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Over the past decade, the digital town squares where we’ve gathered online—to communicate, create, and share—have been stuck in walled gardens owned by corporate landlords.
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You can learn more about Towns, and starting today, get early access to the alpha app and help us shape the future of Towns at
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The future of Towns is bright. We're thrilled that today the team behind Towns,
@hntlabs
, announced $25.5 million in Series A funding led by
@a16zcrypto
, and continues to be backed by leading investors like
@benchmark
and
@hiFramework
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Any group can use Towns to assemble and chat freely in a space designed to their needs—without ever having to worry that some organization will change the rules, profit off their activity, or take away their rights.
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It's time to become true owners of our online experience and feel a real sense of belonging to our online communities.
That's why today, we're introducing Towns—a group chat protocol and app designed for online communities to build better hometowns on the internet.
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Towns allows a community’s members to truly own their town squares— and communicate freely—with a fully decentralized, end-to-end encrypted chat protocol owned by the people.
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With Towns, our compass is set toward one horizon: building better online hometowns for communities.
In a world where the digital realm encompasses more and more of our daily lives, this is more important than ever.
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No wallet, no keys? No problem. Towns has a dead simple sign up flow. No wallet required.
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Towns is launching live for everyone this Spring! Here’s a sneak peek 👀
Towns is built on
@buildonriver
and offers rich E2E encrypted messaging with seamless integration into your on-chain communities.
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As the transition from online to onchain continues to unfold, communities deserve true ownership and influence over their digital spaces.
Arriving here hinges on moving beyond the shift from online to onchain communities, and towards the concept of onchain towns.
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The key components of how groups gather and communicate in Towns are made up of "towns", "channels" and "DMs".
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Creating a town that you own is a seamless experience that takes less than a minute: enter a town name, upload an image for your town, and you're in. Other fun stuff... (1/3)
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we hosted a dinner with some friends of Towns during Farcon this weekend. felt very early 2010s SF meets early sxsw energy. thanks to everyone who made it out ✨
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In traditional online communities, the platforms set the rules for membership. Access is granted at the whim of centralized administrators, and members have no true ownership over their role in the community
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We're taking over Public Records for an epic night in NYC on 4/4/24 with
@RefractionDAO
!
More details and full lineup coming soon 👀👀
On April 4th, Refraction returns to Public Records, our 2nd home
@233butler
in Brooklyn. Alongside
@townsxyz
, we’re taking over 2 floors for an all-night sonic session. The crew at
@ALLSHIPS
join us in curating the visual artwork for the night.
Music lineup coming soon.
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We can't wait to run it back with our friends
@RefractionDAO
for
@FWBtweets
FWB FEST next week!
If you had fun with us in Paris, make sure to grab a weekend pass and join us in Idyllwild 👀
So amped for our curatorial collab with
@townsxyz
and
@FWBtweets
at FWB FEST next weekend! Refraction community can use our code to receive an exclusive discount on a weekend pass! Head to our discord for the scoop.
Or buy passes here!💖
See you there! 💫
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Onchain towns represent the next evolution of internet communities. and move beyond the notion of online communities just being oriented around digital assets.
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just a sneak peak of what we’re building. fast and frictionless chat. wrapped in a slick UI
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Join us in Paris for what is sure to be another epic night with
@RefractionDAO
!
Full lineup and more details coming soon
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Leading digital art and music at our favourite venue ✧˚ · .
July 19 ✧˚ · .
In partnership with
@townsxyz
in collaboration w/
@fwbtweets
,
@ourzora
,
@residentadvisor
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👀👀👀
4/ 15 months ago we wrote about building for users not wallets.
We’re excited to see how far crypto has come prioritizing UX thanks to embedded wallets and AA.
Giving users with control over their identity is essential to building a better internet 👇
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Back at it again with
@RefractionDAO
next week in NYC!
NYC next week! Featuring Lloyd from
@TheLotRadio
and Nightmoves, plus Blakamex (aka
@lovegreg
) and a very special drop from Grey93. Presented with our friends
@townsxyz
.
Access only via REFRACT Pass or community partners
@FWBtweets
,
@LensProtocol
,
@ourZORA
let's getit!
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Join us in Denver on February 29 for round two with our friends from
@RefractionDAO
at
@TheBlackBox5280
!
Save the Date—
On February 29,
@townsxyz
and Refraction return for our annual après-ski soirée. This year, we’re opening up both rooms at
@TheBlackBox5280
to showcase visual artists and DJs from our extended community, including
@regularfantasy
@CallMeLatasha
, DEEDZ, and
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Make it fun. Explore an on-chain composability playground combined with a familiar messaging experience we all know and love.
Available this Spring as a Progressive Web App for desktop and mobile.
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Go from gold stars to gold bars 🤩>>🤑
Towns is where community involvement gets rewarded. As your community grows, its value grows. 1/3
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here's our thoughts on why decentralization matters for communities:
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As we look to the future, onchain towns hold promise to reshape the landscape of the internet. They’re a new model for online communities, one that is more democratic, more composable, and more secure.
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As more of the world moves onchain, from social applications to games and marketplaces, having a provably owned membership token that is tied to onchain identity and reputation will become increasingly important.
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Through the cohesion of the Towns smart contracts, client application, and the River protocol, we’re setting out to marry excellent design and UI with robust decentralized infrastructure.
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Towns are on chain "spaces", created via
@buildonriver
. These spaces are ownable assets, are programmable via smart contracts, and allow members to completely control their data, privacy, and engagement.
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So excited to share the full lineup for our 4/4/24 takeover of Public Records with
@RefractionDAO
This is one you won't want to miss 🪩
Last week, we announced our return to Public Records
@233butler
in Brooklyn, with
@townsxyz
.
Today, we’re pleased to bring you the full music & visual artist line-up.
The Soundroom is headed up by the inimitable
@TheRealBenjiB
, with support from
@maachewbentley
and
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And charging for membership by choosing a dynamic pricing curve that changes by demand or a fixed price for all. (3/3)
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When communities own their digital spaces, they can realize their full potential. They can build unique experiences, reward members for contributions, and establish support models that previously weren’t possible.
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Until now, a community built around an NFT that’s organized and runs on Discord might—in some sense—be decentralized, but it falls far short of what’s possible.
Towns realize the full potential of an onchain future.
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Make it last. Ownership and membership of each Town live on-chain as an NFT, enabling the ability to transfer value and compose with the rest of the ecosystem.
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Make it count. Easily create on-chain communities with programmable pricing or gating. Reward and celebrate members for building alongside you.
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The Towns governance model is neutral by design, acting as a guardian to ensure fairness and sustainability.
Through the Towns DAO, we aim to explore new ways of participatory decision-making.
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Productive behavior within communities should be materially rewarded. With real skin in the game and real ownership. Check out our latest post on why we're building Towns:
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Every message on Towns is end-to-end encrypted so you can speak freely and know that your messages are protected.
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The current incentives to maintain and grow an online community are not properly aligned. What do you get for your current contributions and involvement? How is good behavior incentivized? Clout? Badges? Gold stars? 2/3
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When membership itself is represented onchain, it unlocks a world of possibilities that enable true community ownership:
- Composability
- Provable Ownership
- Transferability
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You can also take your one-on-one or group conversations private with direct messages.
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Onchain towns upend this model by making membership a first-class onchain primitive. Onchain membership, where members provably own + govern a town through onchain representations of membership, is a defining characteristic between these towns and traditional online communities
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The heart of Towns is letting communities mint decentralized ‘towns’ as unique smart contracts, with access to the River Protocol, on
@BuildOnBase
permissioned by Town Memberships.
Membership tokens are like passports to each town, managed by contracts that control entitlements
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We see moving away from centralized platforms to a decentralized approach as the path forward—for each community and its members to be owners, there can’t be a reliance on a single centralized actor to set the rules.
We need a system where owners control their digital hometowns.
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Channels are sub-spaces of your town, which are also onchain. Channels can be open to all members, or access can be gated by any ERC-20 or ERC-721 token.
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We'll see you on the dance floor
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The Towns app is where most town members will spend their time. HNT Labs is building the first client application for both desktop and mobile use.
The application is designed to be extensible through integrations with third-party clients and APIs, creating a versatile ecosystem
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@RefractionDAO
@Lemellow
@agoriamusic
@FWBtweets
@ourZORA
@residentadvisor
@iyk_app
@infiniteobjects
we can't wait!
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The River Protocol is a decentralized communication protocol that routes and stores encrypted messages within each town.
River is built on OP Stack and is used for consensus and validation on subsets of off-chain nodes responsible for storing and routing message event payloads.
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