National DigiFoundry
The National DigiFoundry (NDF) is a national collaboration initiative to foster continuous innovation in the digital asset ecosystem. It represents an opportunity for public and private sector innovators to work together to mitigate and deal with a range of risks, frauds, and scams in this space. By fostering a public/private partnership with extensive participation, the NDF, a National Science Foundation grant recipient, aims to create an inclusive environment that caters to the diverse needs and interests of society, thereby democratizing financial systems and reducing inequalities.
MISSION: Collaboratively exploring global standards and best practices for the use and exchange of digital assets.
NDF WORKGROUPS
Climate Change Disaster Response
Climate change increases the possibility of more droughts and stronger hurricanes more likely. This trend is one of several factors contributing to Maui’s wildfires. This workgroup would explore using a DAO as a post-natural disaster small business recovery engine. The DAO would serve as an SBIR/STTR Incubator for small businesses in climate-related disaster-prone areas. This would accelerate regional economic recovery, spur job growth, and support long-term community sustainment.
Decentralized Science
The scientific publishing industry (peer reviewed publishing) is a $28 billion a year industry. The scientific authors don’t get paid, the reviewers don’t get paid, only the publishers. The DeSci working group would develop a digital asset financial incentive model that targets California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) grants for scientific authors and reviewers. The workgroup would initially support research and development of treatments for diseases and conditions of the brain and central nervous system but would be extensible to other research areas.
Secure Information Sharing
Businesses, governments, and every individual depend on data. While information access and sharing are part of our everyday lives, very few treat it as an essential digital asset. The rise of identity theft, ransomware attacks, electronic fraud, and e-commerce theft proves the fallacy of this attitude. The secure information-sharing workgroup will explore how blockchain can improve information-sharing security.
Advanced Geospatial Data Uses
Geospatial data analysis identifies patterns, assesses emerging trends, and identifies potential threats and risks to support data-driven decision-making. These applications make geospatial data critical in military planning, emergency response, and environmental management. While using geospatial data to manage physical assets is commonplace, interest in leveraging this asset to manage digital assets is snowballing.
NDF DAO MEMBERSHIP
NDF will be a member-funded ecosystem. Membership fees will support working group activities, capital improvements, industry outreach, external collaboration, and internal operational costs. Members can support the topics and activities that are important to them by transferring their utility tokens to the relevant working group. The following are the proposed membership levels for commercial entities. Qualification requirements, annual fees, entitlements, and privileges are also below. Modified equivalents will be made available for government, NGOs, and non-profit organizations:
Bronze Foundry Worker
- US$0/yr fee
- Vote on industry best practices
- Propose working groups
- Vote on working groups
- Bronze Member NFT for applicable year
Silver Sand Caster
- US$10k/yr fee
- Eligible for Genesis Block Founding Member upgrades
- Vote on industry best practices
- Propose industry best practices
- Propose working groups
- Vote on working groups
- 5k utility tokens
- Silver Member NFT for applicable year
Gold Die Caster
- US$25k/yr fee
- Eligible for Genesis Block Founding Member upgrades
- Propose industry best practices
- Propose working groups
- Vote on working groups
- Vote on industry best practices
- Vote on research projects
- 10k utility tokens
- Gold Member NFT for applicable year
Platinum Centrifugal Caster
- US$50k/yr fee
- Eligible for Genesis Block Founding Member upgrades
- Propose industry best practices
- Vote on industry best practices
- Propose research projects
- Vote on research projects
- Vote on governance changes
- 25k utility tokens
- 2 Governance tokens
- Platinum Member NFT for applicable year
Governance Continuous Caster
- US$100k/yr fee
- Eligible for Genesis Block Founding Member upgrades
- Propose industry best practices
- Vote on industry best practices
- Propose governance changes
- Vote on governance changes
- Propose capital investments
- Vote on capital investment
- Sponsor Capital Investments
- 50k utility tokens
- 4 Governance tokens
- Governance Member NFT for applicable year
Genesis Block Founding Member
- $25k additional utility tokens
- 1 Governance tokens
- Founding Member NFT
- Opportunity to form and lead up to 3 working groups
Tokenomics
Tokenomics structure drives the economics of any DAO. Tokenomics also define tokens’ role in the ecosystem and their value within the ecosystem. The overall goal is to align the behavior of each member, strengthen the ecosystem, and create trust.
The NDF organizers currently envision the use of three tokens: