The Commons Stack: Scaling the Commons to Re-prioritize People and the Planet

A presentation at Tegg.io in August 2019 in Berlin, Germany by Jeff Emmett

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SCALING THE COMMONS TO RE-PRIORITIZE PEOPLE AND THE PLANET 1

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WHY ARE THE COMMONS IMPORTANT? wicked problems can only be solved together ● Climate change ● Resource depletion ● Global social unrest what’s wrong with our current approach? 2

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MARKETS & STATES WON’T SAVE US 3

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SOLUTION: RE-ALIGNING INCENTIVES WITH THE COMMONS 4

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SCALING TRUST USING BLOCKCHAIN new opportunity for global trust networks align economic incentives with community values 5

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THE COMMONS STACK: SCALING THE COMMONS a library of open source blockchain tools that enable purpose-driven communities to raise and allocate funding, make decisions and measure impact 6

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A TECH STACK FOR THE COMMONS 7

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TOWARDS A ‘MINIMUM VIABLE COMMONS’ 8

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A TOKEN ENGINEERING FOUNDATION 9

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COMPLEX SYSTEM DESIGN CAN BE… WELL, COMPLEX! 11

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ZOOMING IN: ITERATION 1 12

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THE AUGMENTED BONDING CURVE (ABC) provides sustainable funding for your project or community 13

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THE AUGMENTED BONDING CURVE (ABC) provides sustainable funding for your project or community an ABC has two phases ● Hatch phase: initialization period ● Open phase: live to public 13

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ABC: HATCH PHASE a community ‘crowdfund’ to initialize the Funding & Collateral Pools 14

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ABC: HATCH PHASE 17

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ABC: OPEN PHASE 19

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ABC RECAP: CIRCULAR, REGENERATIVE ECONOMIES 21

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ABC RECAP: CIRCULAR, REGENERATIVE ECONOMIES 22

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ABC RECAP: CIRCULAR, REGENERATIVE ECONOMIES 23

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ABC DEMO SIMULATION 24

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ABC DEMO SIMULATION 24

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ABC DEMO SIMULATION abcdemo.commonsstack.org 24

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ECOSYSTEM FUNDING DAOS MolochDAO: ETH 2.0, MetaCartel: UX & more ❤🛠❤🛠❤🛠 DAO communities need sustainable funding! 25

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UPGRADING ECOSYSTEM FUNDING DAOS more challenges to tackle ● accountability of funds ● on-chain voting ● lack of impact measurement 27

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UPGRADING ECOSYSTEM FUNDING DAOS more challenges to tackle ● accountability of funds ● on-chain voting ● lack of impact measurement 27

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TOKEN ENGINEERING R&D IS A COMMONS TOO a community invitation to launch a NEW Ecosystem Funding DAO… 28

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TOKEN ENGINEERING R&D IS A COMMONS TOO a community invitation to launch a NEW Ecosystem Funding DAO… THE TOKEN ENGINEERING COMMONS 28

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OUR FUNDRAISE ROADMAP 29

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DEDICATED, EXPERIENCED TEAM 32

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TOP TOKEN ENGINEERING ADVISORS 33

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Join the Commons Stack & help build our collective future: JOIN OUR GROWING COMMUNITY & CONTRIBUTE! help us help you realign our economies to re-prioritize people & the planet commonsstack.org/apply 35

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ONE MORE THING… 34

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ONE MORE THING… We are open sourcing cadCAD … TODAY Go play & have fun! github.com/BlockScience/cadCAD 34

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MORE INFO ● Website: commonsstack.org ● Introducing the Commons Stack article ● Join us on Telegram: t.me/CommonsStack ● Follow us on Twitter: @commonsstack ● Check out our GitHub: Commons-Stack 36