Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 16 minutes ago
New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐
In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki sits down with Jake Hartnell reality engineer, builder, and the mind behind ENOVA to explore the idea of hyperstitions: beliefs and narratives that become real by spreading through networks.
Jake explains how hyperstitions operate as a new coordination primitive, why technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and AGI can be seen as successful hyperstitions, and how tools like hyperstition markets blend prediction markets, incentives, and storytelling to drive collective action.
They discuss ENOVA, egregores, cybernetic systems, futarchy, and how communities can consciously design narratives that pull the future into the present.
A deep and playful conversation about memetics, crypto-economics, and how collective belief can shape the world.
🌱 greenpill.network
@owocki
@greenpillnet
https://x.com/JakeHartnell
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
https://x.com/0xEN0VA
https://en0va.xyz/hyperstition
⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to a new season of Greenpill
01:55 – Introducing Jake Hartnell & the idea of hyperstitions
02:45 – What is a hyperstition? (simple definition)
04:23 – Examples: AGI, Ethereum & Bitcoin as hyperstitions
06:50 – Everyday hyperstitions: lunch vs parties
08:05 – Network effects & aspirational stories
09:20 – Is Greenpill itself a hyperstition?
10:10 – What Jake is building with ENOVA
11:05 – Hyperstition markets explained
12:35 – The first hyperstition market & Goodhart’s Law
14:10 – Donation-based hyperstitions & GG / bioregional funding
16:10 – Incentivizing action, not passive prediction
18:00 – Theory of change & coordination design
19:40 – Hyperstition markets vs hyperstition itself
21:30 – Where to find ENOVA & what’s coming next
23:05 – Egregores, cybernetic systems & collective intelligence
26:15 – Making hyperstition markets permissionless
28:00 – Greenpill, regeneration & narrative power
31:55 – Phases of a hyperstition
33:20 – Futarchy & decision-making markets
35:20 – Community as the real coordination engine
36:20 – A future where DAOs work
38:15 – Collective intelligence as political power
39:50 – Closing thoughts & where to follow Jake
New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐
In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki sits down with Jake Hartnell reality engineer, builder, and the mind behind ENOVA to explore the idea of hyperstitions: beliefs and narratives that become real by spreading through networks.
Jake explains how hyperstitions operate as a new coordination primitive, why technologies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and AGI can be seen as successful hyperstitions, and how tools like hyperstition markets blend prediction markets, incentives, and storytelling to drive collective action.
They discuss ENOVA, egregores, cybernetic systems, futarchy, and how communities can consciously design narratives that pull the future into the present.
A deep and playful conversation about memetics, crypto-economics, and how collective belief can shape the world.
🌱 greenpill.network
@owocki
@greenpillnet
https://x.com/JakeHartnell
Some of the materials we mention in the episode:
https://x.com/0xEN0VA
https://en0va.xyz/hyperstition
⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to a new season of Greenpill
01:55 – Introducing Jake Hartnell & the idea of hyperstitions
02:45 – What is a hyperstition? (simple definition)
04:23 – Examples: AGI, Ethereum & Bitcoin as hyperstitions
06:50 – Everyday hyperstitions: lunch vs parties
08:05 – Network effects & aspirational stories
09:20 – Is Greenpill itself a hyperstition?
10:10 – What Jake is building with ENOVA
11:05 – Hyperstition markets explained
12:35 – The first hyperstition market & Goodhart’s Law
14:10 – Donation-based hyperstitions & GG / bioregional funding
16:10 – Incentivizing action, not passive prediction
18:00 – Theory of change & coordination design
19:40 – Hyperstition markets vs hyperstition itself
21:30 – Where to find ENOVA & what’s coming next
23:05 – Egregores, cybernetic systems & collective intelligence
26:15 – Making hyperstition markets permissionless
28:00 – Greenpill, regeneration & narrative power
31:55 – Phases of a hyperstition
33:20 – Futarchy & decision-making markets
35:20 – Community as the real coordination engine
36:20 – A future where DAOs work
38:15 – Collective intelligence as political power
39:50 – Closing thoughts & where to follow Jake
![[2026] S.10 Ep.6 - Vitalik Buterin: Public Goods Funding in 2026 & What Builders Should Do Next](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fXcpEqvL5_4/mqdefault.jpg "[2026] S.10 Ep.6 - Vitalik Buterin: Public Goods Funding in 2026 & What Builders Should Do Next
In this episode of the Green Pill Podcast, Kevin Owocki and co-host Devansh Mehta sit down with Vitalik Buterin for their annual deep dive into the future of public goods funding in the Ethereum ecosystem.
They explore where funding will come from in 2026, how the landscape has shifted from “vibes-based” funding to verifiable, dependency-driven mechanisms, and why this is the best moment to reform PGF using new tools like programmable cryptography, AI-assisted evaluation, and deep funding models.
Vitalik also shares how he thinks about dependencies, credible neutrality, open-source licensing, pluralism, accountability, and what builders should prioritize in the coming year.
A must-listen for anyone designing mechanisms, funding public goods, or building the next era of Ethereum governance.
🌱 https://greenpill.network
https://x.com/owocki
https://x.com/greenpillnet
https://x.com/VitalikButerin
https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta
🌐 Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome to the Greenpill Podcast
01:50 – Vitalik joins: why public goods funding matters
02:19 – Why PGF is essential for decentralization
04:18 – The crypto spirit: censorship resistance, institutional design & funding
06:42 – The shift from vibes-era PGF to verifiable mechanisms
08:25 – Why 2026 is the best moment to reform PGF
10:19 – Where does PGF money actually come from?
12:45 – Open-source licensing, taxes & funding dependencies
17:34 – “Fund your dependencies” as a stable mechanism
19:35 – Why general-purpose QF doesn’t work in a chaotic world
21:59 – Bottom-up vs top-down: polycentric PGF
25:29 – How to create accountability loops in public goods
27:22 – Funding open-source as an Ethereum priority
29:31 – Privacy as a public good & why it’s upstream of PGF
31:54 – What OSS developers really think about crypto
33:52 – Mixing social outreach with financial support
35:56 – What should PGF builders focus on in 2026?
38:13 – Work with new projects, not legacy ones
39:44 – Ecosystem cycles & “layers of sediment”
41:39 – Yield-based funding (Octant) & treasury strategies
43:40 – Accountability: from vibes to rigorous mechanisms
47:35 – Motivation, feedback & the psychology of public goods
50:43 – Profit sharing licenses & sustainable PGF pools
53:46 – Security, issuance & public goods
56:12 – Technology, democracy & long-term risks
58:31 – How PGF relates to DIAC (Defensive/Decentralized Acceleration)
01:00:05 – Solving the free-rider problem without coercion
01:02:12 – Mechanisms vs coercion: credible neutrality
01:04:16 – Institutions, power & capture risks
01:06:16 – Individuals vs institutions in PGF
01:08:41 – Why PGF is more error-tolerant than governance
01:11:01 – Pluralism: many funders, many mechanisms
01:13:14 – Why diversity of funders is healthy
01:15:17 – What Vitalik wants built next
01:17:12 – Ethereum localism & real-world experiments
01:19:28 – What success in PGF looks like by end of 2026
01:24:28 – Closing thoughts")
