Blockchain Access
Venture Category: Blockchain
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Develop a blockchain-based application to access physical spaces and equipment therein.
Description
Description
Federating access to shared physical spaces is an important development for material peer production. we have started this project in 2016, with a grant from the Canadian Federal Government.
Background
This project originated in OuishareMTL, continued with Living Labs Montreal, who brought in eVision, a local Montreal company with extensive experience with Government contracts and security clearance. The initial phase of the project has been funded by IRAP-CNRC.
Applications
Applications
secured and interoperable access to physical spaces (sharing economy)
physical assets management (sharing economy & participatory economy)
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Short-term goals
Short-term goals
create application study
build community for block chain applications for resource management
build a business case around access to shared spaces and shared assets management.
Long-term goals
Long-term goals
Crate application report
Milestones
Milestones
Blockchain-based prototype - DONE
Holochain prototype?
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Planning
Planning
Notes
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This project is now dormant. In 2025 we started Nondominium, a Holochain-based Resource sharing system, which can manage access. Nondominium is built on top of the NDO ptimitive, a new resource/asset class. It supports physical resources (tools, equipment, physical spaces, etc.) as well as digital resources.
You can resuscitate the Blockchain access project or you can contribute to Nondominium.
Incentives
Incentives
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This project has been funded in the past. There is currently no funding for it.
Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Agreements
Agreements
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