Research Overview

OpenHaven's tech-tool catalog, alongside separate research on governance, economics, and prosocial use cases for decentralized systems — related, but standing on their own.

The two core tools

The Navigator and the Convergence Matrix are OpenHaven’s core tools for exploring decentralized tech tools — protocols, platforms, standards, and apps.

Resources

In-depth research on the economic, governance, and infrastructure questions decentralized ecosystems have to answer.

Prosocial and Relational Ecosystem Use Cases

A comprehensive, platform-agnostic taxonomy of human activities that prosocial technology must support — organized by use-case domain, centered on trust, and designed for interoperability across the decentralized technology ecosystem.

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Mapping Infrastructure

An architecture for the five-layer data pipeline — ingest, normalize, enrich, store, serve — that turns the liminal web's scattered ecosystem maps into computable infrastructure: the data foundation beneath the kind of protocol-and-project mapping OpenHaven's Navigator surfaces.

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Peerfunding and Commons-Based Finance

A reference taxonomy of the funding mechanisms, models, and governance structures available to commons-oriented and regenerative projects — the capital-and-coordination companion to the open-protocol landscape OpenHaven maps.

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Monetary Architecture

A visual breakdown of the monetary and value-flow architecture underpinning commons-oriented and regenerative economic systems.

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Decentralized Governance

How decentralized communities organize decision-making, membership, and resources outside conventional institutions — DAO, Network State, Network Nation, and NAO, compared side by side.

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Sovereign Stack Model

An architectural model for evaluating self-sovereign technology stacks. Start here for an interactive map of the sovereign-technology stack, real-world entity placements, and — once published — a full discursive white paper.

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Reference

Glossary, API, and calibration references for using the data directly.

Definitions Glossary

Every term and category used across the Convergence Matrix, defined in one place.

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API for Developers

The same data that powers the Navigator and Matrix, as a free, read-only JSON API — no key required.

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Centralized Platform Risks

Five familiar centralized platforms, scored the same way, as a calibration anchor for reading Capture Risk elsewhere in the matrix.

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