Grassroots Economics - Articles by Will Ruddick

By Will Ruddick
Sat 21 March 2020

Building a Public Registry for Community Currencies(DeFi)

Even when you have no money you are not poor. Building a Public Registry for Community Currencies.

By Will Ruddick
Sun 01 March 2020

In the last 30 days we have had 3015 users making at least 1 trade. For a volume of 2,336,655 Tokens (~23k USD equivalent of goods and...

By Will Ruddick
Sun 09 February 2020

Could the IMF and Commercial banks learn from women in rural Kenya how to create a decentralized and de-risked (transparently 100% backed)

By Will Ruddick
Mon 27 January 2020

These may sound like small improvements, but because of them our current, 8000+ and growing, users will be able to trade and create CICs to

By Will Ruddick
Sun 19 January 2020

How do you have a proper checkers tournament when no one can pay the entry fees? Jacob the organizer saw an opportunity. His neighbors in...

By Will Ruddick
Sun 12 January 2020

While Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) have been shown to increase local trade they can also be a vehicle for collective share...

By Will Ruddick
Fri 03 January 2020

With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty...

By Will Ruddick
Wed 25 December 2019

The reserve behind these tokens, the actual aid funding, was about $2.5k USD).This means that $2,500 USD of Aid funds created 10,000 tokens

By Will Ruddick
Fri 06 December 2019

By exploring this space and enabling leverage we can open the door to truly decentralized financial services. If credit can be safely issued

By Will Ruddick
Wed 11 September 2019

Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund