Neocypherpunk Summit

Nikoline Arns is a governance designer, civic-tech entrepreneur, and community organizer building bridges between Web3, privacy culture, and real-world social infrastructure. Her current focus is HUBS Network, a decentralized network of physical hubs, hacker spaces, cultural centers, and regenerative communities experimenting with open governance, self-sovereignty, and collaborative coordination. Through HUBS, she works on connecting online decentralized movements with IRL communities that share values around privacy, decentralization, and commons-based systems.

Before Hubs Network, Nikoline co-founded projects such as pact.social, citizen.chat and DoinGud, where she explored decentralized governance, social impact coordination, NFTs, and privacy-preserving civic participation tools. Her background spans design, cooperative organizing, DAO ecosystems, and sociocratic governance, with a long-standing focus on connecting communities that “share the same values but not the same language” — from Ethereum builders to local cooperatives and civic initiatives.

Deeply influenced by cypherpunk culture, RadicalxChange, and regenerative coordination movements, Nikoline advocates for human-centered digital systems that strengthen autonomy, trust, and democratic participation both online and offline. Her work sits at the intersection of privacy, decentralized social infrastructure, and imagination-driven institution building.