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Encointer
# Encointer - Digital Community Currency Platform

Encointer provides a decentralized payment network and companion apps that enable any community to establish their own local currency and prove their personhood. The currency can be distributed at regular intervals, similarly to a universal basic income, and used to stimulate the local economy.  Anyone can join a community and receive the currency — the only requirement is that you attend gatherings to verify that you are a real person. 
These are some of our key project goals:
* **Sybil resistant Web3 services:** By enabling communities to prove their personhood through physical gatherings, Encointer can enable new [Web3 services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qTgk76dbN0M) such as Sybil-resistant airdrops and verification ticks on decentralized social media accounts.
* **Inclusion:** Encointer seeks to [make Web3 more accessible](https://polkadot.network/blog/introducing-encointer-making-web3-truly-inclusive) by removing the financial barrier to entry through a mechanism similar to a universal basic income. 
* **Proof of personhood:** Encointer allows people to access digital assets and Web3 even if they do not have an official state-issued ID and cannot open an exchange account as a result. 850 million humans are currently [excluded](https://blogs.worldbank.org/digital-development/850-million-people-globally-dont-have-id-why-matters-and-what-we-can-do-about#:~:text=Yet%20according%20to%20new%20estimates,starting%20with%20counting%20the%20uncounted.) from Web3 participation because they do not possess a state-issued ID. 

We have already developed a fully functioning network on Kusama, and apps for [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.encointer.wallet&hl=en&gl=US) and [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/encointer-wallet/id1535471655). In addition, we have active community currencies [up and running in Zurich](https://www.20min.ch/story/zuercher-kryptowaehrung-leu-soll-ungleichheit-bekaempfen-610404225283), Switzerland and [Green Bay Wisconsin](https://greenbaydollar.com/). 
With this grant, we want to work with local communities to help establish additional communities globally. 
 
Logo
https://encointer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Featured-Image-Homepage.png
GitHub URL
https://github.com/encointer
Website
https://encointer.org/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/encointer

## Personel
Owner
* Alain Brenzikofer

Team Members
* Christian Langenbacher
* Anna-Lena Stach
* Malik El Bay
* Gesa Feldhusen 
* Sabine Proll
* Zoltan Mosonyi
* Piero Guiccardi
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