Mozi Cooperative · Founded 2025 · Carpinteria, California
We are building the cooperative that will hold the orchard.
Mozi is a worker-and-investor-owned cooperative that holds and operates the infrastructure of the Citrate Network. Designed to compound across decades.
House motto
never let past innovations be an excuse to stop innovating. never let communication breakdowns be a reason to stop open and honest conversations.
Capital enters as responsibility, moves through the work, and returns to the members who keep the cooperative standing.
Three ways to participate
The cooperative is open to capital, to builders, and to cooperators.
01 / Invest
Capital that compounds across decades.
Fund I is a $250 million raise. Twenty-five percent of equity returns to members. Returns flow from operating revenue across seven streams, not from exits. Each fund seeds the next.
Read the prospectus →02 / Build
Engineering and design standards worth working under.
Mozi hires patient builders. The work is the long maintenance of cooperative infrastructure: protocol engineering, governance design, member operations, formal verification. The standards are documented; the people are by name.
See open positions →03 / Join
Membership in a cooperative whose books you can read.
Members govern the cooperative, receive a defined share of operating revenue, and have audit rights to the cooperative's books. Membership is open to qualified participants on the terms in the cooperative handbook.
How membership works →Why a cooperative
Cooperatives have been doing this for seventy years.
The Mondragon Corporation is the world’s largest worker cooperative federation. It was founded in 1956 by a parish priest and five engineering students in the Basque Country. Today it spans ninety-two cooperative businesses, employs more than seventy thousand people, generates approximately eleven billion euros in annual revenue, and has a thirty- year survival rate of ninety-seven percent. The cooperative federation has documented, for seventy years, that this model works.
1956
Founded
In the Basque Country, after the Spanish Civil War.
92
Cooperatives
Manufacturing, retail, finance, education.
70,500
Workers
Worker-owners across the federation.
€11B
Revenue
Annual, across all cooperatives.
97%
Survival rate
Over thirty years. Versus 50% for venture-backed.
6:1
Pay ratio
Top to bottom. The cooperative limits inequality by structure.
Where the money comes from
Seven streams, into one treasury.
Mozi’s economic model is operating-revenue-driven across seven distinct streams: network compute fees, school deployment licenses, real estate operating income, research grants, intellectual property licensing, treasury yield, and member dues. The diagram shows their current scale and direction. No stream depends on a token sale; no stream depends on an acquisition.
Returns to members flow from the aggregate of these streams. The cooperative’s by-laws specify that members receive a defined share of operating revenue annually, computed on a transparent formula and audited externally.
How Mozi compares
Mozi is not a venture fund, a token DAO, or a foundation.
| Venture fund | Token DAO | Foundation | Mozi Cooperative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership | GPs and LPs | Token holders, often anonymous | Board, no owners | Worker-and-investor members |
| Returns from | Exits (acquisition or IPO) | Token price appreciation | Grants, donations | Operating revenue, seven streams |
| Time horizon | 7–10 years to exit | Speculative, often short | Indefinite, project-driven | Decades, generational |
| Governance | GP discretion | Token-weighted vote | Board of directors | Member assembly + council |
| Pay ratio (top:bottom) | Often 50:1+ | Variable, often opaque | Variable | 6:1, by by-laws |
| Legal structure | LP / LLC | Off-shore foundation, often | 501(c)(3) typically | Wyoming DAO LLC, cooperative bylaws |
| Precedent | Yes — many | Recent, mostly unproven | Yes — many | Mondragon · 70 years · 97% survival |
Founding statement
“Cooperatives aren’t a new idea, but our take on funding them is. Mozi compounds returns for its members across decades, not quarters. We are building a long table at which capital, builders, and cooperators sit down together — and the table itself outlasts any one of us.”
— Mozi Cooperative · founding statement