The internet gave us the ability to connect, share, and talk to anyone on the planet. Yet most of our digital lives still run on platforms and institutions controlled by a single authority—a bank, a social media giant, a government. What if we could build tools and organizations where power and decision-making are spread across a whole community, and where everyone can see for themselves that the rules are being followed? That is exactly what decentralized technologies and commons-based models aim to do.