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% annual return is distributed to participants through smart-contract wallets that behave like prepaid debit cards, with unspent ADA returning to the pool each period to prevent accumulation.
Cardano
Denominated in ADA; value tracks the ADA market price.
Conceptual proposal published as a GitBook by "ancientkraken". No launch date, operating organisation, pilot or on-chain deployment is documented; the paper itself calls it an "experimental solution" and names obtaining initial ADA funding and merchant acceptance as open problems. Sacramento, California is used as a worked example.
- Included as the clearest documented Cardano-ecosystem UBI design; treat as a paper, not a running programme
- Same yield-funded model as Cardano-adjacent proposals and as impactMarket's original interest-funded UBI