Crypto UBI Projects
Crypto projects building universal basic income systems: who issues what, on which chain, and how they tell one person from another.
68 projects tracked
| Project | Details | Status | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENRA (Marshall Islands national UBI) New | ENRA is the Republic of the Marshall Islands' national universal basic income: about $200 per quarter for every resident citizen, children included. |
Active | stellar.org |
| Future First (GiveDirectly / Coinbase) New | Future First is a guaranteed-income pilot in New York City, administered by GiveDirectly and funded by Coinbase. |
Pilot | givedirectly.org |
| GiveCrypto New | GiveCrypto was a nonprofit founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong in 2018. |
Inactive | givecrypto.org |
| Glo Dollar New | Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is a nonprofit, fully reserved dollar stablecoin. |
Active | glodollar.org |
| impactMarket New | impactMarket is a Celo-based, DAO-governed poverty-alleviation protocol from Portugal. |
Unknown | impactmarket.com |
| Refugee Integration Organisation (RIO) Refugee UBI New | A 2021 pilot that paid refugees in Kenya's Kakuma camp and in Ghana's Ampain and Krisan camps an Unconditional Basic Income of $1.50 per day in cUS |
Inactive | |
| Sarafu Network (Grassroots Economics) New | Sarafu is a blockchain community-currency network in Kenya run by the Grassroots Economics Foundation. |
Active | sarafu.network |
| UBI-Vault New | UBI-Vault is an open-source "decentralized basic income distribution system". |
Inactive | ubi-vault.com |
| UBI2 (Democracy Earth) New | UBI2 is a new EVM-compatible blockchain from Democracy Earth, the team behind the original UBI token. Verified humans are streamed 1 UBI per hour. |
In development | github.com |
| World (Worldcoin) New | World (formerly Worldcoin) combines World ID, a proof-of-personhood credential issued after an iris scan by an "Orb", with the WLD token. |
Active | world.org |
| 1coinh.com | Unknown | 1coinh.com | |
| Acorn | One ACORN token is created every day for every Telos account that has any ACORN balance or that has gone through the token registration process |
Active | |
| Akropolis | Active | akropolis.io | |
| altrui.st | This project originates from the Techcrunch Disrupt European Hackathon 2017 in Berlin where it won the third price. |
In development | devpost.com |
| banquapp | "Dignity Through Identity" - Blockchain platform that enables refugees, displaced, and the world’s poorest to create a free and secure online profi |
Active | banquapp.com |
| Baza Foundation | "Because everyone needs a basic foundation" |
Active | baza.foundation |
| Big Foundation | The project will provide all participants of the system with a UBI, through BIG coins. The system will issue one BIG token per wallet, daily. |
Active | big.foundation |
| Bitcoin Confidential Universal Basic Income Initiative | Bitcoin Confidential Basic Income Initiative is an UBI initiative from the Bitcoin Confidential https://bitcoinconf |
Active | faucet.bc-tools.cc |
| Bonnum Network | Unknown | medium.com | |
| BrightID | BrightID uses the people you know (a social graph) to enforce one-account-per-person for important applications like voting and universal basic income. |
In development | brightid.org |
| C.UBI (Circular) | C.UBI is an initiative that proposes a preliminary framework to finance UBI out of global resource usage, within the context of a circular economy and enable |
Unknown | |
| Cattalax | In development |
In development | catallax.info |
| Cicada | Inactive | iamcicada.com | |
| Circles | Circles creates a Unique Personal Cryptocurrency for every account that joins the blockchain. |
Active | joincircles.net |
| Democracy Earth | With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no longer necessary. |
In development | democracy.earth |
| Dignity | A proof-of-concept for how to fund UBI using monetary rather than fiscal policy. |
Unknown | |
| Duniter | Energy efficient cryptocurrency software which enables creation of currencies. |
Unknown | duniter.org |
| Elmhurst Nonprofit Bank | Achieves purchasing power parity for organizations and a universal basic income for individuals. Both metrics enable longitudinal planning. |
Active | elmhur.st |
| Encointer | Grassroots local currencies can be bootstrapped by anyone, anywhere. A mobile phone is enough. |
Active | encointer.org |
| Enumivo | Extension of Enumivo, which was originally built to create a UBI on the blockchain via a UBI dApp. |
Unknown | enumivo.org |
| Ethereum Cities Project | To unite UBI Programs & their userbase with other projects in an open and free marketplace. |
Active | mybe.space |
| Exergy | A scientifically verified and sustainable UBI. |
In development | |
| Freeos | Freeos is a "cooperative community currency" run as a DAO by FreeDAO (New Zealand). |
Active | freeos.io |
| Frink | Frink’s mission is to provide a secure, fast, scalable, stable, decentralized, and customer friendly digital currency and digital IDs. |
Unknown | frink.global |
| FT-Coin | Parallel Digital Payments Platform (PDPP) proposed in DiEM25 European New Deal. It's a future-TAX-coin. |
Unknown | wiki.p2pfoundation.net |
| GETCoin GlobalVille | We propose a rule based monetary system that is self stabilizing and |
Active | |
| Global Income Coin | Unknown | ||
| GoodDollar | Brainchild of Yoni Assia, eToro CEO & Founder. |
Unknown | gooddollar.org |
| GoodWill | Goodwill Economy: Partner of NeoSpace Foundation |
Unknown | beginning.world |
| Gradido (GradidoTransform) | Monetary and economic model based on self-regulating mechanisms for stability of supply & prices. |
In development | gradido.net |
| Greshm | Greshm is a USD-based complementary monetary system (1-to-1 peg). |
In development | greshm.org |
| Group Income | Unknown | ||
| Happonomy | Unknown | happonomy.org | |
| Horizon NGO | Horizon NGO is the first decentralized platform for uniting basic income initiatives. |
Active | horizon.ngo |
| Humanity DAO | Humanity was an experiment in unique identity, governance and UBI by Marble.org, launched on Ethereum mainnet in May 2019. |
Inactive | humanitydao.org |
| HyperSpace | Active | hyperspace.app | |
| Idena | Active | idena.io | |
| Kuwa (ZeroPoverty) | Cryptocurrency "faucet" for distribution of UBI that will deliver UBI through a Kuwa identity system, which is a decentralized, pseudo-anonymous an |
Unknown | kuwa.org |
| mannabase (GrantCoin) | Manna is the world's first universally accessible, people-powered & empowering alternative currency. |
In development | mannabase.com |
| MyUBI | Unknown | myubi.global | |
| Online Pseudonym Parties | A global personhood system based on Bryan Ford's Pseudonym Parties. |
Unknown | |
| Palai | Unknown | palai.org | |
| People Currency | Unknown | peoplescurrency.org | |
| Pi Network | Unknown | minepi.com | |
| Proof Of Humanity | In development | docs.google.com | |
| RESILIENCE (Basicincome.co) | Basicincome.co is a Bitnation DApp application that runs on top of the RESILIENCE protocol. |
Unknown | basinincome.co |
| rightfulshare | Unknown | ||
| Seeds | Unknown | joinseeds.com | |
| Solidar | Solidar is a decentralized, distributed, peer-to-peer demurrage based, electronic currency designed to create an economic system based on stability and well- |
Active | solidar.it |
| Steem Basic Income | Social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemit members as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. |
Active | steemit.com |
| SwiftDemand | Each user who is signed up for the service receives 100 swifts each day. No additional swifts can be created with time or resources. |
Unknown | swiftdemand.com |
| TCB (Elvis Presley JR.) | A permanent UBI solution for subscribers to digital services bundle of Elvis Aron Presley Jr Ltd. |
In development | tcb.ai |
| TrustLines | Permissionless Peer-to-Peer payments to anyone with a smartphone. There is no need to have an ID, an initial deposit, or a bank account. |
In development | trustlines.network |
| Ubic | UBI as a form of reward of being part of a network, sent via digital signatures of passports in selected countries. |
In development | github.com |
| UBIcoin | Ubicoin (U) enables the creation of branded community tokens via a smart contract, that are given to members of an organisation in set amounts within set int |
In development | medium.com |
| Ubit | UBIT - Universal Basic Income Tokens are an experimental function of the Unibit Blockchain. |
In development | unibit.io |
| UBU | Dual currency system for community development (UBU) and monetization (UBX). |
Active | projectubu.com |
| Value Instrument | The governance of the community wallet is up to the community or individual, who installs this particular instance of Value, together with its specific coin |
In development | valueinstrument.org |