Afropolitan

Afropolitan began in 2016 as an events and media organisation for the African diaspora and reorganized in 2022 as a DAO pursuing a "digital nation": 10,000 NFT passports were issued on Ethereum as membership credentials and event access passes, made non-transferable so seats could not be speculated on in a secondary market. Passport-holding addresses vote in governance, with topic-specific sub-DAOs covering content, events and physical hubs. Nationality is rebuilt as programmable membership, with identity, access and treasury allocation recorded by contracts, dues paid in stablecoins and spending decided by vote.

Its place in the ecosystem is closer to an organising layer for a diaspora community than to a chain or a DeFi protocol. Compared with identity protocols such as Worldcoin, it attests community belonging rather than personhood uniqueness; compared with general DAO tooling, it binds offline events and a member network into one governance structure. Non-transferability means membership can only grow through new issuance, and voting power sits with the earliest holders.