What Does Crypto Have to Offer?
Crypto’s real offer is not “number go up.” That was the loudest part, but not the deepest part.
What crypto offers is this:
It lets people build financial systems that are open by default.
Anyone can inspect the rules. Anyone can verify the supply. Anyone can see where funds move. Anyone can participate without needing permission from a bank, platform, government, company, or middleman.
At its best, crypto offers credible neutrality. The rules are written into code and executed publicly. That matters because most financial systems today require trust in institutions that regular people cannot fully audit.
For OBN specifically, crypto offers something even more specific:
It allows philanthropy to become programmable, rewarding, and transparent.
Instead of charity depending only on one-time donations, the system itself can continuously route value toward public benefit as part of its design.
Staking rewards, emissions, governance, burns, nonprofit pools, contribution history — all of that can be made visible and verifiable onchain.
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Looking forward to joining this @X Space tonight to talk about what we’re building at Olive Branch Network and why we believe crypto can become infrastructure for public good.
Hope to see some familiar faces there! 🌿❤️
Over the past several months, Olive Branch Network has been focused primarily on protocol development, security improvements, and long-term infrastructure.
This included upgrading the staking system, strengthening core protocol logic, improving transparency around nonprofit-linked pools, and introducing a governance framework designed to give the community a greater role in future protocol decisions.
Before focusing heavily on growth, we believed it was important to make sure the foundation was secure, understandable, and capable of supporting long-term participation.
With that foundation now in place, Olive Branch Network is entering its next phase.
The focus moving forward will be on adoption, nonprofit onboarding, community participation, and broader education around how the protocol works.
Olive Branch Network was created around a simple idea: digital assets can be designed to do more than move value. They can be designed to support public benefit, align incentives, and create new ways for people to participate in helping real organizations.
The foundation has been built. The next phase is growing the network around it.
Obligation to help others shouldn't require sacrifice. If doing good always costs you the thing you'd have to give up, less good gets done — not because people are selfish, but because the threshold for participating becomes "I have so much surplus I can afford to lose some," which most people never cross.
Bitcoin is a decentralized world bank.
Ethereum is a decentralized world computer.
Olive Branch Network is a decentralized philanthropic rail.
Learn more:
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🎨 OBN App Update:
Updated the ‘Analytics’ page to include active stakers and total staked amounts for each nonprofit pool.
Join our growing community 🙂 Pick your favorite cause and start earning with them!
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** Make a Better World with Crypto or Die Trying **
We are in odd times. The traditional banking system and what we thought of as money is rapidly transforming before our eyes with crypto.
We now have the ability to code how digital assets behave.
Think of a share of Tesla or Apple actually sitting in your custody and is able to do something useful other than just going up in price.
This is what smart contracts have introduced. Behavior to digital assets.
My question is why is no one trying to code a digital asset to do good? If we are able to code behavior into digital assets - behaviors can be bad, good, or indifferent.
Why are there no mainstream crypto projects designed to do good headlining articles? Most are indifferent or bad… there are few good digital assets shining right now.
Here comes my delusional egotistical optimism… I think I have built that missing digital asset… the one that transforms the masses perspective on crypto into positivity and hope.
The thought process behind the token was to build something that gives back. Traditionally, protocols and banks take a rake. Polkadot, Cardano… they both take a percentage of newly minted coins for their treasuries.
I thought wouldn’t it be awesome instead to rake for the greater good? Nonprofit organizations doing verifiable good instead of treasuries?
This is what led to the creation of the Olive Branch Network. It’s a staking protocol that allows users to earn while staking to a nonprofit on the platform.
It creates a new model of contributing where the user isn’t actually giving up anything in order to contribute. All they need to do is send the tokens to a smart contract (made easy with our app) linked to the nonprofits wallet and they start earning for themselves and the nonprofit. They can withdraw their tokens anytime.
The more users that want to stake and contribute - the more OBN gets locked up reducing circulating supply therefore helping the price of OBN. It’s similar to the typical Proof-of-Stake model except ours is called Proof-of-Contribution.
When a user stakes new tokens are minted when they claim. The amount is dependent on their stake size and the current APY phase and the nonprofit portion is automatically routed to them.
I am not going to include every detail in this post, but if you’re interested in learning more the best place to check out is our GitHub where you can find the whitepaper and live contracts. The project is open-source.
I really want people to take a serious look at what I’ve built here. It’s a token that revolutionizes philanthropy - creating new & stronger rails for doing good in the world.
Crypto was meant to uplift the world…
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The Olive Branch Network is looking for security researchers, independent auditors, or grant-supported audit paths to review a nonprofit-aligned protocol built on Base.
DM me if you can help with this🙏
Contracts are available at the bottom of the README.md on our GitHub 👇
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✈️🟦 OBN is now live @AerodromeFi! We just launched a OBN/USDC pool on Aerodrome - a @base-native DEX, giving the community another place to access OBN liquidity.
Pool Details via @geckoterminal:
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The name of the project is the Olive Branch Network, because the ‘olive branch’ symbolizes many things that correlate with the project:
An ending of an era and the beginning of a new one…
• I believe the world is in a dark era and that a brighter era is about to emerge; OBN hopes to play a small role in that shift
A peace offering…
• The project is designed to extend an olive branch to those that are subjected to the cruel randomness of the world
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The journey of building the Olive Branch Network has been a wild ride.
It has been slightly over a year now… This last upgrade was a really important one…
I designed this protocol for a single purpose: to introduce an asset that is coded to make the world a brighter place.
By redirecting the 1% treasury allocation to a smart contract that allows users to vote whether to burn it or add it to nonprofit funding - we have removed the only extractive part of the protocol the existed. It instead becomes a community driven protocol fund.
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What’s next?
Spread the message.
I believe I have built something truly unique - a Web3 model of philanthropy that deserves an honest look.
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The Olive Branch Network is introducing two new protocol contracts:
🌿 ExtendOliveBranch
A community-directed nonprofit fund that accumulates OBN throughout the year and is distributed annually to a nonprofit selected by stakers.
🔥 TheOffering
A community-directed protocol fund that accumulates OBN throughout the year. Stakers decide whether those tokens are burned forever or added to ExtendOliveBranch for additional nonprofit funding.
Each year, OBN stakers vote using their staked OBN. The more OBN staked, the greater the voting power.
Coming soon on @base... 🙂
🌿 Protocol Update: The Offering & Extend the Olive Branch
As the Olive Branch Network continues to evolve, we’ve made several important decisions regarding how protocol-owned funds will be managed in the future.
Why the Change?
When OBN was originally designed, 1% of emissions were allocated to the Charity Fund and 1% were allocated to the Treasury.
Since then, we have decided to cap the network at 99 nonprofit pools, the original purpose of the Charity Fund is no longer as clear as it once was.
At the same time, the Treasury was designed before we had a long-term governance vision for the protocol.
As a result, both allocations are being repurposed into something more aligned with OBN’s mission and future governance model.
Extend the Olive Branch
The former Charity Fund will become Extend the Olive Branch.
This allocation will continue receiving 1% of protocol emissions.
Rather than operating as a passive fund, OBN stakers will participate in an annual vote to determine which nonprofit receives the accumulated funds.
This creates an ongoing opportunity for the community to direct support toward organizations making a meaningful impact.
The Offering
The former Treasury will become The Offering.
This allocation will also continue receiving 1% of protocol emissions.
Once per year, the community will decide what should happen to the accumulated OBN.
The initial proposal is simple:
🔥 Burn the tokens permanently.
🤝 Donate the tokens to a nonprofit selected through governance.
This transforms the allocation from a traditional treasury into a recurring community decision about scarcity and impact.
Governance
These changes also provide a clear starting point for governance within the Olive Branch Network.
Rather than immediately decentralizing every aspect of the protocol, governance will begin with these annual decisions while protocol upgrades and critical operations remain protected by the timelock multisig.
Voting power will be based on the amount of OBN a user has staked, ensuring that those most committed to the network have the strongest voice in its future.
Looking Ahead
We believe these changes better reflect the mission of the Olive Branch Network.
By repurposing the Charity Fund and Treasury into Extend the Olive Branch and The Offering, we create a governance system that is simple, meaningful, and directly connected to the values of the protocol.
More details will be shared as development and testing continue.
🌿 cc: @base@jessepollak