The Bread Cooperative network is made up of member projects doing work that challenges a lot of assumptions about what crypto is actually for. There is so much more to this space than speculation. Next up in our BREAD Member Spotlight series is Crypto Commons Association. We spoke to organiser Rok Kranjc about who they are, what they do, and what the Breadfam can look forward to from them in 2026.

Crypto Commons Association is a community, a research group, and an events organiser. Just like Bread Cooperative, they're built on the idea that crypto tools can and should serve the common good.

CCA organises events around regenerative and collaborative finance. These concepts contain a lot of big ideas, and CCA makes them tangible to wider audiences through games, fiction, and performance arts. There is plenty of experimentation and applied research that provides a lot of room for community participation, with the annual Crypto Commons Gathering serving as the flagship gathering.

Taking place in the Austrian Alps for its sixth year, the Commons Hub is run by CCA co-founder Felix Fritsch and his brother Emil. Sharing a space helps centre the human factor in visions for a newer, fairer economy. It's an incredible setting that provides ample opportunities to connect with like-minded people and enjoy nature. Activities outside discussions, crypto and beyond, include mountain treks and mushroom foraging.

Unlike a traditional conference where sessions and speakers are booked months in advance, an "unconference" hands the schedule to the people in the room. Each morning, participants collectively map what they want to explore that day. Sessions emerge from those conversations, themes develop, gaps get identified and addressed in the next round. Around 20% of activities might involve invited speakers. The rest is self-organised, which means what gets discussed is always a direct reflection of what the community actually cares about right now.

Rok describes the community as a blend of all types. People define themselves as "weird economists, commons, degrowth, feminist, queer, decolonial, multispecies, artivists, hackers and utopian dreamers." Initiatives started all around the world find a place here to hold discourse, critique, dream, eat, and play in the same space.

It is also deliberately multi-generational. The Collaborative Finance Gathering, a related event at the Hub, brings in decades of combined experience in mutual credit, local currencies, and UBI models.

Blockchain is often, as Rok puts it, "the default thing quietly running in the background" while conversations sprawl across climate activism, regenerative farming, local currencies, and post-capitalist transition. The name invites a particular audience in, but the tent is wider than it looks.

Co-founder Felix Fritsch recently completed his PhD on "The Emergence of the Crypto Commons." This is a body of work that Rok describes as "quite a monument to the movement."

The last gathering led to the revival of the Crypto Commons Research Lab. The idea, which was previously discussed, now enables publishing under a CCA-affiliate banner to draw on community members for discussions, feedback, and case studies.

The Commons Economy Roadmap, developed by co-founder Giulio Quarta, maps the most interesting projects in the blockchain-for-good space, particularly those combining economic soundness with a post-capitalist orientation.

The connection is longstanding. Josh, Bread co-founder and the Blockchain Socialist, has brought Bread to nearly every major CCA event at the Commons Hub. The CCA community makes up the earliest collaborators who helped get all this rolling. Rok has watched it develop from early Breadchain into what Bread Cooperative is today.

"We are both finding intriguing solutions to and pathways for going beyond capitalist realism," he says. "It starts with imagination, but at some point it needs infrastructure."

Bread, the Solidarity Fund and upcoming Bread Stacks all provide this infrastructure. Showing the world what's possible through blockchains adds credibility to the theory.

The BREAD distribution cycle is a direct line of support for what CCA is building. The funds every month contribute to organising teams, subsidies for participants who could not otherwise attend, and room to experiment with residencies, research, and new project formats. The goal is to maximize what Rok calls "peer production value," making each event build on the last rather than exist in isolation.

"We keep space for member initiatives that may grow into research or hands-on projects, innovative funding streams, residency programmes, economic sci-fi writing clubs," he says. "You name it."

There are 3 flagship events to look forward to this year.

• The sixth annual Crypto Commons Gathering this August. No predefined theme, as always, built as a live overview of the past year and a look at where things are heading.

• Worldplay is a new series combining radical games, economic science fiction, and guerrilla futuring with the practical work of imagining alternative economies.

• The fourth Collaborative Finance Gathering brings together the longer lineage of mutual credit, accounting systems, local currencies, and UBI. Less crypto-heavy, but very much at a point where crypto can create an impact.

The easiest entry point is the Crypto Commons Telegram group, with around 400 members. If the Austrian Alps is a manageable journey away, you are encouraged to show up to one of the events. If you attend anything in the broader ecosystem, you will likely run into someone from the CCA community before long.

Governance voting for the current distribution cycle is open now. Visit the Bread Solidarity Fund to cast your vote.

We ended our chat with Rok talking about some of the fiction and storytelling that helps us see this proposed, better future clearer. And Rok enthusiastically recommended a reading list for just that. Enjoy!

Walk Away by Cory Doctorow
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Multi-Species Cities: Solar Punk Urban Futures (short story collection)
An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072

The Bread Cooperative network is made up of member projects doing work that challenges a lot of assumptions about what crypto is actually for. There is so much more to this space than speculation. Next up in our BREAD Member Spotlight series is Crypto Commons Association. We spoke to organiser Rok Kranjc about who they are, what they do, and what the Breadfam can look forward to from them in 2026.

Crypto Commons Association is a community, a research group, and an events organiser. Just like Bread Cooperative, they're built on the idea that crypto tools can and should serve the common good.

CCA organises events around regenerative and collaborative finance. These concepts contain a lot of big ideas, and CCA makes them tangible to wider audiences through games, fiction, and performance arts. There is plenty of experimentation and applied research that provides a lot of room for community participation, with the annual Crypto Commons Gathering serving as the flagship gathering.

Taking place in the Austrian Alps for its sixth year, the Commons Hub is run by CCA co-founder Felix Fritsch and his brother Emil. Sharing a space helps centre the human factor in visions for a newer, fairer economy. It's an incredible setting that provides ample opportunities to connect with like-minded people and enjoy nature. Activities outside discussions, crypto and beyond, include mountain treks and mushroom foraging.

Unlike a traditional conference where sessions and speakers are booked months in advance, an "unconference" hands the schedule to the people in the room. Each morning, participants collectively map what they want to explore that day. Sessions emerge from those conversations, themes develop, gaps get identified and addressed in the next round. Around 20% of activities might involve invited speakers. The rest is self-organised, which means what gets discussed is always a direct reflection of what the community actually cares about right now.

Rok describes the community as a blend of all types. People define themselves as "weird economists, commons, degrowth, feminist, queer, decolonial, multispecies, artivists, hackers and utopian dreamers." Initiatives started all around the world find a place here to hold discourse, critique, dream, eat, and play in the same space.

It is also deliberately multi-generational. The Collaborative Finance Gathering, a related event at the Hub, brings in decades of combined experience in mutual credit, local currencies, and UBI models.

Blockchain is often, as Rok puts it, "the default thing quietly running in the background" while conversations sprawl across climate activism, regenerative farming, local currencies, and post-capitalist transition. The name invites a particular audience in, but the tent is wider than it looks.

Co-founder Felix Fritsch recently completed his PhD on "The Emergence of the Crypto Commons." This is a body of work that Rok describes as "quite a monument to the movement."

The last gathering led to the revival of the Crypto Commons Research Lab. The idea, which was previously discussed, now enables publishing under a CCA-affiliate banner to draw on community members for discussions, feedback, and case studies.

The Commons Economy Roadmap, developed by co-founder Giulio Quarta, maps the most interesting projects in the blockchain-for-good space, particularly those combining economic soundness with a post-capitalist orientation.

The connection is longstanding. Josh, Bread co-founder and the Blockchain Socialist, has brought Bread to nearly every major CCA event at the Commons Hub. The CCA community makes up the earliest collaborators who helped get all this rolling. Rok has watched it develop from early Breadchain into what Bread Cooperative is today.

"We are both finding intriguing solutions to and pathways for going beyond capitalist realism," he says. "It starts with imagination, but at some point it needs infrastructure."

Bread, the Solidarity Fund and upcoming Bread Stacks all provide this infrastructure. Showing the world what's possible through blockchains adds credibility to the theory.

The BREAD distribution cycle is a direct line of support for what CCA is building. The funds every month contribute to organising teams, subsidies for participants who could not otherwise attend, and room to experiment with residencies, research, and new project formats. The goal is to maximize what Rok calls "peer production value," making each event build on the last rather than exist in isolation.

"We keep space for member initiatives that may grow into research or hands-on projects, innovative funding streams, residency programmes, economic sci-fi writing clubs," he says. "You name it."

There are 3 flagship events to look forward to this year.

• The sixth annual Crypto Commons Gathering this August. No predefined theme, as always, built as a live overview of the past year and a look at where things are heading.

• Worldplay is a new series combining radical games, economic science fiction, and guerrilla futuring with the practical work of imagining alternative economies.

• The fourth Collaborative Finance Gathering brings together the longer lineage of mutual credit, accounting systems, local currencies, and UBI. Less crypto-heavy, but very much at a point where crypto can create an impact.

The easiest entry point is the Crypto Commons Telegram group, with around 400 members. If the Austrian Alps is a manageable journey away, you are encouraged to show up to one of the events. If you attend anything in the broader ecosystem, you will likely run into someone from the CCA community before long.

Governance voting for the current distribution cycle is open now. Visit the Bread Solidarity Fund to cast your vote.

We ended our chat with Rok talking about some of the fiction and storytelling that helps us see this proposed, better future clearer. And Rok enthusiastically recommended a reading list for just that. Enjoy!

Walk Away by Cory Doctorow
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Multi-Species Cities: Solar Punk Urban Futures (short story collection)
An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072