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Aura Season 2: Week 3 Quests Are Live

Aura Season 2: Week 3 Quests Are Live

Aura Season 2 has been moving fast, and the momentum isn’t slowing down. In Week 2, we saw contributors join new communities like Sonieum, 0G, and Moca Network, stacking Aura while building across ecosystems. Now it’s time for Week 3, and we’re turning up the volume with

Private Topics Are Live on Common

Private Topics Are Live on Common

Coordinate like a DAO. Talk like a group chat. Public forums are the heart of onchain coordination. But sometimes, communities need private spaces to work through early ideas, contributor discussions, or alpha drops. Now you can — all inside Common. 🔒 What Are Private Topics? Private Topics are group-gated discussion spaces inside

Aura Season 2: Week 2 Quests Are Live

Aura Season 2: Week 2 Quests Are Live

Season 2 is already off to a huge start. In Week 1, we kicked things off with the Binance Wallet quest, unveiled Common’s Genesis NFT, introduced Lamumu, and dropped some of the biggest Aura quests yet. Communities showed up strong, stacking Aura, trading, and joining new experiments at scale.

Aura Season 2 has arrived

Aura Season 2 has arrived

Twelve weeks. Hundreds of thousands of contributors. Nearly 100 quests. Aura Season 1 showed what’s possible when communities coordinate onchain with rewards that actually mean something. From protocol partnerships to launchpad experiments, we turned engagement into momentum. Now we’re taking it to the next level. Aura Season 2

Common Circle: The Vision

Common Circle: The Vision

Powering the next wave of onchain community builders Why Common Circle? The Common ecosystem is home to some of the sharpest minds in web3. Common Circle is our new contributor program designed to: * Empower proven community leaders to expand the Common ecosystem. * Reward meaningful, measurable impact with onchain incentives. * Support

Content Clips — powered by Aura

Content Clips — powered by Aura

TL;DR Clip the best moments from Common livestreams, remix our long-form articles or turn the juiciest discussion threads into snack-sized highlights. Earn 500 Aura Points for every 1 000 qualified views on X, stack bonus multipliers if you hit the leaderboard, and turn your reach into real ownership in

Aura Season 1: Weeks 10–12 — Wrapping Up and What’s Ahead

Aura Season 1: Weeks 10–12 — Wrapping Up and What’s Ahead

Aura Season 1 is coming to an end this week. Over the past 12 weeks, we’ve launched nearly 100 quests, shipped new tools, and welcomed hundreds of thousands of new contributors across Common. What started as an experiment in ecosystem reputation has evolved into a network-wide coordination engine—and

Making Web3 Games Fun-First with TiltPlay

Making Web3 Games Fun-First with TiltPlay

What if web3 games were actually fun and easy to play? That’s exactly what TiltPlay is building. We talked with Daniel from TiltPlay during our latest Twitter Space to talk about how they’re making blockchain games fast, seamless, and worth playing for the gameplay itself, not just the

Exploring Onchain Identity and Community Infrastructure with Box Domains

Exploring Onchain Identity and Community Infrastructure with Box Domains

The growing overlap between onchain identity, governance tooling, and community coordination is reshaping how communities organize and build lasting infrastructure on the internet. Our conversation with ohms.box from Box covered naming infrastructure to contributor incentives, and how projects like Box and Common are building toward a more sovereign and

Cleaning Wallets and Riding Trends on Solana with Purity Finance

Cleaning Wallets and Riding Trends on Solana with Purity Finance

Did you know that cleaning your Solana wallet is important to get rid of dust? Cori from Purity Finance shared a deep dive into their mission to bring simplicity, fun, and clarity to Solana’s often chaotic user experience. What started as a practical tool to declutter wallets is now

How Pop-Up Cities Are Solving Crypto's Biggest Problems with Crecimiento

How Pop-Up Cities Are Solving Crypto's Biggest Problems with Crecimiento

In a world where remote work has become the norm and digital nomadism is on the rise, a new phenomenon is reshaping how we think about community, innovation, and economic development: pop-up cities. At the forefront of this movement is Crecimiento, an ambitious initiative working to transform Argentina into the

Community Coins: Launch Your Own Tokenized Community on Base

Community Coins: Launch Your Own Tokenized Community on Base

Introducing Community Coins on Common. With Community Coins, every forum gets its own coin. The more interest, and coins get bought, the more rewards fly. These rewards can be used automatically to fund the top post of the week or a project the community care about. How it Works -

Aura Season 1: Weeks 8 & 9 — Launching, Swapping, and Scaling Up

Aura Season 1: Weeks 8 & 9 — Launching, Swapping, and Scaling Up

Aura Season 1 keeps building momentum as we move into Weeks 8 and 9, and we’re closing out this season with real onchain action, new protocol partners, and a bold look ahead at what’s coming next. This week, we’ve expanded our ongoing partnership with SuperVol, a DeFi

From Inspiration to IP and Creative Infrastructure with Soneium

From Inspiration to IP and Creative Infrastructure with Soneium

Creative innovation in the Soneium ecosystem The future of creative IP and infra lies in blockchain tech, restoring ownership to creators. Recently, we held a panel discussion where the Soneium ecosystem chatted about the evolution of creative IP in web3, the empowerment of artists onchain, and the infrastructure needed to

Aura Season 1: Week 6 & 7 — Completing the Cycle

Aura Season 1: Week 6 & 7 — Completing the Cycle

Aura returns in Week 6 and 7 — and with it, something new is beginning to take shape. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on a major feature that will complete the lifecycle of onchain communities on Common. We’re not announcing it officially just yet, but if you’ve

Aura Season 1: Weeks 4 & 5 — The Interlude

Aura Season 1: Weeks 4 & 5 — The Interlude

Aura Season 1 kicked off with incredible momentum — thousands of participants, native Common actions completed, and thousands of Aura distributed across communities. Weeks 4 and 5 were different… a moment of pause, a quiet interlude. Instead of piling on new quests, we focused on the foundations: improving reliability, scaling infrastructure,

Scaling DeFi Communities with AZEx

Scaling DeFi Communities with AZEx

Boring financial platforms are being left behind in crypto. Instead, people are looking to hubs like AZEx that are exploring peer-to-peer trading, yield farming, and soon, AI copy trading features. In a recent Alpha and Yap chat, AZEx's Elyas gave us a behind-the-scenes look into their journey and

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 3 – Introducing Partners

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 3 – Introducing Partners

Introducing Our First Ecosystem Partner Week Week 3 is here, and it’s a big one. We’re kicking off the first themed partner week of Aura Season 1 — and with it, unlocking even more ways to build your network reputation, activate Aura, and connect across the growing onchain ecosystem.

Drosera is Enhancing DeFi Security with Smart Contract Traps

Drosera is Enhancing DeFi Security with Smart Contract Traps

Despite rapid changes for DeFi, security is always a top priority for builders. We got to Trap and Yap with FDR and Boba from Drosera to learn about how they’re tackling security. Their approach involves smart contracts to create off-chain infrastructure for security monitoring, risk management, and more. Here’

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 2

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 2

Week 1 of Common Aura was a banger. Thousands of users jumped in, explored the Common Client, joined communities, submitted fan art, and helped shape the roadmap. From governance threads to memes, the first week showed just how powerful network reputation can be when it's built with the

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 1

Activating Aura: Season 1 Week 1

Your Journey Starts Here Welcome to Common Aura — the beginning of your network reputation journey. With Aura, you’ll: * Explore the Common Protocol – A powerful toolkit for decentralized coordination. * Navigate the Common Client – Your portal to seamless community interaction. * Connect with Ecosystem Partners – Collaborate with emerging and established projects Today,

Why User Experience Matters for Crypto Wallets with Coinomi

Why User Experience Matters for Crypto Wallets with Coinomi

Crypto wallets have evolved from simple storage solutions into versatile tools offering a wide range of functions for users. In our last Alpha and Yap, we had the opportunity to hear from Koby, a long-standing team member at Coinomi, a multi-coin wallet that has been operating since 2014. He shared

What is Common Aura?

What is Common Aura?

Common Aura: Your Network Reputation Aura tracks your contributions across the Common ecosystem. It’s not points or tokens — it’s your network reputation. Whether you're exploring communities, using the Common Client, or completing ecosystem quests, every action helps grow your Aura. Note: A separate blog will go

Zero-Knowledge Proving for Security and Accessibility with Boundless

Zero-Knowledge Proving for Security and Accessibility with Boundless

Zero-knowledge (ZK) proving is taking crypto by storm for good reason. ZK is changing the way we think about computing, privacy, and security with fascinating use cases and innovations. We had a talk with Mash from Boundless where we got to chat through the exciting opportunities that come with this

Regen Network: Enhancing Ecological Markets Through Blockchain Tech

Regen Network: Enhancing Ecological Markets Through Blockchain Tech

Environmental sustainability and crypto isn’t a crossover we see often, but the use case for using web3 is particularly appealing with Regen Network. In an Alpha and Yap Space with Dave Fortson, Chief Growth Officer of Regen Network, we learned about how they're using blockchain tech to