Open Collective
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This new branch is focusing on building **a web3 co-operating system** to help local communities develop their own local economy, starting with the [Commons Hub Brussels](https://commonshub.brussels) as a real-world model.\n\n**Communities need more than just funding—they need multi-currency systems to recognize non-financial contributions like time, labor, and care work.** By issuing community tokens, projects can facilitate exchanges, boost collaboration, and create an on-chain record of community health.\n\nWith [Regens Unite](https://www.regensunite.earth/), we experienced the need for permanent spaces to rebuild local communities—rooted locally, globally connected. That’s why we created the [Commons Hub Brussels](https://commonshub.brussels/). But managing a space like this requires more than just euros. We need:  \n- A Yang currency (euros) to pay rent.  \n- A Yin currency (care, time, contributions) to sustain the space and community.\n\nToday’s tools don’t support this balance:  \n- Open Collective offers transparent financial management but lacks web3 integration.  \n- [Citizen Wallet](https://citizenwallet.xyz) makes it easy to transfer community tokens but lacks tools to manage them.\n\n> Communities need a new way to organize beyond single-currency closed source bookkeeping systems. They need a transparent, open-source, multi-currency admin interface.\n\n## Philosophy\n\nWe believe **communities, not individuals, must become the new base economic unit**. This means shifting from competition to cooperation, from scarcity to abundance. From a single currency, a single way to contribute, to multiple currencies, multiple ways to contribute. This creates more opportunities for people within any given community to exchange and create relationships, making the whole community more resilient in the process.\n\nThe transparency also enables more collaboration and learnings. **Right now, public good funding on Octant, Gitcoin and Giveth don't provide much transparency on how the funds are actually used by those projects.** Which is quite ironic since everything is happening on-chain. \n\nTo move from individualism to collective resilience, **we need tools that strengthen cooperation**. By integrating web3, community currencies, and transparent financial management, we provide the infrastructure for regenerative, decentralized economies.\n\n## V3 of Open Collective\n\nWe have been running different experiments and we are now ready, with your funding, to consolidate everything to build a proper co-operating system, the new version of Open Collective.\n\nWhile the project for Open Collective Web3 is less than one year old, it is rooted in a long history and is building up on a lot of lived experiences and existing social capital.\n\nThe experiments we ran included:  \n\n- 2015: Launching [opencollective.com](https://opencollective.com).    \n- 2016: Starting a fiscal host dedicated to Open Source Projects ([https://oscollective.org](https://oscollective.org)), home for 2500+ open source projects ([https://opencollective.com/opensource](https://opencollective.com/opensource))\n- 2017: Starting the first “[Sustain OSS](https://sustainoss.org)” gathering to bring together maintainers, companies and foundations\n- 2019: Starting a fiscal host for climate projects: [All for Climate](https://allforclimate.earth).    \n- 2021: Co-initiating the Climate Round for Gitcoin (with Scott Moore, Annika Lewis, Ben West).\n- 2021: Founding [Citizen Corner](https://citizencorner.brussels), a temporary occupation where we started the [DAO.brussels](https://dao.brussels) community.    \n- 2022: Starting [Regens Unite](https://regensunite.earth) (first edition at the Citizen Corner).\n- 2023: Developing [Citizen Wallet](https://citizenwallet.xyz), an open-source crypto wallet for community currencies.    \n- 2024: Opening [Commons Hub Brussels](https://commonshub.brussels), a permanent space in Brussels.    \n- 2024: Building the Regen Village at the Commons Hub ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSCi_173Alw)).    \n- 2025: [Open Collective FOSDEM Meetup](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/opencollective_a-lot-of-gratitude-to-all-of-you-for-coming-activity-7292635901447258112-xKBL) to bring together the open source community and initiate them to web3 (where [we gave away the book “How to DAO”](https://x.com/xdamman/status/1884272107753988371))  \n- 2025: Released [https://txinfo.xyz](https://txinfo.xyz) as an open source standalone tool to annotate any blockchain transaction using Nostr.\n\n**The current MVP we have** is a combination of different tools that we have patched together to manage the Commons Hub Brussels as a community.\n\n- [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/commonshub-brussels) to manage the ‘yang’ currency of the euro  \n- Custom code to take into account crypto donations from Giveth and Gitcoin ([preview](https://x.com/commonshub_bxl/status/1813274283361378555))   \n- [Citizen Wallet](https://citizenwallet.xyz) to manage the ‘yin’ currency of the [Commons Hub Token](https://txinfo.xyz/celo/token/cht) to reward people contributing to the community in non-financial ways (typically, cleaning / maintaining the space, organizing community events, …)  \n- [Monerium](https://monerium.com) to bring all financial transaction on-chain  \n- Custom code to annotate on-chain transactions ([txinfo.xyz](https://txinfo.xyz/gnosis/address/0x6fDF0AaE33E313d9C98D2Aa19Bcd8EF777912CBf))  \n- Custom code to bring everything together\n\n## Our commitment\n\n* Everything we do will be open source (always has been)  \n* We will do as much on-chain as possible to ensure great compatibility with any other dapp.  \n* We will eventually exit the company to the community (like we did with the current branch) through a DAO (with progressive decentralization)\n\n## Roadmap\n\n- **2025 Q2**: Public beta of a first online platform where any project can sign up and start annotating their on-chain transactions, with a first focus on Gitcoin, Octant and Giveth projects (projects that are using community money and that owe to the community a much higher level of transparency than raw transactions on the blockchain)  \n- **2025 Q3**: Issue your own token(s) to start rewarding non-financial contributions  \n- **2025 Q4**: Dashboard to give a proper snapshot of the health of your community.\n\n## Tracking impact\n\n- Number of exchanges within communities on the platform, i.e. number of on-chain transactions with any token related to the community (between real people).\n\n## Get involved\n\n- Website: [Website](https://opencollective.xyz), [Discord](https://discord.opencollective.com), [GitHub](https://github.com/opencollective),  \n- Socials: [X/Twitter](https://x.com/opencollect), [Nostr](https://opencollective.xyz/nostr), [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/opencollective), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/opencollective)   \n\n## Team\n\n- Xavier Damman ([X/Twitter](https://x.com/xdamman)) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/xavierdamman))   \n- Leen Schelfhout ([X/Twitter](https://x.com/leen_schelfhout)) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/leen-schelfhout))   \n- Dario Munoz Gonzalez ([X/Twitter](https://x.com/cuiki)) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/cuiki))   \n- Kris Decoodt ([X/Twitter](https://x.com/krrisis)) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/krisdecoodt))  \n\n## Previous Funding\n\n- We have received about $5k with our first Gitcoin participation ([tweet](https://x.com/opencollect/status/1858544412982157639))\n- We have received 25 ETH from Open Collective Inc to bootstrap ([tx](https://basescan.org/tx/0xe9ac6d94660141cb5d0e435e9f70981925ab6a3045bf20a9ee062e703dd56ff6))\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "opencollective", "projectTwitter": "opencollect"}