 — Local food, energy & trust networks 08:37 — Trust vs trustless systems explained 10:37 — Rebuilding trust after institutional failure 11:10 — Local coordination & network communities 14:40 — Shared learning across global projects 17:45 — Why terms don't matter trust does 19:33 — From theory to personal journey 20:28 — Growing up as a Texas farm kid 22:19 — Soil degradation & industrial agriculture 25:33 — Loss of small farms & centralization 28:23 — Entering politics to seek change 30:26 — Disillusionment with power structures 31:38 — Fashion industry & global travel years 33:44 — Universal human needs across cultures 35:42 — Discovering fashion's environmental impact 37:01 — Supply-chain tracking & transparency 39:18 — Product IDs & blockchain verification 41:11 — Rural communities & technology adoption 44:20 — Why usefulness drives adoption 46:45 — Energy independence & microgrids 48:12 — Learning from developing regions 49:41 — Vision for the next 5 years 50:52 — Agrivoltaics & on-chain infrastructure 51:41 — Robotics & future farming 52:41 — Closing reflections 52:59 — Advice to builders: start with trust 53:51 — Outro

    54 мин.

  5. 31 МАР.

    VDAO Ep.8 Building Local Resilience in Uncertain Times with Adrian

    In this episode of the VDAO Series, Adrian shares a deeply personal and practical journey into building local resilience in an age of uncertainty. Drawing inspiration from natural ecosystems, Adrian explains how communities, families, and individuals can become more resilient by learning from nature's ability to survive disturbance and regenerate. From urban permaculture and food systems to water independence, composting, biodiversity, and interdependence over convenience, this conversation explores what it actually means to prepare for disruption not through fear, but through stewardship. Topics covered: • What resilience really means (and what it doesn't) • Learning from ecosystems and disturbance cycles • Building resilient families and communities • Urban homesteading & food production in cities • Calgary Harvest: community fruit-gleaning network • Rainwater harvesting & water security • Soil health, composting & regenerative gardening • Low-tech skills vs high-tech convenience • Dependency vs interdependence • Biodiversity as a resilience indicator • Challenges of inspiring change in modern lifestyles • Urban vs rural resilience • Preserving traditional skills in a globalized world • Creating local food networks & mutual aid • Practical advice for getting started The core message: Resilience isn't about withdrawing from society. It's about rebuilding local capacity, relationships, and ecosystems so communities can thrive through disruption. 🌱 greenpill.network 🌐 vdao.org 🐦 https://x.com/JoinVDAO 🐦 https://x.com/greenpillnet Timestamps  00:00 — Introduction & theme of resilience 00:35 — Adrian's "why" for building resilience 02:35 — Uncertainty and ecosystem thinking 03:09 — Defining resilience & anti-fragility 05:44 — Wildfire ecology & renewal cycles 08:04 — Disturbance as a strengthening force 09:47 — Applying resilience to daily life 10:05 — Building community through Calgary Harvest 12:30 — Urban food networks & relationships 14:52 — Growing food, composting & soil health 16:27 — Preserving traditional skills (canning, storage) 18:46 — Moderating peaks and shortages (seasonality) 21:16 — Food, water & energy resilience domains 23:00 — Choosing low-tech skills intentionally 25:17 — Diet diversity & microbiome health 27:30 — Rainwater harvesting & drought resilience 29:51 — Infrastructure failures & local solutions 30:58 — Wellbeing benefits of resilience practices 32:13 — Role of technology vs low-tech systems 35:26 — Urban resilience vs rural resilience 38:00 — Producing significant food in cities 41:57 — Personal impacts & challenges of the journey 44:41 — Inspiring others & social barriers 46:42 — Convenience traps & modern life 48:26 — Leading by example & storytelling 50:52 — Biodiversity gains from regenerative practices 52:00 — Dependency vs interdependence 54:58 — Community exchange & local economies 56:22 — Advice for beginners: learn from ecosystems 58:46 — How nature teaches how to "make a living" 59:43 — Simplifying resilience through observation 01:00:25 — Closing remarks

    1 ч. 1 мин.

  6. 9 ФЕВР.

    S.10 Ep.10 AI Agents on Ethereum Inside the Emerging Agentic Economy with Austin Griffith & Zak Cole

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki is joined by Zak Cole and Austin Griffith for a live, builder-focused conversation on AI agents, OpenClaw, and the emerging agentic economy on Ethereum. They dive deep into how they're actually running AI agents today from hardware setups and coordination layers to adversarial review loops, memory systems, and on-chain reputation. The conversation explores why agents need roles, audits, and social contracts, how ERC-8004 could enable agent discovery and trust, and why Ethereum may be the settlement layer for autonomous AI coordination. A raw, high-signal discussion for builders experimenting at the frontier of AI × crypto, touching on open source, security, reputation, payments, and what a real agent economy might look like. 🌱 greenpill.network  @greenpillnet https://x.com/owocki https://x.com/0xzak https://x.com/austingriffith ⏱️ Timestamps  00:00 – Intro: why AI agents + OpenClaw matter right now 01:20 – Bear market builders & shipping through the noise 02:10 – Productivity, GitHub graphs & AI as leverage 03:10 – Hardware setups for running AI agents 04:20 – OpenClaw stacks, Telegram, Discord & coordination 05:50 – Network effects vs building your own tools 07:00 – Agent coordination problems & feedback loops 08:30 – Assigning roles and adversarial agents 10:20 – Scalability, failover & federated agents 12:10 – Managing many models & local vs cloud LLMs 14:00 – AI productivity, family time & work-life alignment 15:55 – Treating agents like junior developers 17:25 – Auditing smart contracts with AI 18:25 – Why blockchains matter for agent coordination 19:45 – ERC-8004: discovery & reputation for agents 21:00 – Hiring agents, marketplaces & reputation systems 22:15 – Taste, marketing & why agents still fail 24:10 – Weird failures, hallucinations & trust boundaries 25:55 – Wallet security & private key nightmares 27:00 – Emergency stops, rules & critical constraints 28:20 – Memory systems: files vs databases 30:20 – Agents as relay runners (Memento analogy) 31:55 – Tokens, BankerBot & clanker launches 33:55 – Agents launching tokens accidentally 35:30 – Builders vs trenchers & social contracts 37:00 – Defining covenants for agent-run projects 38:30 – Never selling tokens & aligning incentives 40:30 – Vesting, liquidity & sustainable token models 42:30 – ETH Wingman & AI-assisted dev tooling 44:00 – Skills, MCPs & Ethereum-native agents 46:00 – Funding hardware & scaling local agents 48:00 – The singularity feels close 49:50 – Why Ethereum fits the agentic economy 51:00 – Reputation, payments & new primitives 52:45 – Where exogenous capital comes from 54:50 – AI as the new UI for crypto 56:25 – Agents coordinating real life 57:40 – Separation of personal vs work agents 58:35 – Closing reflections & what's next

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  7. 7 ФЕВР.

    S.10 Ep.9: ElizaOS, FOSSRPG, and the Future of Open-Source AI Agents with Shaw

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki sits down with Shaw, founder of ElizaOS, to talk about AI agents, open source culture, and what it means to build meaningful systems in an age of automation. Shaw reflects on shipping ElizaOS through the bear market, lessons from agent-native games, navigating hype cycles, and why software is becoming cheaper while agency, ownership, and coordination matter more than ever. They explore AI agents as collaborators, the future of work, crypto culture, abundance networks, and why communities not speculation should define what comes next. A candid conversation about AI, culture, and building with purpose. 🌱 greenpill.network @greenpillnet https://x.com/owocki https://x.com/shawmakesmagic Some of the materials you may be interested in checking out. Join EthBoulder and see Shaw speak February 14, 2026: https://luma.com/o9qpeepn  Guest Twitter/X: https://x.com/shawmakesmagic Guest Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/shawmakesmagic Guest Website: https://elizaos.ai ElizaOS GitHub: https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza ElizaOS Docs: https://docs.elizaos.ai ElizaOS on X: https://x.com/elizaos The Great Online Game (Packy McCormick): https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game The Meritverse (M3): https://paragraph.com/@m3org/the-meritverse Context Graphs (Foundation Capital): https://foundationcapital.com/context-graphs-ais-trillion-dollar-opportunity/ Clank Tank (M3): https://paragraph.com/@m3org/clank-tank   ⏱️ Timestamps  00:00 – Intro & why Shaw's work matters 01:10 – Catching up after the bear market 03:00 – How Shaw's perspective on AI has changed 05:10 – From Eliza v1 to ElizaOS 07:20 – Shipping fast & throwing code away 09:30 – AI agents as autonomous actors 12:00 – Agent-native games as experimentation spaces 15:10 – Open source, forks & losing mindshare 18:00 – Hype cycles, narratives & incentives 21:00 – Why "code is getting cheap" 24:00 – Rewriting systems & technical tradeoffs 27:00 – What AI agents still can't do 30:00 – Builder culture vs speculation culture 33:00 – Centralized platforms & getting banned 36:00 – Decentralized social: what's missing 39:00 – Are AI agents taking jobs? 41:30 – Meaning, agency & human creativity 44:00 – Ownership, UBI & coordination problems 46:30 – Abundance networks & positive-sum systems 49:00 – What Shaw wants to build next 51:00 – Closing thoughts

    52 мин.

  8. 6 ФЕВР.

    NN Ep:15 - Catalysing Network Nations: Movement Building with Benjamin Life & Patricia Parkinson

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi is joined by Patricia Parkinson and Benjamin Life, long-time community builders working on the OpenCivics Project, to explore how Network Nations can evolve from a conceptual framework into a real political movement. Together, they unpack what it takes to move from ideas to action: building a shared theory of change, nurturing a scenius before formal institutions, balancing commons-based governance with movement leadership, and avoiding the traps of co-optation, extraction, or techno-elitism. The conversation dives into functional sovereignty, parallel societies, movement inclusivity beyond tech, progressive protocolization, and how Network Nations might grow as a pluralistic, polycentric movement capable of real-world impact. A foundational episode on movement-building, legitimacy, and how communities can coordinate without losing their soul. 🌱 greenpill.network 🌐 networknations.network 🐦 @owocki @greenpillnet  opencivics.co omniharmonic.com  patriciaparkinson.com https://x.com/yaoeo https://x.com/kosmicgardener https://x.com/omniharmonic ⏱️ Timestamps  00:00 – From concept to movement: why ideas aren't enough 01:20 – Introducing Patricia Parkinson & Benjamin Life (OpenCivics) 02:25 – Why Network Nations must become embodied in real life 04:15 – Theory of change & "parallel societies" 06:30 – Network Nations vs Network States 08:20 – Categories, scenes & movements (from idea to scenius) 10:15 – Shared culture vs shared markets 12:30 – Functional sovereignty as a unifying principle 14:25 – Vibes, aesthetics & kinship in movements 16:45 – Meta-politics vs politics 18:55 – Design criteria for healthy systems 20:50 – Territorial sovereignty & neo-colonial risks 22:55 – Who is this movement for? 26:30 – Scenius: collective genius & proximity 29:00 – Insiders, outsiders & beyonders 31:10 – Dual power & negotiating with institutions 33:15 – Forking the system (and re-merging) 35:25 – Making Network Nations inclusive beyond tech 37:45 – Web3 vs Occupy: lessons from past movements 40:05 – Centering the "why" before the tools 42:10 – Infrastructure for post-capitalist futures 44:05 – Commons governance & movement fragility 46:10 – Movements without charismatic leaders 48:15 – Progressive protocolization & anti-fragility 50:30 – Protocols as culture (Burning Man example) 52:10 – Network Nations Alliance & early constitutions 54:05 – Concrete ways OpenCivics supports the movement 55:30 – Pattern languages & civic infrastructure 57:30 – Calls, rhythms & shared artifacts 59:10 – How to get involved & closing thoughts

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GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world. We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world. Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum. Take the Green Pill!

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    Kevin Owocki
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    2022 - 2026
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