+Colonia (Más Colonia). Uruguay city DAO
Spanish-language city-DAO project in Colonia, Uruguay. Property purchase grants a governance token; residents vote on district-level decisions (budgets, public works) using a token-weighted system. Pitched as a hybrid of physical real-estate ownership and on-chain neighborhood governance.
Districts within +Colonia each vote on their own initiatives, and the resulting projects/builds (parks, infra) are visible across districts. Districts compete on what they shipped.
Token issuance is tied to property ownership in the district, meaning intra-district neighbors share an economic interest in their district's outcomes; voting forces internal deliberation.
Spanish-language under-mentioned example specifically tying neighborhood-DAO voting to actual property in a real Latin American town. Distinct from the Praxis/CityDAO vaporware critique. Worth a deeper verification for BelongHub.
Others in the same family
Friends With Benefits. City Keys & Event Keys
Token-gated social DAO with a 'City Keys' grant program that funds regional in-person gatherings, plus 'Event Keys' that let any member spin up a local meetup with treasury support. Discord has restricted regional sub-channels per city.
Decidim process-groups + Barcelona/Helsinki/NYC participatory budgeting district tiers
Decidim's 'process groups' feature is explicitly designed for grouping parallel participatory budgets per district/neighbourhood. NYC's PB ran in 30 of 51 council districts in 2021-22, each with at least $1M to spend, residents drop pins on a map to pitch ideas. Helsinki's OmaStadi splits city budget by area (Itäinen, Eteläinen, Pohjoinen, etc.) with separate ideation, deliberation and vote per area.
FOAM Map. Community POI curation with staking
FOAM lets users curate a decentralized map of Points of Interest by staking FOAM tokens on each POI; bad POIs can be challenged. Each region's POI density and quality is visible on the public map. Originally paired with a planned 'Proof of Location' radio beacon network.
Cabin. Neighborhoods, Outposts & ₡ABIN votes
Cabin built a directory where coliving properties register as Outposts (informal listings) and can be promoted to official 'Neighborhoods' once they meet criteria (≥4 bedrooms, 20mbps) and accumulate 1,000 ₡ABIN votes from the community. The token treasury was distributed when the DAO wound down in 2025, but the directory and the Neighborhood/Outpost framework remain.
Citizen Wallet + Zinne (Brussels community currency)
Citizen Wallet is an open-source 'WordPress of Web3' wallet stack any community can fork to launch its own local token. Zinne is the live Brussels deployment - 1 Zinne = 1 EUR, spendable only at participating local Brussels businesses; received Zinne must be re-spent locally.
2zero Klimathon (Mannheim, Glienicke, Hufeisen-Region, Schleswig-Holstein)
6-week 'Klimathon' run by Berlin-based 2zero (formerly Klimakompass). Each week features 4-6 challenges across themes (mobility, food, energy, consumption, digital, leisure). Mannheim ran as a CoLAB pilot under the EU '100 climate-neutral cities by 2030' Mission starting Jan 2025.