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<div class="logo"><span class="our funding">Our</span>Funding</div>
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<p class="subtitle">an all-encompassing, distributed & global crowdfunding platform</p>
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<p><span class="newthought">Our Funding</span> is a platform being created with the purpose of catalyzing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy" target="_blank">gift economy</a> by making crowdfunding campaigns straightforward and cost-effective for individuals, communities, and institutions. It is designed to be global<label for="global" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="global" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">unlike most other crowdfunding platforms in existence today, that only allow campaigns coming from the first world</span>, unenclosable<label for="unenclosable" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="unenclosable" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">it runs distributed using Holochain, and as long as there is at least one peer willing to run it, it will exist</span>, distributed, censorship-resistant<label for="censorshipresistant" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="censorshipresistant" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">not under anyone's control or authority</span>, and supportive of micropayments<label for="micropayments" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="micropayments" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">most other crowdfunding platforms in existence today have a minimum amount of a few dollars per transaction</span>.</p>
<p>Campaigners have the freedom to choose between raising monthly recurring funding or per project funding. They receive funds in <i>Our Funding fuel</i>, a mutual credit currency designed specifically for this case — which is backed up by global crowdfunding campaigns as its value assets.</p>
<p>The project is under development and will be released as Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) when it reaches maturity, and once the platform goes live — will use a <i>‘<1% Transaction Fee’</i> business model<label for="fee" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="fee" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">this is a temporary measure and the transaction fees will be dropped once the movement becomes sustainable through donations — fully embracing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy" target="_blank">gift economy</a></span>. It is wholly owned by <a href="https://our-foundation.org/" target="_blank">Our Foundation</a>, a non-profit organization which exists solely as a mechanism to institutionally support <a href="https://our-movement.org/" target="_blank">Our Movement</a> — a movement promoting radical social change by catalyzing the emergence of resilient societies.</p>
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<h2>Background</h2>
<p>Though crowdsourcing platforms were the pioneers of the so called gift economy, they also became its main defectors — amassing large profits from the 5-12% transaction fees<label for="transactionfee" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="transactionfee" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">excluding payment processing fees which are generally 3% + 30¢</span> imposed on every donation. Moreover, the exclusivity of these platforms is problematic, since they often operate only in first world regions and require at least a few dollars to support a campaign. These practices shun from crowdfunding the people with the most need for financial support, as well as enthusiastic funders who might not have much to give. Finally, these platforms are centralized, which allows them to censor campaigns arbitrarily.</p>
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<h2>Proposal</h2>
<p>Our Funding will tackle the crowdfunding market by disintermediating for-profit entities — much like <a href="https://holo.host/" target="_blank">Holo</a> will be doing to cloud computing. It will be one of the first true peer-to-peer platforms, completely devoid of any central servers all the while coordinating global scale crowdfunding.</p>
<p>The sections below will try to explain how the platform works.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Many factors set Our Funding apart from the dozens of existing crowdfunding platforms, the main one being its adaptability to users’ needs. Campaigners, using their unique handle, can run multiple campaigns simultaneously under one profile, with the choice of having monthly recurring funding or time-limited per project funding. A musical artist, for instance, could have a recurring monthly campaign to support their regular music production, while also having a separate project campaign for a documentary film that they wish to create and demands a much larger budget.</p>
<p>Funders, on the other hand, can contribute to several different campaigns that interest them through micropayments — they can literally give a fraction of a cent worth of value to any campaign they desire. This feature becomes particularly key for campaigns in poverty-stricken areas, where the smallest amounts donated can make enormous differences. One of Our Funding’s main intentions is to correct this problem and allow easy, unlimited, and flexible access to aid from and to any place on the planet.</p>
<h3>Currency</h3>
<p>The currency that will be used to pay hosts for their service is called <i>Our Funding fuel</i>, which is a mutual credit currency specifically designed for this use-case. Based on the design of <a href="https://holo.host/holo-fuel/" target="_blank">Holo fuel</a> currency, global crowdfunding campaigns are the assets backing up its value. This currency will allow for millions of micropayments to take place on a daily basis to power the platform. It is also designed to be value-stable; once it reaches critical mass adoption it will only change in value ever so slightly as economic activity increases or decreases. Unlike blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, which fluctuate in value by huge leaps every day, this currency will be stable enough for day-to-day transactions.</p>
<p><i>Our Funding fuel</i> will be redeemable in reserves and exchanges for other mutual credit currencies, cryptocurrencies and national currencies. Some campaigners may choose to redeem it right away when they get rewarded, while others may use it to reward other campaigners later on. There will be two ways to obtain the currency: either buying it in an exchange or through a fundraising campaign.</p>
<h3>Moderation</h3>
<p>Moderation for the platform will be conducted by the community itself rather than by employees. In case a campaign is contested on grounds of fraud or scam, by a set number of reports, it will automatically get suspended. Then, the moderating community will have to manually investigate the case and decide how to proceed with the campaign.</p>
<h3>Data integrity</h3>
<p>Since the platform is built on Holochain, all data that is uploaded will be retained forever — due to immutability of data by being in an append-only database. Moreover, its agent-centric nature guarantees mutual sovereignty for both the individual and the group because all data exists in the agents’ local chain. The data is then submitted in the shared space of the group, which means that the group cannot erase data contributed from the user, but also the user cannot take back data that has been already submitted to the group’s shared space.</p>
<p>Also, due to agent-centrism, where all agents own all their data in their local chains, Our Funding will be by default a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" target="_blank">GDPR</a> compliant platform.</p>
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<h2>Fees</h2>
<p>Once the platform goes live, will use a <i>‘<1% Transaction Fee’</i> business model, and all the profits will be directed to the parent non-profit organization, <a href="https://our-foundation.org/" target="_blank">Our Foundation</a>. The profit will then be used to fund projects decided and prioritized by <a href="https://our-movement.org/">Our Movement</a>, the majority of which do not have business models.</p>
<p>Transaction fees will gradually descend to 0, as the movement grows more and more sustainable through donations — fully embracing the gift economy.</p>
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<p>We aim to conduct an ethical ICO (Initial Community Offering) by 2020 for the purpose of raising funds to further develop the platform’s working prototype. It will be conducted out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein" target="_blank">Liechtenstein</a>, and will only be accessible to individuals who have been KYC whitelisted and coming from specific countries, likely excluding: USA, China and South Korea — due to lack of legal clarity. We will also implement daily investment caps to ensure a fairer participation.</p>-->
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<h2>License</h2>
<p>This project will be <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html" target="_blank">Free/Libre and Open Source Software</a> (FLOSS)<label for="floss" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="floss" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote">free as in <i>speech</i> and <i>beer</i></span>, and its source code will be licensed under an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license" target="_blank">OSI-approved license</a> — once it reaches maturity.</p>
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<h2>Status</h2>
<p>The project is being developed by <a href="https://our-movement.org/">Our Movement</a> — itself a movement promoting radical social change by catalyzing the emergence of resilient societies.</p>
<p>It will be built using Holochain<label for="holochain" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="holochain" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote"><a href="https://holochain.org/" target="_blank">Holochain</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger" target="_blank">DLT framework</a> for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is free and open-source software built by <a href="http://metacurrency.org/" target="_blank">Metacurrency Project</a></span> for data storage and integrity, and React Native<label for="reactnative" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input id="reactnative" class="margin-toggle" type="checkbox"><span class="sidenote"><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react-native/" target="_blank">React Native</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface" target="_blank">UI framework</a> for writing native apps. It is free and open-source software built by <a href="https://opensource.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a></span> for the user interface (UI). It will be accessed most commonly through web browsers but there will also be native apps for major operating systems (OS).</p>
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<p class="licensing">This case study is a <i>living</i> <a href="https://github.com/our-movement/our-funding-cs" target="_blank">document</a> which means it is a <b>work in progress</b>, not completed yet and is <b>being updated</b>. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> — unless otherwise noted.</p>
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