Tribute

= Tribute is a community-driven protocol for growing open networks

URL = http://www.tribute.coop

Description

"Misaligned interests between internal and external stakeholders are a major impediment to the flourishing of new models of large-scale decentralized peer-based production. The Tribute platform aims at solving this issue, by enabling organizations to grow while sharing more value than they capture for themselves. With Tribute, both hierarchical and participatory organizations can issue contributive tokens and set up smart incentives in order to attract and reward communities of independent contributors in a sustainable and equitable manner.

While the Tribute platform is being built in order to have a positive impact at the microeconomic level for organizations and the networked individuals they work with, its founding team intend to play a part as well at the macroeconomic level, by introducing a new way for funding the development of digital commons, such as the open protocols and the free software that made the Internet possible. To this end, the Tribute network is being set up as a decentralized autonomous cooperative, whose purpose is to transfer the platform's revenue into a capital pool for the commons, using a funding protocol rather than discretionary allocation."