samcrew is the gno.land team of Samouraï Coop, a worker cooperative from Paris that is a film crew and an engineering studio in one company.

We contribute to the chain's core, run one of its genesis validators, build our own products on it as a design partner, research how organisations govern themselves, and film the ecosystem as it grows.

道 Core contributors, four years running

The crew has 256 merged pull requests in gnolang/gno, about one in eleven of every PR merged there, and more each year: 48 in 2024, 79 in 2025, 128 so far in 2026.

源 Open source

Everything we can open, we open. These are our public gno repositories on GitHub.

作 Products

Products built and run by the coop. The live ones are open to anyone.

組 Inside Memba

Memba is an experimental operating system for decentralised organisations, and the direct output of our governance research. It is MIT-licensed and open source. Each of its parts is a product in its own right. Hover a card for details.

Every game uses one daily seed for everyone, drawn from a gno.land block, and needs no wallet.

守 What we run

• A genesis validator. One of the four validators securing gnoland-1 since mainnet launch on 12 September 2026.
• Validator monitoring. gnomonitoring watches the chain and pages the humans.
• GovDAO tooling. katana automates validator ejection for GovDAO.

侍 The crew

Engineering crew

Media crew

Alumni: former crew members who built gno with us.

16 samurai (6 engineering, 4 media, 6 alumni), 1 on chain so far. A card links to its owner's public page until they have a gno.land profile.

In their own words.

• zôÖma: <3 is the encryption key.

Crew members on chain write their own line with SetLine.

録 gno.land on film

The crew films gno.land from the inside: brand films, core-team retreats, portraits of the teams building on it.

祭 Events

We produce the events we believe in, and we film the rest of the ecosystem's. Paris P2P Festival: five days of peer-to-peer at Ground Control, free, for 5,000 people. The Édition #1 talks are all online. Hyper Hacktive Festival: a film festival for independent documentaries funded by Samouraï Grants. It has had three editions, two at mk2 Quai de Seine, and sells its tickets on Zenao.

報 Contribution reports

Each year, one film shows everything the coop shipped.

学 Peer Dev: gno.land, taught on video

A 17-lesson curriculum, produced end to end by the coop, that takes a developer from an empty machine to GovDAO and the interrealm spec. Watch it on the Peer Dev channel or as one playlist.

旅 WEB TRIP

Eight conversations with gno.land and web3 builders, filmed by the crew in 2024.

映 Films by the crew

40 festival selections, 3 wins. The Underground Sistine Chapel took Best Documentary at the London Independent Film Awards and was released free on both IPFS and YouTube.

記 From the blog

Research notes, essays and product write-ups from the coop. All posts · RSS

印 On chain

Realms: App Store · feed · DAO channels · quests · reviews · feedback · escrow · market config · arcade leaderboard · GnoBuilders badges

Libraries: avl · piechart · tablesort · urlfilter

門 Find us

samourai.world · GitHub · Samouraï TV · Peer Dev · X · Telegram · [email protected]

This page is a contract. gno.land/r/samcrew/home · rev 17 · block 275956 on gnoland-1 · every poster on it is drawn on chain · slots

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