Martin Köppelmann, the founder of the prediction platform Gnosis, announced the new universal basic income project CirclesUBI, wanting to make a “better currency”.
Written by: Martin Köppelmann, founder of prediction market platform Gnosis Translation: Perry Wang
Martin Köppelmann, founder of the prediction market platform Gnosis, released a series of tweets:
After 7 years of dreams, discussions, exclusions, adjustments, and finally landing, CirclesUBI-“Universal Basic Income UBI in Blockchain” or should be said “Better Currency”, was born today!
So what is Circles? There can be many use cases:
6 examples:
- Voluntary basic income plan without state intervention
- A fully decentralized currency, but fair in terms of time and space
- Mutual credit system, in which credit limit is set by default to make credit interchangeable
- Make money through p2p currency interaction, which ultimately makes the economy more people-oriented
- Cryptocurrency minted only by personal life
- Ripple’s original idea combined with UBI
The core principle is simple:
- Anyone can create an account and start creating their own personal Circles. Each account (person) casts different Circles.
- Currently, 8 Circles can be cast every day. Increase by 7% every year.
- People can trust each other, which means they can voluntarily exchange each other’s Circles 1:1
This is the basic principle. I will try to explain the reasons behind all these three principles from the perspective of “fair money” (of course, Circles can be examined in other ways).
The first principle is simple: Soon after Bitcoin made it possible for people to see currencies outside of the country, the potential design space of currency became larger. People thought of this idea: “Imitate the form of Bitcoin, but achieve The currency is evenly distributed among people.”
The second principle, especially the 7% annual increase in mint volume, ensures that the influence of the newly minted currency is close to the same as that of the existing currency. (Click here to learn how to derive a ratio of approximately 7% from the 80-year personal life expectancy logic)
The third principle has two functions. a) It is a completely decentralized solution to the Sybil attack problem. Almost all other UBI blockchain solutions are in charge of a centralized organization that decides who is/who can get UBI.
b) Anchor the value of Circles in interpersonal relationships (trust)
I personally think that the accurate definition of currency is (proposed by Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer and others) “social contract”. Circles makes this clear and very local. The smallest feasible “economy” of Circles is just a group of 3-4 friends who can decide to award UBI to each other through Circles.
You can read more about it here:
https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/basic-income-on-the-blockchain-fair-money-45662889077c
Or click here to read more technical content:
https://handbook.joincircles.net/about/whitepaper.html
Click here to see the growth of Circles’ p2p network:
Put some technical documents at the end: Circles runs on the xdaichain blockchain … In the landing reference case, each account (identity) is a gnosisSafe. The contract and key are stored in the browser in a similar way to Burner wallet.
Technical experts can find our contract at the following address on the xdai network:
hub:
0x29b9a7fBb8995b2423a71cC17cf9810798F6C543
proxy factory:
0x8b4404DE0CaECE4b966a9959f134f0eFDa636156
safe:
0x2CB0ebc503dE87CFD8f0eCEED8197bF7850184ae
Using the circles.garden wallet is also a transaction relay service. Users do not need to use xDAI to pay for gas, but can directly use Circles to pay for the relay service through meta transactions. To use this service, you need to be trusted by at least three users.
At the end of the article, I would like to thank many people for their great support to Circles over the years, especially the current team members @isthisanart_, @Julio_Linares_, @tw33ttw33t, Andreas and Blanka, which finally contributed to the birth of Circles.
Source link: twitter.com
