Most crypto-ledger and blockchain applications intend to create distributed markets, which tend to oligarchic concentration over time. The P2P Foundation is partial to commons-oriented approaches in which market dynamics serve the common good and more egalitarian outcomes.
Crucial aspects to look for:
- "Programmable organizations enable production to be organized in a way that makes social criteria the rationale for production; not a constraint on it."
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- "The rise of ‘networks’ as modes of corporate organization breaks down the conventional means that differentiate one corporation from another and challenges the principle of ‘competition’ as the driver of corporate rationale. These are both issues that feature prominently in decentralized applications."
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- " Changes in the nature of work (precarization, casualization, subcontracting, the rise of the gig economy) see workers carrying greater risks and break down the attachment of work and living standards to employment. There is growing interest in alternative ways of organizing work."
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- "the real potential is cryptocurrencies as units of account: as modes of measuring economic activity that are conceived differently from those intrinsic to fiat money. Fiat money has become tied to conventional framings of profit and loss, income and expenditure, and a market-centred calculus. Non-fiat monies have the potential for developing new ways to calculate economic activity; ways that represent different social and economic values, and measure performance by criteria other than profit. Think about it for a moment. The unit of account potential signals the importance of the crypto economy developing ways (not a singular way, but coin-specific ways) of accounting and measuring the activities supported by each token. We see this as central to giving tokens a material basis in the crypto economy; not just leaving them as speculative stores of value."
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See this list of Cooperatively Minded Cryptocurrencies
Top of our list is the Initial Community Offering and true peer to peer approach of the Holochain
Generic infrastructures[edit]
Interesting projects in this sphere are:
- The Macao cultural center in Milan uses a combination of CommonCoin, a basic income, and linkages to Faircoin and the Bank of the Commons to fairly reward cultural workers.
- Envienta attempts tokenize open source cosmo-local production
- the DAOStack project aims to solve collective intelligence and governance of networked production at scale, using 'holographic' consensus. It was originally billed as the successor to Backfeed.cc which came to early on the scene with its meta-token system, but this seems a lot more than that: video
Regenerative Projects[edit]
- Terra0 "is a scalable framework built on the Ethereum network that provides automated resilience systems for ecosystems. Via instantiating a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation atop areas of land to manage them, terra0 aims to create technologically-augmented ecosystems that are more resilient."
Most Interesting Crypto Coins and Tokens[edit]
- Faircoin is a commodity currency but tempered by democratic governance processes and social justice concerns
- "In the Trustlines Network every user is acting as a bank by granting credit lines to friends they trust. This allows to issue people powered money between friends and facilitate secure payments between strangers, by sending payments along a chain of trusting friends."
- The Heyerdahl Mangrove Coin "is a digital token that represents a living mangrove tree and carbon rights. Pioneering blochain technology empowers climate action with the touch of a button". [6]
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