Common Wrapped 2025: A Year of Real Onchain Progress

Jay Peredo

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Common Wrapped 2025: A Year of Real Onchain Progress

2025 was the year onchain coordination stopped feeling theoretical and started feeling real.

Community coins became community economies. Reputation moved from vague metrics to usable infrastructure. AI and wallets, tokens and incentives — everything started clicking into place. At Common, we didn't just watch that happen. We built the tools, infrastructure, and systems that made it possible.

This wrap is a look back at some of the year's biggest highlights — from new ecosystems and product launches to community breakthroughs and the debut of $COMMON. But more than that, it's a snapshot of where coordination is actually going.

Building Across Ecosystems

The biggest shift this year was Common expanding into new ecosystems — not just technically, but philosophically.

On Soneium, we partnered to help power an emerging creative economy where every contribution gets tracked, rewarded, and leveraged for growth. It's a vision that aligns perfectly with Common's mission: make coordination meaningful, and make reputation matter.

We also launched in the SUI ecosystem. SUI's high-performance infrastructure and modular smart contracts make it ideal for fast-moving, tokenized communities. By expanding to new ecosystems, Common becomes more composable, more accessible, and better positioned to meet communities where they actually are.

Making Access Seamless

For communities to grow, infrastructure has to work for everyone — not just crypto-natives.

This year we rolled out integrations that made Common radically easier to use. Uniswap let communities enable token swaps directly from their space, reducing friction and boosting participation. Moonpay brought fiat onramps to the platform, so new users could join without touching a CEX. Binance Wallet and OKX Wallet support opened Common to millions more users around the world.

Together, these integrations made coordination on Common smoother, faster, and more inclusive. This is how crypto goes mainstream — not through abstract ideas, but through real infrastructure that actually works.

Product Innovation with Purpose

Our biggest wins in 2025 weren't just about what we shipped. They were about what it made possible.

Community Coins let any group create a tokenized community economy in minutes. But it wasn't just token launching — it was incentive alignment from day one. Built-in treasury tools and Aura integration turned Community Coins into engines for growth, coordination, and shared ownership.

Farcaster Contests brought coordination to culture. These weren't just giveaways — they were programmable, verifiable engagement tools that helped communities spark participation, discover talent, and reward creativity. In a world where attention is currency, contests turned engagement into something measurable and valuable.

Aura Reputation matured into a core layer of the Common stack. By tracking onchain activity, governance participation, referrals, and social engagement, Aura helped communities recognize real contributors and route rewards accordingly. When we launched Trust Levels, we extended that logic into access control — making it easy for communities to gate actions, rewards, or conversations based on earned trust, not arbitrary roles.

Private Key Access for Magic Wallet gave users full ownership. You can't talk about autonomy if users don't control their keys. Now they do — with the same ease of use that brought them in.

Aura-powered Referrals 2.0 let communities grow in a way that rewards long-term alignment, not short-term hype. Referrals aren't just marketing anymore. They're incentives that evolve with the community.

Communities That Made It Real

2025 wasn't just about infrastructure. It was about what people actually did with it.

Teva DAO migrated to Base this year — moving a living, functioning community across chains without breaking coordination. It was a technical feat, but more importantly, it proved something: communities don't have to stay locked into any single system. Common gave them the flexibility to move and thrive.

Quantum Bio DAO showed what happens when decentralized science meets onchain coordination. With real grants, research, and momentum, they used Common to go beyond governance forums into applied science funding.

Athena DAO proved this model can drive social good at scale. Their work funding women's health research isn't feel-good storytelling. It's a clear example of how onchain coordination fills gaps left by traditional institutions — transparently, credibly, and backed by real community support.

These are the stories that define Common. Not speculation. Not governance theater. But real outcomes that people can point to and feel.

Lamumu: Proof of Community

The launch of Lamumu NFTs was a watershed moment for Common.

Lamumu represented something deeper than an NFT drop — it was proof that communities could come together around shared vision and actually execute. Over 11,600 community members participated. The event showed what coordination at scale looks like: transparent, inclusive, and driven by real community sentiment.

Lamumu wasn't just a collectible. It was a statement. Common's community was real. And they were ready to build together.

Asia Expansion: Going Global

2025 was also the year Common went global in earnest.

An Asia tour brought the Common vision to the world's most engaged crypto communities. Token2049, Kawaii Web3 Festival, ETH Tokyo, ETH Taipei — we showed up where builders were thinking ahead. Dillon appeared on primetime Korean television talking about the future of coordination. We launched on Soneium, partnered with Startale. Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia — these markets understood what we were building.

This wasn't just marketing. It was proof that coordination infrastructure matters everywhere. And that Common was positioned to lead it.

The Launch of $COMMON

This year marked a major milestone: the launch of the $COMMON token.

Built as the coordination layer for the entire platform, $COMMON powers governance, incentives, and emissions across communities and infrastructure. But $COMMON isn't just another token. It's part of a broader shift toward protocol-based coordination — where every agent (human or AI) has aligned incentives, clear inputs, and transparent outputs.

The Common Foundation whitepaper lays this out in full, including the role of reputation, futarchy, and prediction markets in shaping the next phase of decentralized organizations.

Read the full whitepaper: common.foundation/whitepaper-pdf

What's Coming in 2026

2026 is about scale — scaling reputation, scaling coordination, scaling impact.

That means futarchy as a governance layer. Native prediction markets to inform decisions with real stakes. AI tooling that doesn't replace contributors but empowers them to act faster and smarter. More integrations. More partners. More people building real communities with real tools.

We're not building a product. We're building public infrastructure for coordination. For creators, scientists, DAOs, startups, protocols — anyone trying to get something done with others online.

Full roadmap: Commons 2025–2026 Roadmap

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