Ğ1 (Duniter)
The first 'libre currency': every certified member of its Web of Trust co-creates money equally through a Universal Dividend, per the Relative Theory of Money. Live since March 2017 with 6,000+ members (mostly Francophone Europe); migrated to the Substrate-based Duniter v2 chain on 2026-03-07 with all balances and certifications preserved. No pre-mine and no fiat on-ramp by design — money issuance itself is the basic income.
The purest live implementation of money-creation-as-basic-income: 9 years of debt-free, perfectly egalitarian issuance with no fiat reference anywhere in the design, and a March 2026 chain migration proving the project's vitality. Held back from higher alignment by small scale (~6k members, largely French), public member identities, and no composability story for other currencies. Partially-to-substantially aligned: an essential reference project for the map.
M69 Score
Scored against the Money2069 Manifesto — see methodology. Higher = more aligned.
Detailed Rating Breakdown
Issuance Model3x3.0
Fully debt-free (IM-02: 5) and rule-based equal issuance to every Web-of-Trust member (IM-01: 4), but issuance tracks verified membership, not measured economic activity (IM-03: 3), and nominal supply never contracts — dilution via UD growth is relative, not a burn (IM-05: 2; IM-04: 3). Avg 3.4 → 3.
Spending Power Stability2x3.0
No price-stability mechanism per se (SPS-01: 3), but per-member issuance with equinox UD revaluation structurally anchors value to participants — the framework's SPS-02 band-4 case (SPS-02: 4); fully on-chain and auditable (SPS-03: 5); no explicit target so deviation is unmeasurable (SPS-04: 3); access needs in-person certifications (SPS-06: 3). Weighted 3.4 → 3.
Fiat Independence & Interoperability2x4.0
Sovereign unit of account, zero collateral or reserves, no banking or oracle dependency, structurally immune to fiat collapse (FI-01..06: 5s). Weak on composability: no local currencies denominate in or settle against Ğ1 (FI-07: 2) and no open interop standard beyond forking the software (FI-08: 2). Weighted 4.1 → 4.
Traction2x3.0
Fully active — v2 chain migration completed March 2026 (TR-01: 5); 9 years live (TR-02: 4); but only ~6k members (TR-03: 2) and merchant acceptance is mostly ğmarché community markets (TR-04: 2). Genuinely used as unit of account inside the community (TR-05: 4), adoption entirely organic — the currency cannot be bought (TR-09: 5), and cultural identity (RTM, biannual RML gatherings since 2013) is exceptional (TR-11: 5). Weighted 3.4 → 3.
Sovereignty4.0
FOSS, self-hostable on a Raspberry Pi (SO-02: 5), non-custodial keys (SO-04: 5), no third-party dependencies (SO-06: 5), no transaction blacklists (SO-07: 4). Main weaknesses: member identities are public by design — pseudonymity only for non-member wallets (SO-08: 2) and a small core dev team (SO-05: 3). Weighted 3.7 → 4.
Governance4.0
Everything public (forum, GitLab, on-chain — GO-03: 4); one-human-one-identity WoT resists plutocratic capture (GO-04: 4); the Ğ1 licence and Relative Theory of Money act as constitutional protection for the UD formula (GO-07: 4, GO-08: 4); day-to-day process is semi-formal community + technical committee (GO-01: 3). Weighted 3.5 → 4.
Resilience3.0
Executed a full v1→v2 chain migration in March 2026, proving rebuild-from-data recovery (RE-03: 4); redundant nodes (RE-02: 4); no peg to break under stress but also no formal stress mechanisms (RE-06: 3); funding is crowdfunding + ADEME grants + volunteers (RE-07: 2); WoT requires humans, limiting AI-actor readiness (RE-09: 3). Weighted 2.7 → 3.
Inclusivity4.0
Perfectly equal benefit distribution — every member receives the identical Universal Dividend, zero insider allocation (IN-04: 5, IN-05: 5); free to use (IN-02: 5); structurally anti-concentration via relative demurrage (IN-07: 5). Entry requires 5 member certifications (IN-01: 4) and public real-identity membership (IN-06: 3); little reach beyond Francophone Europe (IN-03: 3). Weighted 4.3 → 4.