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Humanity Cash

Finance

Local money

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Celo

NEAR

North America

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Humanity Cash is a blockchain company that aims to create a circular economy through “community currencies” and Universal Basic Income (UBI). It partnered with the community in western Massachusetts to create their community currency called “BerkShares,” which is now accepted by ~350 local businesses.

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Brixton Pound

Brixton Pound is a “community currency” project based in the Brixton area of London that aims to revitalize the local economy.

city3

city3 is a blockchain company with a focus on local economies. It partnered with the community in Oakland, California to launch OAK, their “community currency,” to boost the local economy. Now, OAK can be used to purchase goods at places like the Oakland farmers market.

Glo Dollar

Glo is a non-profit Stablecoin that invests in government bonds that generates interest which then gets distributed to those in extreme poverty (through the GiveDirectly organization).

GoodDollar

In order to establish a Universal Basic Income (UBI) system supported by social investment, GoodDollar had to tackle two primary goals: ensuring the effective distribution of funds to those in need and guaranteeing a continuous source of funding by distributing only the interest accrued from trust funds that were staked.

Impact Market

ImpactMarket provides accessible financial solutions, including universal basic income (”UBI”), a non-custodial wallet, microcredit, and learn to earn to empower unbanked and financially underserved people around the world. The UBI product is already supporting over 46,000 people in almost 30 countries.

LiquidStar

LiquidStar describes itself as the “Uber of electricity;” it rents a container-based solar powered battery charging station and portable batteries to users, organizations, or companies to use for mining or staking. The rewards generated are used for (i) bringing affordable and sustainable electricity to rural communities and (ii) generating universal basic income (”UBI”). First deployments took place in the US and Jamaica, where LiquidStar supplied electricity to 1500 students at a school. Additional pilots are coming to Sumba, Indonesia and Djibouti.