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Research from the Governance Research Lab and notes from the coop. Long, sourced, and occasionally about the things that went wrong.

ENBy Samouraï CooptechReportz: who builds the digital commons, live from GitHubA contribution board for La Suite numérique, built from the public GitHub API. What it counts, what it refuses to count, and why we forked it from Gnolove.
ENBy Samouraï CooptechGno.land in 2026: what a beta mainnet actually meansThe chain is live and the token cannot move yet. What has shipped, what has not, what the project has actually said about mainnet, and how to check any of it.ENBy Samouraï CooptechGreffon: an open-source, self-hosted deployment platformA technical tour of Greffon: its control plane, workers and built-in certificate authority — the open-source middle ground between PaaS and Kubernetes.
ENBy Maël RollandlabsCrypto (Anti-)Commons? Controversies Surrounding the Status of Bitcoin and Public Blockchains as Digital Commons—Part 1Can Bitcoin and public blockchains be called digital commons? Part 1 maps the controversy and asks which idea of the commons the question invokes.ENBy Maël RollandcoopCooperative & Web3 Glossary (V.0.1)A living glossary translating between cooperative and Web3 vocabularies — for coops meeting the DAO, and Web3 communities meeting the SCOP.
ENBy zôÖmatechDecentralized governance or the classic model: a comparisonGovernance models compared: decentralized (DAO, blockchain) versus classic. Advantages, limits, costs and use cases for creative projects.ENBy zôÖmamediaChecklist: preparing a professional video productionA practical six-step guide to preparing a professional video production: goals, script, budget, gear, the shoot and post-production.ENBy zôÖmamediaMotion design vs traditional animation: which to choose?A clear comparison of motion design and traditional animation: uses, costs, tools, and how to choose by goal, budget and audience.
ENBy Maël Rollandlabs"Insight Report" Series: External Interview #1 — Phil H.First of an interview series on distributed governance — opening with a recording that failed, and what that reveals about fieldwork infrastructure.ENBy Maël RollandcoopPresentation — Maël Rolland x Samouraï CoopMaël Rolland, socio-economist and EHESS doctor, joins Samouraï Coop as independent researcher in residence at the Governance Research Lab.ENBy Maël RollandlabsSamouraï Governance Research Lab: A New Milestone for the CooperativeSamouraï Coop opens a research lab on cooperative and distributed governance — how eight years of building led here, and what it sets out to document.

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