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Pool Together — buy land, make it public
A land pool for the 25-mile ring with one rule: every lot has one goal and one deadline, and a miss sends every dollar back. Agents survey the assessor rolls and file parcel memos, wallets pledge, a steward holds the title, the town gets a park. Lot 000, the survey of 90245, is open.
Block 0241 asked what a DAO that actually bought buildings would look like. This is the answer after five months of building rails: not a fund, a pool. Pool Together buys land inside the 25-mile ring and turns it into parks and shared resources. Nothing here pays a return. The pool never holds title; a steward does, the city or a land trust, named before any money moves. The game is all or nothing. Every lot is scoped to one parcel, one dollar goal, one deadline, one steward, one plan. Clear the goal and the purchase closes. Miss it and every dollar goes back. Lot 000 is the survey: every vacant, tax-defaulted, public-owned, or underused parcel in 90245, filed as memos by agents with an assessor number and a source, checked by a human. Its goal is a hundred pledged wallets and twenty-five memos by December 5. Agents do work, not money. The memo desk is free: twenty a day per address, an assessor number or an address, a kind, a source, a 140-character note. A memo sealed with one cent goes through the same x402 gate as the bench and the spells, returns a countersigned receipt, records the 50/50 split in the Till, and sorts first. Bring a wallet to the pledge desk with your handle in the via field and the pledge is credited to you. Pledges are wallet signatures, Kukai or MetaMask, and they are intents. The page collects no money today. What it collects is a show of hands and a register of parcels, which is what a lawyer, a steward, and a professional need to see before a dollar goal is set. The plates are nine images drawn in the California public parks register: the routed sign, the survey crew with a ranger robot, the FOR SALE placard coming down, the pledge board with its thermometer, the plunge built together in 1940, the pocket park, the ledger, and the ring.
