Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3

* Book: Exploring MycoFi: Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 and Beyond. By n by Jeff Emmett & Jessica Zartler. A MYC OPUNK PUBLICATION FROM THE GREENPILL NETWORK, 2024.

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Description

"Exploring MycoFi: Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 and Beyond guides readers on an underground exploration into the world wise web of mycelial networks, the most prolific producers of public goods on Earth. This book examines how the evolutionary adaptability of fungi could help us imagine biomimetic alternatives to status-quo economic systems that demand infinite growth on a finite planet. If there is any hope for a transition away from extraction, domination, and planetary overshoot, towards regeneration, equity, and planetary healing, our economies must be realigned with nature’s ecologies - and for that, we can’t a! ord to ignore what mushrooms have to teach us. If we aim to design regenerative economies, what better place to start than with the thriving evolutionary patterns of nature?

MycoFi translates six design patterns of mycelial ecologies to Web3 economies:

• Network Infrastructure

• Fractal Nature

• Emergent Coordination

• Dynamic Flow

• Mutual Reciprocity

• Polycentric Pluralism "

Excerpt from the introduction:

"This book is a creative excursion into the nexus between mushrooms, economics, and technology. It explores six mycelial design patterns and their potential applications to address modern challenges in political economics, using Web3 tools as emancipatory technologies.

Many of the ideas expressed in this book were inspired by countless authors, researchers, and developers, drawing from extensive bodies of research on the fascinating capabilities of mycelium and distributed ledger technologies. This book presents a fungal remix of some of those concepts, oriented toward a Web3 audience. For those interested in further reading, you can fi nd a series of links and references in the appendix.

While we take an optimistic outlook in these pages, we aim to avoid the appeal to naturalistic fallacy ≠ the oversimplified perspective that everything natural is good for us. Instead, we seek to identify and unpack useful, pro≠ social patterns that could be applied in contexts where they increase collective flourishing.

MycoFi is fundamentally a pluralistic and emergent meme, requiring many voices to interweave a polyphonic chorus ≠ including those who came before, as well as those yet to come. If you feel the call to contribute to the growing folklore of mycelial solutions, we have included information on connecting with communities of change≠ makers in the last chapter. We o! er this book as one step to an ecology of mind nurtured in the world of mycelial intelligence and all it has to teach us. There is so much more to be written, experienced, and embodied, and we warmly invite you to join in the exploration."