The research is clear — when women gain and maintain more control over their finances, it results in economies which are more resilient, diverse and equal.

To understand inequality, you have to look at asset ownership – including intangibles such as education and job security. And to fight inequality, you have to think beyond redistribution.

European countries are often assumed to provide a good standard of living for all citizens. But the real picture is more troubling.

Our first year operating a common good parachain on Kusama has clearly demonstrated what Encointer can do, with our first currency growing steadily and more on the way.

With two community currency launches under our belt in 2022 and more in the pipeline for 2023, the Encointer team spends a lot of time talking to local businesses about...

Encointer offers a framework to set up a reliable and secure digital community currency. But for any local currency to gain traction and become successful, getting the word out to...

Ready to launch an Encointer currency? We make it easy with a ready-made platform that can be adapted easily to your local needs, but you still need to do some...

There’s so much upside and it’s easier than you think. Here’s why Encointer is a great way to boost your neighborhood. There’s something weird about the idea of distributing your...

A Sybil attack describes a scenario where an attacker subverts a reputation-based system by creating multiple identities. Read on to discover how Encointer uses a real-world web of trust to...

The Encointer protocol involves a number of interesting and sometimes countervailing design characteristics. But how might it play out in practice in a community of rational individuals in a low-income...

Did you participate in our demo at Polkadot Decoded 2022? Then read on to find out how to claim your exclusive commemorative NFT.

The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for as long as most of us can remember, since the signing of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944. But go...

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain are often touted as solutions for supporting financial inclusion, while local currencies are already used to support economies at local level. Combined, they seem like an ideal...

Macroeconomic challenges of the kind we face today can’t be solved at the local level, but there are tools and initiatives that can help empower communities to support the most...

“Buy local” has become one of the mantras used to push back against the tidal wave of globalization that has characterized most of the last five decades. However, the complexity...

Quite a bit of research has been happening in the recent months. This post will summarize and comment on the findings. Economics A FHNW bachelor thesis about Encointer asking: “Can complementary...

This article first appeared on the Polkadot blog The potential of Web3 extends well beyond reshaping finance in the developed world — it can also be used to foster greater financial...

Encointer Testnet Gesell had suffered from a variety of little issues that were caused by an outdated dependency on substrate. Yesterday, Gesell has been restarted with its code based on substrate 2.0.0....

On July 7th the first local currency was bootstrapped in Zurich by holding a key-signing meetup with our new mobile app (to be released soon)

Short intro to encointer and other community currencies projects duniter.org and grassrootseconomics.org, hosted by commonsstack.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVKjyxZ0lE&t=1980s

In this post I’d like to explain how local cryptocurrencies can make a global unconditional basic income happen and how Encointer solves the technical and economical challenges involved. Finally, I’ll give you...

We are excited to announce the upcoming first Encointer testnet called “Cantillon”. It is named after Richard Cantillon, the economist who first described the effect of monetary expansion on inequality...

Listen to Alain and Joe discussing the key concepts of encointer and its privacy solution SubstraTEE https://relaychain.fm/13-designing-universal-basic-income A few conceptual details have been reworked since this podcast has been recorded...

Today, development aid gets diluted by administration, advertisement and corruption before it reaches its target, the individuals. Encointer provides a direct and egalitarian distribution channel from donors to individuals. Moreover, it potentially multiplies the...