Crypto UBI Projects
Universal basic income that nobody's government pays for: crypto projects issuing an income to anyone who can prove they are one person, and the foundations, communities and studies paying a floor in ordinary money. Who pays, to whom, on which chain, and whether it still runs.
96 projects tracked
| Project | Details | Status | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANKH Cash New | 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 |
Active | ankh.cash |
| AXO (AXOLOCOIN) New | AXO is a World Chain mini app that lets any World ID-verified human claim AXO tokens once per day with a single tap. |
Active | world.org |
| Denver Basic Income Project New | The Denver Basic Income Project is an independent Colorado nonprofit that gives direct, unconditional cash to people experiencing homelessness, having distri |
Active | denverbasicincomeproject.org |
| Eight (eight.world) New | 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 |
Active | eight.world |
| Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI) / The Compton Pledge New | 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. |
Active | f4gi.org |
| GiveDirectly Universal Basic Income (Kenya 12-year study) New | GiveDirectly runs the world's largest and longest-running universal basic income experiment, sending unconditional mobile-money transfers to roughly 23, |
Active | givedirectly.org |
| LEU Zurich New | 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 |
Active | old.leu.zuerich |
| Mein Grundeinkommen New | Mein Grundeinkommen is a German nonprofit association that crowdfunds basic incomes and raffles them off: whenever enough donations accumulate, it draws lots |
Active | mein-grundeinkommen.de |
| NYOTA (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) New | 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 |
Active | encointer.org |
| ORO New | ORO is a World Chain token that any Orb-verified unique human can claim once per day, with a referral bonus for inviting others. |
Active | world.org |
| PayNuq (Zaria, Nigeria) New | PayNuq is a local community currency in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria, running on the Encointer protocol. |
Active | encointer.org |
| The Bridge Project New | 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, |
Active | bridgeproject.org |
| The Magnolia Mother's Trust New | The Magnolia Mother's Trust, run by the Jackson, Mississippi nonprofit Springboard To Opportunities, gives extremely low-income Black mothers living in |
Active | springboardto.org |
| Ubiquitus New | 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 |
Active | ubiquitus.org |
| UpTogether New | UpTogether (formerly the Family Independence Initiative) is a national US nonprofit that delivers unrestricted, unconditional recurring cash to low-income fa |
Active | uptogether.org |
| 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 |
| Glo Dollar New | Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is a nonprofit, fully reserved dollar stablecoin. |
Active | glodollar.org |
| Sarafu Network (Grassroots Economics) New | Sarafu is a blockchain community-currency network in Kenya run by the Grassroots Economics Foundation. |
Active | sarafu.network |
| 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 | |
| Circles | Circles creates a Unique Personal Cryptocurrency for every account that joins the blockchain. |
Active | joincircles.net |
| Duniter | Energy efficient cryptocurrency software which enables creation of currencies. |
Active | duniter.org |
| Encointer | Grassroots local currencies can be bootstrapped by anyone, anywhere. A mobile phone is enough. |
Active | encointer.org |
| Freeos | Freeos is a "cooperative community currency" run as a DAO by FreeDAO (New Zealand). |
Active | freeos.io |
| GETCoin GlobalVille | We propose a rule based monetary system that is self stabilizing and |
Active | |
| GoodDollar | Brainchild of Yoni Assia, eToro CEO & Founder. |
Active | gooddollar.org |
| Horizon NGO | Horizon NGO is the first decentralized platform for uniting basic income initiatives. |
Active | horizon.ngo |
| HyperSpace | Active | hyperspace.app | |
| Idena | Active | idena.io | |
| 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 |
| UBU | Dual currency system for community development (UBU) and monetization (UBX). |
Active | projectubu.com |