Commitment Pooling

Protocolo Monetário Descentralizado

A monetary protocol grammar in which value is represented as plural commitment types pooled and exchanged through four protocol functions: a Commitment Registry (curation), a Value Index Registry (valuation), a Swap Limiter (rule enforcement), and a Treasury (settlement). Commitments are promises pointing back to issuers rather than transferable IOUs. Prototype: Sarafu Network operated by Grassroots Economics Foundation.

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Licença Libre (GPL); https://github.com/grassrootseconomics
Status de Dev 🟢 Ativo
Detalhe do Status de Dev Released; over 26,000 users and 309,000 P2P exchanges as of July 2025.
Proprietário Grassroots Economics Foundation; protocol stewarded by Will Ruddick and collaborators.
País Kenya (Grassroots Economics Foundation); global contributor network.
Ano de Início 2010
Stack Python (sarafu-network backend); Celo blockchain (current substrate); Vyper smart contracts; ussd-based mobile interface.
Financiamento NLnet NGI Zero grants; Foundation grants; Red Cross collaboration; humanitarian funding.
Última Investigação 1 de jul. de 2026

Domínios de Caso de Uso

Evolução de Plataformas e Soberania

Capacidades

Administração transparente Intercâmbio não monetário

Protocolo Monetário Descentralizado Atributos

Origens Mutual credit revival; African community currency practice; ancestral pooling wisdom; commons economics.
Formatos de Dados Commitment metadata (issuer, redemption terms, expiry); Value Index entries; Swap Limiter rules; Treasury reserve composition.
Termos Free participation for community members; self-hosting available.
Fundos Approximately $1-2M cumulative across NLnet and humanitarian partnerships; specific consolidated figure undisclosed.
Baseado Em Bangla-Pesa community currency work (2013-); mutual credit theory; African pooling traditions; subsequent migration through Sarafu Credit phases.
Permissões Per-pool stewardship; participants opt into commitment pools; pool stewards configure limiter and treasury rules.
Contrato Inteligente Yes — current Celo deployment uses smart contracts for swap limiter and treasury functions.
Ferramentas de Desenvolvimento Sarafu Network SDK; CIC (Community Inclusion Currency) toolkit; Celo development tools.
Maturidade / Padronização do Protocolo Academic / Research with production deployment; formalized in IJCCR Vol. 27 (2023).
Estrutura de Confiança Pool stewardship; community membership verification; redemption commitments backed by issuer reputation and pool reserves.
Domínio de Aplicação-Alvo Community currencies, humanitarian aid, mutual aid networks, regional resilience finance, commons coordination.
Posição de Aceitação do Jogo Modify-Additive — commitment pools coexist with national currency and other monetary systems.
Regime de Acumulação Structurally limited — accumulation governed by registry rules, swap limiters, and time-bounded commitments.
Mecanismo de Coordenação Deliberative — Value Index Registry enables numerical or relational valuation per pool.
Modelo de Emissão Pool-stewarded — communities issue commitments under shared rules; per-agent issuance within pool.
Tipo de Sinal de Valor Commitment types (plural, relationally valued); diverse commitment forms aggregated through Value Index.
Padrão de Federação Recursive — designed for federation; pools confederate through registry composition.
Independência de Substrato Hybrid — current implementation is blockchain-based (Celo) but protocol grammar is substrate-neutral.