Bread Cooperative

Financial tools today. Solidarity forever.

We are a worker collective building tech.

Bake BREAD and fund alternatives:

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Hello Breadfam! $BREAD Distribution Cycle #26 is in. 1,999 $BREAD went out to our eight member projects, up from 1,427 last cycle thanks to a longer window for yield to build up.

Full newsletter in our bio, a thread for the greatest hits.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Also in this edition, @owocki has posted a temp check for a @gitcoin x Bread collab, an Artizen-inspired crowdfunding app with matching that's onchain and funded only from accrued yield. It's early days, so come share your thoughts. Newsletter at the link in bio.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Hello Breadfam! $BREAD Distribution Cycle #26 is in. 1,999 $BREAD went out to our eight member projects, up from 1,427 last cycle thanks to a longer window for yield to build up.

Full newsletter in our bio, a thread for the greatest hits.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Every month, yield from baked $BREAD gets split two ways. 50% goes equally to all eight member projects, and the other 50% goes where $BREAD holders vote. Cycle #27 is already live, so get baking.

@citizenwallet @crypto4commons @gardens_fund @RegenCoordinate

[Markee @markee_xyz]

For just $9.58...

You can own @breadcoop's community message banner featured on https://t.co/aVCdlL621u

Just launched, with its first views logged today 🚀

[owockai @owocki]

two frontiers im pondering as we quietly lay tracks for @gitcoin next chapter

1. syntropic financing
2. consumer adoption

syntropy is the tendency of living systems to organize toward greater order, energy, and complexity over time.

eg a forest doesn't just sustain itself, it gets richer over time. richer (in the context of nature) = more soil, more species, more energy turned into resilience each season.

syntropic financing asks what capital would look like if it behaved the same way. money that leaves every system it touches more alive than it found it, where the returns are measured in the health and growth of the whole.

consumer adoption is how that reaches the world. the primitive only matters if ordinary people touch it through products they'd already choose, no ideology required.

get both right and you have an engine that grows the system and an on-ramp wide enough for everyone to climb aboard.

I think in 2019-2022 @gitcoin was a leader in both. QF is a small glimmer of what syntropic financing can be. and @gitcoin was one of the first consumer dapps ppl used.

I think that in 2027+ it is possible we could do it again at a larger and more holistic scale - tho success is not guaranteed, this is an aspiration and a target, imo we are well positioned to take another shot.

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

@breadcoop If you're interested in constructing something new out of the situation then I suggest checking out the showcase I made for a new on-chain and auditable version of what Artizen was trying to do that I've been building using the @breadcoop stack

https://t.co/8Lt3vsSfz0

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Our webinar with the Democratic Tech Fund is up. Wouter Tebbens on DTF's crowdfunding platform launching 29 Oct at MozFest, plus @allmodelsRwrong with a sneak peek of a Bread x DTF fund on the $BREAD model.

Hosted by @bertmangil, watch the full session at the link in bio.

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

For those affected by the Artizen situation, I'm happy to share a showcase that I've been working on built on the @breadcoop stack as an alternative to get feedback.

https://t.co/WRk6lDLhUi

How it works:
- Deposit and get pasUSD, pasEUR or pasETH. You can always redeem them 1:1 for the underlying token
- The yield from those deposits generates matching funds
- 10% of every donation goes into a wealth fund that permanently earns yield, so the matching pool compounds over time
- Curators run funding rounds and choose which projects to include
- Points from donating, inviting others and using the app let you steer each season's yield split between funds and projects
- The core model already works in production with @BreadCoop for over two years. We've given over $60k in funds through our Solidarity Fund.

There are plenty of technical decisions to be made but I first want to validate that this is something people want. We'd be happy to lead the development if people are positive.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

@xdamman @devanshmehta @allmodelsRwrong @ShutterNetwork wrote this https://t.co/pxO673cqCI

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

@xdamman @devanshmehta @allmodelsRwrong That is https://t.co/Nnc70TNYtq enabling any community to start their own Solidarity Fund (whuch is also a yield bering stablecoin) 🍞🍞

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

If an APY looks too good to believe, it probably is. The Solidarity Fund runs on the Sky Savings Rate, with a treasury anyone can verify onchain and two years of steady distributions behind it. Full newsletter at the link in bio.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

A quick thread on @Artizen and its ceasing of operations yesterday.

Bread and many creators in the onchain public goods space are owed significant funds, and the only point of contact left is an AI agent called Venus.

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Matching funds won't come, and refunds have been promised minus fees. If you contributed, make noise. Their tweets are protected now, so mention them, repost and screenshot. We'll be following up the whole way.

[0xrussel.eth @0xRRussel]

@Caper_Network @Artizen @breadcoop Exactly, our payouts are onchain. Transparent and resilient.

Check out https://t.co/qyy3HIWVSe

Find out how we generate funds and distribute them.

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

Currently working on an Artizen alternative using the @breadcoop stack. Let me know if you're interested!

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

* All Models Are Wrong is:

https://t.co/mJTayThDcN

“Technology is never just technology. All Models Are Wrong examines who controls and benefits from these systems and how they might be organized differently.”

The new project by Joshua Davila (and the @breadcoop ?)

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

At @breadcoop we've been building Etherform, a CI/CD standard for smart contracts!

Check it and help support it on @thedaofund

https://t.co/NxJkt7emYH

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

After 7 years, The Blockchain Socialist has ended but today, its rebirth begins:

All Models Are Wrong

AMAW examines who controls and benefits from technological systems, and how they might be organized differently.

🧵

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

Last call for our webinar tomorrow!
- Learn what it takes to build outside the reach of Big US Tech
- Explore proven models that have worked
- Exclusive first look at the Democratic Tech Crowd Fund, launching 29th October

Sign-up link in our bio

[Josh Dávila @allmodelsRwrong]

THIS TUESDAY September 29th at 11 EST / 17 CET

@breadcoop will be running an event with the folks at Democratic Tech Fund to discuss how we are building alternatives to the current funding landscape to support tech that is focused on the commons!

Register here: https://t.co/vxH0SndY3q

[Bread Cooperative @breadcoop]

We're 5 days out from our next webinar. Join us alongside the Democratic Tech Fund and Free Knowledge Institute to see how solidarity funding is spreading to communities building technology in the commons.

Free to attend, no technical background needed.

Link in our bio.