Stacks SIP Participation Before DeOrganized Media
Stacks SIP Participation After DeOrganized Media
Executive Summary
In the race toward digital transformation, many are sprinting in the wrong direction—toward tools instead of toward people. But tools don’t transform systems. Communities do.
The story of DeOrganized Media shows what happens when you stop chasing transformation and start cultivating it—through daily rituals, open participation, and real-time feedback loops. When developers debate on-air, when listeners become participants, when biophilia becomes product strategy—you’re no longer running a transformation initiative. You’re living one.
LLMs and APIs may unlock the door, but it’s the community that walks through it. If decentralization is to be more than branding, it must be practiced. If transformation is to endure, it must be felt.
So don’t start with tech. Start with trust. And remember:
Continuous Transformation doesn’t scale through automation—it spreads through belonging.
LLMs with MCP promise us the world
Everyone’s talking about LLMs and APIs as if they’ll cause digital transformation by magic. But real transformation isn’t technological — it’s communal.
While LLMs and APIs promise automation, true and continuous transformation emerges from an engaged, self-organizing community.
Inspired by biology, Stacks, and DeOrganized Media, here’s how prediction markets, mycorrhizal networks, and biophilia drive Continuous Digital Transformation — with or without the hype. It starts and ends with people. Without it, decentralization is just a slogan.
Digital transformation is a feature update. Continuous Transformation is a worldview shift. It doesn’t start with agents, APIs, or wallets—it starts with better questions. Because in a world where AI knows all of the answers, it’s only the quality of your questions that matter (Rocky Nguyen).
“Have you heard they’re giving Agents wallets now?”
“Hey, let’s make Agents talk to APIs and we’ll experience a Digital Transformation.”
I mean, sure. LLMs with MCP are amazing. I recently used Manus to break down Curt Jaimungal’s analysis of Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity and it knocked it out of the park (watch the replay here).
But the question isn’t whether LLMs with MCP can deliver a digital transformation. That’s starting with technology first; don’t wanna do that.
The question is: how we might catalyze a Continuous Transformation?
Background
A year ago, we received funding through the Stacks DeGrants program which was aimed at catalyzing community-level innovation for the Stacks Blockchain Ecosystem. Stacks is a layer two solution for Bitcoin that aims to deliver a synthetic bitcoin which opens up the door to Bitcoin-based yield-bearing opportunity. In other words, Stacks helps you generate yield from your Bitcoin (NFA).
Deliverables:
The Breakaway Success
One of the breakaway successes of the Stacks DeGrants initiative was DeOrganized Media, which has evolved over the past year into the main source of content and breaking news in the Stacks Ecosystem. Over the past month, Stacks has appreciated over 60% off the news that Bitfinex and SUI are now on board. One should expect more appreciation leading up to this year’s Bitcoin Vegas which is a mere 16 days away. In less than a year, they’ve generated over 3,000 subscribers on YouTube and they have thousands of people who tune into the live stream on a daily basis.
Continuous Improvement Meets The Blockchain
Change moves differently when no one’s in charge. In blockchains, evolution isn’t dictated—it’s debated. Improvement isn’t a sprint; it’s a ritual. And the Change Advisory Board? It’s everyone.
From the outside looking in, blockchains are stable places where developers can create decentralized applications. From the inside looking out, blockchains are constantly evolving codebases which evolve at the pace of product development.
However, product development happens differently in decentralized spaces. Bitcoin has Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. Ethereum has Ethereum Improvement Proposals. Solana has Solana Improvement Documents. You can consider these Requests For Changes that Developers can propose in order to respond to market sentiment.
Just like in traditional IT, these Improvement Proposals aka Request For Changes must go through the gauntlet of a Change Advisory Board. However, in the decentralized world, there’s a community to consider.
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Organizational transformation isn’t just about technology—it’s about people.
Community Enters The Chat
The power of the community is seen when consensus-breaking changes are proposed. When a proposal fundamentally changes the way the blockchain works, community stakeholders pay attention, especially the mining community.
Stacks has gone through a major evolution of the past year. In order to launch products like synthetic bitcoin aka sBTC, they had to coordinate changes to the way the fundamental stacks blockchain economy worked (see SIP-028 & SIP-029). Now, we tell you all of this to say the following: if a community is not involved in the fundamental change process, is the blockchain truly decentralized?
Consider the total shareholder community of Microsoft. Activist Investors like Carl Icahn can social engineer their way into becoming a decision-making force if they so choose. Does the same reality exist in blockchains? If not, how can they truly be decentralized? What about The Theory & Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism?
I get you. I see the long-run, too. If it is in the nature of power to consolidate, doesn’t that mean that a small cottage cabal of industry giants can commiserate to control the future of a blockchain ecosystem by slowly buying up a majority share? Truly, blockchains are a dream for the next wave of Carl Icahns.
Whatever the long-term extrapolation of 1984 you choose, in the short-run, one of the measures of a decentralized system is the amount of measurable community involvement. Without community involvement, you have a dictatorship, not decentralization. Decentralization means that any Robin Hood in your community can propose policy. OK got that out of the way. Paste that shit into ChatGPT if it doesn’t make sense.
Here’s the main point: without an active community, decentralization is a farce.
So, to update our question, how might we catalyze a Continuous Digital Transformation? The answer: an active community.
An active, engaged, entertained community is one where biophilia flourishes.
Biophilia: The Heart of Community
Over fifty years ago, EO Wilson had a bucket of water poured over his head because he dared to connect the life of humans and the life of ants. One of the concepts that emerged from his research was coined biophilia, which meant the tendency for living organisms to co-habitate and co-operate (…and co-parasite and co-mmensalize…).
Biophilia is the heart of community. Humans - even incels - need community. You’re no doubt aware that the worst punishment in prison is solitary confinement. We are hopelessly social creatures. Symbiosis is survival and anything that promotes survival gets promoted during the Red Queen’s Race of Host-Parasite Co-Evolution.
Mycorrhizal Networks: The Brain of Community
Whether you’re a fan of Joe Rogan or not, you have to admit that it’s entirely possible that the human brain emerged from the interaction of proto-humans and psychedlic mushrooms. If it’s true that our brains are fungal in nature, that means that the connection between fungi is of primary importance in any Continuous Transformation. “It’s not my intelligence that enables success; it’s how well I can integrate my intelligence across my teammates.”
The future isn’t about thinking harder—it’s about syncing deeper. Intelligence isn’t a trait; it’s a network effect.
Prediction Markets & Continuous Digital Transformations
The team at UnanimousAI sought to create an AI that could predict the future.
What they discovered surprised them.
In the beginning, people thought that all they had to do was connect an AI with the body of knowledge and magically, accurate predictions would appear.
However, what the team at UnanimousAI discovered was that teams that included human beings, AI and data performed better than teams consisting of just AI and data.
Draw any conclusions you want, but if the quality of a Digital Transformation is its ability to predict the future, than any Digital Transformation Initiative must involve the community to perform at its best. Perhaps there are factors that influence events that aren’t picked up by our current signal processing systems :P
Turns out, wisdom isn’t just in the data—it’s in the dialogue. Prediction improves not by removing people, but by weaving them into the loop. The future isn’t built by algorithms alone; it’s sensed, shaped, and steered by collective intuition.
Facilitating Continuous Transformations Through Biophilia, Mycorrhizal Networks, and Prediction Markets
DeOrganized Media is where these forces converge.
By having a twice-live daily show that openly welcomes community members to join and make their voices heard, the audience has gone from 30 people in a Twitter Space to thousands of people tuning in across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch.
And by migrating the Stacks Improvement Proposals calls from Spaces to every Friday on DeOrganized Media, the amount of community interaction has increased to thousands of people tuning into hear developers debate the merits of consensus-breaking changes, with a live chat enabling the broader community to speak up in real-time and get their questions answered.
Key Takeaways
Your goal isn’t to implement technology. Your goal is to catalyze a continuous transformation.
In order to catalyze a continuous transformation, you have to unlock the power of your community, which will dedicate themselves all day long to their personal mission which just happens to align - for today anyway - with your’s.
Without community involvement, you’re not decentralized, you’re a dictatorship. And that’s OK. People don’t mind dictatorships if they’re profitable.
In fact, that’s why I’m writing this. The success of DeOrganized Media in driving community involvement has lead to network effects connecting mycorrhizal networks powered by biophilia…and it’s resulting in one innovation after the next emerging from an engaged community.
LLMs and Model Context Protocols are amazing — but they’re not the engine. They're the fuel. The engine is community. You don’t need to teach people to use tools they’re already curious about. You need to give them a reason to build.
Are these Developers using LLMs and Model Context Protocols? Sure they are. Do we need to have lunch and learns about LLMs and MCP to catalyze a Continuous Transformation? Not necessarily. An engaged community solves for Continuous Transformation, because they’ll be intrinsically motivated to learn. As we know, applying extrinsic motivation to behaviours that should be internally motivated decrease motivation long-term.
Stacks SIP Participation Before DeOrganized Media
Stacks SIP Participation After DeOrganized Media
