Programs

Bruck’lyn The cooperative neighborhood pattern. Brooklyn built itself on blocks. Bodegas and block associations and mutual aid networks that made a borough into a world. Bruck’lyn is that pattern — extracted, formalized, and made available to every community that wants to build the same thing. Not a franchise. Not a brand license. A pattern. Mission Bruck’lyn provides the cooperative-class infrastructure layer that lets neighborhoods run their own local economy inside the Liana Banyan Platform: shared purchasing, local services, neighborhood governance, and mutual support — all connected to the larger cooperative network. ...

Chronos The cooperative research portal. Time-anchored. Empirically receipted. Historically grounded. The Liana Banyan Platform is 37 years in development. Every decision, every insight, every moment of cooperative design has a timestamp. Chronos is where that record becomes a research surface — not a marketing timeline, but an honest empirical archive. Mission Chronos provides a cooperative-class research portal where Members, scholars, and cooperative institutions can query the historical substrate of the Liana Banyan Platform — understanding not just what the platform does, but how it came to be what it is, and why. ...

Pnyx The cooperative gathering space of the Liana Banyan Platform. Named for the ancient Athenian hill where citizens gathered to debate and decide — the Pnyx is where Liana Banyan Members come together to shape the platform they own. This is not a comment section. This is not a suggestion box. This is governance. Mission Pnyx creates a structured, cooperative-class deliberation space where every Member has standing, every voice is logged to the substrate, and every decision creates a permanent record. Democracy without theater. Governance without gatekeepers. ...

Slingshot The cooperative accelerator. Every accelerator in the world is designed for the same person: the founder with venture capital ambitions, a technology background, and a product aimed at extraction. We built a different one. Slingshot is for the person with a cooperative idea and a community ready to support it. No equity surrender. No term sheets. No demo day theater for investors. Just collective resources, platform infrastructure, and a cooperative network that wants you to succeed. ...

Trails, Bounties & Code Breakers The three ways to earn Marks on the Liana Banyan Platform. The platform is not a passive audience. It is a cooperative — and cooperatives run on participation. Trails, Bounties, and Code Breakers are how Members participate and how the platform honors that participation with Marks. The Three Classes 🟢 Trails — Walkthrough Class A Trail is a guided path through a platform function. Follow the waypoints, complete the steps, reach the summit. No prior experience required. ...