In the last 30 days we have had 3015 users making at least 1 trade. For a volume of 2,336,655 Tokens (~23k USD equivalent of goods and...
By Will Ruddick
Kenyan Women - Ahead of the IMF
Could the IMF and Commercial banks learn from women in rural Kenya how to create a decentralized and de-risked (transparently 100% backed)
Comparative Analysis of eMoney and Community Currency
This shows us that the presence of Sarafu stabilizes the economic system, working as a buffer in the months when the national currency is sc
By Will Ruddick
Community Inclusion Currencies are Now Open Source
These may sound like small improvements, but because of them our current, 8000+ and growing, users will be able to trade and create CICs to
By Will Ruddick
Blockchain Powered Village Checkers Tournament
How do you have a proper checkers tournament when no one can pay the entry fees? Jacob the organizer saw an opportunity. His neighbors in...
By Will Ruddick
Investment Modelling in Community Inclusion Currencies
While Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) have been shown to increase local trade they can also be a vehicle for collective share...
By Will Ruddick
2019 Data Release - 92k Kenyan blockchain translations
With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty...
By Will Ruddick
Economies into Ecosystems
The reserve behind these tokens, the actual aid funding, was about $2.5k USD).This means that $2,500 USD of Aid funds created 10,000 tokens
By Will Ruddick
Enabling Leverage
By exploring this space and enabling leverage we can open the door to truly decentralized financial services. If credit can be safely issued
By Will Ruddick
Banking on the SILC Road
Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund
