Funding the Commons to Host SF AI Hackathon
The organization Funding the Commons is hosting an overnight hackathon in San Francisco's Frontier Tower on March 14-15. The event will focus on physical AI, agentic funding, AI safety, and neurotechnology. Over 150 builders are expected to compete for more than $10,000 in prizes.
- Funding the Commons (FtC) is an organization that works to innovate funding for public goods by connecting builders, researchers, and funders from Web2, Web3, and academia. - Previous Funding the Commons events have featured notable speakers from the tech and crypto worlds, including Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet. - The organization operates globally, having hosted ten international conferences and builder residencies in locations such as Berlin, Germany, and Chiang Mai, Thailand. - A prior FtC hackathon in late 2024 attracted 356 participants who registered 116 projects; winning entries included a multichain crypto donation platform and a tool to help grant allocation by analyzing blockchain project activity. - The event's venue, Frontier Tower, is a 16-floor hub for deep tech, with floors dedicated to AI, neurotechnology, robotics, and decentralized technology. - The hackathon is part of a larger two-day "vertical festival" within the tower, which also includes talks and live funding experiments focused on developing coordination systems in the age of AI. - The tower itself is a "living dataset" experiment where each floor is given a budget to manage through different autonomous governance models, with 20% of profits funding a community treasury governed by both humans and AI. - The hackathon's themes align with FtC's established "RealFi Hack Tracks," which guide builders to create tools for transparent resource allocation, auditable AI for public use, and group governance infrastructure.
