For villages · First cohort · Fall 2026 · 10 villages

Building a village usually ends in failure. Don’t do it alone.

It’s legally exhausting and financially punishing. Most intentional communities collapse — infighting, zoning battles, running out of money. We’re selecting 10 hardcore land stewards and giving them a ~3x capital multiplier, a Web3 operating system, and a battle-tested Swiss legal framework to build the next generation of solarpunk villages — without selling their souls to private equity.

~3x

Matched on Artizen

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Villages · fall 2026

Closer

Your operating system

2027

Token raise · spring

What you get

Capital, tools, law, and a backstop.

~3x

Funding with a multiplier

Your campaign launches on Artizen. Donors seed the fund’s matching pool before your campaign opens; every $1 your supporters give draws a match from that pool, plus Artizen endowment prizes. Matching runs until the pool is spent — it’s pre-raised money, not a guarantee of infinite match.

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Closer as your operating system

Bookings, membership, events, governance, Proof of Presence, and token utilities — the same platform Traditional Dream Factory has run on for seven years — plus 1% of platform transaction fees flowing back into the fund.

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Legal infrastructure, if you want it

The OASA structure — Swiss association + land trust, a token model built on use rights rather than investment contracts — is available to adopt, but not required. Either way, our legal counsel is at your disposal to map your structure onto local zoning and property law.

The failure backstop

Villages using the OASA trust: if you run out of money, the land stays in trust — it can’t be seized by creditors chasing equity or flipped by a majority faction. Stewardship transitions; the commons survives.

The bar

What we look for. And what we don’t.

What we look for

  • Land — title or long-term lease, and a regeneration plan that meets the OASA Constitution’s seven principles.
  • A binding stewardship commitment. Non-negotiable. The OASA model — land in trust, use rights instead of equity — is one proven path, but if you protect your land another way, you disclose your methodology openly. A 100-year horizon over a 5-year exit, whatever the legal wrapper.
  • Stomach for the messy middle. Consent-based governance causes friction. Co-ownership is legally complex. Novel financing means building the plane while flying it. We have the playbook; you need the resilience.
  • Open books. Financial and ecological transparency to the OASA network, with annual reporting.
  • Run on Closer for the cohort. Use the platform as your digital backbone during the experiment. No lock-in — your data and community stay yours, and you can leave after.

Reasons not to apply

  • You see the land as a real estate play with an exit.
  • You’re building toward an exit, not a legacy — stewardship is a constraint you’d rather escape.
  • You won’t open your books to the OASA network.

Eligibility on Artizen

  • Steward physical land, ideally under a commons structure — a trust, non-profit or similar.
  • An active community of 7+ people shaping the village through governance and stewardship.
  • Run an instance of Closer to experiment with novel ways of organising.
  • Embody the OASA principles; ideally, be willing to experiment with tokenised participation.
See the fund on Artizen →

Seven principles, in one line each

Soil life-filled & fertile · Water healthy cycles · Air clean & restorative · Waste non-waste mindset · Rewilding ≥50% wild land · Resources ≤5% built, renewable · Community equitable & open.

Aerial view of the Traditional Dream Factory community
Proof it survives contact with reality

The village is still standing. The soil is better.

Traditional Dream Factory (Alentejo, Portugal): 25 ha, 300+ token holders, €1.5M+ raised through tokens, 1.5M litres of rain harvesting infrastructure, 60+ active citizens, seven years of consent-based governance with the scars to show for it. The land is in trust. It runs entirely on Closer.

The path

Now

Apply

Your land, your community, your plan — and why you have the stomach for this.

Fall 2026

Cohort launch

10 villages onboard to Closer and launch matched campaigns on Artizen.

Spring 2027

Token raise

Cohort villages issue tokens selling governance and use rights — never equity — opening follow-on capital.

Apply

Still here? You might be one of the ten.

Applications are open now. We read every one — and we say no a lot. Three steps: check yourself against the bar, tell us about your land, then create your Closer account — the cohort lives there.

Step 1

Check yourself against the bar

Tick what’s true today. Honesty saves us both time.

Tick the boxes that apply. The more you can honestly tick, the stronger your application.
Step 2

Tell us about your land

Two minutes. Your application goes straight to Closer, and you continue there to create your account.

Already on Closer? Skip straight to launching your village →

Questions villages ask

Before you apply

Do we have to adopt the OASA trust model?

No. The OASA structure — Swiss association plus land trust, tokens built on use rights rather than investment contracts — is available to adopt, but not required. What is non-negotiable is a binding stewardship commitment: if you protect your land another way, you disclose your methodology openly. A 100-year horizon over a 5-year exit, whatever the legal wrapper.

How does the ~3x matching actually work?

Donors seed the fund’s matching pool before village campaigns open on Artizen. Every dollar a supporter gives to your campaign draws a match from that pool, amplified by Artizen endowment prizes. Matching runs until the pool is spent — it is pre-raised money, not a guarantee of infinite match. Your job is to bring supporters; ours is to have the pool ready.

What happens if we run out of money?

If you use the OASA trust, the land stays in trust. It cannot be seized by creditors chasing equity or flipped by a majority faction. Stewardship transitions to new hands; the commons survives. If you use your own structure, that protection is whatever your structure provides — which is why we ask you to disclose it.

Do we have to stay on Closer afterwards?

You run on Closer for the duration of the cohort as your digital backbone. There is no lock-in: your data and community stay yours, everything can be exported, and you can leave after.

We don’t have land yet. Should we apply?

Apply anyway and say so. Land — title or long-term lease — or a concrete deal in progress matters most for the first cohort, but we’d rather know about strong teams early. The cohort after this one will exist too.

What is the token raise in spring 2027?

Cohort villages issue tokens that sell governance and use rights — a night’s stay, a vote, a membership — never equity or profit distributions. It opens follow-on capital for villages that have proven themselves during the cohort. Traditional Dream Factory has raised over €1.5M this way from 300+ token holders.

Let’s grow.

Applications open now · first cohort fall 2026

Apply now

Sam — OASA Village Fund Director · [email protected]