Crypto Commons
Gathering
August 16-23, 2026
A week-long retreat where genuine desire for postcapitalist change meets blockchain tinkering, commons building, and radical imagination in the Austrian Alps.
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What is CCG?
The Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) is an annual week-long retreat organised by the Crypto Commons Association in collaboration with the Commons Hub. To its growing community, it serves as a recurring temporary refuge from late-capitalism (or something worse) and as a convivium to reimagine how we organize value, care and meaning for a "post-capitalist world of many worlds".
2026 marks the 6th edition of the CCG — six years of bringing together commons builders, token tinkerers, speculative worldbuilders, artists, complex systems thinkers, degens turned regen, and everyone curious about the weird futures that emerge when crypto meets genuine international and intersectional postcapitalist desire.
Lifelong Friendships
Connect with like-minded individuals in a convivial setting
Cross-Pollination
Share visions, trajectories, and strategies
New Infrastructures
Build regenerative and cooperative systems
Participant-Driven
Everyone contributes and shapes the event
Unconference Themes: What to Expect
Talks, workshops, and spontaneous experiments at CCG cover a wide range of topics. They often start with a curiosity in using blockchain, tokenization and decentralized governance for the common good, but rarely stay there exclusively – crypto, non-crypto alternatives, open source projects, degrowth initiatives, and other spheres increasingly cross-pollinate here under a decolonial, feminist, queer, multispecies-attuned frame.
Regenerative & Collaborative Finance
ReFi DAO, EthicHub, CoFi Gathering, Regen Network, Circles UBI
Myco-Economics
Governance & Mutualism
Solarpunk & Radical Games
pocas, Solar Punk WOW, Futurescraft, economic science fiction
Format: How We Explore
CCG follows an open space or "unconference" format. This means the schedule is co-created on-site by all participants: during the daily morning circle, anyone can propose a session, host a discussion, or start a collective experiment, and schedule it at one of five sites across the Hub, each with its own affordances.
Workshops, keynotes, rituals, games and evening performances traditionally unfold organically, reflecting the shared interests, dynamics and projects that emerge over the week.
The Commons Hub
Located in the mountains of the Austrian Alps at Reichenau an der Rax, the Commons Hub provides a convivial, off-grid setting perfect for deep reflection and meaningful connection.
The Commons Hub has become a full-fledged event hosting organization, co-led by brothers Felix and Emil Fritsch, with exciting expansion and ecovillage plans in the works.
Richard von Schoeller-StraĂźe 9
2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
Join the Sixth Edition of CCG
Whether you're reconnecting or arriving for the first time, CCG 2026 presents a space to collectively take stock of what crypto commons has become and what it still could be.
Drop your email to stay in the loop on upcoming announcements!
Interested in the Crypto Commons Association cooperative? Learn more at the event.
New for 2026
Stay for the Valley of the Commons
When CCG wraps on August 22, the experiment is just getting started. Stick around for 1 to 4 weeks and join a new extended event right where you are — in the Austrian Alps.
What is it?
Valley of the Commons is a four-week experimental pop-up village running August 24 – September 20, 2026 — picking up just two days after CCG ends. It's not a conference or a simulation: it's a functioning co-living community taking concrete steps toward permanent settlement in the Höllental valley.
Mornings are structured learning paths, afternoons bring workshops and working groups, evenings are communal time, and weekends are open for exploring the Alps. You can stay for one week or all four.
Weekly Themes
Return of the Commons
Commons theory and history, with guest speakers
Production & Value
Cosmo-local production, open value accounting systems
Cooperative Housing
Nomad-friendly communal housing, renovation, ecological integration
Governance & Funding
Horizontal governance, legal frameworks, funding mechanisms
CCG + Valley: The Full Experience
Come for CCG's unconference week (Aug 16-23), then flow straight into Valley of the Commons (Aug 24 – Sep 20). Same mountains, same community, deeper roots. Perfect for digital workers, post-corporate professionals, and anyone seeking grounded, cooperative ways of living.
