The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage self-sustainability. The local multiplier ...

Complementary currencies is a time-tested alternative to regular money dating back to Ancient Egypt. Now that they can go crypto, there's a real chance they may change the world. In the past few years ...

This article argues that the current economic design of the US not-for-profit arts sector, specifically theatre, fails to support the long-term wellness of the cultural worker and the cultural commons ...

In a back room of the Tenino Depot Museum, a modest sandstone building in a city of less than 2,000 in Washington State, there is a rickety old machine that officials believe could help save the ...

Because reform is inevitable, I see the introduction of complementary currency as timely. Complementary currencies were introduced in Bavaria, Germany (with the help of Silvio Gesell) after World War ...

Supranext launches complementary currencies in the US to revive local economies and empower small businesses through a stable, three-tiered system of crypto, paper, and coin-based tools. Rome, Italy, ...

Few places on earth embody income inequality quite like Bangladesh, a great dusty slum on the outskirts of Mombasa. Home to 26,000 people, it sits atop an ascetic crossroads about 5km from the ...

Kenyan authorities have shut down a social complementary currency project aimed at reinforcing the local economy in Kenya and arrested six of the project leaders under the pretext of counterfeiting.

D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project to create digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. The project, which received €1.9 million funding ...