The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage self-sustainability. The local multiplier ...

Ann Lapenna always felt buoyed by a sense of belonging when she walked into the West End Food Co-op in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood. She would head to the kitchen, don an apron, then begin slicing ...

In a back room of the Tenino Depot Museum, a modest sandstone building in a city of less than 2,000 in Washington State, there is a rickety old machine that officials believe could help save the ...

Because reform is inevitable, I see the introduction of complementary currency as timely. Complementary currencies were introduced in Bavaria, Germany (with the help of Silvio Gesell) after World War ...

Kenyan authorities have shut down a social complementary currency project aimed at reinforcing the local economy in Kenya and arrested six of the project leaders under the pretext of counterfeiting.

Community currencies are monetary instruments issued and managed at a local or regional level, circulating alongside national legal tender to foster economic resilience, social cohesion and ...

The past two years have seen a revolutionary turn in the arena of digital finance. Cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and the desire to speed up and improve transactions hitting the mainstream, two ...