2026-06-14 –, Bread Coop Zone (Studio)
A conversation on Exocapitalism, examining how Web3 and blockchain technologies interact with broader economic systems and what alternative futures might look like.
Joshua Dávila is a writer and podcaster of The Blockchain Socialist focused on the intersection of technology, politics, and post-capitalist thought. Originally operating under a pseudonym, he publicly emerged with the publication of his book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, released by Repeater Books in 2023. He is a co-founder of the Breadchain Cooperative, which develops crypto applications from a post-capitalist perspective.
Dávila has interviewed leading voices in the crypto space such as Vitalik Buterin, Ethan Buchman, and Chris Goes, as well as critics like Cory Doctorow. He has collaborated with researchers like Primavera De Filippi to explore the ideological roots of the Network State concept. His writing has appeared in publications including Friends With Benefits and Outland, and he is the co-author of the science fiction series Katabasis Chronicles with Beth McCarthy.
Andrea Leiter is the Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research. Her work explores global inequality and transnational governance through private actors in the digital economy. Trained in international law, she examines how questions of value, ownership, and justice structure our relationship to land and community.
Her current research project, ‘(Re)coding Values in the Digital Economy’, is funded by the Dutch Research Council VENI grant. She is the author of 'Making the World Safe for Investment' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which traces the historical foundations of property protection in international economic law.
Alongside her academic work, she has co-developed ecological and social justice initiatives at the intersection of economics, technology, and environmental restoration, including the Sovereign Nature Initiative and A Thousand Breaths.
Laura Lotti is a researcher, analyst and writer investigating protocols for material autonomy across new and old technologies. She co-founded Other Internet Research Institute.