nskpi.com
Network state vital signs.
Vital signs for the network state movement. Population, participation, open problems, real numbers, not just a list of who exists. Directories list who exists. This reads live numbers from the Civic Protocol — open, MIT, no gatekeeper. Every node here chose to publish these numbers.
snapshot: 2026-08-31 14:38 UTC
People known
2,753
Across every registered node. A roster size, not a headcount claim.
Opted in publicly
0
People who said where they're headed next. Never the full roster.
Open problems
4
Surfaced, awaiting a fix, across every node.
Destinations tracked
0
Distinct places people are heading, right now.
Pledged (USDC)
$240
Active bounty escrow on ness.city.
Fixers with karma
2
Citizens who've shipped at least one fix.
Population over time
needs data-
Man-months at NS, cohort sizes over time. Needs arrival/departure dates.
Real estate footprint
needs data-
Units occupied, Borovoe + Astana. Admin-entered when confirmed public.
The registry
1 node publishing.
Every row below answered /.well-known/civic.json live, just now. No node had to ask permission to be here, and none can be removed by anyone but itself.
Why this exists
A network state that can't publish its own vital signs isn't one.
In July 2026 the Network School in Forest City was ordered to cease operations over a licensing issue. Within a day, a new deal in Kazakhstan. The founder called it “restoring from cloud backup” — but the backup was his, not the community's. Members owned no part of their own roster, events or reputation, so when the venue closed the network had nothing of its own to stand on.
The Civic Protocol is the fix: an open, MIT-licensed contract any node can implement in an afternoon, so a network can prove it's real without depending on any one operator to say so.
v0.1 · MIT · read the spec
How this is computed
- Known is a roster size a node reports, not a claim anyone verified.
- Listed is only people who took a public action, e.g. saying where they're headed next. Never a scraped directory.
- Problems, Pledged, Fixers read live from ness.city's own database.
- Rows marked needs data are honest gaps, not placeholders dressed as numbers.
Add your node: implement the protocol, then open a PR adding your manifest URL to REGISTRY_NODESin this page's source.