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Purpose
The Lokens Swiss-based non-profit association is a collective of researchers, developers, and users of electronic local cryptographic tokens in which: (1) tokens may be created by any participant for any purpose in any amount; (2) the value of tokens is derived from trust by other participants that the token creators will fulfill all promises associated with their tokens in the future; (3) the ability of participants to exchange tokens with others is conditional on having established a good reputation over repeated transactions. The purpose of the association is to foster resilient and sustainable economic networks within close-knit communities, online or offline.
The activities of the association include:
- Organization of workshops to bring together developers and researchers to develop the required technologies;
- Funding of researchers and developers through grants;
- Outreach to potential users, developers, and reseachers;
- Showcase of members’ products and services.
Contacts
- Chairperson: Erick Lavoie
Links
Association
Academic Papers
- Local Crypto-Tokens for Local Economics: Articulation of the problem of designing crypto-tokens based on double-spending detection instead of prevention, making them compatible with eventually-consistent replication. [paper]
- Designing Peer-to-Peer Systems as Closed Knowledge Commons: How to make peer-to-peer systems content and software updates available only to contributors, either of time or money, to incentivize contributions. [paper].