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Hugo Matecowitsch:

"At TftC we are building a governance protocol enabling sovereignties through digital-first institutions.

We are enabling

(i) institutions and States to become digital enablers for their populations, and beyond and

(ii) citizens, e-residents, and intentional organizations of many kinds to formalize and govern their social, economic and moral agreements into new legal and financial frameworks, irrespective of their ZIP-code.

Our first examples include

(i) a digital economic zone in Tanzania, the first of its kind in the world, through a PPP between a Telecommunications Agency and regulator, the investment authority of Zanzibar, Presidency itself, and Tools for the Commons, and

(ii) a new digital legal Amazon through an upcoming PPP between the Amapá State, city of Santana, city of Macapá, and Tools for the Commons, to create new business, tax, sovereign wealth funds, nature based economy and commerce & digital capacitation tooling for SMEs across the Amazon region.

Such design run on P2P DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure networks) at the storage, compute and network access [big techs running core digital infrastructure is effectively neo-colonialism and anti-sovereignty in my view] - soon hopefully energy access - this bare metal internet capacity infrastructure becomes home to the new "State" (P2P) and value & utility-based monetary policies.

TftC is a new initiative. Prior to founding Tools for the Commons I created a55, the leading inter-operable platforms financing SMEs through their digital tools in Latin America, creating a new universal digital based credit score from which we could call capital from institutions of different kinds including (a) private credit funds, (b) development banks, (c) central banks (d) DeFi protocols and (e) private banks. Our protocol has been used at a national level in Brazil during the peak of Covid for the national rescue financing program for SME credit.

This protocol was interoperable by nature, so rather than condemning "the State is bad", and "corporations are bad", we actually created some rails to make State laws and market laws with internet and peer-to-peer / marketplace dynamics to package bundle and unbundle "money" in any of its kind and fund entrepreneurs, that are key contributors and catalysts of wealth creation.

We now have a similar approach to governance; I like to pick interesting ideas from many frameworks; I really believe that the Internet - at least the way it was supposed to be designed - permissionless and really peer-to-peer can be a backbone for new institutions.

I spent the past 10 years of my life pushing entrepreneurship, economic and financial freedom through different forms (risk capital, credit, education, mentoring, public policies) in Latin America and to a lesser extent in Africa and South East Asia.

I possibly find myself between frameworks at the intersection of Michel's 4th Sector definition, Vitalik Buterin & Radical Change "Plurality's approach / fork-and merge" kind of approach, and start up style micro-economics for governance frameworks (test at small scale and either correct, shut down or double downs based on outcomes)."

(email, September 2024)