These may sound like small improvements, but because of them our current, 8000+ and growing, users will be able to trade and create CICs to
By Will Ruddick
Blockchain Powered Village Checkers Tournament
How do you have a proper checkers tournament when no one can pay the entry fees? Jacob the organizer saw an opportunity. His neighbors in...
By Will Ruddick
2019 Data Release - 92k Kenyan blockchain translations
With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty...
By Will Ruddick
Banking on the SILC Road
Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund
By Will Ruddick
Shrimp Fishing Builds an Economy
Fishermen pay for their children’s school fees by selling shrimp to a cooperative with a freezer for storage. Women buy the shrimp and cook
Community Currencies: Cash Transfer 2.0
A few decades ago, the idea of giving money to poor people instead of food packages and healthcare was almost scandalous. Free money?...
By Will Ruddick
100+ new Blockchain Wallets in One Day – Fighting Rural Food Insecurity
Rural communities are adopting blockchain based community currencies at an astounding pace! 100+ new users in one day represents nearly...
By Will Ruddick
300 Bob - a money story
This is a story I often tell to being to discuss what money is and what it could be. It is derived from a German tale. One day a Mama...
By Will Ruddick
Celebrating Bernard's Inspiration
Bernard’s vision of diverse monetary eco-systems that support communities and the environment rather than extract from them, as they...
By Will Ruddick
2614 Blockchain Transactions for Basic Needs
In our journey over the last few months building tools for community currencies on the blockchain to support healthy economies, a network...
