Meet Common Ground

Common Ground is a web3-native Discord alternative for blockchain ecosystems.

We help web3 ecosystems to bring all their communities together Making communities easy to discover and accelerate the adoption of the ecosystem's tech & products is a key success factor for modern ecosystems in and outside crypto.

Today, communities within web3 ecosystems are fragmented across a plethora of web2 platforms, making them hard to understand & stay informed on who's building what. With Common Ground, ecosystems become legible, easy to discover & fun to join.

Token-gated roles, chats, live broadcasts and blogs make Common Ground the must-have for every web3 ecosystem. Overall, Common Ground serves as a groundbreaking social interface to significant on-chain protocols that facilitate human coordination in novel ways, making the unique value proposition of web3 accessible to a broad range of communities and people.

Only Common Ground caters to the specific needs of web3 ecosystems. Building for this new paradigm is a game changer.

Website URL

https://commonground.cg/

Company Twitter URL

https://twitter.com/CommonGround_cg

Company GitHub URL

https://github.com/Common-Ground-DAO

The Team

We’re an engineering-driven team of seven, based in Germany, Portugal and Brasil. The two founders Florian Glatz (CEO) and Jan Hangebrauck (CTO) met in 2020 and founded Common Ground in early 2022. Florian is a lawyer and software developer who has been working full-time in crypto since 2014, initially as a developer in the Bitcoin and Ethereum community, later on as a legal advisor to significant protocols and DAOs. Jan is a theoretical computer scientist who has worked as a full-stack developer in web, ML/AI and micro-controllers for 20+ years and who taught himself smart contract development from 2019 onwards. Tobias Hertkorn worked as a premier field engineer at Microsoft before founding his own software development agency. Gustavo and Gabriel are senior web developers with a passion for scalable architecture. Our product designer Dominic is a trained architect who converted to digital product design 5 years ago. He’s worked for clients such as Siemens, Mercedes and Motius.

What's success look like

Common Ground succeeds when our communities succeed. We want to build a collaborative community hyperstructure that empowers new forms of cooperation within and across communities and ecosystems.

Common Ground is set up as a cooperative that is owned by its ecosystems, communities and users. In five years we envision Common Ground to have completed its transition to community ownership. The platform will generate significant monthly recurring revenues, the investment and distribution of which will be fully governed by its users. We believe we have developed a unique ownership structure that will show the way for many internet platforms on how to become aligned with the interests of its users and operate in a financially sustainable manner.

What value does your project bring to the ecosystem

We want to bring a new level of connectivity, communication and collaboration to blockchain ecosystems. By supporting over 16 L1 and L2 blockchains already in the Common Ground desktop & mobile app, all the projects joining Common Ground have a shared place to build, talk and grow together. With the option of a dedicated ecosystem on Common Ground, any chain or other ecosystem-like organisations can foster even more collaboration across all their communities by offering a dedicated home to its builders and users under their own brand.