- Introduction
- Core Principles
- Core Architecture & Data Structures
- 3.1 Voucher Schema
- 3.2 Task Schema
- 3.3 Decentralized Storage
- 3.4 P2P Protocol
- Exonomy Mechanics
- 4.1 Voucher Lifecycle
- 4.2 Transaction Flows
- 4.3 Real-World Integration
- Exocracy Mechanics
- 5.1 Project Management
- 5.2 Community Dynamics
- 5.3 Task Execution
- Governance & Trust
- 6.1 Reputation System
- 6.2 Dispute Resolution
- 6.3 Consensus Mechanisms
- Health Metrics & Analytics
- 7.1 Ayurvedic Triadic Framework
- 7.2 Dashboards
- Humanitarian & Conflict Resilience
- Conclusion
Exonomy and Exocracy form a decentralized economic and project management ecosystem where participants, called Exonomists, engage in voucher-based transactions to stimulate local economies without relying on traditional banking systems. This document outlines the full vision, scope, and technical details of every feature—both existing and planned—to ensure clarity for stakeholders, developers, and future contributors.
The system aims to redefine economic resilience by replacing abstract monetary systems with voucher-based value networks and community-governed project execution, empowering individuals in resource-scarce or conflict-affected regions to trade goods/services directly, bypassing traditional financial intermediaries. By enabling communities to self-organize around critical infrastructure projects, Exonomy and Exocracy foster a decentralized economy where trust is built through direct, tangible exchanges, and communities thrive through autonomous collaboration.
Vision:
To create a decentralized economy where trust is built through direct, tangible exchanges, and communities thrive through autonomous collaboration.
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Voucher Primacy Over Cash
Vouchers represent concrete value (e.g., "10 hours of welding labor" or "100kg of wheat"), explicitly tied to real-world currencies (USD, EUR) but distinct from money. They act as localized IOUs that circulate within communities, ensuring economic activity remains anchored to tangible needs and trust relationships. -
Voucher-Driven Economy
Economic activity is facilitated through vouchers that represent specific products/services rather than fungible currencies. Vouchers are not abstract tokens (e.g., "BreadCoin") but are directly tied to real-world value, such as labor hours, materials, or services redeemable only by their issuers.
- Selective Replication
Data replicates only to devices of transacting or following peers, minimizing storage overhead and preserving privacy. For example, a baker’s bread voucher is shared solely with the mechanic during a transaction, not globally. Data is stored and shared only as needed, reducing redundancy while ensuring privacy through decentralized indexing (e.g., Bloom filters).
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Decentralized Trust
All transactions and relationships are governed by mechanisms that avoid centralized control:- Selective Replication: Data propagates only to relevant peers.
- Verifiable Reputation: Trust scores (e.g., EXO-SCORE) are derived from historical contributions and community feedback.
- Mutual Agreement: Transactions require explicit approval from all parties.
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Unanimous Governance
Critical actions (e.g., task completion, community membership, or voucher release) require 100% approval from stakeholders. This ensures collective accountability and prevents unilateral decisions, fostering fairness and transparency. -
P2P Governance
Decision-making and dispute resolution rely on unanimous consent within narrowly scoped communities. For example, only participants directly involved in a task (e.g., PMs, workers, funders) vote on its completion, avoiding bloated or irrelevant input.
- Offline-First Design
Conflict-Resilient Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and mesh networking (Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct) enable full functionality in low/no-internet environments, such as rural Ukraine or Gaza. Data syncs automatically when connectivity resumes.
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Human-Centric Trust
Reputation metrics (e.g., EXO-SCORE, EXOCRAT-SCORE) prioritize positive reinforcement (trust accrual) over punitive measures. Trust is earned through completed contributions (e.g., vouchers redeemed by others) and community endorsements. -
Task-Oriented Project Management
Exocracy structures collaborative projects through hierarchical task breakdowns. For example, "Rebuild Bridge" decomposes into subtasks like "Procure Steel" and "Hire Welders," each requiring explicit funding and validation. -
Integration with Fiat & Crypto
Payment processors like Stripe and PayPal allow cash injections to mint vouchers post-clearance, ensuring legal compliance. Funds flow directly between users’ accounts; Exonomy never holds money, avoiding banking dependencies.
Vouchers serve as the core economic instrument in Exonomy, facilitating barter-like exchanges and value preservation. Each voucher has the following attributes:
- Types: Product, Service, Hybrid
- Structure: JSON-LD with RDF representation, ensuring semantic interoperability
- Currency/Value Definition: Explicitly tied to real-world currencies to maintain economic stability
- Replication Rules: Selective replication ensures only involved parties store relevant data
- Expiry and Renewal: Each voucher has a predefined validity period, promoting liquidity and preventing economic stagnation
Tasks in Exocracy are structured hierarchically to support modular delegation and progressive execution:
- Hierarchical Design: Tasks are structured as trees, where parent tasks encapsulate subtasks
- Voucher Binding Rules: Tasks require vouchers for funding, ensuring that labor and resources are accounted for before execution
- Dynamic Currency Inheritance: Parent tasks automatically inherit the value sum of their subtasks, ensuring coherent budget allocation
To ensure data integrity and censorship resistance, Exonomy and Exocracy employ:
- NextGraph CRDT-based Repositories for structured, conflict-free replicated data
- IPFS for Evidence/Media – Immutable storage for contracts, task evidence, and historical records
- Encryption: AES-256-GCM encryption for data at rest, Noise Protocol for secure peer-to-peer transactions
The networking layer of Exonomy is designed to minimize unnecessary data replication while maximizing efficiency:
- Selective Replication: Ensures data is only stored on devices directly involved in transactions
- Pub/Sub Overlays: Exonomists subscribe to updates about vouchers, tasks, and economic trends
- Conflict Resolution: CRDT-based merging prevents inconsistencies in distributed data
Vouchers facilitate decentralized trade and are subject to a structured lifecycle:
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Minting
- Manual Creation: Exonomists create vouchers manually, defining terms (product/service, value, expiry) and storing them locally in CRDT-backed repositories.
- AI-Assisted Templates: The system suggests pre-filled voucher templates (e.g., "10kg Wheat Delivery – $50") using contextual data (e.g., task requirements, market rates).
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Transfer
- Direct Exchange: Vouchers are peer-to-peer (P2P) traded (e.g., bread vouchers for car repairs) via signed transactions.
- Task Attachment: Vouchers are bound to tasks as compensation (e.g., attaching "10 Welding Hours" to a bridge repair task).
- Selective Replication: Transfers trigger replication only to transacting peers (e.g., a baker’s voucher replicates to the mechanic’s device).
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Redemption
- Author-Only Fulfillment: Only the voucher’s issuer (or designated delegates) can redeem it, ensuring accountability (e.g., a baker validates bread redemption via QR scan).
- Trust Enforcement: Redemption requires cryptographic proof of ownership (e.g., UCAN tokens) to prevent fraud.
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Revocation & Expiry
- Automatic Expiry: Vouchers expire after a predefined period (e.g., 6 months), returning control to the issuer.
- Manual Revocation: Issuers can revoke vouchers under specific conditions (e.g., fraud, task cancellation).
- Non-Redeemed Handling: Unused vouchers are either recycled (re-minted) or archived for auditing.
- Voucher-for-Voucher Exchange: Exonomists barter using vouchers representing their goods or services
- Cash Integration via Stripe/PayPal: Allows fiat transactions as an alternative payment method
- Taxation Mechanism: 1% surcharge on fiat transactions funds Exonomy's maintenance and development
- Third-Party Payment Processors: Enable external financial support for voucher-based transactions
- Humanitarian Aid Workflows: NGOs and donors can fund Exonomists by purchasing their vouchers
- Cross-Border Validity: Ensuring trust in voucher-backed international transactions
Exocracy enables structured task management and delegation, allowing Exonomists to efficiently collaborate on projects.
- Hierarchical Flexibility:
Projects consist of a hierarchy of tasks and subtasks, each requiring funding via vouchers to support execution. PMs define the scope and objectives. Projects like "Rebuild Dniepr Bridge" decompose into subtasks (e.g., "Weld Steel Beams," "Pour Concrete Foundations"), each providing for and requiring explicit funding through promisory vouchers and automated skill-matching. This modularity allows communities to tackle complex projects incrementally, even with limited resources.- Dynamic Adjustments: Subtasks auto-recalculate parent task budgets (e.g., if "Steel Procurement" costs rise, the parent task updates).
- Example: Ukrainian PMs use Exocracy to crowdsource welding labor and materials, breaking the project into phases funded by local businesses’ vouchers.
- Transparency & Trust: Exonomists can propose vouchers to fund specific tasks, pooling their resources to facilitate work.
Crowdfunders track voucher allocations via public SPARQL queries (e.g.,
SELECT ?task WHERE { ?task exo:fundedBy exo:voucher/123 }).-
Adaptive Funding: If a task is underfunded, Exocracy suggests subdividing it (e.g., splitting "100kg Wheat Delivery" into 10× "10kg" vouchers).
Exocracy detects underfunded tasks (e.g., a $500 "100kg Wheat Delivery" task at 40% funding) and proposes splitting them into smaller, achievable units (e.g., 10× "10kg" vouchers at $50 each). The system alerts the project manager (PM) and crowdfunders, who vote to approve the subdivision. If accepted, the task splits into subtasks, each with its own funding pool and deadline, allowing incremental contributions.
Smaller tasks lower barriers for cash-strapped participants, enabling broader community involvement. Partial completion still delivers value (e.g., 60kg wheat feeds families even if 100kg isn’t met), while iterative successes build trust and momentum. This adaptability ensures projects thrive in unstable environments (e.g., conflict zones) by aligning with real-world constraints like inflation or supply shortages.
- Automate Detection: Use smart contracts to flag underfunded tasks and generate subdivision proposals.
- Governance: Crowdfunders vote via quadratic voting to approve splits, preventing whale dominance.
- Transparency: Track subdivided tasks with SPARQL queries and update dashboards in real time.
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Humanitarian Integration: Donors use Stripe to fund vouchers for conflict-zone tasks (e.g., "Distribute 1,000 Meals in Gaza"), with real-time progress dashboards.
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- Skill-to-Task Matching: Skilled Exonomists can claim tasks based on their expertise, ensuring fair participation and labor allocation. The system prioritizes providers with high EXOCRAT-SCORES (e.g., proven bridge repairs).
- Dispute Mitigation: Providers submit IPFS-hosted evidence (e.g., timelapse videos of welding work), validated by PMs and community jurors.
- Workflow Automation: Higher-level tasks depend on the completion of subtasks, enforcing logical workflows and ensuring coordinated project execution. Subtask delays trigger alerts to dependent tasks (e.g., "Concrete Foundations" pauses if "Steel Beams" are incomplete).
- Conflict-Zone Adaptability: Offline-first CRDTs sync task updates once connectivity resumes, ensuring continuity in areas like rural Ukraine.
Exocracy fosters localized, goal-oriented communities that self-govern through structured participation.
- Organic Growth:
The creation of each task spontaneously spawns a community comprising PMs, providers, and funders. These spontaneously emerging task-specific communities (e.g., "Repair a Well in the Gaza Irrigation Project") can evolve into long-term collaboratives, tackling subsequent projects like "Crop Rotation Planning."- Example: Palestinian farmers who repaired the well later form a cooperative to mint "Water Delivery" vouchers. While the task related community hibernates at the successful completion of the task of repairing the well, the relationships between Exonomists and Exocrats has only just begun.
- Balanced Decision-Making: Decision-making within a task requires 100% agreement among involved members, ensuring fairness and transparency. While 100% consensus is required for critical actions (e.g., releasing vouchers), "soft approvals" could allow for minor adjustments (e.g., deadline extensions) with majority votes.
- Conflict Resolution: Federated juries (selected via EigenTrust algorithms) review encrypted evidence to break deadlocks.
- Role-Specific Capabilities:
- Project Managers (PMs): Initiate tasks, oversee execution, and verify completion.
- Providers: Perform work or supply goods/services to complete tasks.
- Crowdfunders: Supply vouchers to fund work completion.
- Fluid Roles:
Exonomists transition between roles (e.g., a baker funds a bridge task today, then acts as a PM for a bakery expansion tomorrow).- Leadership Development: Mentorship programs within Exocracy train newcomers to become PMs, fostering decentralized leadership.
Efficient task execution depends on structured workflows and transparent validation mechanisms.
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Eligibility Criteria:
Providers must meet thresholds (e.g., ≥10 completed tasks) or obtain endorsements from trusted peers to claim high-stakes tasks.- Example: A Ukrainian welder gains access to bridge repairs after three farmers vouch for their past work.
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Progress Tracking:
- Multimedia Evidence:
Workers submit incremental updates and evidence to confirm work done by uploading, for example, geotagged photos/videos to IPFS, hashed and linked to tasks for tamper-proof validation.- Offline Resilience: Evidence syncs via mesh networking when internet is unavailable (e.g., in Gaza conflict zones).
- PM Approval: The PM verifies task completion based on predefined criteria.
- Voucher Release: Funded vouchers are disbursed upon task approval.
- Final Sign-Off: All community members must confirm the task’s successful completion before closing.
- Automated Escrow: Smart contracts hold vouchers until task completion, with disputes triggering decentralized arbitration.
Exonomy and Exocracy employ a dual-layer reputation system to encourage accountability and reliability.
- EXO-SCORE (Exonomist Trust Level): Measures historical economic contributions, fulfilled commitments, and peer ratings.
- EXOCRAT-SCORE (Exocratic Trust Level): Evaluates leadership performance, project management reliability, and governance participation.
- Dynamic Adjustments:
- Increased trust through completed transactions and project involvement.
- Decreased trust for abandoned tasks, disputes, or violations of community agreements.
Transparent and structured dispute resolution ensures fairness and trust across Exonomy and Exocracy.
- Asset Freezing: Community members can temporarily halt disputed transactions or tasks.
- Community Arbitration: A peer-selected jury resolves conflicts through evidence-based decision-making.
- Rage-Quit Mechanism: Participants can withdraw from projects, allowing their assets to be reassigned.
Consensus mechanisms govern all critical Exocracy decisions.
- Unanimous Consent Governance: Actions require 100% agreement within a task community.
- Threshold Signatures: Cryptographic mechanisms ensure decentralized decision security.
- Quadratic Voting (Optional): Allows weighted decision-making based on participation levels.
The Exonomy/Exocracy ecosystem measures economic and governance health through a structured, human-centric framework.
- Transaction Velocity: Tracks voucher circulation speed and liquidity.
- Engagement Metrics: Monitors new participant activity.
- Responsiveness: Measures how quickly users fulfill transactions or join communities.
- Red/Black Ratio (RBR): Measures trust levels based on voucher redemption rates.
- Qualitative Impact: Tracks the meaningful contribution of vouchers to projects.
- Strategic Balance: Ensures fair allocation of resources.
- Redemption Rates: Tracks how often vouchers are successfully redeemed.
- Lifetime Contributions: Measures cumulative user impact.
- Value Retention: Ensures vouchers contribute to sustainable local economies.
A comprehensive dashboard visualizes individual, community, and systemic health metrics.
- Individual Performance: Displays personal trust metrics and contributions.
- Community Health: Highlights local economic and governance stability.
- Systemic Resilience: Evaluates overall network strength.
For a more comprehensive treatment of this topic refer to our documentation for Exonomy's Proactive Health Monitoring & Measurements
Exonomy and Exocracy are designed to function even in conflict zones, supporting economic continuity and recovery efforts.
- Offline-First CRDT Sync: Ensures data consistency in low-connectivity environments.
- Mesh Networking Support: Enables decentralized peer-to-peer coordination.
- Decentralized Oracles: Community-driven validation of critical events and transactions.
- Rapid Task Deployment: Quickly initiates humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
- Legacy Contribution Tracking: Frequent contributors cultivate their social impact engaging in long-term recovery efforts.
- Community Rebuilding Rituals: Strengthens social bonds through structured economic participation.
This document defines the current vision and scope of Exonomy and Exocracy, ensuring a structured and decentralized approach to economic interactions and project governance. Future iterations will refine and expand these features based on community feedback and real-world deployment experiences.