{ "source": "https://cryptoubi.org/", "license": "Public directory data; attribute cryptoubi.org and check each project at its own site.", "generated": "2026-09-23T18:57:32+00:00", "language": "en", "available_languages": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "count": 96, "filters": { "status": "active|development|pilot|inactive|unknown", "funding": "non_state|mixed|state|unknown", "lang": "en|fr|de|es" }, "projects": [ { "id": 425, "name": "1coinh.com", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/1coinhcom", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "http://1coinh.com/", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "verified_users": "30 in pilot", "locations": [ "Worldwide" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Personal. Under development. See github", "social_identity": "Basis of all", "social_mining": "No mining", "token_economics": "1 per person per hour", "governance": "Transactions network" }, { "id": 426, "name": "Acorn", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/acorn", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Active", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://medium.com/@fcecin/acorn-a-telos-token-for-everyone-7c3914f55054" }, { "url": "http://www.acorns.fun/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Telos", "social_identity": "No", "social_mining": "One new token minted per blockchain account per day", "governance": "Telos network governance", "key_people": "Roger Davies", "notes": "Educational token" }, { "id": 427, "name": "Akropolis", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/akropolis", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://akropolis.io/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Effectively dormant; was never a basic income", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "London", "Berlin", "Gibraltar" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Initially Ethereum, but aiming to be blockchain agnostic in principle.", "social_identity": "- KYC partners for each region covered\n- No personal user data is stored on-chain\n- (Planned) Encrypted off-chain storage linked to on-chain identity", "social_mining": "Reward for regular savers from a \"reward pool\" - funded by the system's investors", "token_economics": "- Users' staking should increase demand as users join\n- Meant to be available on exchanges\n- Token economics still subject to change\n- £0.069 initial value", "governance": "In development", "key_people": "Anastasia Andrianova\nKate Kurbanova", "notes": "2026-09: trading volume is negligible and the project never distributed a basic income.\n\nAiming to provide an alternative to the existing pensions infrastructure." }, { "id": 428, "name": "altrui.st", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/altruist", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "This project originates from the Techcrunch Disrupt European Hackathon 2017 in Berlin where it won the third price. The Deutsche Bank and ESRI APIs were used just for the purpose of the hackathon sponsor prices. They are rethinking that part.\r\n\r\nThe idea is to create a large Monero mining pool on third party websites via a plug-in, with a big user base. The rewarded coins will be stored in a wallet and distributed monthly to clients based on a scoring system.", "website": "https://devpost.com/software/altrui-st", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Spain, Holland" ], "links": [ { "url": "mailto:contacto@daniguardiola.me" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Monero coins", "social_identity": "- Ranking algorithm for Deutsche Bank clients\r\n- Plug-in for third party websites Monero mining", "social_mining": "- Mining pool with a big user base\n- Monthly UBI from mined Monero coins to pool members\n- Number of users dependent on current money supply & mining power", "token_economics": "Based on Monero coins", "governance": "- In development \n- Prioritization through a scoring system\n- Limited to Deutsche Bank accounts\n- Depends on users base", "key_people": "Dani Guardiola\nCarlos Jeurissen\nFerdinand Scheubeck", "notes": "Only Deutsche Bank clients can apply with their accounts" }, { "id": 520, "name": "ANKH Cash", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ankh-cash", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 biometrically verified human is allocated ☥2,800,000 over 45 years, paid as roughly ☥5,185 per month, with no pre-mine, ICO or founder allocation. Verification uses on-chain face-template matching executed by validators rather than a central database.", "website": "https://ankh.cash/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "- Mainnet reported live with a public API (api.ankh.cash) and SDK; repository created 2026-02, still committed to as of 2026-09.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "8,246 biometrically verified addresses (self-reported, 2026-09)", "locations": [ "Global (online)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://ankh.cash/", "title": "ANKH Cash website / live network stats" }, { "url": "https://github.com/ankhcash/ankh-chain", "title": "ankh-chain source repository" }, { "url": "https://kingtree.net/abstract", "title": "Original 2006 ANKH concept (kingtree.net)" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own ANKH chain (hybrid DPoS + PoA, 3s blocks), with an Ethereum ERC-20 bridge contract and institutional sidechains anchored to mainnet", "social_identity": "Decentralised biometric proof-of-personhood: seven facial movements, liveness and age estimation, duplicate detection by face-descriptor comparison, approved by 75% peer consensus; only a one-way hash is stored as replicated chain state.", "social_mining": "None — tokens can enter circulation only through a verified human's monthly UBI claim.", "token_economics": "Nominal peg of 1 ANKH to $1 of reference purchasing power; an ERC-20 mirror contract on Ethereum is offered for liquidity/bridging. No reserve or market backing documented.", "governance": "Validator/delegate model; institutions can run anchored sidechains with a 100 ANKH stake and three validators. No named team is published.", "notes": "- Mainnet reported live with a public API (api.ankh.cash) and SDK; repository created 2026-02, still committed to as of 2026-09.\n- Self-reported network stats at time of check: 8,246 verified users, ☥21.36M UBI distributed, ~533,000 blocks, 1 active validator and 3 nodes — i.e. real but very small and highly centralised.\n- The 1 ankh = $1 \"reference purchasing power\" peg and the $2.8M lifetime figure are unbacked design claims, not external valuation.\n\nCAUTION: user numbers and payouts are self-reported, and the headline entitlement (millions of dollars per person over a lifetime) is a design claim with nothing backing it. Listed because it is live and often cited, not as an endorsement.\n\nTreat the economics sceptically: a $2.8M lifetime entitlement per person for up to 10 billion people is not backed by any disclosed funding source. Related project: the self-declared Republic of Adal runs its ARJ basic income on a sovereign chain anchored to ANKH." }, { "id": 525, "name": "Aslah (Kigali, Rwanda)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/aslah-kigali-rwanda", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Aslah was Encointer's second community currency, launched in Kigali, Rwanda, with its first key-signing gathering on 30 October 2022. It was deliberately started without a peg to the Rwandan franc and without a merchant list, aiming at informal trade among a largely unbanked population, with income issued to whoever attended the recurring gatherings.", "website": "https://encointer.org/introducing-the-aslah/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Launched October 2022; no longer listed among Encointer's current communities (2026 page lists Nyota, PayNuq and Leu as current, and Green Bay Dollar as discontinued), so it appears to have wound down.", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Kigali, Rwanda" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://encointer.org/introducing-the-aslah/", "title": "Introducing the Aslah (Encointer, Oct 2022)" }, { "url": "https://encointer.org/our-communities/", "title": "Encointer — Our Communities" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Encointer parachain on Kusama", "social_identity": "Encointer key-signing gatherings: you must register and appear in person so other participants confirm you are a unique real human.", "social_mining": "Equal issuance per attending participant per cycle.", "token_economics": "Intentionally unpegged to the national currency; value set by informal community trade.", "governance": "Local bootstrappers with the Encointer Association", "key_people": "Joab (Polkadot ambassador, local organiser)", "notes": "- Included as a documented dead/dormant regional program; no post-2022 activity found." }, { "id": 514, "name": "AXO (AXOLOCOIN)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/axo-axolocoin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "AXO is a World Chain mini app that lets any World ID-verified human claim AXO tokens once per day with a single tap. A 1 WLD/month premium tier triples the daily amount.", "website": "https://world.org/ecosystem/app_8aeb55d57b7be834fb8d67e2f803d258", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Live World App Mini App with 297,407 human users and a 4.9 rating on the world.org ecosystem listing (September 2026). Multilingual (English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean).", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "297,407 World ID-verified humans.", "locations": [ "Global (World App)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://world.org/apps", "title": "World App mini app directory" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "World Chain (Ethereum L2)", "social_identity": "World ID proof-of-personhood; one claim per verified human per day.", "social_mining": "- Daily one-tap claim of AXO\n- Optional premium subscription (1 WLD/month) for 3x daily earnings", "token_economics": "Free-floating; AXO trades on World Chain DEXs. No backing or peg.", "key_people": "Published by \"AXO\" per the World ecosystem listing; individual team members not disclosed on the listing.", "notes": "- Qualifies as a recurring, broadly open per-human distribution, but the paid premium tier breaks strict universality of the amount\n- Economically closer to a community/meme token with proof-of-personhood emission than to a funded basic income" }, { "id": 429, "name": "banquapp", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/banquapp", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "\"Dignity Through Identity\" - Blockchain platform that enables refugees, displaced, and the world’s poorest to create a free and secure online profile that allows them to track their relationships and transactions.", "website": "https://banquapp.com", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Now an enterprise B2B product (banqu.co), not a basic income", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Minneapolis, MN USA" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own blockchain", "social_identity": "Blockchain economic identity technology solution", "social_mining": "No token", "token_economics": "No token", "key_people": "Ashish Gadnis\nHamse Warfe", "notes": "2026-09: the company operates as enterprise software at banqu.co; there is no basic income distribution." }, { "id": 430, "name": "Baza Foundation", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/baza-foundation", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "\"Because everyone needs a basic foundation\"", "website": "https://baza.foundation", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Site down (HTTP 530)", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Minneapolis, MN USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-witham-4b60a323/" }, { "url": "https://discord.gg/De92vhVD2m" }, { "url": "https://baza.foundation/public/videos/Baza%20Intro.mp4" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Turtlecoin Clone", "social_identity": "- Complete automation and decentralization of charity", "social_mining": "- Yes", "token_economics": "- Donation backed", "governance": "- Charitable Foundation", "key_people": "Andrew Witham", "notes": "2026-09: baza.foundation returns HTTP 530.\n\n- 2022 Community Development & Web 3.0 Discussions" }, { "id": 431, "name": "Big Foundation", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/big-foundation", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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. New wallets will increase the supply of BIG tokens in the system, distributed equally among the participants.\n\nAll users will be able to do commerce using BIG tokens, incurring a 10% commission fee (consumption tax) per transaction, used to help maintain the work of miners.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Domain listed for sale", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Saint Petersburg, Russia" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/bigfoundation/Documentation/blob/master/BIGwhitepaperEN.md" }, { "url": "http://big.foundation/#roadmap" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "-Blockchain based daily UBI through BIG coins\n-Coin with commerce utility within system", "social_mining": "- Daily UBI via BIG coins with commercial utility within ecosystem\r\n- One coin per wallet\r\n- More wallets increase coins supply", "token_economics": "- First stage BIG token as ERC-20 token, issued through a BIGemission smart contract\n- 0.01 ETH for registration \n- Second stage BIG token on BIG blockchain, independent on Ethereum\n- Issue algorithm will be the same as in the first stage - 1 token per wallet", "governance": "- Equal distribution of coins and transaction fees among participants", "key_people": "Sergey Ryabov\nDmitriy Bereznitskiy\nVitaliy Mengeshev", "notes": "2026-09: big.foundation is a domain-sale page.\n\n- BIG is an open general-purpose protocol\n- Have a BIG wallet" }, { "id": 432, "name": "Bitcoin Confidential Universal Basic Income Initiative", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/bitcoin-confidential-universal-basic-income-initiative", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Bitcoin Confidential Basic Income Initiative is an UBI initiative from the Bitcoin Confidential https://bitcoinconfidential.cc/ community and a few investors and sponsors. Users are able to claim once a day. BC is a a privacy coin and while we are taking measures to avoid multiple daily claims from the same IP, we do not wish to collect personal information beyond what is necessary to run the initiative.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Faucet domain no longer resolves", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "verified_users": "Project is a few days old. You can check number of unique daily claims for an idea on the number of beneficiaries. We block users using VPN and other similar techniques to claim multiple times per day", "locations": [ "worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin-confidential" }, { "url": "https://bitcoinconfidential.cc/" }, { "url": "http://faucet.bc-tools.cc/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own blockchain", "social_identity": "We do not wish to collect personal information beyond what is necessary to run the initiative", "social_mining": "Daily UBI via BC coins. Rewards/promo codes and additional income for users who spread the word", "token_economics": "BC is listed on several exchanges and on Coin Gecko https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin-confidential#markets", "governance": "Equitable distribution of coins. In the future ERC20 token to reward donors to the initiative", "key_people": "@tunencedemalissedcontraaudentio @cryptolaw @Bik", "notes": "2026-09: the faucet domain no longer resolves.\n\nBC is a privacy coin. We are for private UBI as well" }, { "id": 433, "name": "Bonnum Network", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/bonnum-network", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://medium.com/@bonnumnetwork/blockchain-projects-that-inspired-bonnum-network-and-the-vision-we-want-to-create-a70b5d95a981", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 434, "name": "BrightID", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/brightid", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "BrightID uses the people you know (a social graph) to enforce one-account-per-person for important applications like voting and universal basic income.\n\nBrightID uses a decentralized social graph and a trusted group of close personal contacts to enforce & verify one-account-per-person for important applications like voting and UBI.", "website": "https://www.brightid.org/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Developing Beta", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Seattle, US" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "- Graph DB, no blockchain\n- Oracles for blockchains integration (uploading trust scores)", "social_identity": "- Reputation system \n- Offchain trust score computation\n- Seed groups\n- Initially Face-to-Face, NFC\n- Proof of world citizenship", "governance": "Initial \"Seed groups\" chosen by client", "key_people": "Adam Stallard", "notes": "General ID solution, mostly for UBI" }, { "id": 435, "name": "C.UBI (Circular)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/cubi-circular", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 enabled by technology.\n\nC.UBI plans to create a taxation model that will finance UBI. In the process they will promote a paradigm for sustainable use of resources, development of closed-loop business models, and a solid financial basis for citizens to re-educate, start businesses and change their consumption patterns.", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "- Very early stage", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Munich, Germany" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://www.circularubi.org/manifesto/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "In development", "social_mining": "In development", "token_economics": "No data", "governance": "In development", "key_people": "Lennard Hulsbos\nPaul Anca", "notes": "- Suspicious\n- No WP\n\n- UBI from global resource usage, within the context of a circular economy, enabled by technology\r\n- 4 foundational components: Commons, Circular Economy, DLT and UBI" }, { "id": 436, "name": "Cattalax", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/cattalax", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "In development", "website": "http://catallax.info/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/toconnor13/cattalax" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "In development", "social_mining": "In development", "token_economics": "Democratic Hypercatallaxy", "governance": "In development", "key_people": "Austin Fatheree" }, { "id": 437, "name": "Cicada", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/cicada", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "http://iamcicada.com/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Inactive; there may be offshoots", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform/blob/master/Cicada-WhitePaper-2016-10.13.GA.1.pdf" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own blockchain", "social_identity": "Hardware security, biometrics, and a social graph", "social_mining": "Distributed Proof-of-work: every user is a miner; mining on mobile devices", "key_people": "Daniel Jeffries" }, { "id": 438, "name": "Circles", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/circles", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Circles creates a Unique Personal Cryptocurrency for every account that joins the blockchain. \n\nThe money in every individual's account is uniquely identifiable and gains in value if the account connects to other accounts and joins groups. This incentivizes every user to limit themselves to one account.\n\n“Circles” will be a currency created from basic incomes only. New money will be constantly distributed to every account participating in the system.", "website": "https://joincircles.net/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "v2 live on Gnosis Chain since 2025", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Berlin, Munich" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/CirclesUBI/docs/blob/master/Circles.md", "title": "Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/basic-income-on-the-blockchain-fair-money-45662889077c" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum, xDAI", "social_identity": "- \"Web of trust\" \n- Open for external validators\n- Native UBI money system based on personal cryptocurrencies and a social graph of trust", "social_mining": "- Unique Personal Currency (EdCoin, RonitCoin) created on join\n\n- Continuous minting of new coins awarded to associated person\n\n- Shared set of rules for all personal currencies (e.g. fixed rate)", "token_economics": "- Annual inflation schedule to encourage economic activity \n- Complementary currency", "governance": "- Convergence to one single global monetary system\n\n- Bootstrapped in a completely organic and grassroots fashion, but extensible for arbitrary governance on top of base protocol", "key_people": "Martin Köppelmann, Blanka Vay, Julio Linares, Samuel Andert, Daniel Janz", "notes": "2026-09: Circles v2 (universal issuance, demurrage, group trust) shipped on Gnosis Chain in 2025; app at https://app.aboutcircles.com\n\n- Berlin Pilot Project (active with 20 onboarded businesses)\n-\"Berlin Basic Income Cafe\" initiative (currently not active)" }, { "id": 526, "name": "Circles UBI Indonesia (Bali pilot)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/circles-ubi-indonesia-bali-pilot", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 day (locally valued at roughly 1 point = 1 banana ≈ Rp 1,000, about 27% of the Balinese minimum wage). 1,530 participants in Jembrana, Tabanan and Denpasar made some 29,400 transactions worth 1.26 million CRC through 1,440 community shops, and at its peak the pilot accounted for about 90% of all transactions in the global Circles ecosystem.", "website": "https://www.circlesubi.id/", "status": "pilot", "status_detail": "Funded by GnosisDAO (proposal GIP-81, passed 2 May 2023); five-month product-market-fit test completed November 2023; impact assessment with Indonesia's national research agency BRIN published 2024, after which BRIN signalled approval for nationwide conti", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "1,530 pilot participants (Jembrana 623, Tabanan 357, Denpasar 554), 225 of whom joined organically; 1,440 shops", "locations": [ "Bali, Indonesia (Jembrana, Tabanan, Denpasar)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.circlesubi.id/post/edited-ps-ready-to-go-widening-the-wealth-gap-circlesubi-research-report-2023", "title": "CirclesUBI Research Report 2023 (Indonesia)" }, { "url": "https://forum.gnosis.io/t/circles-indonesia-unfolds-the-tale-of-ubi-tech-and-community-synergy-in-bali/7763", "title": "Circles Indonesia Unfolds — GnosisDAO forum" }, { "url": "https://blog.polis.global/universal-basic-income-for-bali-research-report/", "title": "Universal Basic Income for Bali research report" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Gnosis Chain (Circles protocol)", "social_identity": "Circles web-of-trust: each person mints their own token and must be trusted by existing members, giving social-graph sybil resistance.", "social_mining": "Each verified human continuously mints their own personal currency — 24 CRC/day in the pilot — unconditionally.", "token_economics": "1 CRC locally valued at about Rp 1,000 (one banana); daily issuance ≈ 27% of Bali's minimum wage.", "governance": "Circles Indonesia, funded and supported via GnosisDAO; research partnership with BRIN (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional).", "key_people": "Shaunda Brown (CEO, Circles Indonesia); Yanu Endar Prasetyo (BRIN, advisor); Martin Köppelmann, Friederike Ernst, Ruben Daniels (Circles/Gnosis)", "notes": "Funded by GnosisDAO (proposal GIP-81, passed 2 May 2023); five-month product-market-fit test completed November 2023; impact assessment with Indonesia's national research agency BRIN published 2024, after which BRIN signalled approval for nationwide continuation. No independently verified activity found after 2024.\n\n- Distinct local program built on the Circles protocol, which is listed separately.\n- Organised around Balinese 'Banjar' neighbourhood structures; 2024 plans targeted micro-entrepreneurs and university students." }, { "id": 507, "name": "Creatives Rebuild New York - Guaranteed Income for Artists", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/creatives-rebuild-new-york-guaranteed-income-artists", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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, no strings attached, for 18 consecutive months. Anchored by $115 million from the Mellon Foundation with $5 million each from the Ford Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, it was one of the largest purely philanthropic guaranteed income programmes ever run.", "website": "https://www.creativesrebuildny.org/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Payments began June 2022 and ran 18 months per participant; the initiative concluded and results were published in 2024-2025. Programme is closed; the organisation now exists mainly to disseminate findings and advocacy.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "2,400 artists receiving guaranteed income (2,700 artists supported across all CRNY programmes including employment)", "locations": [ "New York State, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.creativesrebuildny.org/", "title": "Creatives Rebuild New York" }, { "url": "https://www.creativesrebuildny.org/about/our-story/", "title": "CRNY - Our Story" }, { "url": "https://www.mellon.org/article/creatives-rebuild-new-york", "title": "Mellon Foundation - Creatives Rebuild New York" }, { "url": "https://theconversation.com/we-studied-what-happened-when-financially-struggling-artists-received-1-000-a-month-no-strings-attached-for-18-months-280799", "title": "The Conversation - what happened when struggling artists got $1,000/month" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Open application to New York State artists demonstrating financial insecurity, with prioritisation for people acutely affected by institutional barriers based on race, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship status and caregiving responsibilities. Selection by weighted lottery among eligible applicants; cash unconditional after selection.", "social_mining": "$1,000 per month for 18 consecutive months, paid by direct deposit/prepaid card, with no restrictions on use.", "token_economics": "Private philanthropy - $115M from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation plus $5M each from the Ford Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation; fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center.", "governance": "Project of the Tides Center (fiscal sponsor), governed by a steering structure with artist advisors; evaluated by independent academic researchers.", "key_people": "Funded and convened by the Mellon Foundation (Elizabeth Alexander, President)", "notes": "- Results: improved financial stability, reduced debt, increased savings, roughly a 17% increase in positive mental health outcomes, and increased artistic output; artists did not stop working.\n- Included as a historically significant completed programme - the largest guaranteed income programme aimed at a single occupational group and entirely foundation-funded." }, { "id": 519, "name": "CUBI (Cardano Universal Basic Income)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/cubi-cardano-universal-basic-income", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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.", "website": "https://ancientkraken.gitbook.io/cardano-universal-basic-income", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Conceptual proposal published as a GitBook by \"ancientkraken\".", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Proposal uses Sacramento, California as a case study" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://forum.cardano.org/t/ubi-universal-basic-income-on-cardano/26724", "title": "Cardano Forum: UBI on Cardano discussion thread" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Cardano", "social_mining": "- Funded purely by delegation rewards (~5%/yr), not by new issuance\n- Payouts held in smart-contract wallets that expire each period so recipients cannot hoard", "token_economics": "Denominated in ADA; value tracks the ADA market price.", "notes": "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.\n\n- Included as the clearest documented Cardano-ecosystem UBI design; treat as a paper, not a running programme\n- Same yield-funded model as Cardano-adjacent proposals and as impactMarket's original interest-funded UBI" }, { "id": 516, "name": "Cyber-GUBI (General Use Basic Income)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/cyber-gubi-general-use-basic-income", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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. Users authenticate with on-device facial recognition (stored as an irreversible locality-sensitive hash) and are automatically credited a monthly basic income, which can only be spent with merchants - it cannot be transferred, traded, listed on exchanges or inherited.", "website": "https://github.com/stateless-minds/cyber-gubi", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Prototype / work in progress.", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Global (Linux desktop + IPFS only; no mobile app by design)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipns/k51qzi5uqu5djbxska9ryliqt6rik7gfy44wb46xub92gbhnsy3c0n5g66phsq", "title": "Cyber-GUBI app (IPNS)" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None - explicitly not blockchain-based. Runs on IPFS/libp2p (Kubo fork) with a Go/go-app front end.", "social_identity": "Biometric face ID hashed with locality-sensitive hashing and stored in a public P2P database; one account per face, enforced across devices.", "social_mining": "- Automatic monthly credit to every registered person\n- Must log in during the last 3 days of each month to receive it (so peers are online to run the inflation indexer)\n- No transfers between users; spending only at registered merchants", "token_economics": "Non-exchangeable and non-tradable by design. Bootstrapped by 1:1 mapping to the user's local currency, then repriced by merchants; a real-time inflation indexer adjusts the income amount.", "governance": "Open-source (MIT) project by Stateless Minds; governments may hold read-only accounts to view transactions and collect tax but have no control.", "key_people": "Stateless Minds (GitHub org).", "notes": "Prototype / work in progress. Repository created February 2025, last updated January 2026. Roadmap items completed include presentation-attack detection for the face login, a merchant waiting list and a government tax-viewing role. Merchant onboarding is still pre-launch (\"when there are enough merchants it goes live\").\n\n- Supply is naturally capped at the number of living recipients; balances are destroyed when an account closes or the holder dies\n- Deliberately anti-speculation: no exchange listing, no inheritance, no transfers\n- Installation requires running a local IPFS node on Linux, so practical adoption is currently near zero" }, { "id": 439, "name": "Democracy Earth", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/democracy-earth", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no longer necessary. We are building Sovereign, an open source and decentralized democratic governance protocol for any kind of organization. They have included Basic Income as part of their whitepaper.", "website": "https://www.democracy.earth/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "San Francisco", "Paris", "New York" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/paper/blob/master/README.mediawiki", "title": "Whitepaper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum \nLightning", "social_identity": "Video based (attention mining)", "social_mining": "UBI rewarded as 10% of earned VOTE coins, following rules of a Dripping mechanism", "token_economics": "- Political currency to bring equivalence to transacting entities, restore balance and fairness as the new moral standard\r\n- Value from material goods \r\n- Vote tokens can be delegated, granted or obtained through dripping\r\n- UBI coins start dripping after valid Proof of Identity \r\n- UBI indexing on global scale (1 vote = 1 hour of work) \r\n- Total supply of votes fixed to a maximum cap based on quantity of participants in the network", "governance": "-A standard for digital democracy able to interoperate with other tokens\n-Liquid democracy with a range of voting transactions permitted with votes", "key_people": "Santiago Siri \nPia Mancini\nVirgile Deville" }, { "id": 509, "name": "Denver Basic Income Project", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/denver-basic-income-project", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "The Denver Basic Income Project is an independent Colorado nonprofit that gives direct, unconditional cash to people experiencing homelessness, having distributed $10.8 million to about 800 Denverites. It was founded with the founder's own private capital and is sustained largely by foundations and individual donors, though it also drew city and state money for part of its run.", "website": "https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched 2022.", "funding": "mixed", "verified_users": "~800 participants", "locations": [ "Denver, Colorado, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/", "title": "Denver Basic Income Project" }, { "url": "https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/who-we-are", "title": "DBIP - Who We Are" }, { "url": "https://denverite.com/2024/09/19/denver-basic-income-project-cut-2025/", "title": "Denverite - Denver's basic income experiment could end as mayor refuses more money" }, { "url": "https://www.rmpbs.org/news/denver-basic-income-project-rally", "title": "Rocky Mountain PBS - cash transfers led to more people finding housing" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Referral-based enrollment through homeless service providers in Denver; participants must be experiencing homelessness and are randomized into payment arms. No means test beyond that, no behavioural conditions, and participants sit on the organisation's board.", "social_mining": "Direct monthly cash transfers over 12 months in three randomized arms (roughly $1,000/month, $6,500 up front plus $500/month, and a $50/month comparison group), delivered by direct deposit or prepaid card, plus phone and service payments.", "token_economics": "Mixed but majority private: seeded with about $500,000 of the founder's own Tesla investment gains, then funded by the Colorado Trust, the Piton Foundation, the Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Gary Community Ventures and individual donors, alongside past City of Denver appropriations and a Colorado Department of Local Affairs grant.", "governance": "Independent Colorado 501(c)(3) (EIN 93-2317246) with participants serving on the board; leads the Cash for Coloradans Coalition and a Basic Income Solidarity Community.", "key_people": "Mark Donovan (founder and executive director)", "notes": "Launched 2022. $10.8 million distributed to ~800 participants experiencing homelessness. The City of Denver contributed roughly $4-6 million over 2023-2024 but Mayor Mike Johnston's 2025 budget included no further city money; the project continues on private donations and a Colorado Department of Local Affairs grant, and is expanding participant-led work.\n\n- MIXED FUNDING: this is a privately founded and philanthropically anchored nonprofit, but it accepted roughly $4-6M from the City of Denver in 2023-2024 and a Colorado state (DOLA) grant. City funding stopped from the 2025 budget, pushing it back toward private money.\n- Evaluated by the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Denver's Center for Housing and Homelessness Research; published data showing increased rates of participants moving into housing.\n- Notable as one of the few unconditional cash programmes designed specifically around homelessness." }, { "id": 440, "name": "Dignity", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/dignity", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "A proof-of-concept for how to fund UBI using monetary rather than fiscal policy.", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Chillin", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Seattle" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/goldfarbas/Dignity" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Likely something permissioned", "social_identity": "Web-of-Trust", "social_mining": "Something permissioned", "token_economics": "Reflect distribution of UBI in monetary policy", "governance": "Complicated", "key_people": "Seth Goldfarb" }, { "id": 441, "name": "Duniter", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/duniter", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Energy efficient cryptocurrency software which enables creation of currencies. The currency code includes concepts of a Universal Dividend and Web of Trust.", "website": "https://duniter.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Ğ1/June live; Duniter v2 released March 2026; 6,000+ co-creators", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "verified_users": "8200", "locations": [ "France" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://duniter.org/en/theoretical/", "title": "Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://cesium.app/fr/", "title": "mobile cesium.app" }, { "url": "https://duniter.org/en/introduction/" }, { "url": "http://en.trm.creationmonetaire.info/", "title": "Based on monetary theory" }, { "url": "http://project.openudc.org/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own Blockchain", "social_identity": "Web of Trust mechanism for identification and regular verification of members", "social_mining": "- Duniter (Ğ1) can be obtained on Ğannonce or ĞChange. \n- Every member is a co-producer of money by participating on the monetary Community, which provides regular Universal Dividends", "token_economics": "- Principles of the Relative Theory of Money in which currencies are “minted” by way of a Universal Dividend\r\n- Each vetted member is a co-creator, the money offers symmetry for all", "governance": "Developers = legislative,\nMembers with a node = executive\n\nEquality in \"space and time\" that enable everyone equal participation in the money making process", "key_people": "Cédric Moreau + librelois + poka (@pokapow Telegram ) + Hugo Trenteseaux", "notes": "2026-09: the Ğ1 (June) libre currency pays a universal dividend to every co-creator; Duniter v2 shipped March 2026.\n\n- Only members of the currency can calculate blocks, which limits the number of potential participants\n\n- \"Energy efficient cryptocurrency software\"\n\n- Project originally created in 2008 as \"OpenUDC\" \n\n- Web of trust limited in size for security reasons. However they encourage other communities to create their own currency using the Duniter source code" }, { "id": 503, "name": "Eight (eight.world)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/eight-eightworld", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 and the Democratic Republic of Congo, delivered by mobile money over two-year programmes. It is funded entirely by private donations and independently evaluated by university research partners.", "website": "https://www.eight.world/homepage", "status": "active", "status_detail": "11 villages total (8 in Uganda, 3 in DR Congo); 4 programmes completed, 7 currently running.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "1,584 adults and 2,344 children currently; ~3,928 people reached across 11 villages", "locations": [ "Uganda (Fort Portal, Nebbi/Zombo districts)", "Democratic Republic of Congo" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.eight.world/homepage", "title": "Eight - Universal Basic Income for Uganda and DR Congo" }, { "url": "https://www.eight.world/busibi", "title": "Eight - Busibi cash transfer programme" }, { "url": "https://borgenproject.org/uganda-and-universal-basic-income/", "title": "Borgen Project - Eight, Uganda and Universal Basic Income" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat). Mobile money over GSM.", "social_identity": "Village-level universality: every adult and child in a selected village receives the transfer, with no means test or behavioural conditions. Enrollment is a household census done on the ground; each recipient is issued a mobile phone and mobile-money account (1,664 phones distributed to date).", "social_mining": "Monthly mobile money (GSM-based) transfers. Roughly EUR 16/month per adult and EUR 8/month per child in the Nycana Merber community; Eight quotes $8/month for a child, $32/month for one adult plus two children, and $64/month for a family of two adults and four children.", "token_economics": "Private donations from individuals and foundations, mostly Belgian/European. Eight targets sending 90% of funds raised directly to recipients, with 10% for delivery infrastructure and fundraising.", "governance": "Belgian vzw (nonprofit association), with independent research partners: IOB at the University of Antwerp for Uganda and IPIS for DR Congo.", "key_people": "Not identified on the current site; the project was launched in 2017 by a Belgian nonprofit team behind the \"Eight\" documentary project.", "notes": "11 villages total (8 in Uganda, 3 in DR Congo); 4 programmes completed, 7 currently running. Currently supporting 1,584 adults and 2,344 children, with EUR 708,288 distributed directly. A Nebbi district programme with 138 farmers from 61 households runs 27 July 2024 - 27 July 2026. Supported by 2,317 donors.\n\n- Programmes are two years long per village rather than permanent, so this is village-scale unconditional basic income with a fixed horizon.\n- One of the few non-state UBI programmes that is genuinely universal within its geography (adults and children alike).\n- Original 2017 Fort Portal pilot covered 56 adults and 88 children." }, { "id": 442, "name": "Elmhurst Nonprofit Bank", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/elmhurst-nonprofit-bank", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Achieves purchasing power parity for organizations and a universal basic income for individuals. Both metrics enable longitudinal planning.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Domain no longer resolves", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "VA" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://www.elmhur.st" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None", "social_identity": "KYB/AML", "social_mining": "Hedge-fund backed", "token_economics": "Shares issued are the average unfulfilled client request scheduled >1 day in advance.", "governance": "Board of directors", "key_people": "Benjamin Fenigsohn", "notes": "2026-09: elmhur.st no longer resolves; the last archived sign-up page is from November 2021.\n\nPhilanthropic brokerage" }, { "id": 443, "name": "Encointer", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/encointer", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Grassroots local currencies can be bootstrapped by anyone, anywhere. A mobile phone is enough.", "website": "https://encointer.org", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Testnet Gesell is live", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Zurich" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://encointer.org/testnet/" }, { "url": "https://github.com/encointer/whitepaper/raw/master/encointer_whitepaper.pdf" }, { "url": "https://link.medium.com/9JLTcdnQT5", "title": "easy primer medium article" }, { "url": "https://youtu.be/i3-eVuxrt5k", "title": "(video) talk at sub0.1" }, { "url": "https://relaychain.fm/13-designing-universal-basic-income", "title": "(audio) in-depth podcast on relaychain.fm" }, { "url": "https://riot.im/app/#/room/#encointer:matrix.org", "title": "riot chat" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Polkadot (substrate)", "social_identity": "physical key signing meetups in randomized groups within the same local community. All meetups happen as a global ceremony every 41 days at the same local time so that no one can attend more than one meetup", "social_mining": "A UBI of 1 UNIT is issued in local cryptocurrency for every attended ceremony (providing proof-of-location + proof-of-personhood). Local means village up to metropolitan area", "token_economics": "local currencies feature demurrage to maintain a money supply bound to the size of the population. The valuation comes - as for any money - from the belief in its value.", "governance": "NPoS (Polkadot relay chain) / Encointer Association will build a consortium for parachain governance / democracy (one person one vote) for everything concerning local currency parameters (meetup locations, demurrage rate ...) every community decides for themselves", "key_people": "Alain Brenzikofer", "notes": "Privacy-by design and scalability with Trusted Execution Environments (trusted off-chain computing with SubstraTEE)" }, { "id": 489, "name": "ENRA (Marshall Islands national UBI)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/enra-marshall-islands-national-ubi", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "ENRA is the Republic of the Marshall Islands' national universal basic income: about $200 per quarter for every resident citizen, children included. Recipients can take the payment as USDM1, a tokenised Treasury-backed sovereign bond on Stellar, in the government-backed Lomalo wallet. It was billed as the world's first on-chain UBI disbursement.", "website": "https://stellar.org/press/world-s-first-on-chain-disbursement-of-universal-basic-income-delivered-on-the-stellar-network-via-digital-sovereign-bond-usdm1", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched Nov 2025; $200 a quarter; 41,000+ registered by May 2026", "funding": "state", "verified_users": "33,000+ resident citizens enrolled (Sept 2025, per press reports)", "locations": [ "Marshall Islands" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://stellar.org/press/world-s-first-on-chain-disbursement-of-universal-basic-income-delivered-on-the-stellar-network-via-digital-sovereign-bond-usdm1", "title": "Stellar press release" }, { "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/16/marshall-islands-launches-world-s-first-blockchain-based-ubi-on-stellar-blockchain", "title": "CoinDesk (Dec 2025)" }, { "url": "https://www.scottsantens.com/the-marshall-islands-just-quietly-implemented-the-first-national-universal-basic-income-ubi/", "title": "Scott Santens analysis" }, { "url": "https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/stablecoins-universal-basic-income-pacific-islands-model", "title": "Lowy Institute" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Stellar", "social_identity": "Government citizenship/residency registry (state-run eligibility, not crypto proof-of-personhood)", "social_mining": "Quarterly ~$200 per person via paper check, bank deposit, or USDM1 to the Lomalo wallet (Stellar Disbursement Platform)", "token_economics": "- USDM1: dollar-denominated digital sovereign bond, 1:1 backed by short-term US Treasuries\n- Program funded by the Compact Trust Fund (US Compact of Free Association), ~$50M/year", "governance": "Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Ministry of Finance)", "key_people": "David Paul (Minister of Finance, RMI)\nDenelle Dixon (CEO, Stellar Development Foundation)\nRodri Fernandez Touza (Co-founder, Crossmint)", "notes": "2026-09: three disbursements by July 2026; one quarter fell to $160 until a $3.2M World Bank grant restored it; the programme is about 8.1% of GDP. Crypto uptake is small — few recipients activated the Lomalo/USDM1 wallet.\nSources: https://eastasiaforum.org/2026/01/07/the-price-of-the-marshall-islands-universal-basic-income/, https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/580187/marshall-islands-introduces-world-s-first-crypto-based-universal-income-scheme\n\n- Lomalo wallet built by Crossmint; SDF grant funded USDM1 development\n- IMF advised narrower targeting for fiscal sustainability" }, { "id": 444, "name": "Enumivo", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/enumivo", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Extension of Enumivo, which was originally built to create a UBI on the blockchain via a UBI dApp. UBI tokens will be distributed to participants in ENU based on a ranking algo. UBI's value will have little correlation to ENU tokens, but will be market driven and could be converted to fiat.", "website": "https://www.enumivo.org/", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "- Expected release of UBI dApp in March 2019\n\n- ENU token listed on ForkDelta and CoinLib", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "China" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a8049ac8dd041e820ad35fe/t/5ae6d94a0e2e72dfd92773b8/1525078371637/whitepaper.pdf" }, { "url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2903323.0" }, { "url": "https://somethingdecent.co.uk/crypto/crypto-chronicles/an-interview-with-the-enumivo-lead-developer/", "title": "Medium" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "UBI dApp - own blockchain (cloned EOS)\n\nENU token (tradeable) listed on EOS", "social_identity": "- Ranking Algorithm to fairly rank people by voting and select first 1,000 UBI recipients", "social_mining": "- 20 tokens distributed for 2,500 weeks during a person's lifetime\r\n- Value initially dependent on reserve of ENU coins, locked in UBI fund", "token_economics": "- Weekly UBI distribution\n\n- Backed by Enumivo digital financial reserve of 10M ENU\n\n- UBI tokens are derived as stakes in the dApp backed by the Enumivo project. So, they receive shares in the Enumivo and are indirectly earning in ENU\n\n- Instant trading \n\n- Cash out after vesting period of 2 weeks\n\n- Dependent on ENU price", "governance": "Built in rewards and punishment system for good and bad block producers", "key_people": "Aiden Pearce (pseudonym)", "notes": "- Ranking system to motivate community's activity\r\n- 10M ENU coins given for free to attract many people for dApp and make sure UBI has value\r\n- Planned to scale to 2B people" }, { "id": 445, "name": "Ethereum Cities Project", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ethereum-cities-project", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "To unite UBI Programs & their userbase with other projects in an open and free marketplace. Combined with free educational resources & internal job ops, we aim to provide a pathway from UBI to BI (community jobs) to Entrepreneur (free micro-biz reactor). Together we are stronger. Together we create!", "website": "https://mybe.space/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "No sign of activity", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "verified_users": "450\n*climbing daily", "locations": [ "US, Texas" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://info.fuseswap.com/home" }, { "url": "https://ethcities.com/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Fuse Sidechain for < .01 cent transactions.", "social_identity": "Combination of methods. Due to our scope, identity is per the Member UBI Program.", "social_mining": "Faucting for Hub token + Member UBI Program.", "token_economics": "Token will establish value as GoodDollar (G$) Trade adoption occurs. Trading on FuseSwap with our member UBI counterparts. Currently in open trade. BSC deployment soon.", "governance": "Community Owned, Community Governed.", "key_people": "Fred Stuckey", "notes": "2026-09: no current activity found.\n\nTo unite UBI Programs & their userbase with other projects in an open and free marketplace. Combined with free educational resources & internal job ops, we aim to provide a pathway from UBI to BI (community jobs) to Entrepreneur (free micro-biz reactor). Together we are stronger. Together we create!" }, { "id": 446, "name": "Exergy", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/exergy", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "A scientifically verified and sustainable UBI.", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Umea, Sweden Washington,US" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own blockchain.", "social_identity": "- Personal Energy Account", "social_mining": "UBI gives energy credits calculated via needs of each individual", "token_economics": "Earth Resource Control Software (ERCS) creates a planetary, live feed of resource usage and totals.", "governance": "Interconnected holons run democratically within the three criteria of human rights.", "key_people": "Lilium Carlson Enrique Lescure", "notes": "ERCS is still in development." }, { "id": 482, "name": "Freeos", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/freeos", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Freeos is a \"cooperative community currency\" run as a DAO by FreeDAO (New Zealand). Verified participants vote weekly on the system's monetary policy (inflation, fees, distribution) and in return claim an equal share of newly issued points, convertible into FREEOS tokens, as a UBI-like supplementary income.", "website": "https://freeos.io", "status": "active", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "7,000+ participants at AirClaim launch (per team, 2024); many later blocked by KYC", "locations": [ "New Zealand", "Worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://docs.freeos.io/", "title": "Freeos Docs" }, { "url": "https://app.freeos.io", "title": "Freeos app" }, { "url": "https://www.freedao.io/", "title": "FreeDAO" }, { "url": "https://github.com/FREEOSDAO", "title": "GitHub (FREEOSDAO)" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/freedao/freedao-freeos-e41cc49adb12", "title": "FreeDAO + Freeos (May 2021)" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/freedao/freeos-unchained-89f8927cafa1", "title": "Freeos Unchained (Mar 2024)" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "XPR Network (formerly Proton, EOSIO/Antelope); Internet Computer components; website on Juno", "social_identity": "- KYC through the Proton/XPR WebAuth wallet (identity.metallicus.com)\n- One-person-one-vote\n- KYC requirement (passport in many countries) excluded thousands of users", "social_mining": "- Participants vote weekly on economic parameters and then claim points\n- Points convertible to FREEOS (or FREEBY) tokens\n- Participants burn FREEOS for annual access to the weekly votes", "token_economics": "- \"Wisdom of the crowd\" price stability: participants vote on inflation, fees and distribution instead of an algorithm\n- Described by the team as a crypto-UBI (like GoodDollar) combined with a stablecoin (like Dai)\n- FREEOS token price fell sharply with XPR in 2023", "governance": "DAO (FreeDAO); direct-democracy weekly votes on monetary policy; DAOScape platform intended for governing code changes", "key_people": "J. Kelsey" }, { "id": 447, "name": "Frink", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/frink", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Frink’s mission is to provide a secure, fast, scalable, stable, decentralized, and customer friendly digital currency and digital IDs.\r\n\r\nEveryone starts with an equal number of Frinks just waiting to be claimed. Money paid to miners will be evenly paid to the users who secure the decentralized network.\r\n\r\nFrinks are economically strong, energy efficient, without transaction fees, have more stable prices, and are highly scalable.", "website": "https://frink.global/", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "\"ICO coming soon\"", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "US" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://frink.global/whitepaper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own scalable and energy-efficient blockchain with high-performance and low-bandwidth, from researching Ethereum and Cryptonite.", "social_identity": "- Similar to BrightID but closed source (intend to open source afer launch)\n\n- Private Decentralized ID created from analyzing links and referrals", "social_mining": "- Proof of Person Mining enables everyone to mine Frinks with equal mining power creating maximum decentralization\r\n- Frink pays users ₣1000 for linking friends and more for referrals", "token_economics": "- Price set for pre-ICO\n- Project pays 1000 frinks to everyone who joins to mine", "governance": "Community of miners with protection of their social graph", "key_people": "Matt Czarnek\nIban Eguia", "notes": "- Frinks can be spent anywhere bitcoin is accepted, through services like Shapeshift.io and Changelly\n- Goal to reach 10M people" }, { "id": 448, "name": "FT-Coin", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ft-coin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Parallel Digital Payments Platform (PDPP) proposed in DiEM25 European New Deal. It's a future-TAX-coin. They want a alternative real state currency, denominated in Euros. The blockchain part of it is \r\n1: for the purpose of transparency so it's evident the state/government is not overspending or being generous to specific parties.\r\n2: to provide future tax breaks to people storing their savings within that system, in effect financing the government (which would no longer need to borrow from markets and banks and, thus saving)\r\n\r\nAs for UBI they don't agree with it, instead they propose something far more radical. The Universal Basic Dividend.", "website": "http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/FT_Coin", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "links": [ { "url": "https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/European-New-Deal-Complete-Policy-Paper.pdf", "title": "Policy Paper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 508, "name": "Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI) / The Compton Pledge", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/fund-guaranteed-income-f4gi-compton-pledge", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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. Its flagship Compton Pledge sent $9.3 million in recurring unconditional cash ($300-$600/month for two years) to 800 low-income Compton families, funded philanthropically rather than from the city budget, and it now operates a portfolio of further pilots.", "website": "https://f4gi.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "F4GI launched August 2020.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "800 families in the Compton Pledge; several thousand more across its current pilot portfolio", "locations": [ "Compton, California, USA", "Long Beach, California, USA", "Sonoma County, California, USA", "Chicago, Illinois, USA", "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://f4gi.org/about/", "title": "F4GI - About" }, { "url": "https://f4gi.org/pilot/compton-pledge/", "title": "F4GI - The Compton Pledge" }, { "url": "https://f4gi.org/pilot/pledgereport/", "title": "F4GI - Implementing the Pledge (report)" }, { "url": "https://f4gi.org/app/uploads/2025/07/Compton-Pledge-Insights-for-Tax-Credit-Policy-Design-1.pdf", "title": "Compton Pledge: Insights for Tax Credit Policy Design (July 2025)" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Programme-specific eligibility (low income, residency, and for some pilots formerly incarcerated status or child-welfare involvement), with randomized or lottery selection among eligible applicants. F4GI runs its own enrollment and identity-verification portal and deliberately includes undocumented residents, who are excluded from most public benefits.", "social_mining": "Recurring monthly or bi-monthly unconditional payments through F4GI's own payments portal (portal.f4gi.org), using prepaid debit cards, direct deposit and other rails so that recipients without bank accounts can be paid.", "token_economics": "Philanthropic grants and private donors - named funders include the Heising-Simons Foundation, Just Impact Advisors, Spring Point Partners and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. Some individual pilots are co-delivered with municipal partners.", "governance": "501(c)(3) public charity with an executive director and research lead; publishes implementation reports and pilot-level research.", "key_people": "Nika Soon-Shiong (founder and senior advisor), Nicholas Salazar (executive director), Eli Berk-Rauch (research lead), Courtney Esteban (finance manager)", "notes": "F4GI launched August 2020. The Compton Pledge completed its two-year run and final payments have been sent; a policy-design report was published July 2025. F4GI currently lists active pilots including the Chicago Future Fund, Long Beach Pledge, Housing Pledge, Truth and Reconciliation, Community Love Fund, Pathway to Income Equity (Sonoma County), GROW (Philadelphia) and Mothers Rising.\n\n- The Compton Pledge is often mistaken for a city programme: it was announced with the mayor's backing but the cash came from philanthropy, not the Compton city budget.\n- Several current pilots are run in partnership with local governments (Philadelphia, Long Beach, Sonoma County), so funding for those specific pilots may be mixed - treat the organisation as philanthropic and individual pilots case by case.\n- F4GI's distinctive contribution is payments infrastructure that reaches unbanked and undocumented recipients." }, { "id": 490, "name": "Future First (GiveDirectly / Coinbase)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/future-first-givedirectly-coinbase", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Future First is a guaranteed-income pilot in New York City, administered by GiveDirectly and funded by Coinbase. It pays 160 lottery-selected residents aged 18-30 a total of $12,000 each in USDC stablecoin.", "website": "https://www.givedirectly.org/", "status": "pilot", "status_detail": "160 New Yorkers aged 18-30; $8,000 up front then 5 x $800 monthly in USDC", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "160 recipients", "locations": [ "New York City, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/10/02/coinbase-backed-pilot-program-hands-out-usd12-000-in-crypto-to-low-income-new-yorkers", "title": "CoinDesk (Oct 2025)" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-01/nyc-pilot-funded-by-coinbase-tries-basic-income-payments-in-crypto", "title": "Bloomberg (Oct 2025)" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "USDC via Coinbase wallets (chain not specified)", "social_identity": "Lottery selection and KYC through Coinbase accounts (not proof-of-personhood)", "social_mining": "$8,000 lump sum plus five $800 USDC payments ($12,000 total)", "token_economics": "USDC stablecoin; funded with $2.6M redirected from Coinbase's wound-down GiveCrypto effort", "governance": "GiveDirectly (nonprofit administrator); Coinbase (funder)", "key_people": "Darin Carter (Coinbase)", "notes": "2026-09: funded with $2.6M redirected from the wound-down GiveCrypto.\nSource: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/10/02/coinbase-backed-pilot-program-hands-out-usd12-000-in-crypto-to-low-income-new-yorkers\n\nTargeted guaranteed income, not universal; tests crypto delivery against traditional cash transfers" }, { "id": 449, "name": "GETCoin GlobalVille", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/getcoin-globalville", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "We propose a rule based monetary system that is self stabilizing and \nresistant to inflation and deflation. The system does not require any \nprivileged individuals to issue or regulate the supply of money. The \nsystem was derived by recognizing the good properties of commodity \nbased money when money first began. We also propose a possible \nimplementation based digital ledger technology which restores the \nproperties of sound money without requiring commodities.", "status": "active", "status_detail": "- Working on building Shardus, a scalable blockchain that can handle billions of daily active users and millions of transactions per second.", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "verified_users": "6", "locations": [ "Dallas, TX, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://arimaa.com/money/SoundMoneyWC.pdf", "title": "Sound Money Without Commodities" }, { "url": "http://arimaa.com/money/GETCoin.pdf", "title": "GETCoin Paper" }, { "url": "http://arimaa.com/money/GlobalVille.pdf", "title": "GlobalVille Paper" }, { "url": "https://shardus.com/", "title": "Shardus DLT" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Shardus \n- Linearly scalable\n- Truely decentralized\n- Energy efficient\n- Designed for global scale applications like UBI", "social_identity": "Based on Web of Trust and\nand principles of Game Theory", "social_mining": "- Each individual receives a daily dividend of GETCoin\n- Community funds receive GETCoin based on nomination\n- Demurrage applied on a daily basis to all GETCoin\n-", "token_economics": "- GETCoin is Initially pegged to XDR.\n- Designed to be self stabalizing\n- Money supply proportional to number of individuals in the economy", "governance": "Community funds", "key_people": "Omar Syed\nAndrew Foster\nAamir Syed\nKyle Schifflet\nGreg Hemmer\nSameer Siddiqui", "notes": "- Economic model presented in 2011\n- UBI + Community funds + Demurrage\n- No ICO. Funded by giving Shardus tokens to project contributors." }, { "id": 492, "name": "GiveCrypto", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/givecrypto", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "GiveCrypto was a nonprofit founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong in 2018. It sent small, regular crypto cash transfers directly to people in poverty, mainly in Venezuela, where local ambassadors identified the recipients.", "website": "https://givecrypto.org", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Active 2018-2022; wound down, with remaining funds later partly redirected to GiveDirectly's Future First pilot", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "100+ families in the Barquisimeto pilot (2019); later programs larger", "locations": [ "Venezuela", "Latin America" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.coinbase.com/blog/winding-down-givecrypto", "title": "Coinbase: Winding down GiveCrypto" }, { "url": "https://www.coinbase.com/blog/day-2-of-12-days-of-coinbase-empowering-venezuelan-families-with-givecrypto", "title": "Coinbase: Empowering Venezuelan families with GiveCrypto" }, { "url": "https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/venezuela-crisis-givecrypto-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-eos-20190522.html", "title": "Inquirer/AP (May 2019)" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "EOS, Ethereum (Coinbase Wallet Lite)", "social_identity": "On-the-ground ambassadors and social workers identified and enrolled recipients", "social_mining": "Weekly deposits of ~$7-10 in crypto (EOS, ETH) for several weeks, spendable at partner merchants", "token_economics": "Donor-funded; paid in existing cryptocurrencies", "governance": "Nonprofit foundation", "key_people": "Brian Armstrong (founder)\nJoe Waltman (executive director)", "notes": "Targeted, time-limited cash transfers rather than universal basic income" }, { "id": 500, "name": "GiveDirectly Universal Basic Income (Kenya 12-year study)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/givedirectly-universal-basic-income-kenya-12-year-study", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "GiveDirectly runs the world's largest and longest-running universal basic income experiment, sending unconditional mobile-money transfers to roughly 23,000 people across 195 rural Kenyan villages since 2017, with a control arm of about 100 further villages. It is funded by private philanthropy, not by the Kenyan or any other government, and is evaluated by academic economists as a randomized controlled trial.", "website": "https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Ongoing.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~23,000 recipients across 195 villages, plus ~100 control villages", "locations": [ "Kenya (Siaya and Bomet counties)", "Malawi", "Mozambique" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi/", "title": "GiveDirectly - Basic Income" }, { "url": "https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results", "title": "Early findings from the world's largest UBI study" }, { "url": "https://www.givedirectly.org/kenya", "title": "Cash Aid in Kenya" }, { "url": "https://poverty-action.org/effects-universal-basic-income-kenya", "title": "IPA - The Effects of a Universal Basic Income in Kenya" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat). Delivered over M-Pesa mobile money.", "social_identity": "Village-level saturation: every eligible adult in a selected village is enrolled, so there is no individual means test within the village. Villages are randomized into long-term UBI, short-term UBI, lump-sum and control arms. Enrollment is done by GiveDirectly field staff with door-to-door census and mobile-money SIM registration.", "social_mining": "Monthly mobile money (M-Pesa) transfers to a SIM issued to each recipient, cashed out at local mobile money agents.", "token_economics": "Private philanthropy - individual donors, foundations and effective-altruism funders give to GiveDirectly, which passes the money through. No token, no government budget.", "governance": "GiveDirectly, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with an independent academic research team (Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Faye, Paul Niehaus, Tavneet Suri and colleagues) and evaluation support from J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action.", "key_people": "Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus (GiveDirectly co-founders); Tavneet Suri (MIT), Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) - lead researchers", "notes": "Ongoing. Launched 2017 as a roughly $30M programme; long-term arm receives payments for 12 years, with some recipients scheduled to be paid through 2029. First major results published December 2023; further waves since. GiveDirectly also runs basic income programmes in Malawi and Mozambique.\n\n- Arms: $22.50/month for 12 years (long-term), $22.50/month for 2 years (short-term), and a one-time ~$500 lump sum; current headline transfers are around $40/month after inflation adjustment.\n- Key 2023-2026 finding: recipients did not work less; long-term-guarantee recipients outperformed short-term recipients on food security and enterprise formation.\n- The directory already lists \"Future First (GiveDirectly / Coinbase)\", which is a separate crypto-rails pilot by the same organisation. This entry is the flagship Kenya UBI RCT - please check whether the owner wants them merged." }, { "id": 491, "name": "Glo Dollar", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/glo-dollar", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is a nonprofit, fully reserved dollar stablecoin. Its reserves sit in cash and short-term US Treasuries, and all the yield goes to charity: by default to GiveDirectly's basic income program in Africa. Holding Glo therefore funds basic income indirectly.", "website": "https://www.glodollar.org", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched 2023; Glo Dollar 2.0 (holder-directed yield) Apr 2024", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Worldwide (funding)", "Africa (GiveDirectly recipients)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.glodollar.org/articles/glo-dollar-2-0", "title": "Glo Dollar 2.0 (Apr 2024)" }, { "url": "https://www.glodollar.org/articles/treasuries", "title": "Reserves: cash and US Treasuries" }, { "url": "https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AB5QQaqEvA3sLJLTq/glo-a-nonprofit-stablecoin-that-generates-revenue-for", "title": "EA Forum intro" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum, Polygon, Celo, Optimism, Base, Arbitrum, Stellar", "social_identity": "None for holders; GiveDirectly selects recipient villages and people", "social_mining": "Reserve yield is donated; GiveDirectly pays ~$30/month to people in poor African villages via mobile money (the recipients are not paid on-chain)", "token_economics": "1:1 USD-backed stablecoin; impact grows with circulation", "governance": "Glo Foundation (nonprofit); holders choose which charity gets their yield (AutoPGF)", "notes": "Borderline: a crypto funding mechanism for basic income rather than an on-chain distribution" }, { "id": 450, "name": "Global Income Coin", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/global-income-coin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 451, "name": "GoodDollar", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/gooddollar", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Brainchild of Yoni Assia, eToro CEO & Founder.", "website": "http://gooddollar.org", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Live on Celo; ~500k-640k members in 180+ countries", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Israel, UK" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IC22u_sR49GSG4OI8i0qQG0Xb-V7lzTUs86QkGRt_f8/edit", "title": "Whitepaper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Probably Ethereum, possibly forking and adding abilities", "social_identity": "Combination of methods:\n\n* Input from Social networks\n* Traditional KYC\n* Seed groups\n* Sybil detection algorithms\n* Voting mechanisms\n* Face to face approvals\n* Having existing users vouch for new ones\n* \"Holographic Concensus\"", "social_mining": "- Elligble to receive GoodDollars upon identity verification\n- Refer a friend program\n- Social Interest (Inflation) Mechanism - the less GoodDollars you have, the more you get (annual 10%)", "token_economics": "Price based on Bancor formula, taking into account total supply changes due to UBI & token trading", "governance": "(Planned) 3 different DAOs on Ethereum, probably using DAOstack", "key_people": "Yoni Assia\nOded Ben Dror\nGilad Barner\nSagi Shorrer\nTal Oron", "notes": "2026-09: migrated to Celo, V4 governance proposal March 2025, $250K GoodBuilders ecosystem fund.\nSource: https://www.gooddollar.org/\n\n- Founded by eToro's CEO & Founder, Yoni Assia\n- Fully sponspored by eToro (no need for ICO)" }, { "id": 452, "name": "GoodWill", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/goodwill", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Goodwill Economy: Partner of NeoSpace Foundation", "website": "https://beginning.world/goodwill", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Awaiting CBDC Backing & Exchange Listing", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Universal" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://beginning.world/static/goodwill/goodwill.pdf", "title": "Goodwill Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://beginning.world/static/rap/rap.pdf", "title": "Resource Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://beginning.world" }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/105CaQcy2RQW8AWnqwD6Tiigx9QFeL5Q1NcczAzTrtg8", "title": "Digital Economy Summary" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "ERC20 on Ethereum", "social_identity": "Goodwill Economy", "social_mining": "Proof of Memory & Proof of Knowledge based billing to UN Member States employing EEG and similar methods of data mining, use of data, interpretation of data and derivative works, of BEGINNING Goodwill Economy participants & NeoSpace Foundation members, affiliates & participants using FIAT USD $1 Trillion / Microsecond for the duration of each individual's memory & knowledge billed to Central Bank of each UN Member State of the individual.", "token_economics": "Plans to use debts owed to NeoSpace Foundation by all 193 UN member nations & the Central Banks as funding source. World-wide known as largest creditor in history to UN member states. Global Consensus for billing rate reached in 2014. Agreement for Central Bank based payment signed as part of Paris Agreement during Climate Change Summit & as part of signing of Global Goals. Consensus agreement reached during World Economic Forum 4th Industrial Revolution Summit for building Digital Economy for each UN member nation to satisfy payment obligations", "governance": "Bank of International Settlements, NASA, ESA, RosCosmos, Intelligence Directorates, UN POL, CyberPOL, DoD, NATO affiliates, and US Department of Commerce based detection & Validation of existence of Memory & Knowledge for purpose of billing", "key_people": "Yuuki Fushimi", "notes": "- Supports 17 goals from the \"UN Sustainability Goals\" (see \"links\")" }, { "id": 453, "name": "Gradido (GradidoTransform)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/gradido-gradidotransform", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Monetary and economic model based on self-regulating mechanisms for stability of supply & prices. Everyone has a right to Unconditional Participation an Active Basic Income of up to 1000 gradidos.", "website": "https://gradido.net/en/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development/Experimental", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Germany" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://gradido.net/en/blog/gradidotransform-crypto-coin-for-transformation/508/", "title": "Article" }, { "url": "https://gradido.net/en/#le_body_row_7_col_1_el_3", "title": "UN Goals" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "In development", "social_identity": "In development", "social_mining": "- Active Basic Income of up to 1000 gradidos\n- Gradido ambassadors receive GradidoTransform during development stage (if they are part of the Academy)", "token_economics": "Only theoretical, no details about blockchain or cryptocurrency yet.", "governance": "In development", "key_people": "Bernd Hückstädt\nMargret Baier", "notes": "- Supports 17 goals from the \"UN Sustainability Goals\" (see \"links\")" }, { "id": 454, "name": "Greshm", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/greshm", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Greshm is a USD-based complementary monetary system (1-to-1 peg). \n\nXGD will be provided as basic income to low income individuals in a specifc city or region, after funding USD reserves. \n\nThey will partner with a network of local merchants agreeing to accept XGD payments at face value.", "website": "http://www.greshm.org/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development.\nPlanned milestones:\n1. Find a lawyer.\n2. Form the organization.\n3. Raise seed funding \n4. Crowd fund the USD reserves.\n5. Launch in one city.\n6. Expand to the world.", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Boston, US" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://www.greshm.org/files/greshm.pdf", "title": "Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/greshm/" }, { "url": "https://twitter.com/projectgreshm" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Non-blockchain", "social_identity": "Government IDs, etc. It'll be a mix. Whatever makes the most sense for each country. \n\nThere will always be identity fraud, so we'll have to recover fraud incidents.\n\nWe'll always have people actively working on recovering from fraud incidents.", "social_mining": "- XGD terms to maturity through subtraction of time points since last transaction, before exchanged to USD \r\n- XGD circulates and users receive UBI", "token_economics": "- Gresham’s law - “bad money drives out good\"\n- XGD pegged אo USD (1 to 1)\n- XGD matures into USD from the reserves after a period of time \n- Term to maturity restarts whenever XGD is exchanged\n- Circulation of XGD will lessen impact on USD reserves\n- Greshm merchant partners are\nrequired to set prices equally in XGD and USD, so consumers can prefer to spend XGD over USD", "governance": "Centralized authority protects against double spend.", "key_people": "Alex Howlett", "notes": "- Continuous basic income. No discrete payments.\r\n- Will be open source.\r\n- Like PayPal, but with a basic income." }, { "id": 455, "name": "Group Income", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/group-income", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "links": [ { "url": "https://groupincome.org" }, { "url": "https://okturtles.org" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 456, "name": "Happonomy", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/happonomy", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://www.happonomy.org/inspiration/get-inspired/sustainable-money-system/", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Belgium" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://youtu.be/hbauZmJ2Kn8", "title": "TED Talk" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "social_mining": "- Each individual receives a UBI\n- Community projects receive UBI\n- Demurrage applied to balance above a limit", "key_people": "Stef Kuypers" }, { "id": 457, "name": "Horizon NGO", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/horizon-ngo", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Horizon NGO is the first decentralized platform for uniting basic income initiatives.\n\nNot only are we offering basic income tokens to individuals, but also to organizations the possibility to run their own basic income service.\n\nThrough the Horizon Factory, every organization will be able to create an independent basic income service for their community only (contributing to the main service). It's easy (through the online DApp), affordable (very affordable when compared to custom development), thoroughly tested and maintained by the Horizon team.", "website": "http://horizon.ngo/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "DApp on Ropsten test net ✔\nplanned: \n- go live on main net\n- switch to DAO governance\n- build mobile application\n- design Horizon V2", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Germany" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://horizon.ngo/dapp", "title": "MVP" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "MVP on Ethereum\n(see link)", "social_identity": "Proof of Reputation\n(in development)", "social_mining": "Distribution through strategic partnerships\n(see white paper)", "token_economics": "Payouts directly in Ether\nInternal token exchange is planned", "governance": "Investigating:\nDAO on Aragon, DAOStack or ...", "key_people": "Dirk von Heinrichshorst\nEliott Teissonniere", "notes": "United Basic Income platform\n\nHorizon Factory generates splitter instances that redistribute deposits among basic income token holders.\n\nIn its core, Horizon is a recurring payments system which can be used for multiple purposes." }, { "id": 483, "name": "Humanity DAO", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/humanity-dao", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Humanity was an experiment in unique identity, governance and UBI by Marble.org, launched on Ethereum mainnet in May 2019. A DAO voted applicants into an on-chain registry of unique humans (a token curated registry); a sample UBI contract let registered humans claim 1 Dai per month from a 2,500 Dai pool.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Gone; the domain now redirects to gambling spam", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://medium.com/marbleorg/introducing-humanity-90ddf9ead235", "title": "Introducing Humanity DAO (May 2019)" }, { "url": "https://github.com/marbleprotocol/humanity", "title": "GitHub: marbleprotocol/humanity" }, { "url": "https://roger-wu.github.io/humanitydao-applicant-status-checker-build/", "title": "Applicant status checker (community)" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "- Token curated registry: applicants stake a fee, voters approve or reject\n- Recommended proof: a Twitter post containing the applicant's Ethereum address\n- Voters could also use social-graph analysis or SybilRank\n- Two-day vote plus two-day veto period\n- isHuman() check usable by any smart contract", "social_mining": "- UBI contract funded with 2,500 Dai; registered humans could claim 1 Dai per month until it ran out\n- The first 10,000 registered humans earned HUM voting tokens", "token_economics": "- 100M HUM voting tokens: 75% to the first 10,000 humans, 5% dripped into Uniswap (1 per block, ~2 years), 20% held by the Marble team\n- UBI itself paid in Dai (stable)", "governance": "On-chain DAO; HUM token-weighted majority voting on registry applications", "key_people": "Rich M. (Marble.org)", "notes": "2026-09: humanitydao.org has been taken over and redirects to gambling SEO spam. The link has been removed from this page — do not visit it or connect a wallet. The project itself ended around 2022.\n\n- Precursor of later registries such as Proof of Humanity\n- Team warned it was \"not an investment opportunity\"" }, { "id": 458, "name": "HyperSpace", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/hyperspace", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://hyperspace.app/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "upcoming Alpha launch (Dec 2018)", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Probably Vienna, Austria" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://medium.com/the-hyperspace-blog/goodbye-synereo-hello-hyperspace-the-new-content-economy-153bc01253a7" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "social_identity": "Every registered and verified user who actively participates in HyperSpace receives a daily allocation of AMPs – HyperSpace’s digital currency – for free.", "social_mining": "\" If you bring your communities value by creating and sharing content aligned with their interests, your income from HyperSpace can increase dramatically.\"", "token_economics": "- The earlier you register, the more AMPs you get", "key_people": "Probably Dr. Andreas Mätzler", "notes": "- Formerly \"Synereo\"\n\n- Community-owned spaces where members are rewarded and recognized for creating and sharing the content most appreciated by their peers." }, { "id": 459, "name": "Idena", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/idena", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://idena.io/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "- Testnet is launched (Aug 2019)\n- Listed on qTrade (Feb 2020)", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "verified_users": "4012", "locations": [ "Distributed" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/idena" }, { "url": "https://scan.idena.io/" }, { "url": "https://scan.idena.io", "title": "Blockchain explorer" }, { "url": "https://idena.io/IdenaPitchDeck.pdf", "title": "Idena pitch deck" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/idena" }, { "url": "https://github.com/idena-network" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "The Idena blockchain is driven by proof-of-person consensus: Every node is linked to one single person with equal voting power.", "social_identity": "Idena based on the crypto-identity concept which does not require to collect or store personally identifiable information. The network proves the uniqueness of its participants by running an AI-hard Turing test at the same time for everyone around the globe.", "social_mining": "Total minting is capped at 51,840 coins per day. Half of the cap (50%) is mined while producing the blocks. The rest of the coins are minted during validation sessions.\r\n\r\nBlock reward: 6 DNA\r\nMaximum number of blocks per day: 4,320\r\nMining cap per day: 25,920 DNA (50%)\r\nAccumulating fund per day: 25,920 DNA (50%)\r\nTotal cap: 51,840 DNA", "token_economics": "There are the following cases for supply utilization:\n\n20% of minted coins are frozen in stakes\nStakes of non-validated identities are burnt\nMining penalties are burnt\n90% of transaction fees are burnt\n1% of the minted coins are frozen in the zero wallet\n100% of ad payments will be burnt", "governance": "Onchain voting (one person=one vote)", "key_people": "Andrew Edi", "notes": "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/idena" }, { "id": 485, "name": "impactMarket", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/impactmarket", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "impactMarket is a Celo-based, DAO-governed poverty-alleviation protocol from Portugal. Crowdfunded smart contracts pay Unconditional Basic Income in cUSD to vulnerable communities, and community managers onboard the beneficiaries. It later added microcredit, a Learn & Earn app and the Libera wallet.", "website": "https://www.impactmarket.com", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "- Founded Nov 2020 (impactLabs Lda, Portugal); PACT token IDO Dec 2021\n- ~45,000 beneficiaries in ~30 countries, ~$3.07M distributed\n- impactmarket.com not resolving (Sept 2026); last GitHub push Mar 2025, so possibly wound down", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~45,000 beneficiaries in 249 communities, 30+ countries", "locations": [ "Portugal", "Brazil", "Nigeria", "Philippines", "Venezuela", "Mali", "30+ countries" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://docs.impactmarket.com/impactmarket-apps/master", "title": "impactMarket Docs" }, { "url": "https://docs.impactmarket.com/impactmarket-apps/2.-impactmarkets-products/unconditional-basic-income-ubi/how-communities-work/how-to-apply-a-community", "title": "How UBI communities work" }, { "url": "https://github.com/impactMarket", "title": "GitHub" }, { "url": "https://pact.foundation/", "title": "PACT Foundation" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Celo", "social_identity": "- Community managers vouch for, add and remove beneficiaries\n- Communities approved by impactMarket before their contract is deployed", "social_mining": "- Each community has its own Celo contract with its own claim amount, interval (daily or weekly) and per-beneficiary cap\n- Beneficiaries claim cUSD from donations\n- Donors earn PACT rewards (\"Impact Farming\")", "token_economics": "- UBI paid in cUSD (dollar stablecoin), so no own-token inflation\n- PACT governance/reward token\n- Funded by donations plus DeFi yield (\"Deposit and Donate\")", "governance": "impactMarket DAO governed by PACT holders", "key_people": "Marco Barbosa\nBernardo Vieira\nAfonso Barbosa", "notes": "- Also the platform behind the Refugee Integration Organisation refugee UBI pilot\n- Typical payout ~$0.75/day per claim (2022-23)" }, { "id": 511, "name": "Instituto ReCivitas (Quatinga Velho basic income)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/instituto-recivitas-quatinga-velho-basic-income", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Instituto ReCivitas is a Brazilian NGO that ran the world's first privately crowdfunded village-scale unconditional basic income, paying residents of Quatinga Velho a small monthly sum from 2008, funded by citizen-to-citizen donations rather than the Brazilian state. In 2016 it converted the model into a \"lifetime basic income\" backed by a community-owned fund designed to pay out permanently.", "website": "https://www.recivitas.org/", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Phase 1 ran October 2008 to 2014/2015 covering around 100 residents of Quatinga Velho.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~100 residents in Phase 1; smaller lifetime-income cohort thereafter", "locations": [ "Quatinga Velho, Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo state, Brazil" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.recivitas.org/", "title": "Instituto ReCivitas" }, { "url": "https://en.recivitas.org/basic-income-startup", "title": "ReCivitas - Basic Income Startup / Fundo do ReCivitas de Renda Basica" }, { "url": "https://en.recivitas.org/renda-basica-quatinga-velho", "title": "ReCivitas - Renda Basica Quatinga Velho, Phase 1" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCivitas", "title": "Wikipedia - ReCivitas" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Geographic universality within the village of Quatinga Velho - any resident who signed up received the payment, with no means test, work test or other condition. Registration was done in person by ReCivitas volunteers.", "social_mining": "Monthly cash payments of R$40 (about US$10) per person, initially handed out in person and later via individual savings accounts held for each beneficiary.", "token_economics": "Citizen-to-citizen crowdfunding: donations from individuals worldwide, later supplemented by a capitalised fund whose returns finance the payments, plus contributions from beneficiaries themselves into a community savings account. Explicitly independent of the Brazilian state.", "governance": "Instituto ReCivitas, a Brazilian non-profit, positioning the scheme as a citizen-to-citizen right rather than a state benefit; beneficiaries participate in the community savings structure.", "key_people": "Bruna Augusto Pereira and Marcus Brancaglione dos Santos (co-founders)", "notes": "Phase 1 ran October 2008 to 2014/2015 covering around 100 residents of Quatinga Velho. In January 2016 ReCivitas launched a \"Lifetime Basic Income\" intended to be permanent, backed by an endowment-style fund (the ReCivitas Basic Income Fund). Current activity level is not clearly documented; no verified recent updates found for 2023-2026.\n\n- Historically significant: the first sustained privately funded unconditional basic income pilot anywhere, and the direct ideological ancestor of later crowdfunded models.\n- Amounts were small (~US$10/month) but meaningful relative to local incomes.\n- Status marked unknown because no source found confirms payments are still flowing in 2023-2026; the owner may want to contact ReCivitas directly before marking it active." }, { "id": 460, "name": "Kuwa (ZeroPoverty)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/kuwa-zeropoverty", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Cryptocurrency \"faucet\" for distribution of UBI that will deliver UBI through a Kuwa identity system, which is a decentralized, pseudo-anonymous and Sybil-resistant individual identification system", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Site refuses connections; zeropoverty.org is for sale", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Massachusetts, US" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://jamespflynn.com/2018/03/01/kuwa-a-decentralized-pseudo-anonymous-and-sybil-resistant-individual-identification-system/", "title": "Article" }, { "url": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VTfsussAknJaV-O_CCgGZ-JdZG2vWrVD0WhrlcChDWQ/edit#gid=0" }, { "url": "http://kuwa.org/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "- Kuwa Identity as self-sovereign identification platform for poor countries \n- Kuwa Registrar for users validation\n- Kuwa Token (KT) given to valid unique human users eligible for BID\n- Kuwa Faucet checks validity of KT and sends BID off-chain\n- New users need to find sponsors to pay the gas for the validation\n- User needs to record a video of themselves saying a numerical challenge, which then gets uploaded to a public repo and then voted by validator nodes which bet on the outcome (zero-sum game)", "social_mining": "- Periodic payment of BID (ERC20 token) to validated people", "token_economics": "No details provided regarding how it will be used, at this stage.", "governance": "- Kuwa Foundation Inc - Massachusetts nonprofit corporation\n- Kuwa Board", "key_people": "Philip Silva\nJim Flynn", "notes": "2026-09: kuwa.org refuses connections and zeropoverty.org redirects to a domain-sale page.\n\n- Similar to Bitcoin\r\n- TCUP - pronounced \"teacup\"\r\n- Kuwa = \"to be\" in Swahili \r\n- MIT license" }, { "id": 524, "name": "LEU Zurich", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/leu-zurich", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 fully operational Encointer community currency. Anyone who turns up at a 'gathering' — a meetup of about ten people at a randomly chosen place and time every ten days — receives ⵐLEU 44 within 48 hours, with LEU informally valued at par with the Swiss franc and accepted by a handful of shops and bars in Zurich districts 4 and 5.", "website": "https://old.leu.zuerich/en/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Live since 2022 and Encointer's longest-running community currency; as of the 2026 Encointer communities page it has 'low traction but is maintained by supporters'. Community income currently 44 LEU per 10-day cycle; ~7 local businesses accept it.", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Zurich, Switzerland" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://old.leu.zuerich/en/", "title": "LEU – the new currency for Zurich" }, { "url": "https://encointer.org/charting-the-development-of-encointers-longest-established-community-currency/", "title": "Charting the development of Encointer's longest established community currency" }, { "url": "https://encointer.org/our-communities/", "title": "Encointer — Our Communities" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Encointer parachain on Kusama", "social_identity": "Proof of personhood by physical attendance: randomly located/timed gatherings of ~10 people who mutually attest each other by scanning QR codes; no state ID required.", "social_mining": "Newly issued LEU is distributed equally to every attesting participant each cycle; demurrage keeps supply proportional to population.", "token_economics": "ⵐLEU 44 per participant per 10-day cycle; 1 LEU ≈ CHF 1 (1 LEU could be bought for CHF 1 at the Sphères bar).", "governance": "Encointer Association, a volunteer-run Zurich association", "key_people": "Alain Brenzikofer (Encointer founder, 2020)", "notes": "- Runs on the Encointer platform (listed separately); LEU is the Zurich community program itself.\n- Main site has moved to an 'old.' hostname, consistent with the reported low traction." }, { "id": 461, "name": "mannabase (GrantCoin)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/mannabase-grantcoin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Manna is the world's first universally accessible, people-powered & empowering alternative currency.", "website": "https://www.mannabase.com/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "In hibernation since 2020", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "US" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://www.grantcoin.org/documents/manna-whitepaper.pdf" }, { "url": "https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/manna/" }, { "url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1618075.0" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "- Currently own blockchain (PeerCoin fork)\n\n- \"In 2018, we intend to transition to a more advanced, feature-rich codebase, perhaps by incorporating some of the functionalities\nof Ethereum into our own blockchain\"", "social_identity": "1) Email + Real mobile phone (sms verification) + Address\n 2) secondary algorithmic methods for:\na) Pair phones and addresses\nb) Checking for authenticity of mobile numbers (using Twilio etc.)", "social_mining": "- Fully automated weekly distribution of Mana \n- Mannabase as clearing\nhouse of information for “conscious consumers”\n- People’s Currency Foundation for charities\n- Children’s savings account program for “basic capital”", "token_economics": "- Manna UBI distributed weekly to Mannabase wallets\n- Annual rate of increase of the Manna money supply through UBI at 3.5% of current supply of\nManna in circulation (proxy for USD historical average annual inflation) \n- Primarily determined by the free market\n- The value is additionally backed by donations to the People’s Currency\nFoundation", "governance": "Distributed by a nonprofit organization as UBI", "key_people": "Eric Stetson\nJon Frenchin\nBrandon Venetta\nDoug Shubert", "notes": "2026-09: Hedge for Humanity states the beta ran spring 2018 to spring 2020 and the site is \"currently in hibernation\", with no relaunch date.\nSource: https://www.hedgeforhumanity.org/manna\n\n- Leader & first-mover advantage \n\n- Possibilities for development of point-of-sale solutions for spending Manna at retailers & other partnerships\n\n- Ambition to be adopted by global NGOs and developing governments as \"people's reserve currency\"\n\n- Talking to orphanages (Children savings program concept)" }, { "id": 504, "name": "Mein Grundeinkommen", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/mein-grundeinkommen", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Mein Grundeinkommen is a German nonprofit association that crowdfunds basic incomes and raffles them off: whenever enough donations accumulate, it draws lots and pays the winners EUR 1,000 a month for one year, unconditionally. It is financed entirely by donations and crowdfunding and takes no state money, making it the best-known lottery-for-good model of non-state basic income.", "website": "https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Founded 2014 and still running monthly draws: 24 basic incomes were raffled on 13 May 2026. Over 800 basic incomes had been given away as of June 2021 and the count has continued to grow since.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "800+ basic incomes awarded (as of mid-2021, growing monthly); millions of registered entrants", "locations": [ "Germany" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/", "title": "Mein Grundeinkommen" }, { "url": "https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/verlosung/mai-verlosung-2026", "title": "May 2026 basic income raffle" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Grundeinkommen", "title": "Wikipedia - Mein Grundeinkommen" }, { "url": "https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-surprising-lives-of-germanys-basic-income-raffle-winners/", "title": "Reasons to be Cheerful - the lives of Germany's basic income raffle winners" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Open registration - anyone can enter the draw regardless of income, nationality or employment; winners are selected by public random draw. Identity/bank details are verified only after winning, in order to pay out.", "social_mining": "Monthly bank transfer of EUR 1,000 to each winner for 12 months, with no conditions and no reporting requirements.", "token_economics": "100% crowdfunding and donations from the public (recurring small donors plus one-off gifts). Every time the donation pool reaches EUR 12,000, another one-year basic income is raffled. No government funding.", "governance": "Registered German non-profit association (eingetragener Verein) with paid staff, a supervisory structure and public reporting; draws are streamed publicly.", "key_people": "Michael Bohmeyer (founder, 2014)", "notes": "- Lottery-for-good model: not universal, but unconditional and recurring for each winner, and used deliberately as a demonstration and research vehicle.\n- The same organisation initiated Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen, the privately crowdfunded 3-year RCT listed separately here.\n- In August 2023 it published a financing model arguing a tax-funded EUR 1,200/month UBI for all German adults would leave ~80% of the population better off.\n- mein-grundeinkommen.de returns HTTP 403 to some automated fetchers; verified via Wikipedia, the raffle page listing and press coverage." }, { "id": 521, "name": "Meta Earth (ME Network)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/meta-earth-me-network", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 wallet receives one permanently staked MEC token that yields daily income at a stated 12.5% APY, plus an automatic 0.01 MEC monthly airdrop. It was unveiled at Token2049 Dubai and launched with ME Network 2.0 in May 2025.", "website": "https://www.mec.me/", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Announced May 2025 at Token2049 Dubai; ME Network 2.0 launched 19 May 2025 at block 6,624,500 (\"Odyssey\" phase). Company blog claims 1,000,000+ ME ID users.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "Company claims 1M+ ME ID holders; UBI eligibility requires completed KYC in ME Pass. Independent verification not found.", "locations": [ "Global" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://unchainedcrypto.com/press-release/meta-earth-network-2-0-pioneering-web3-innovation-with-rewards-and-global-events/", "title": "Meta Earth Network 2.0 press release (UBI mechanics)" }, { "url": "https://www.cointrust.com/market-news/meta-earth-unveils-blockchain-based-universal-basic-income", "title": "Meta Earth unveils blockchain-based UBI (May 2025)" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/@MetaEarth/1-000-000-me-id-users-meta-earth-enters-the-age-of-decentralized-identity-100f061fc252", "title": "Meta Earth: 1,000,000 ME ID users" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "ME Network (Meta Earth's own modular high-throughput L1)", "social_identity": "ME ID decentralized identity with KYC completed inside the ME Pass wallet.", "social_mining": "- 1 permanently staked, non-withdrawable MEC per verified ME ID, yielding daily at ~12.5% APY\n- 0.01 MEC automatic monthly airdrop to ME ID holders\n- Escalating daily check-in rewards (0.0001 up to 0.003 MEC/day)\n- Optional 360-day staking lock at up to 25% APY", "token_economics": "MEC total supply 20 billion; half permanently staked to back UBI, half released on a halving-based staking schedule. Market price free-floating.", "governance": "Company-led (Meta Earth); additional rewards tied to governance participation.", "notes": "CAUTION: nearly everything known about this project comes from its own press releases. The \"UBI\" is yield on holding its own token rather than an income paid to verified people, and no independent figures for recipients or payments were found.\n\n- The \"UBI\" is yield on a single protocol-gifted staked token rather than a funded transfer, so the real value depends entirely on MEC's price\n- Requires KYC, which is weaker Sybil resistance than biometric proof-of-personhood\n- All figures come from company communications and press releases; treat adoption claims cautiously" }, { "id": 510, "name": "Mother Up (Mothers Outreach Network)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/mother-mothers-outreach-network", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 living below 250% of the federal poverty level, with a focus on mothers involved in the child welfare system. It is a philanthropically funded, community-lawyering organisation testing cash as an alternative to punitive child-welfare intervention.", "website": "https://mothersoutreachnetwork.org/", "status": "pilot", "status_detail": "Announced 2023. Phase 2 pre-pilot results were published in November 2025 and recruitment for Phase 3 opened thereafter. Organisation reported ~$1.1M revenue and $1.2M total assets in FY2024 with 79% of spending on programmes.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "Small cohorts in the dozens across pre-pilot phases; Phase 3 recruitment open", "locations": [ "Washington, DC, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://mothersoutreachnetwork.org/", "title": "Mother's Outreach Network" }, { "url": "https://upendmovement.org/2025/11/20/mothers-outreach-network-reaches-next-phase-in-guaranteed-income-pilot/", "title": "upEND Movement - Mothers Outreach Network reaches next phase in guaranteed income pilot" }, { "url": "https://dcist.com/story/23/06/22/dc-guaranteed-basic-income-mother-child-welfare/", "title": "DCist - basic income program supports Black mothers with children in the child welfare system" }, { "url": "https://www.thecommunityfoundation.org/news/leaders-of-the-future-melody-webb", "title": "Greater Washington Community Foundation - Melody Webb spotlight" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Targeted eligibility: Black mothers in Washington DC living below 250% of the federal poverty level, with priority for mothers who are or have been involved with the child welfare system. Enrollment by application and community referral; cash is unconditional once enrolled.", "social_mining": "$500 per month for up to three years, paid directly to participating mothers with no spending restrictions, alongside optional peer support and legal advocacy.", "token_economics": "Philanthropic grants and donations to a DC 501(c)(3) public charity, including support from the Greater Washington Community Foundation and other regional funders. Not a city-budget programme, though the organisation advocates for DC public guaranteed income policy.", "governance": "Mothers Outreach Network Inc., a Washington DC 501(c)(3) (EIN 27-4647364), with a participatory \"Mother Up research group\" that includes participants; member of the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition.", "key_people": "Melody Webb (founder and executive director)", "notes": "- Distinctive framing: cash as a family-preservation tool, testing whether guaranteed income reduces child-welfare system involvement driven by poverty rather than abuse.\n- Small scale compared with other US programmes; still in phased pilot form rather than at scale.\n- The organisation also campaigns against DC budget cuts to public cash programmes, but its own pilot is philanthropically funded." }, { "id": 462, "name": "MyUBI", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/myubi", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://myubi.global/", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Australia \\ International" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://myubi.global/#products", "title": "Wallet" }, { "url": "https://docs.myubi.io/whitepaper/white-paper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "ERC 20 (Ethereum)", "social_identity": "?", "social_mining": "90% of the total supply of Myubi Tokens are to be distributed to users of the Myubi Wallet app based on the following methodology:\nTokens are distributed to all network participants and Benevolent Board Programs over 20 years.\n\nTokens will be distributed monthly, then moving to daily upon migration of the Myubi Blockchain Main Network release (see Roadmap).\n\nTokens are equally distributed based on the active number of participants. Tokens and/or fractions of tokens will be distributed daily equally amongst active participants.", "token_economics": "The Myubi Foundation has minted a fixed total supply of 100 Billion Myubi Tokens, of which 5 percent of the total supply (5 Billion Tokens) will be made available during Seed fundraising and later, a Token Sale event (TBA) before Myubi UBI program launch.\n\nMyubi provides grants for benevolent projects which seek to empower people and the environments they support.", "governance": "The Myubi Foundation Australia (charity and incorporation status TBC)", "key_people": "Mark Heggart\nAlan Lawson\nGeorge Mann\nJordan Lawson\nRexx Fernandez" }, { "id": 515, "name": "Nation3 Basic Income (N3BI)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/nation3-basic-income-n3bi", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "N3BI was the basic income programme of Nation3, a \"network state\" DAO: citizens holding a valid, non-expiring Nation3 passport NFT (backed by time-locked $NATION) could enroll in a BasicIncomeDistributor smart contract and claim continuously accruing $NATION for a year at a time. Eligibility was recomputed weekly on-chain by the NationCred contract.", "website": "https://github.com/nation3/n3bi", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Deployed and documented, funded by a governance proposal allocating ~0.086% of total $NATION supply; all 420 Genesis passport holders were eligible.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "Up to 420 Genesis passport holders eligible; actual enrolled citizen count not published.", "locations": [ "Global (online network state)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/nation3/n3bi/discussions/1", "title": "Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) for Nation3 Citizens - proposal discussion" }, { "url": "https://github.com/nation3/nationcred-contracts", "title": "NationCred contracts (citizen activity / eligibility oracle)" }, { "url": "https://gov.nation3.org/proposals", "title": "Nation3 governance" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum (Solidity / Hardhat; $NATION ERC-20 and passport NFT)", "social_identity": "Nation3 passport NFT plus NationCred \"active citizen\" scoring - a membership/reputation gate, not proof-of-personhood.", "social_mining": "- Enroll once eligible, then claim accrued income at any time\n- Enrollment expires after 1 year and must be renewed\n- New enrollment only allowed while the contract holds a full year of funding for one more citizen", "token_economics": "Paid in $NATION, the DAO's free-floating governance token.", "governance": "Nation3 DAO token-holder governance approved the basic income budget.", "key_people": "Primary maintainer on GitHub: Aahna Ashina (aahna-ashina).", "notes": "Deployed and documented, funded by a governance proposal allocating ~0.086% of total $NATION supply; all 420 Genesis passport holders were eligible. Last real code commits are from September 2024 and the income.nation3.org front end no longer resolves in DNS (checked 2026-09-23), so the programme appears dormant.\n\n- Not universal: restricted to dues-paying citizens who time-lock $NATION, so it is a club/commons dividend rather than an open UBI\n- Notable as one of the few fully on-chain, contract-enforced basic incomes with an automated weekly eligibility oracle\n- Marked inactive on the evidence of stalled commits and a dead front-end domain rather than a formal shutdown announcement" }, { "id": 523, "name": "NYOTA (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/nyota-dar-es-salaam-tanzania", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 protocol and grown out of existing Village Community Banks (VICOBAs). Participants who show up at recurring in-person gatherings are issued NYT, set at 50 NYT per participant per month, pegged at 1 NYT = 1,000 Tanzanian shillings. It was Encointer's first African community and is still listed as active in 2026.", "website": "https://encointer.org/a-star-for-dar-es-salaam/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Tested on the Encointer Gsell testnet in 2023 with mainnet launch targeted for end of September 2023; still listed as an active community in 2026, with follow-up posts ('A Glimpse into the Nyota Community' July 2025, 'Second Glimpse' October 2025, documen", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Dar es Salaam (Mbuharati), Tanzania" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://encointer.org/a-star-for-dar-es-salaam/", "title": "A Star for Dar es Salaam (Encointer, Aug 2023)" }, { "url": "https://encointer.org/our-communities/", "title": "Encointer — Our Communities" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Encointer parachain on Kusama (tested on Encointer Gsell testnet)", "social_identity": "Encointer key-signing gatherings (in-person mutual attestation) provide sybil resistance without state ID; built on existing VICOBA micro-savings meetups.", "social_mining": "Universal issuance per attending participant per cycle, unconditional on work.", "token_economics": "50 NYT per participant per month; pegged 1 NYT = 1,000 TZS.", "governance": "Local community team plus the Encointer Association; partner organisation Jukumu.", "key_people": "Local team: Bujo, Victor, Teresia, David; Encointer Association (Alain Brenzikofer)", "notes": "Tested on the Encointer Gsell testnet in 2023 with mainnet launch targeted for end of September 2023; still listed as an active community in 2026, with follow-up posts ('A Glimpse into the Nyota Community' July 2025, 'Second Glimpse' October 2025, documentary video 2026).\n\n- Contact with Encointer began at the Dot Safari conference in Kenya in 2023.\n- Runs on the Encointer platform (listed separately) but is a distinct local program." }, { "id": 463, "name": "Online Pseudonym Parties", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/online-pseudonym-parties", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "A global personhood system based on Bryan Ford's Pseudonym Parties.", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Awaiting BitLattice. Early proofs-of-concepts available.", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "The digital space, non-geographical." ], "links": [ { "url": "https://proofofindividuality.online/" }, { "url": "https://www.docdroid.net/i52aigD/online-pseudonym-parties-a-foundation-for-proof-of-personhood-in-the-web-30-jurisdiction.pdf" }, { "url": "https://www.scribd.com/document/339117426/Anti-sybil-Protocol-Using-Virtual-Pseudonym-Parties" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-26/how-to-kill-fake-facebook-accounts-and-preserve-privacy" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Pseudonym parties, either offline or online, needs to process a global population in a short period of time, hundreds of millions of transactions per second. A blockchain cannot scale to that, but post-blockchain systems like BitLattice could.", "social_identity": "Based on Bryan Ford's Pseudonym Parties (MIT, 2007), a global personhood system. Not a crypto UBI project specifically, pseudonym parties is an identity system. Can be used by crypto UBI projects.", "social_mining": "Online Pseudonym Parties is not a UBI system. There is aspects that could be described as social mining, acquiring the personhood token once a month (untraceable, pseudo-anonymous) is a bit like \"mining\" it.", "token_economics": "Online Pseudonym Parties is not a UBI system, tough it does have tokens, or equivalents of tokens, which can have value.", "governance": "Online pseudonym parties involves every single human being in government positions, pairs verifying one another 1-on-1 in a global, monthly, pseudonym event.", "key_people": "Johan", "notes": "The network can be attacked through collusion, that is the only significant attack vector. For example, 10% of the population who colludes against their network, can provide bots with 0.5% of all personhood tokens. Mass-scale collusion tends to be a problem in many systems, including representative democracy and proof-of-work which can both be 51% attacked." }, { "id": 501, "name": "OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/openresearch-unconditional-cash-study", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 month for three years while 2,000 control participants received $50 a month. It was privately funded by tech philanthropy and produced a widely cited set of results on work, health, spending and agency.", "website": "https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Cash transfers ran November 2020 - October 2023.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "3,000 enrolled (1,000 treatment at $1,000/month, 2,000 control at $50/month)", "locations": [ "Illinois, USA", "Texas, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study", "title": "OpenResearch - Unconditional Cash Study" }, { "url": "https://www.openresearchlab.org/", "title": "OpenResearch" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Randomized recruitment of adults aged 21-40 with household income at or below 300% of the federal poverty level, in 19 counties across Illinois and Texas (urban, suburban and rural). Randomized assignment to treatment or control; standard research consent and identity checks, no ongoing behavioural conditions.", "social_mining": "Monthly transfers to recipients' bank accounts/debit cards over three years, with no restrictions on use.", "token_economics": "Private philanthropy. Funded by Sam Altman/OpenAI-linked donors and other private foundations; no public money in the transfers.", "governance": "OpenResearch, an independent research lab (formerly the Y Combinator Research basic income project), with an academic advisory team and pre-registered analysis plans.", "key_people": "Elizabeth Rhodes (Research Director), Karina Dotson (Research & Insights Manager), Patrick Krause (Data Director); originally initiated by Sam Altman", "notes": "Cash transfers ran November 2020 - October 2023. Data collection closed in early 2024 with quarterly follow-up surveys continuing through 2025. Findings published from July 2024 onward; the public-use dataset has been released. No payments are currently being made.\n\n- Headline results: recipients worked about 1.3 fewer hours/week on average but searched for work more and reported more flexibility to pursue meaningful work.\n- Increased healthcare utilisation (especially dental) with no measurable change in physical health biomarkers; improved financial planning, agency and parenting time; minimal change in political attitudes.\n- Descends from the Y Combinator Research basic income pilot - if the owner already treats \"YC Basic Income\" as listed, this is the same lineage under a new name." }, { "id": 513, "name": "ORO", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/oro", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "ORO is a World Chain token that any Orb-verified unique human can claim once per day, with a referral bonus for inviting others. It is distributed 100% to the community with no team or investor allocation, and is one of the largest recurring per-human token distributions outside World's own WLD grants.", "website": "https://world.org/ecosystem/app_f1e44837a5e3c2af4da8925b46027645", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Live World App Mini App. World.org listing reports ~3.9 million human users and a 4.5 rating as of September 2026; ORO is tradable on Uniswap on World Chain and was added to the World App Wallet in September 2026.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~3.9 million unique verified humans have used the ORO mini app (world.org ecosystem listing).", "locations": [ "Global (World App, 160+ countries)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://world.org/apps/app_f1e44837a5e3c2af4da8925b46027645", "title": "ORO Mini App (World App store listing)" }, { "url": "https://x.com/world_chain_/status/1964218310134047105", "title": "World Chain announcement: claim 1 ORO daily" }, { "url": "https://dexscreener.com/worldchain/0x8b9ffc6909cb826d8dc5a2f7f720fa7a818b8574", "title": "ORO/WLD market on Uniswap (World Chain)" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "World Chain (Ethereum L2, OP Stack)", "social_identity": "World ID proof-of-personhood (Orb iris verification) gates the one-claim-per-human-per-day rule.", "social_mining": "- Base: 1 ORO per human per day\n- Referrals: inviting friends increases earnings", "token_economics": "Free-floating market price; ORO/WLD and ORO/WETH pools on Uniswap V3 on World Chain. No collateral or peg.", "governance": "Team-run mini app; stated 100% community token distribution with no insider/team/investor share.", "key_people": "Published by \"Grupo de Fiesta\" per the World ecosystem listing.", "notes": "- Distinct from ORB, the other World Chain token, which is a one-time 1,000-token lifetime claim (an airdrop, not recurring)\n- Distinct from the unrelated gold-backed \"ORO Finance\" on Solana\n- Value per day is small and volatile; closer to a daily faucet-with-Sybil-resistance than a livable income" }, { "id": 464, "name": "Palai", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/palai", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://palai.org", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Leipzig, Germany?" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://leipzig.socialimpactlab.eu/" }, { "url": "https://palai.org/en/faq" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "social_identity": "mobile phone number only - for low entry barrier", "token_economics": "- Declared early adopter advantage - Basic Income per person is large at a particular day, and it shrinks with time as more humans participate.\n\n- A transfer costs 0.02 ¶, redistributed as ¶ Palai Basic Income\n\n- All ¶ Palai balance which is left idle, shrinks over time – it evaporates at a 1 % per year rate, redistributed as ¶ Palai Basic Income\n\n- Plan Fiat conversion option - \"Once the demand is high enough, there will be multiple exchange service providers\".", "notes": "Supported by \"Social Impact Lab\" in Leipzig" }, { "id": 522, "name": "PayNuq (Zaria, Nigeria)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/paynuq-zaria-nigeria", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "PayNuq is a local community currency in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria, running on the Encointer protocol. Members who attend in-person key-signing ceremonies every 10 days receive a community income of roughly 1,000 naira worth of PNQ, intended to cover food and basic needs. It launched on 8 June 2025 with about 30 members and 8 participating small businesses (barbers, farmers, tailors, shopkeepers, restaurants).", "website": "https://encointer.org/launching-paynuq-a-new-economy-rooted-in-people-cooperation-and-local-value-creation/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched 8 June 2025; listed by Encointer as its second active African community as of 2026. Small scale: ~30 members, 8 merchants at launch, targeting 50+ people and 10 key businesses.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~30 members at launch (June 2025)", "locations": [ "Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://encointer.org/launching-paynuq-a-new-economy-rooted-in-people-cooperation-and-local-value-creation/", "title": "Launching PayNuq (Encointer, June 2025)" }, { "url": "https://encointer.org/our-communities/", "title": "Encointer — Our Communities" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Encointer parachain on Kusama (Polkadot ecosystem)", "social_identity": "Encointer proof-of-personhood: physical key-signing gatherings at randomised times/places; participants mutually attest each other's presence.", "social_mining": "Income is minted per participant per 10-day cycle, conditional only on attending the gathering; no work or purchase requirement.", "token_economics": "~₦1,000 (Nigerian naira) worth of PNQ per member per 10-day cycle. Community Reserve Model: users buy PNQ at ~10% discount, businesses redeem surpluses at ~20% discount; supports interest-free microloans.", "governance": "PayNuq Community Team locally; Encointer protocol governance via the Encointer Association and Kusama governance. A local NGO partner was being set up for long-term sustainability.", "key_people": "Asyia Aminu (PayNuq community team); Encointer Association (Alain Brenzikofer)", "notes": "- Runs on the Encointer platform, which is already listed separately; PayNuq is an independent local community/program.\n- Draws on models from Ijara Isin (Kwara State) and the Nyota lending cycle in Tanzania." }, { "id": 465, "name": "People Currency", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/people-currency", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://www.peoplescurrency.org/", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 466, "name": "Pi Network", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/pi-network", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://minepi.com", "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "verified_users": "3.5 million", "locations": [ "Stanford" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "social_mining": "collect pi on phone for staying logged in", "token_economics": "0 value" }, { "id": 505, "name": "Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen was a three-year randomized controlled trial in Germany in which 122 people received EUR 1,200 a month unconditionally, compared against a control group of about 1,580. It is notable as the first large basic income study financed entirely by private crowdfunding rather than state funding, initiated by Mein Grundeinkommen with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).", "website": "https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Payments ran for three years from mid-2021.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "122 recipients plus ~1,580 control participants (over 1.5 million people applied)", "locations": [ "Germany" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en", "title": "Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen (English)" }, { "url": "https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en/blog", "title": "Project blog - latest on basic income" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Open public application (more than 1.5 million applicants), narrowed to a defined eligibility frame and then randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Participation was tracked through repeated research surveys; cash itself was unconditional.", "social_mining": "EUR 1,200 per month paid by bank transfer to each recipient for 36 months.", "token_economics": "Private crowdfunding - donations raised by Mein Grundeinkommen from tens of thousands of small donors. Explicitly designed not to rely on state funding.", "governance": "Research consortium: DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB); operationally run by Mein Grundeinkommen e.V.", "key_people": "Initiated by Mein Grundeinkommen (Michael Bohmeyer); research led by DIW Berlin", "notes": "Payments ran for three years from mid-2021. Data collection and analysis are complete; results have been published in a DIW Weekly Report and peer-reviewed well-being papers, with the design pre-registered in the AEA Social Science Registry. No payments continue.\n\n- Headline findings: employment did not fall; recipients made more autonomous choices about work and education; mental health and life satisfaction improved; savings and material security rose.\n- Strong example of a privately financed alternative to a state pilot - directly relevant to the owner's non-state framing.\n- Closely tied to Mein Grundeinkommen (also listed here); the owner may want to link the two records." }, { "id": 467, "name": "Proof Of Humanity", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/proof-humanity", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z01MS0-h75ESVmWymU2Gv3Z43p35oZAFtQLStOeu7Ek/edit#heading=h.o80g15xmdprx", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Specs done.\nDesign and smart contract development in progress.", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Earth" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "Verification of user uniqueness for multiple blockchain applications including UBI.\nUsers need to be vouched for by already registered users. A video and a deposit is required.\nApplications can be challenged which creates Kleros disputes.\nWhen applications are denied, deposits are lost.\nPeople vouching for fake people are removed from the registry.", "social_mining": "Minting of UBI tokens in collaboration with Democracy Earth.", "token_economics": "One UBI token minted every hour for each registered user.", "governance": "Registered users form a DAO deciding on governance issues?", "key_people": "Clément Lesaege\nPlinio Braga\nFederico Ast\nSantiago Siri\nPaula Berman" }, { "id": 518, "name": "ReFi Medellin basic income pilot", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/refi-medellin-basic-income-pilot", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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) to about 15 local residents, including women of the Amapolas community. Disbursements are published on a public Dune dashboard.", "website": "https://www.refimedellin.org/en", "status": "pilot", "status_detail": "Small active pilot: ~15 recipients receiving weekly cCOP. ReFi Medellin also holds Glo Dollar in its treasury and participates in Celo Support Streams (up to 100,000 CELO in community incentives).", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "~15 residents of Medellin, Colombia.", "locations": [ "Medellin, Colombia" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/universal-basic-income-and-crypto-5-ways-blockchain-makes-ubi-more-efficient-transparent-and-scalable", "title": "Crypto Altruists write-up describing the pilot" }, { "url": "https://giveth.io/project/refi-medellin", "title": "ReFi Medellin on Giveth" }, { "url": "https://www.celocolombia.org/ecosystem/refi-medellin", "title": "ReFi Medellin in the Celo Colombia ecosystem" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Celo", "social_identity": "Community selection by the local node; no on-chain proof-of-personhood layer reported.", "social_mining": "- Weekly unconditional cCOP payments\n- All disbursements tracked on a public Dune dashboard", "token_economics": "cCOP is a Mento-collateralized stablecoin pegged to the Colombian peso.", "governance": "ReFi Medellin local node of ReFi DAO; funded via grants/Giveth donations and Celo public-goods programmes.", "key_people": "Juan Giraldo is a public spokesperson for ReFi Medellin.", "notes": "- The pilot is documented by a third-party write-up; ReFi Medellin's own website (fetched 2026-09-23) lists hackathons, workshops and regeneration projects but does not describe the basic income pilot, so details and current status should be confirmed with the organisation\n- Useful as one of the few Latin American local-stablecoin UBI pilots on Celo alongside impactMarket and GoodDollar" }, { "id": 486, "name": "Refugee Integration Organisation (RIO) Refugee UBI", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/refugee-integration-organisation-rio-refugee-ubi", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 cUSD. It ran on impactMarket, with USSD access for people without smartphones and cash-out to mobile money.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "2021 pilot; $71,000+ distributed to 2,500+ refugees by Aug 2021; current status unknown", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "2,500+ refugees (Aug 2021)", "locations": [ "Kakuma, Kenya", "Ampain, Ghana", "Krisan, Ghana" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://theprint.in/world/refugee-camps-are-micro-economies-becoming-cryptocurrency-hubs/710573/", "title": "ThePrint: Refugee camps becoming cryptocurrency hubs (Aug 2021)" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Celo", "social_identity": "Beneficiaries enrolled by the organisation within the camps (impactMarket community manager model)", "social_mining": "$1.50/day claimed in cUSD; USSD interface via Kotani Pay, converted to local currency through mobile money", "token_economics": "Paid in cUSD stablecoin; donor-funded", "notes": "Ran $1.50/day on impactMarket/Celo; 2,500+ refugees and $71k+ distributed by Aug 2021, administered by refugees themselves.\n\n- Billed as the first crypto UBI for refugees\n- Planned expansion to the Middle East" }, { "id": 468, "name": "RESILIENCE (Basicincome.co)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/resilience-basicincomeco", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Basicincome.co is a Bitnation DApp application that runs on top of the RESILIENCE protocol. It will use a symmetric swarm redistribution model to re-purpose financial transactions networks, in a web of links.\r\n\r\nEach RES transaction will form a dividend pathway for redistribution of taxes created in the swarm network.\r\n\r\nMore RES transactions will create more pathways and raise more taxes.\r\n\r\nIt is designed to empower co-operatives with a social conscience, and provide a tool for community support. A framework for secondary applications allows donation of dividends to different causes. Users may choose to share their dividends with those in financial proximity to their dividend pathways.", "website": "https://basinincome.co", "status": "unknown", "status_detail": "Experimental stage", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Bitnation - Amsterdam", "Resilience - Sweden" ], "links": [ { "url": "http://emailsareobsolete4.wixsite.com/resilience/whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://steemit.com/res-currency/@johan-nygren/resilience-symmetry" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "- Ethereum, but \"agnostic - can be ported to any platform\"\n- Ethereum wallet\n- Any platform with API can be connected to RESILIENCE", "social_identity": "-Resilience (RES) via Swarm Redistribution experiment \n-UBI provided to participants in a swarm network\n-Redistribution of wealth from taxes on RES transactions, through Bitnation's decentralized legal services", "social_mining": "- Redistribution of wealth from taxes on RES transactions, through dividend pathways", "token_economics": "No data", "governance": "- Bitnation - DAO offering \"Governance 2.0\" services (law, insurance, social, education...)\n-Swarm Redistribution model\n- Decentralized taxRate governance (every node sets their own taxRate)", "key_people": "Johan Nygren", "notes": "- BitNation is the governance service, Resillience is Johan Nygren's UBI attempt on it\n- Swarm Redistribution built into Resilience\n- Inspired by Ripple\r\n- New standard for co-operative dividend networks\r\n- Self-perpetuating network of tree-branching wealth transfer schemes" }, { "id": 480, "name": "rightfulshare", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/rightfulshare", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "status": "unknown", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23" }, { "id": 487, "name": "Sarafu Network (Grassroots Economics)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/sarafu-network-grassroots-economics", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Sarafu is a blockchain community-currency network in Kenya run by the Grassroots Economics Foundation. In 2020-21 the Kenya Red Cross and Danish Red Cross used it to distribute Sarafu tokens as a basic income / COVID-19 relief to low-income households. It has since become a network of community vouchers and \"commitment pools\".", "website": "https://sarafu.network", "status": "active", "status_detail": "- Red Cross basic income distribution 2020-21 (40,000+ households joined during COVID)\n- Network on Celo since 2022/2023; active in 2025 (4,476 users, 251k exchanges by July 2025)\n- Current model is vouchers and pools rather than a basic income", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "40,000+ households (2020 pilot); 4,476 active users (July 2025)", "locations": [ "Kenya (Kilifi, Mombasa, Nairobi)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/", "title": "Grassroots Economics" }, { "url": "https://grassecon.substack.com/p/2025-sarafu-network-study-results", "title": "2025 Sarafu Network study results" }, { "url": "https://bitcoinke.io/2021/03/the-sarafu-basic-income-system/", "title": "BitKE: Kenya Red Cross launches token-driven basic income (Mar 2021)" }, { "url": "https://github.com/grassrootseconomics", "title": "GitHub" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Celo (earlier xDai/Ethereum sidechain)", "social_identity": "Registration by phone (USSD); Red Cross/community enrolment; later a web of trust through community pools", "social_mining": "- 2020-21: Red Cross distributed Sarafu tokens to registrants (hybrid of unconditional cash transfer and community inclusion currency)\n- Now: users issue vouchers (promises of goods and services) and swap them in commitment pools", "token_economics": "Community Inclusion Currencies / vouchers; earlier Bancor-style reserves; not dollar-pegged", "governance": "Grassroots Economics Foundation plus community-run pools; open source (AGPL)", "key_people": "Will Ruddick", "notes": "- Kenya Red Cross, Danish Red Cross and Grassroots Economics partnership\n- 84% of 2025 survey respondents reported positive income effects" }, { "id": 469, "name": "Seeds", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/seeds", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "website": "https://www.joinseeds.com/", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Site returns 404; token has no market", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Telos", "notes": "2026-09: joinseeds.com returns 404 and SEEDS shows no market cap or volume." }, { "id": 470, "name": "Solidar", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/solidar", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Solidar is a decentralized, distributed, peer-to-peer demurrage based, electronic currency designed to create an economic system based on stability and well-being of all the people. Solidar is distributed monthly to all network members as crypto-vouchers' universal basic income, to provide the satisfaction of human basic needs.", "website": "https://solidar.it/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "- Launched \n- All coins are distributed", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Germany", "Italy" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://solidar.it/how-it-works/", "title": "How it Works" }, { "url": "https://www.winc-ev.org/english/start/", "title": "W.I.N.C e.V." } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "- Own blockchain \n- \"Freicoin\" (a coin that follows Bitcoin) fork with added UBI features", "social_identity": "- Facebook account and Messenger application \r\n- More features expected\r\n- Wallets for Windows, Facebook & (Telegram)", "social_mining": "- Execution of tasks for maintenance of secure network \r\n- Math algorithms in Solidar client limit amounts of new currency", "token_economics": "- Solidar coins issued as vouchers \r\n- Vouchers are donated to network members as C-UBI in a fixed amount each month\r\n- Small demurage fee every 10 minutes provides stable monthly payout \r\n- Currency is generated through a process called mining, in limited amounts", "governance": "- German non-profit W.I.N.C. e.V. (Solidar Association) \n- Peer-to-peer network of Solidar clients (nodes)", "key_people": "Hendrik Richter", "notes": "- Wants to coexist with Bitcoin\n- Released under terms of MIT license" }, { "id": 517, "name": "Sophia Protocol", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/sophia-protocol", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Sophia is a proposed \"decentralized digital commonwealth\" protocol that combines a demurrage-based mutual-credit universal basic income, a hybrid proof-of-personhood layer for Sybil resistance, and an \"Adaptive Futarchy\" governance model blending liquid democracy with prediction markets, all targeted at a ZK-rollup.", "website": "https://github.com/SophiaProtocol/sophia", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Design paper / framework repository created September 2025, last updated April 2026. No deployed contracts, testnet or distribution yet - the repo is an extensive whitepaper plus failure-mode analysis.", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Global (concept)" ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Planned ZK-Rollup (chain not yet specified)", "social_identity": "Hybrid proof-of-personhood model, explicitly motivated by AI-driven Sybil attacks defeating CAPTCHAs.", "social_mining": "- UBI issued as mutual credit rather than a fixed-supply token\n- Demurrage (holding fee) counteracts the r>g wealth-concentration dynamic the paper takes from Piketty", "token_economics": "Mutual-credit unit with demurrage; no token sale or valuation described.", "governance": "\"Adaptive Futarchy\" - liquid democracy delegation combined with prediction markets, designed against plutocracy and Goodhart's Law.", "notes": "- Pure design stage; include for completeness of the demurrage/mutual-credit UBI lineage (Freicoin, Circles, Encointer, Gradido)\n- Very small following; no evidence of funding, team or implementation" }, { "id": 471, "name": "Steem Basic Income", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/steem-basic-income", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemit members as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.", "website": "https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/steem-basic-income-a-complete-overview", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched in 2018", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "New York" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://discord.gg/fpSnkFM" }, { "url": "https://steemit.com/@steembasicincome" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own Blockchain - the social media blockchain platform, \"Steem\"", "social_identity": "- Steemit blog account\r\n- Program pool enrollment through members sponsoring via @steembasicincome", "social_mining": "- Steem Basic Income paid in STEEM tokens \r\n- UBI payment depends on regular upvotes, based on weights of number of shares in program pool", "token_economics": "- Total weekly vote strength is divided by number of shares to determine the vote weight each share receives\n- Each member's weekly upvote weight is distributed to each of their posts, rate determined by posting frequency\n- Waterfall of Sustainability - cascasing pools of members, depending on available spots\n- Maximum of 100 shares in each pool per member \n- Upvoting bonuses, sponsoring and delegation bonus shares", "key_people": "Ned Scott" }, { "id": 472, "name": "SwiftDemand", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/swiftdemand", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Each user who is signed up for the service receives 100 swifts each day. No additional swifts can be created with time or resources. No user can gain any other 'advantage' when it comes to acquiring swifts.", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Gone; the domain now serves a casino affiliate site", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "US West Coast" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/swiftdemand/swiftprotocol", "title": "WhitePaper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Neo Fork", "social_identity": "- Government Docs\n- Swift ID\r\n- Swift citizens verified by Identity Provider", "social_mining": "- 100 swifts per day, maximum 7 unclaimed days\n- Additional 500 swifts through referrals (up to 5M users)\n- New coins generation declining after reaching 100 billion Swifts cap", "token_economics": "- Stage 1: Accelerated income distribution \n\n- Stage 2: After 70B cap, inflation rate will be decided by the delegated nodes\n\n- Several different income tiers based on the cost of living in each region, decided by the delegated nodes", "governance": "- Delegated Nodes\n- Changeable Interest Rate", "key_people": "Chris Gregorio\nAdam Stallard", "notes": "2026-09: swiftdemand.com changed hands around June 2025 and now serves a Turkish online casino affiliate site. The link has been removed from this page. \"Swifts\" never had any market value. Anyone who had an account there should treat those credentials as compromised.\n\n- Marketplace with non-essential goods\n- Raised 30K$ in Ether presale dutch auction, April 8 '18" }, { "id": 473, "name": "TCB (Elvis Presley JR.)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/tcb-elvis-presley-jr", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "A permanent UBI solution for subscribers to digital services bundle of Elvis Aron Presley Jr Ltd. \n\nBasic income is distributed as a share from subscriptions revenue among all affiliates in the network.", "website": "https://tcb.ai", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "UK" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "N\\A", "social_identity": "- tcb.ai users automatically enrolled in free HGI$ MLM sponsor referral plan on registration \r\n- Password protected affiliate dashboard & unique referral link", "social_mining": "- UBI from $50 subscription payments for digital services bundle \r\n- 75% of revenue distributed to 10 sponsors in a client's upline automatically upon payment\r\n- Maximum of $280,000 UBI per year", "token_economics": "Too early for this project. The UBI depends on 75% of the revenue generated from digital subscription bundles", "governance": "- Elvis Aron Presley Jr Ltd \r\n- British non profit company for digital services bundles", "key_people": "Elvis Aron Presley Jr.", "notes": "- Previous name TCB = Taking Care of Business - Presley family motto\r\n- No WP" }, { "id": 506, "name": "The Bridge Project", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/bridge-project", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 1,000 days of their child's life. Incubated inside the private Monarch Foundation and spun out as its own 501(c)(3) in 2022, it is now described as the nation's first multistate direct cash program for moms and babies.", "website": "https://www.bridgeproject.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched 2021 in New York City; spun out of the Monarch Foundation in spring 2022.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "4,450+ mothers enrolled", "locations": [ "New York City, USA", "Rochester and Buffalo, New York, USA", "Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA", "Connecticut, USA", "Appalachia (West Virginia and neighbouring states), USA", "New Jersey, USA", "14 US states in total" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.bridgeproject.org/", "title": "The Bridge Project" }, { "url": "https://themonarchfoundation.org/our-work/direct-cash/", "title": "The Monarch Foundation - Direct Cash" }, { "url": "https://www.penncgir.org/the-bridge-project-new-york-ny", "title": "Center for Guaranteed Income Research - The Bridge Project (NY)" }, { "url": "https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/how-the-monarch-foundation-is-making-the-case-for-unrestricted-cash", "title": "Inside Philanthropy - the Monarch Foundation's case for unrestricted cash" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Application-based, targeted at pregnant people and new mothers below an income threshold in designated neighbourhoods/regions; selection is by lottery among eligible applicants in oversubscribed cohorts. Cash is unconditional once enrolled - no work, spending or reporting requirements.", "social_mining": "Recurring monthly unconditional cash payments (up to $1,000/month, tapering in some cohorts) delivered by direct deposit or prepaid card for roughly the first 1,000 days of the child's life.", "token_economics": "Private philanthropy - seeded and anchored by the Monarch Foundation, the family foundation of venture capitalist Jeff Lieberman and Holly Fogle, plus other foundations and individual donors (e.g. the Zilber Family Foundation in Milwaukee).", "governance": "Independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit with its own board, published financials and impact reports; research evaluation by the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania.", "key_people": "Holly Fogle (co-founder, Monarch Foundation); Jeff Lieberman (co-founder, Monarch Foundation)", "notes": "Launched 2021 in New York City; spun out of the Monarch Foundation in spring 2022. As of 2026 it reports 4,450+ mothers enrolled across 14 states with $144 million committed. Expanded to Milwaukee and Connecticut in 2024, to Appalachia (1,250 mothers, ~$10M) and to New Jersey more recently.\n\n- Reported outcomes include higher birth weights, longer pregnancies and about 2.5 additional months of breastfeeding.\n- Targeted to mothers and time-limited to ~1,000 days, so it is a guaranteed-income programme rather than a universal one, but transfers are unconditional and recurring.\n- Some individual cohorts are co-funded with local government partners; the core funding and the organisation itself are philanthropic." }, { "id": 502, "name": "The Magnolia Mother's Trust", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/magnolia-mothers-trust", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "The Magnolia Mother's Trust, run by the Jackson, Mississippi nonprofit Springboard To Opportunities, gives extremely low-income Black mothers living in federally subsidised affordable housing $1,000 a month for 12 months with no restrictions. Launched in 2018, it is the longest-running guaranteed income programme in the current US cash movement and is funded entirely by private donors.", "website": "https://springboardto.org/magnolia-mothers-trust/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Six cohorts completed or under way, reaching more than 550 mothers since 2018. The sixth cohort has over 100 participants and $1,398,250 in cash was disbursed to families during 2025.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "550+ mothers cumulatively; ~100 per cohort", "locations": [ "Jackson, Mississippi, USA" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://springboardto.org/magnolia-mothers-trust/", "title": "Springboard To Opportunities - The Magnolia Mother's Trust" }, { "url": "https://springboardto.org/our-2025-recap/", "title": "Springboard To Opportunities - 2025 recap" }, { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/stories/financial-assistance-program-single-mothers-mississippi", "title": "PBS - private financial assistance program for single mothers in Mississippi" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Targeted, not universal: applicants must be Black mothers heading extremely low-income households in federally subsidised affordable housing communities served by Springboard To Opportunities in Jackson, Mississippi. Selection is by application and lottery/eligibility screening within that population; once enrolled, cash is fully unconditional.", "social_mining": "$1,000 per month for 12 consecutive months, paid directly to the mother with no spending restrictions. Children of participants also receive 529 college savings accounts. Optional (non-mandatory) goal-setting, mental-health and community programming is offered alongside.", "token_economics": "Private philanthropy only - the programme is described as fully funded by private donors across the country, including foundations such as the Argosy Foundation. No government money in the transfers.", "governance": "Springboard To Opportunities, a Mississippi 501(c)(3), with a participant-informed design; published alumni study and policy briefs.", "key_people": "Aisha Nyandoro (founder and CEO of Springboard To Opportunities; 2026 Elevate Prize winner)", "notes": "- Time-limited (12 months per cohort) rather than permanent, so it is a guaranteed-income pilot rather than a true UBI, but it is unconditional and recurring.\n- Deliberately structured to avoid benefits cliffs by working with housing authorities.\n- Widely cited as the template for the US guaranteed-income wave." }, { "id": 474, "name": "TrustLines", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/trustlines", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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.\n\nPeople Powered Money are Complementary Currencies, which are governed and issued between individuals and businesses, instead of banks and governments.", "website": "https://trustlines.network/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Mainz, Germany" ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "- Trustlines Network mobile app with \"users-trusting-users\" payments path\r\n- Automatically generated wallet\r\n- Trustline via QR or NFC on the network", "social_mining": "- Similar to legal tender bank money\r\n- Can be real world currency, commodity, crypto token, or any other agreed unit of account \r\n- Balance increase creates money; reduction destroys", "token_economics": "There is no coin to be valued, it's just a platform", "key_people": "Heiko Hees\nGustav Friis\nKristoffer Naerland", "notes": "- It's not really UBI, rather solution to unbanked people and access to financial services\n- A trustline is a bilateral agreement between exactly two users, consisting of two credit lines and their balance" }, { "id": 493, "name": "UBI-Vault", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubi-vault", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "UBI-Vault is an open-source \"decentralized basic income distribution system\". An Ethereum smart contract collects ether from sponsors (individuals, organisations, governments, AI DAOs) and each week splits 95% of it equally among all registered citizens, keeping 5% for maintenance. Citizens register through an Android app.", "website": "https://www.ubi-vault.com", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Technical description dated June 2019; GitHub last pushed Jan 2023; site still online", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/RolandSassen/UBI-Vault", "title": "GitHub: RolandSassen/UBI-Vault" }, { "url": "https://www.ubi-vault.com/technical-description/", "title": "Technical description (2019)" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Ethereum", "social_identity": "Phone-number verification (Firebase Phone Auth) plus name and address; weak sybil resistance", "social_mining": "Weekly equal distribution of the pooled ether to all registered citizens", "token_economics": "Paid in ETH from voluntary contributions; no own token", "governance": "Open-source project (maintainer-run)", "key_people": "Roland Sassen" }, { "id": 488, "name": "UBI2 (Democracy Earth)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubi2-democracy-earth", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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. Humanity is established by social vouching judged by a quorum of AI verifier nodes, or optionally by a zero-knowledge e-passport proof, and contracts can be written in plain language.", "website": "https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/ubi2", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Devnet live (chain ID 21826); repo actively developed as of Sep 2026", "funding": "non_state", "locations": [ "Worldwide" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/ubi2", "title": "GitHub: DemocracyEarth/ubi2 (whitepaper and roadmap in repo)" }, { "url": "https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/ubi", "title": "Original UBI token (v1)" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own EVM-compatible chain (UBI2)", "social_identity": "- AI proof-of-humanity: social vouching judged by a quorum of AI verifier nodes (liveness, sybil analysis, disputes), with no biometrics or documents\n- Optional ZK proof over ICAO-9303 NFC e-passports (one-passport-one-human nullifier)", "social_mining": "1 UBI per hour streamed continuously to each verified human; streams can be forwarded peer-to-peer in real time", "token_economics": "Native UBI token also pays gas; fees go to a treasury for fee recycling", "governance": "\"Prompt contracts\" in natural language interpreted by AI quorums; governance details in whitepaper", "key_people": "Democracy Earth Foundation (individual contributors not listed in repo)", "notes": "2026-09: rebuilt as a Rust L1 with AI-jury proof-of-humanity, streaming 1 UBI per hour; devnet running.\nSource: https://ubi.eth.limo/\n\nSuccessor concept to the PoH-linked UBI token; overlaps with the existing \"Democracy Earth\" and \"Proof Of Humanity\" entries" }, { "id": 475, "name": "Ubic", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubic", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "UBI as a form of reward of being part of a network, sent via digital signatures of passports in selected countries.", "website": "https://github.com/UBIC-repo/Whitepaper/blob/master/README.md", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development / blockchain is minting since march, four nodes and 9 registered passports active as of september 2, 2018", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "verified_users": "52", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/UBIC/" }, { "url": "https://ubic.network/stats/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own blockchain", "social_identity": "- e-passports - digital signature issued with every passport", "social_mining": "- No miners - blocks validated by delegates (people, companies, nonprofit organizations or any capable entity) \n- Static amount of coins distributed every minute until expiration of passport\n- More users decrease UBI amounts", "token_economics": "- Capped total supply to a fixed amount every year \n- Different currencies running on one unique blockchain\n- Each currency associated to one country and identified by U=iso2 country code\n- Large share supply equally distributed among addresses that were successfully associated to a passport", "governance": "- Voting on delegates\n- Delegates must run nodes", "key_people": "Ubicorn Admin (?)", "notes": "- Varying amount of UBI per country (country-specific UBIC token)\n- Similar to Bitcoin, but more scalable, with max 50 super nodes" }, { "id": 476, "name": "UBIcoin", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubicoin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 intervals, bound to certain rules.\n\nAs any community or individual can create tokens, U can eventually be made available universally.", "website": "https://medium.com/@annablume/universal-basic-income-ubi-coin-15ec91abcada", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Tel Aviv", "Berlin", "Perth" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpsDf95bbuwN9dE8ZsjeDskYpQYkP5BOI4O80JcyHZo/edit", "title": "Whitepaper" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Using the Bancor Protocol", "social_identity": "- Bancor, Group.Market and UBIcoin alliance \n- Group.Market for interfaces for community marketplaces that accept various currencies \n- Bancor for U activation mechanism for community tokens exchange\n- Wallets for tribes/groups", "social_mining": "- Organizations as “trusted tribes/groups” can issue branded tokens \r\n- Decentralized network of organizations with members\r\n- Instantly tradable tokens among different communities and organisations", "token_economics": "- Individual communities create strong branded tokens via Bancor\n- Organizations issue wallets to members and create tribes/group s (can also revoke memberships)\n- \"No debt\" - no negative amounts can occur\n- U is instantly usable\n- Users of Group.Market can define which currencies their market runs under and U can be one of the choices of payment methods", "governance": "Decentralized structure of different organisations and communities with own governance", "key_people": "Anna Blume\nArie Ben David\nMarc Griffiths\nYann Levreau.", "notes": "Branded tokens strengthen a community by gaining better understanding in which context the token is used" }, { "id": 499, "name": "Ubiquitus", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubiquitus", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 voluntary donations and investment returns rather than by any government. Donations are pooled, invested in a concentrated tech/automation portfolio plus a small BTC/ETH allocation, and roughly 0.5% of the pool is split equally among all verified participants each month and sent Venmo-to-Venmo.", "website": "https://ubiquitus.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Live and paying.", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "267 verified participants (September 2026)", "locations": [ "United States (Venmo-based, US accounts)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://ubiquitus.org/", "title": "Ubiquitus - Universal Basic Income, now." }, { "url": "https://ubiquitus.org/dashboard/", "title": "Live transparency dashboard (pool, holdings, payout history)" }, { "url": "https://x.com/UbiquitusUBI", "title": "@UbiquitusUBI on X" }, { "url": "https://www.ryanfrigo.com/work/ubiquitus", "title": "Ryan Frigo - Ubiquitus UBI project page" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat). Payments are fiat via Venmo; BTC/ETH are held only as investment assets inside the endowment.", "social_identity": "Self-serve sign-up with a 1-cent Venmo verification transaction, which proves the applicant controls the Venmo account. No means test, no application review, no time limit. Founder has flagged stronger identity verification as a roadmap item.", "social_mining": "Direct Venmo-to-Venmo transfers on the 1st of each month. Equal share for every participant: each_share = (pool x 0.5%) / participants. Contributors get no larger share than non-contributors.", "token_economics": "No token. Funded by one-time voluntary donations from the public, pooled into an investment account traded through the Alpaca API. Draw is capped at roughly 6%/year endowment-style so the floor comes from returns rather than principal. Holdings are publicly listed (AMD ~15.2%, NVIDIA ~11.7%, Microsoft ~10.0%, BTC/ETH ~12.6% combined).", "governance": "Operator-run nonprofit-style project rather than a DAO. Rebalancing trades are placed only when an operator manually runs a rebalance, never automatically. Accountability is through a public real-time dashboard listing every participant, contribution and distribution.", "key_people": "Ryan Frigo (founder/creator, builder)", "notes": "Live and paying. As of September 2026 the dashboard shows 267 verified participants, a pool of $6,620.33 across 14 positions, $697.27 distributed in total over 9,399 individual distributions, and an estimated next payout of $0.10 per person. First distributions ran in November 2023 to 8 members at $1.04 each; the public launch write-up is dated March 2025.\n\n- This is the project the site owner refers to as the \"ubiquitus UBI project\" - spelled Ubiquitus, at ubiquitus.org.\n- Not a crypto project: rails are Venmo/fiat, though the endowment holds a ~12.6% BTC/ETH allocation, which is why it reads as adjacent to the crypto-UBI space.\n- Stack: Django backend, Alpaca trading API, Venmo payments/identity, React frontend in development, hosted on Vercel + AWS.\n- Payouts are currently symbolic (cents per month); the founder frames it as \"a hedge fund for humanity\" proving the mechanism rather than delivering subsistence.\n- ubiquitus.org returns HTTP 403 to some automated fetchers; content was read through a text-extraction proxy." }, { "id": 477, "name": "Ubit", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubit", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "UBIT - Universal Basic Income Tokens are an experimental function of the Unibit Blockchain.\n\nParticipants receive a set amount of UBITs weekly based on a tier system: Registered, Verified, and Permissioned. \n\nVerification processes will act as extended transaction layers (email, sms, etc). This prevents users from running multiple instances, and allows for a more fair distribution.", "website": "http://www.unibit.io/", "status": "development", "status_detail": "In development", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "Texas, US" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://github.com/unibitlabs", "title": "Unibit Labs" }, { "url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2128122.0" }, { "url": "https://unibitlabs.github.io/about.html", "title": "Github 2" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Own Blockchain - by Unibit Labs, a company that does blockchain services", "social_identity": "- Verification process is through email, sms", "social_mining": "In development", "token_economics": "No data yet", "governance": "In development", "key_people": "Jon Stokes\nRoy Hodge\nDane Walter", "notes": "Windows wallet" }, { "id": 478, "name": "UBU", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/ubu", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "Dual currency system for community development (UBU) and monetization (UBX).\n\nIt is injecting liquidity into the market to create more buyers, reducing inefficiencies and allowing sellers to achieve value for moribund assets.", "website": "https://www.projectubu.com/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Launched sale in 2017", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": false, "locations": [ "South Africa" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.projectubu.com/pdf/ProjectUBU_WhitePaper.pdf" }, { "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/project-ubu-launches-token-sale/77095/" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "- Ethereum \r\n- (ERC20) UBX linked to UBU for nodes & network monetization", "social_identity": "E-wallet application on site", "social_mining": "- 100 UBUs per day\n- Additional UBI through referrals and verification of information \n- 1% daily dissipation rate, \"use it or lose it\"\n- UBU scales citizens network and community development\n- UBX is a tradable token for network monetization", "token_economics": "- Number of UBUs in circulation dependent on number of citizens \r\n- UBUs mathematically linked to UBX ERC-20 tokens\r\n- 5.00 USD (ICO price)", "governance": "Community of citizens, vendors & treasury", "key_people": "Dudley Baylis\nJustin McCarthy\nSteven Sidley\nDouglas Reed", "notes": "- Impressive online presence\n- 2 currencies (UBU & UBX)\n- \"Moribound assets\" concept\n- Liquidity injection" }, { "id": 512, "name": "UpTogether", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/uptogether", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "UpTogether (formerly the Family Independence Initiative) is a national US nonprofit that delivers unrestricted, unconditional recurring cash to low-income families and runs a member platform through which communities support each other. It administers dozens of guaranteed income funds, some purely philanthropic and some funded by state or local agencies.", "website": "https://www.uptogether.org/", "status": "active", "status_detail": "Active across many US states in 2025-2026.", "funding": "mixed", "verified_users": "Tens of thousands of platform members; individual cash funds range from dozens to over a thousand households", "locations": [ "Oakland and California more broadly, USA", "Illinois, USA", "San Antonio and Austin, Texas, USA", "multiple other US states" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://www.uptogether.org/ourwork/", "title": "UpTogether - Our Work" }, { "url": "https://www.uptogether.org/generalfaqs/", "title": "UpTogether - FAQs (including funding sources)" }, { "url": "https://www.uptogether.org/news/", "title": "UpTogether - News" }, { "url": "https://leverforchange.org/organizations/uptogether-f-k-a-family-independence-initiative/", "title": "Lever for Change - UpTogether" } ], "added": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "None (fiat)", "social_identity": "Fund-specific eligibility (income thresholds, geography, sometimes housing status), typically with lottery selection among eligible applicants. Members enroll on the UpTogether platform and verify identity and residence there; cash itself carries no conditions or reporting requirements.", "social_mining": "Recurring monthly unrestricted cash (commonly $500/month for 12 months) paid through the UpTogether member platform to bank accounts or cards, plus peer-support and community-investment features.", "token_economics": "Mixed. Funded by philanthropic foundations and individual donors alongside state and local government agency grants; UpTogether's leadership has publicly said philanthropy alone cannot sustain the work and that public policy is needed.", "governance": "National 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a CEO and board, operating a member platform; strong emphasis on trusting recipients and on participant voice.", "key_people": "Founded as the Family Independence Initiative by Mauricio Lim Miller", "notes": "Active across many US states in 2025-2026. Current and recent funds include the UpTogether Illinois Community Fund (52 families at $500/month for one year), an East Oakland fund (300 low-income families at $500/month, kept running entirely by donations), and administration of large city-scale programmes in San Antonio and Austin.\n\n- MIXED FUNDING: some UpTogether funds (Oakland, Illinois Community Fund) are entirely donor-financed; others are contracted by city or state agencies, and government grants are larger than private donations overall. Include with that caveat.\n- Austin's UpTogether-administered guaranteed income programme was cut back by the city, illustrating the fragility of the public-funded side.\n- Useful to the directory as the largest US nonprofit operator of unconditional cash at scale." }, { "id": 479, "name": "Value Instrument", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/value-instrument", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "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 dynamic. Within this governance structure the group decides \non how to validate active members, who then get their \"wallet\" issued. This is an offline process in the current versions of the software. Think of a coworking space issuing branded Value to members, \nwho register at the front desk anyway, usually presenting a form of ID. Or a village where people really know eachother. \nA fake community, creating fake users and fake liquidity, can possibly be detected fast, because you can't buy and receive any real services or products there. \nHence Value currently works as a more decentral, than fully distributed system, with the view to combine Value's core principles with other validation mechanisms in the future.", "website": "http://valueinstrument.org", "status": "development", "status_detail": "Active development, Alpha Version to be announced, Proof of concept on Ethereum test net", "funding": "non_state", "openubi_aware": true, "locations": [ "Berlin", "Perth", "Stockholm" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://youtu.be/6kdIcOSLkwE", "title": "Alpha Version" } ], "added": "2025-01-18", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "Will start as an ERC-20, but Blockchain agnostic. \n\nMust have smart contracts or similar functionality.", "social_identity": "Value is a community-issued currency, initiated by a community \"wallet\". \n\nValue has not integrated a peer-to-peer web-of-trust dynamic, we instead thought that a similar dynamic would unfold over exchanges, where no one would accept non-reputable community coins for a decent exchange rate or there may be no liquidity at all. \n\nBranded currencies play a vital role in this dynamic, as communites strive to make their currency and community reputable, they will make sure to validate their members.", "social_mining": "As per choice of chain and Value settings in initialisation", "token_economics": "Instances of Value can be designed and installed by community to fit their individual needs and projected use cases, following basic principles:\n\n#1 Set amount and frequency of payout\n#2 Set lifespan of coins\n#3 Set transaction fees and possible taxation\n#4 Amounts received burn to 0 within lifespan\n#5 Value transferred to others regains full lifetime in the recipient account (therefore needs tx fee to make pingping transfers unattractive).", "governance": "Community choice, which tools to use for governing the issuing entity", "key_people": "Anna Blume\nMarc Griffiths\nPhilipe Achille Villiers\nYann Levreau\nHibryda", "notes": "UBIcoin could be deemed a fork" }, { "id": 484, "name": "World (Worldcoin)", "url": "https://cryptoubi.org/projects/world-worldcoin", "language": "en", "translations": [ "en", "fr", "de", "es" ], "description": "World (formerly Worldcoin) combines World ID, a proof-of-personhood credential issued after an iris scan by an \"Orb\", with the WLD token. Where regulators allow it, verified humans receive recurring WLD user grants. The founders present it as a possible route to AI-funded UBI.", "website": "https://world.org", "status": "inactive", "status_detail": "Recurring WLD grants being wound down: no new airdrop cycles since 1 Jun 2026", "funding": "non_state", "verified_users": "12M+ Orb-verified (April 2025); 33M World App users / ~15M verified (Sept 2025)", "locations": [ "San Francisco", "Munich", "Worldwide (Orbs in 20+ countries)" ], "links": [ { "url": "https://whitepaper.world.org/", "title": "World Whitepaper" }, { "url": "https://world.org/blog/foundational-topics/the-circulating-supply-of-worldcoin-wld-an-explainer", "title": "WLD circulating supply explainer" }, { "url": "https://world.org/blog/world/introducing-worldcoin-alex-blania-sam-altman", "title": "Introducing Worldcoin (Altman & Blania)" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)", "title": "Wikipedia" } ], "added": "2026-09-21", "updated": "2026-09-23", "blockchain": "World Chain (OP Stack L2); originally Ethereum/Optimism", "social_identity": "- Iris biometrics via the Orb produce a World ID\n- Privacy-preserving ZK proofs; iris codes stored with secure multi-party computation\n- Passport NFC credential as an extra tier", "social_mining": "- User grants to verified humans: ~40 WLD for Orb verification, paid monthly over a year; ~20 WLD for a passport credential\n- Grant sizes shrink over time", "token_economics": "- 10B WLD total supply; 75% for the community (the Foundation targets 60%+ to users), 25% to investors and team\n- ~1.3B WLD circulating (April 2025)\n- Market-priced, volatile token (not a stablecoin)", "governance": "Worldcoin Foundation (Cayman); Tools for Humanity develops the tech; WLD governance planned", "key_people": "Sam Altman\nAlex Blania\nMax Novendstern", "notes": "2026-09: World stopped creating or renewing WLD airdrop cycles on 1 June 2026, so people verifying after that date get no recurring grant; existing 12-month cycles run out around mid-2027. Superseded by \"World Money\" (stablecoin payments plus capped Earn boosts, launched ~17 Sep 2026). World ID itself continues.\nSource: https://support.world.org/hc/en-us/articles/30969185598739-Updates-to-the-Airdrop-Program\n\n- Criticised over biometric privacy and paying people to register\n- The grant is not an unconditional UBI in all countries (restricted in the US and elsewhere)" } ] }