Crypto Commons Association
Actively promoting the development of digital common goods and infrastructure in distributed ledger technology, their academic reception and analysis, and their broad social application.
About CCA
The Crypto Commons Association was founded in April 2021 as a legal entity aiming to actively promote the development of digital common goods and infrastructure in the field of distributed ledger technology.
Digital Common Goods
Promoting freely accessible protocols that make planetary resource limits visible and generate funds for natural commons regeneration.
Academic Analysis
Advancing scientific work and the design of an emerging interdisciplinary field around crypto commons.
Public Accessibility
Ensuring low-threshold access to secure knowledge and socio-political interpretations of these technologies.
What are the Crypto Commons?
Crypto commons are a subset of digital commons emerging in the context of Distributed Ledger Technology. They comprise base layer protocols, applications built on top of them as well as tools and mechanisms used in their design and calibration.
In contrast to pre-DLT commons, they usually make active use of market mechanisms and economic incentives in order to reward contributions to the common good.
Their solid grounding in market mechanism design as well as their distributed and permissionless operation by loose networks of incentivized supporters opens up the possibility of scaling Commons frameworks beyond the local and immediate.
As a computational and organizational substrate for decentralized economies, they reinvigorate post-capitalist visions of commoning as a mode of production formulated in the wake of the internet.