Ecological Market-Commons
* White Paper: Regen Network Economics Technical Paper. An Ecological Market-Commons, Secured by Proof-of-Stake. G. Landua, K. Birchard, W. Szal. Regen Network, Version 0.2, February 16, 2021
URL = https://regen-network.gitlab.io/whitepaper/Economics.pdf?
"A ... framework for overcoming the coordination challenges that are currently undermining market and non-market attempts to manage the common resource base of ecosystems as a public good. ... We will argue that a commons-based framework is optimal for understanding both the design and operation of a blockchain as well as the management of ecosystems."
Abstract
This paper will outline the use case of our token, starting from the context of ecological markets and agriculture. We will explore why blockchain is an appropriate solution, and why our Proof-of-Stake architecture and token design provide a suitable framework for overcoming the coordination challenges that are currently undermining market and non-market attempts to manage the common resource base of ecosystems as a public good. After this introduction we will detail our current token design, as well as list important topics for research and development for our project and the space more generally. We will argue that a commons-based framework is optimal for understanding both the design and operation of a blockchain as well as the management of ecosystems. We will review pilots that catalog the different actors and how they interact with our blockchain and token, and illustrate our token economy in a formal economic model. We intend for this paper to clearly illustrate the role of bringing together a group of potentially adversarial stakeholders to generate the public goods of verified information about ecological state, and the regeneration of agro-ecosystems to revitalize the carbon cycle and increase land steward profitability. This paper focuses exclusively on the protocol Proof-of-Stake token mechanics—not the smart contract enabled tokenization layer that will be built to represent, steward and exchange ecological value."