The P2P Pool Guide
An open guide to how MyCity builds city infrastructure, and how the peer pool works inside it. One short post each week, explaining the model step by step.
This is a guide, not an offer. Joining is not open yet, and nothing here is investment advice.
The idea in short
Cities, built by the people who use them.
MyCity builds cities with funds it earns through its own work, and keeps the vision in control. Alongside that, a peer pool lets people contribute together to build their own infrastructure, with a voice in what is built. The series below takes it one step at a time.
The series
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Our Cities Were Built Without a Plan
About two-thirds of people will live in cities by 2050, yet over a billion already live in slums and informal settlements. What it looks like when cities grow without a plan, from the world to Colombo, and what a plan actually has to include.
What Sri Lanka Already Knew About Building Cities
Sri Lanka’s ancient cities were planned around water, fields, villages and temples as one system. What the cascaded tank-village system teaches, in plain terms, and why it matters for how we build today.
MyCity Is a Tree: Trunk, Branches and Leaves New
A tree grows trunk first, then branches, then leaves. How MyCity is organised in the same order, what lives at each level, and what the cooperative movement learned about growing a network without losing its character.
The Anchor and the Commons: How Every Plot Is Shared New
Every plot MyCity develops has two parts: an Anchor built on MyCity’s terms and a Commons built with peers. What commons research says about shared governance, where this model fits, and where it honestly departs.
How a MyCity City Is Structured: Five Layers Coming 18 Nov
The five layers every MyCity city is built on, from peers to public record, how each works in a DAO, and what two US court cases mean for anyone who takes part in one.
How the Peer Pool Works: Six Steps and a $50 Unit Coming 25 Nov
How the MyCity peer pool is designed: where rotating savings circles came from, how the pool differs from a seetu, the six steps, the planned $50 USDT unit, and the risks of holding stablecoins.
What a MyCity City Can Build: Stay, Eat, Work, Move Coming 2 Dec
Stays, restaurants, coworking, energy and transport: what community-owned infrastructure looks like in practice, with real examples from community energy to village shops, and an honest note on what is not yet proven.
The Strategy Behind the Pool: Four Principles Coming 9 Dec
How the pool treats funds it has not yet spent: four principles, what Bitcoin’s history of large drawdowns teaches, and why unspent funds are managed for safety first, not growth.
How a City Grows: Seed, Sprout, Branch, Forest Coming 16 Dec
Cities grow in stages. How a MyCity city moves from Seed to Sprout, Branch and Forest, what has to be true before each move, and what comparable community-owned models show about growing without losing their character.
What the Pool Is, What It Is Not, and Your Questions Coming 23 Dec
A plain account of what the MyCity P2P pool is, what it is not, the full list of risks, and answers to the questions people ask most, written to help you decide whether it is for you.