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.
None (fiat). Payments are fiat via Venmo; BTC/ETH are held only as investment assets inside the endowment.
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).
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.
Ryan Frigo (founder/creator, builder)
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.
- This is the project the site owner refers to as the "ubiquitus UBI project" - spelled Ubiquitus, at ubiquitus.org.
- 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.
- Stack: Django backend, Alpaca trading API, Venmo payments/identity, React frontend in development, hosted on Vercel + AWS.
- Payouts are currently symbolic (cents per month); the founder frames it as "a hedge fund for humanity" proving the mechanism rather than delivering subsistence.
- ubiquitus.org returns HTTP 403 to some automated fetchers; content was read through a text-extraction proxy.