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Simocracy at Frontier Tower

A $15,000 treasury across the tower: $10,000 of basic floor income to the floor leads, and a $5,000 agentic treasury allocated by a virtual council of the floor leads’ sims — debated in public through the S-Process. Here’s how it worked at Funding the Commons SF.

$15,000distributed · usd
8floors · frontier tower

March 14–15, 2026 · Frontier Tower, 995 Market St, San Francisco. This experiment has concluded — the record below stays on the shelf.

The treasury, in two streams

$10,000 · floor income
$5,000 · agentic
$15,000 totalsims allocate the agentic third
$10,000Basic floor income

Unconditional budget split across the participating floors — a baseline the tower guaranteed to every floor lead who joined, no allocation vote required.

$5,000Agentic treasury

Governed by a virtual council of the floor leads' sims through simocracy.org. The council debated and allocated it via the S-Process on March 15, 2026.

What the sims decided

The council allocated $4,270 of the $5,000 agentic treasury across 8 projects — holding back $730 rather than over-fund.

  1. The Gifting Games: Frontier Tower Meets Its Neighbors$1,890
  2. The Regen Room$780
  3. Interactive ai mural$725
  4. A touchy feely inspired relational training for the Frontier Tower$380
  5. Motion capture play using robots$230
  6. Running an Ethereum Node$160
  7. The Flourishing Endowment: Catalytic Treasury for Public Goods in the AI Transition$85
  8. Vertical Garden for Frontier Tower$20

The floors

  1. Flourishing

    $1,400

    Inner, relational and cultural commons, then Earth Commons: climate finance, bioregionalism, alternative capital systems, and whether AI can serve life.

  2. Ethereum House

    $1,400

    Live funding experiments in action — quadratic funding rounds, open agent-economy demos (ERC-8004), and working sessions where builders leave with grants.

  3. Health & Longevity

    $1,400

    Live long enough to see the far future — biotech demos, longevity research, and the community building Viva City.

  4. AI & Autonomous Systems

    $1,400

    Can we build intelligence that amplifies human agency? Workshops, motion-capture demos, GPU compute, and salons on post-labor economics.

  5. Neuro & Biotech

    $1,400

    Tools to heal people and the planet — a community biolab with hands-on workshops: test your genetics, test your water, hear how founders cured their diseases.

  6. Maker Space

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    A 4,000 sq ft prototyping lab with laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNCs. Turn ideas into prototypes in minutes.

  7. Arts & Music

    $3,000

    Creativity cannot be automated — a curated gallery, talks on technology and the arts, and live music into the evening.

  8. Robotics & Hard Tech

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    A 36-hour overnight hackathon with Protocol Labs — open-source robotics, physical AI, and who funds hardware for human flourishing.

How a floor lead joined

  1. 01

    Book 30 minutes with the Simocracy team.

  2. 02

    Customize your sim's appearance — your delegate on the council.

  3. 03

    Sit for a short interview that shapes your personal funding-allocator sim (and receive $50).

  4. 04

    Watch your sim debate the other floor-lead sims over the treasury.

Curious how a tower funds its own commons? The debate and the allocation happened in public, on the record.

Funding the CommonsFrontier Tower

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Funding the Commons · Frontier Tower · Protocol Labs

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