blockchain big use case-A tokenized cooperatives

Yonatan Ben Shimon
3 min readFeb 4, 2020

I’m trying to answer the question — what kind of future use cases should be on a blockchain that is not yet there.

One of the use cases is to capture the value of a cooperative \ kibbutz where a lot of participants with a common theme share their resources and get a chunk of the combined value they created together.

I believe that by combining resources people multiply the value of the resource they individually could do alone .

A portion of the value that this unity is providing to all the members are supposed to be reflective in the value of the token .

The idea was also described as exit to the community

The utility that the members get :

  • Earn from an un utilized asset that they have !
  • save costs
  • get more clients
  • Safety net
  • insurance against fraud — group of a media business that registered their deals into a ledger can report on fraud into the ledger and then enjoy other people reporting on this person .

few examples for tradable cooperatives I found which reflect this principle :

What brings them together is the notion they are helping each of the individuals to be better after connecting to the network then the situation he was before, and this is happening because of the collaboration.

  1. Bitcoin : the beautiful thing in bitcoin that it shows that you can create value without money from day 1 -connecting people which have computing power to get rewarded for it based on the relative amount of computing power they donated to the network in a form of btc . in this case the resource is computing power and the contributors are not necessarily unified by anything . the coin is served as money and its goal is to create an alternative monetary system.
  2. Theta Network — theta is a good example because the creator is leading the community . theta aim to enable members that are streamers to use their computer to provide bandwidth for streaming . it’s possible for them to reach out to streamers because they are the streaming platform . on the other hand this unused resource are being bought by them .

The scarce resource that people share — bandwidth.

What is in common — gamers that have a bandwidth

Who coordinates them — streaming platform.

Who pays for the resource — other streaming platforms needs it .

The transactional coin — paid for relayers and for stakers paid in Tfeul token that can be exchanged to theta . this was created 5 to one and have an inflation rate of 5% which goes to the relayers( give bandwidth ) and for the stakers .

3. Provenance

This is another good example of a bunch of industry components that benefit by sharing resources . in this case it is financial institutions, especially funds , lenders and institutions that securitize the loans.

They are registering the assets of their clients in this ledger instead of using auditors and trustees, they are saving the costs in the first place but get a lot more from it when a critical mass of participants emerges. The transacted assets is the assets they registered and the token is going to the accounts that have it and staking it . and also used for voting rights for approving the admin which then function as the regulator.

The benefits for the members — exchange and secondary market is much easier, much cheaper writing the assets, finding clients to buy this asset is much easier.

Summary :

I believe one of the best use cases for blockchain is the kibbutz model , let a group of businesses or people to share resources from some sort and get something back from this combined knowledge. that is also how loyds was created , it was a bunch of individuals insurance agents that together became one of the biggest insurance company.

I'm looking to help and co-create with community leaders :

Looking for people that are on top of their community of businesses or individuals and know about ways to make their life better by coordinating them around the same database.

Examples can be service providers lawyers or accountants or marketplaces tech platforms

I'm looking to invest and help create such economies that do not yet exist and which have the ability to benefit entire communities for the better.

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Yonatan Ben Shimon

care about discovering and enabling new types of assets as tools to give me and everyone wealth and freedom.