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Builders per node
Cascadia Bioregion Initiative
Nodes of
Cascadia
A grassroots network of co-living and hacker houses across all of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The long-term vision is a distributed fabric of households where builders, researchers, and artists can live near one another, learn together, and share momentum without collapsing into a single centralized institution. The rollout is virtual first, physical second: first a hosted community, then a network layer for real-world node formation, and later a deeper participatory coordination system. Become a founding member to help shape the first cohort.
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Co-Living
Hacker Houses
British Columbia
Washington
Oregon
Open Source
Network State
Coworking
Federated Nodes
Self-Governance
Builder Culture
Cascadia
Co-Living
Hacker Houses
British Columbia
Washington
Oregon
Open Source
Network State
Coworking
Federated Nodes
Self-Governance
Builder Culture
Cascadia
What We Are
Independent households, shared purpose
Nodes of Cascadia is a grassroots initiative to build a network of co-living and hacker houses across the Cascadia bioregion, with room for nodes in every part of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Inspired by the network state idea, it imagines a distributed community where independent households share values, knowledge, and resources while remaining locally autonomous.
Each node is a house or small cluster of houses where residents live and work together on startups, open-source software, research, or creative pursuits. Urban centers, small towns, coastal communities, and inland hubs all have a place in the network. The point is not to create another content feed or another online brand. The point is to help real households, real friendships, and real working cultures emerge across the region.
In practice, that could mean shared living, informal coworking, dinners, reading groups, visiting other houses, or simply knowing there are serious peers nearby who care about building a life with more intention. Nodes of Cascadia is meant to address real problems of isolation and economic stress by helping people find islands of affinity, collaborative support, and enough cultural scaffolding that small intentional households become easier to start and sustain.
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Regions connected
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Nodes possible
Support
Coworking and learning
Culture and Support
Built on three supports
Autonomy
Each node is free to develop its own rhythm, relationships, and shared culture while still drawing on the support of a wider network. Nodes of Cascadia offers guidance, tools, and cultural scaffolding so people can build collaborative households that feel less isolated, more resilient, and more capable of shaping a meaningful life together.
Affinity
The network is meant to help people sort into islands of affinity: households and clusters where pace, temperament, values, and ambitions actually fit. That fit reduces isolation, makes collaboration more natural, and gives people a better chance of building shared projects without forcing sameness across the whole region.
Shared Scaffolding
Nodes of Cascadia is intended to provide guidance, templates, connective tissue, and restorative cultural scaffolding so that people do not have to invent everything alone. Individual nodes can still build their own unique micro-cultures and shared projects while benefiting from the support of a wider network.
Founding Members
Start with a cohort, not a platform
This page is the first layer of the project, not the finished infrastructure. The immediate goal is to gather founding members, validate willingness to contribute, and manually assemble the first regional cohort before building deeper coordination layers. The point is to prove there is a real nucleus of people who want to participate, contribute, and help shape the network as it grows.
Stage 1
Hosted community
The first stage is a lightweight hosted community where founding members can gather, meet one another, and begin regional conversations without waiting for a custom stack.
Stage 2
Network layer
The second stage is a site that helps people find affinity, coordinate across regions, and schedule physical node creation in line with the network state principle of virtual first, physical second.
Stage 3
Participatory infrastructure
Longer term, the Mastermindcity infrastructure can evolve into a DAO-like coordination layer and eventually a real-time blockchain operating system that links nodes without flattening them into one centralized institution.
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Read the vision
Get a feel for the philosophy, the regional scope, and the kind of living and working culture the project is trying to support. This is a place to learn about the ideas, technological innovations, and coordination tools that could make a network of real-world nodes possible. Read the founding charter.
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Raise your hand
Leave your email and region so interest can gather across British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon before any rigid platform structure is imposed. Early demand and real relationships matter more than elaborate infrastructure right now.
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Contribute if aligned
Founding members can contribute monthly or annually to help fund the early coordination layer and validate that the network deserves a fuller buildout. The contribution is not buying polished features today; it is backing the formation of the first real cohort and the first hosted community stage.
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Help shape the rollout
Early contributors will receive updates, invites, and next-step guidance directly while the project proves out the demand needed for the next stages. If the signal is strong, later layers can be built around something participatory and already alive.
The Cascadia Bioregion
A shared land and identity
Cascadia is a bioregion stretching from Southeast Alaska through British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest. For this project, the active network focus is intentionally broad: all of British Columbia, all of Washington, and all of Oregon.
That means the network is not limited to a few major cities. A node can make sense in the Lower Mainland, on Vancouver Island, in the Okanagan, across Eastern Washington, along the coast, in the Willamette Valley, or in Southern Oregon. The goal is a distributed mesh of households across the full region, not a single corridor.
Founding Member
Help form the first
cohort
If you want to help shape Nodes of Cascadia early, you can either leave your information for manual onboarding or become a founding member now. Contributions go toward validating the project, funding the first hosted community layer, and proving there is enough real demand to justify the later network and coordination layers.
Become a founding member
If you already know you want to back the project, use one of the Stripe links below. Founding members are not buying access to a finished product. They are helping convene the first layer of people, attention, and regional momentum that can make the first hosted community and later network layers worth building.
- Direct updates as the project develops
- Early invitations to conversations, calls, and regional outreach
- First access when the hosted community layer opens
- A closer hand in shaping tone, priorities, and rollout
- Priority visibility when manual onboarding begins
Monthly
$25/month
A low-friction way to signal alignment and support the project while the first cohort forms.
Join MonthlyYearly
$250/year
A stronger early signal for people who already know they want to help bring the network into existence.
Join Yearly