Crypto UBI Projects

ANKH Cash is a purpose-built layer-1 (hybrid DPoS plus proof-of-authority) whose entire token supply is issued only as universal basic income: each biometric

Aslah was Encointer's second community currency, launched in Kigali, Rwanda, with its first key-signing gathering on 30 October 2022.

AXO is a World Chain mini app that lets any World ID-verified human claim AXO tokens once per day with a single tap.

Circles Indonesia ran a large field pilot of Circles UBI across three districts of Bali in 2023, issuing every registered participant 24 Circles points per d

Creatives Rebuild New York was a three-year, $125 million philanthropic initiative that paid 2,400 financially insecure New York State artists $1,000 a month

CUBI is a documented proposal for a universal basic income funded by Cardano staking yield: ADA is delegated to dedicated CUBI stake pools and the roughly 5%

Cyber-GUBI by Stateless Minds is a peer-to-peer basic income currency that runs entirely on the public IPFS network rather than a blockchain.

The Denver Basic Income Project is an independent Colorado nonprofit that gives direct, unconditional cash to people experiencing homelessness, having distri

Eight is a Belgian nonprofit (vzw) based in Sint-Niklaas that pays unconditional monthly cash transfers to every adult and child in whole villages in Uganda

F4GI is a US 501(c)(3) that builds the payments and enrollment infrastructure for guaranteed income programmes and runs them on behalf of communities.

GiveDirectly runs the world's largest and longest-running universal basic income experiment, sending unconditional mobile-money transfers to roughly 23,

Instituto ReCivitas is a Brazilian NGO that ran the world's first privately crowdfunded village-scale unconditional basic income, paying residents of Qu

LEU is a local digital currency with a community basic income for the city of Zurich, run by the Encointer Association and launched in 2022 as the first full

Mein Grundeinkommen is a German nonprofit association that crowdfunds basic incomes and raffles them off: whenever enough donations accumulate, it draws lots

Meta Earth runs an "Unconditional Basic Income" scheme on its own modular L1 (ME Network): every user who completes KYC for a ME ID in the ME Pass

Mother Up is a guaranteed income pilot run by Mothers Outreach Network, a Washington DC nonprofit, paying $500 a month for up to three years to Black mothers

N3BI was the basic income programme of Nation3, a "network state" DAO: citizens holding a valid, non-expiring Nation3 passport NFT (backed by time-

NYOTA ("star" in Swahili) is a community currency with a local basic income in the Mbuharati neighbourhood of Dar es Salaam, built on the Encointer

OpenResearch (the research lab seeded by Sam Altman and OpenAI) ran the largest US unconditional cash study to date, paying 1,000 low-income adults $1,000 a

ORO is a World Chain token that any Orb-verified unique human can claim once per day, with a referral bonus for inviting others.

PayNuq is a local community currency in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria, running on the Encointer protocol.

Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen was a three-year randomized controlled trial in Germany in which 122 people received EUR 1,200 a month unconditionally, compared

ReFi Medellin, the first Colombian local node of ReFi DAO, runs a small basic income pilot paying weekly cCOP (Mento's Colombian-peso stablecoin on Celo

Sophia is a proposed "decentralized digital commonwealth" protocol that combines a demurrage-based mutual-credit universal basic income, a hybrid p

The Bridge Project is a US nonprofit that gives unconditional cash - up to $1,000 a month - to low-income pregnant women and new mothers through the first 1,

The Magnolia Mother's Trust, run by the Jackson, Mississippi nonprofit Springboard To Opportunities, gives extremely low-income Black mothers living in

Ubiquitus is a community-owned endowment that pays an equal, unconditional cash floor to every verified member on the 1st of each month, funded entirely by v

UpTogether (formerly the Family Independence Initiative) is a national US nonprofit that delivers unrestricted, unconditional recurring cash to low-income fa

ENRA is the Republic of the Marshall Islands' national universal basic income: about $200 per quarter for every resident citizen, children included.

Future First is a guaranteed-income pilot in New York City, administered by GiveDirectly and funded by Coinbase.

GiveCrypto was a nonprofit founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong in 2018.

Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is a nonprofit, fully reserved dollar stablecoin.

impactMarket is a Celo-based, DAO-governed poverty-alleviation protocol from Portugal.

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

Sarafu is a blockchain community-currency network in Kenya run by the Grassroots Economics Foundation.

UBI-Vault is an open-source "decentralized basic income distribution system".

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.

World (formerly Worldcoin) combines World ID, a proof-of-personhood credential issued after an iris scan by an "Orb", with the WLD token.

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

This project originates from the Techcrunch Disrupt European Hackathon 2017 in Berlin where it won the third price.

"Dignity Through Identity" - Blockchain platform that enables refugees, displaced, and the world’s poorest to create a free and secure online profi

"Because everyone needs a basic 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.

Bitcoin Confidential Basic Income Initiative is an UBI initiative from the Bitcoin Confidential https://bitcoinconf

BrightID uses the people you know (a social graph) to enforce one-account-per-person for important applications like voting and universal basic income.

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

In development

Circles creates a Unique Personal Cryptocurrency for every account that joins the blockchain.

With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no longer necessary.

A proof-of-concept for how to fund UBI using monetary rather than fiscal policy.

Energy efficient cryptocurrency software which enables creation of currencies.

Achieves purchasing power parity for organizations and a universal basic income for individuals. Both metrics enable longitudinal planning.

Grassroots local currencies can be bootstrapped by anyone, anywhere. A mobile phone is enough.

Extension of Enumivo, which was originally built to create a UBI on the blockchain via a UBI dApp.

To unite UBI Programs & their userbase with other projects in an open and free marketplace.

A scientifically verified and sustainable UBI.

Freeos is a "cooperative community currency" run as a DAO by FreeDAO (New Zealand).

Frink’s mission is to provide a secure, fast, scalable, stable, decentralized, and customer friendly digital currency and digital IDs.

Parallel Digital Payments Platform (PDPP) proposed in DiEM25 European New Deal. It's a future-TAX-coin.

We propose a rule based monetary system that is self stabilizing and
resistant to inflation and deflation. The system does not require any

Brainchild of Yoni Assia, eToro CEO & Founder.

Goodwill Economy: Partner of NeoSpace Foundation

Monetary and economic model based on self-regulating mechanisms for stability of supply & prices.

Greshm is a USD-based complementary monetary system (1-to-1 peg).

Horizon NGO is the first decentralized platform for uniting basic income initiatives.

Humanity was an experiment in unique identity, governance and UBI by Marble.org, launched on Ethereum mainnet in May 2019.

Cryptocurrency "faucet" for distribution of UBI that will deliver UBI through a Kuwa identity system, which is a decentralized, pseudo-anonymous an

Manna is the world's first universally accessible, people-powered & empowering alternative currency.

A global personhood system based on Bryan Ford's Pseudonym Parties.

Basicincome.co is a Bitnation DApp application that runs on top of the RESILIENCE protocol.

Solidar is a decentralized, distributed, peer-to-peer demurrage based, electronic currency designed to create an economic system based on stability and well-

Social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemit members as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program.

Each user who is signed up for the service receives 100 swifts each day. No additional swifts can be created with time or resources.

A permanent UBI solution for subscribers to digital services bundle of Elvis Aron Presley Jr Ltd.

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.

UBI as a form of reward of being part of a network, sent via digital signatures of passports in selected countries.

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

UBIT - Universal Basic Income Tokens are an experimental function of the Unibit Blockchain.

Dual currency system for community development (UBU) and monetization (UBX).

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