Related/one component: Nature-Backed Currencies [NBCs] — Research Working Doc

Tokenomics Advice & Governance Guidance

<aside> 💡 Before diving into this, it’s critical to understand the promise and effects of a nature-backed currency.

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Potential questions or topics to explore

• what incentives can currencies build in to redesign economics or fundamental incentives?
• how much can money/currency influence our economic paradigm — what incentives or new structures could emerge?

Examples and eclectic notes

• Celo Org was deeply inspired by the Sacred Economics theory that Charles Eisenstein lays out

  • they could make for a fascinating case study, or collaborators
  • potential breakdown: https://www.notboring.co/p/celo-building-a-regenerative-economy

• Sacred Economics is important to profile

  • Relevant notes from the book

• https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Eight_Forms_of_Capital — gregory landua wrote this quite famous approach to understanding regenerative capital that we should account for within finance

• Inspiration:

  • Projects evolve due to natural selection — how to develop a natural selection that pushes humanity towards a net-positive outcome, or avoiding self-termination.
    • (possible thesis: address the issues identified in Schmactenberger’s New Economics Series)

  

• Theories of psychology (Maslow+more) could be important to this study

• UBI may become an important component of these currencies