Community currencies news

• Collaborative Finance (CoFi): rethinking finance for the commons, growingcommons.substack.com (Jun 07, 2026) — What finance looks like when communities build and govern it themselves, Michel Rauchs
• Toward a Common Grammar for Finance and Mutual Aid, willruddick.substack.com (Apr 21, 2026)
• Assam India: Where exchange has a home, grassecon.substack.com (Feb 16, 2026)
• This Isn’t a Dating App, substack.com (Feb 09, 2026) — A Story, Will Ruddick
• Where Stewardship Starts, A Conversation with TreesForDev, Aude Peronne, audeperonne.substack.com (Jan 29, 2026)

• Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025)
• Tools for Flourishing Commons, Michel Rauchs, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 21, 2025)
• The Protocol Beneath the Tools, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Sep 08, 2025)
• From Kenya to Colombia, Field notes from Mnyumbuni exchange program, Grassroots Economics, Juan Lucio, and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 11, 2025)

• How can blockchain help us ensure ethically-made, sustainable and high-quality food supplies? Two schemes show us how, Jan 24, 2020...thealternative.org.uk
• Totnes pound: Currency killed by 'cashless economy', Mar 6, 2019...bbc.co.uk

• Free beer (and ice cream) for cycling in Bologna, local retail services for volunteering in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Communities can incentivise themselves, Dec 14...^[1]
• Don't think of currency, but "current-sees". How do we recognise different flows of value in our society? Art Brock knows, Sep 18^[2]
• Keeping small economies vibrant, by cleverly using blockchain, is becoming big business, Apr 3...^[3]
• The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debts, Mar 23...^[4]

References

• Moeda: The Cooperative Cryptocurrency That Aims to Advance Financial Inclusion, Dec 20, 2017...^[1]
• The English City With Its Own Cryptocurrency: Q&A With the Founders of HullCoin, Oct 23, 2017...^[2]
• A Toolkit for Establishing a Great Lakes Commons, Sep 18, 2017...^[3]
• How One City in Spain Launched a Local Currency, Jun 8, 2017...^[4]
• Grassroots Economics: Complementary Currencies for community resilience in Kenya, Feb 22, 2017...^[5]
• Bristol to Barcelona: “Be as ambitious as possible with new local currency” Nov 23, 2016...^[6]
• “Blockchain Community Solar: the Value of a Renewable Energy Reputation” by @ConsenSysLLC, May 11, 2016...^[7]

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