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A conversation worth having.

Reference images and independent reading about the wider discussion around digital currency and network communities.

Allegorical mural with the inscription: a government of the people, by the people, for the people
Government — Elihu Vedder. Photograph credited to Carol M. Highsmith. Detail supplied for this project.
Of the people. By the people.

Build the infrastructure.
Shape the freedom.

If the controllers build it, you live by their rules.
If the people build it, freedom can be built in.

People now have the tools to build the infrastructure themselves: open-source software, shared networks and contracts whose rules anyone can inspect.

That power comes with responsibility. Freedom needs more than a new system. It needs transparent rules, meaningful participation and accountability to the people who use it.

SOVRA’s Public Escrow proposal starts with that ambition: a shared monetary reserve whose release rules are public, testable and open to scrutiny.

Explore Public Escrow ↗
Five speakers seated on stage in a blockchain conference panel discussion
Reference photo: panel discussion at the European Blockchain Convention. No SOVRA affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Visitors talking and exploring exhibitor booths at a crypto industry event
Reference photo: the wider crypto community. Featured brands and attendees are not presented as SOVRA partners or endorsers.
An open proposal

Better money starts
with better questions.

Who controls the reserve? How are tokens released? What protects access in future years?

SOVRA puts these questions at the centre of its design. Public Escrow is a proposal to examine, challenge and test openly before any launch.

Read the design proposal ↗
Coastal towers and landscaped buildings at Forest City, Malaysia
Forest City, Malaysia. Photograph: MOHD RASFAN/Getty Images, via WIRED. Reference image supplied by the user.
Further reading / Communities & currency

New communities.
Open questions.

WIRED’s September 2024 reporting examines Network School and the wider network-state movement, including its ambitions, transparency questions and criticisms.

For SOVRA, the question remains concrete: how could a shared monetary reserve make its rules, access and governance publicly inspectable?

Read the WIRED report ↗

Independent background reading. SOVRA has no affiliation with WIRED, Network School or Forest City.