Resources
Talks
- Modularity in Monetary Design - Ethan Buchman at Modular Summit
Academic papers
Academic papers on the theory and practice behind MTCS:
- MTCS and Mutual Credit - the "founding paper" of CoFi combining obligation clearing and mutual credit
- Mathematics behind MTCS - mathematics for finding cycles in the payments graph
See also this one pager on CoFi from different points of view
Sardex and Mutual Credit
Sardex is one of the most successful mutual credit systems in the world. It was founded in Sardinia in 2009 by Giuseppe Littera and others.
Blog posts on Liquidity-Saving
Someone Just Turned The Lights On, Posted On February 18, 2021 By Dil Green
‘Complementary’ Economics Won’t Do It, Posted On February 10, 2021 By Dil Green
Incredible new research: how small businesses can be saved post-Covid, Posted On March 7, 2021 by Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org
Recycling Debt (Kusaga Deni, Kubali Sarafu), Posted on March 13, 2021 by Isavary Khabuqw of grassrootseconomics.org
Solving Liquidity Issues for SME's Through Mutual Credit Systems such as Sardex, Wiki entry on https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/
Community Clearing and Settling of Obligations, Posted on Academia on April 2021 by Hans-Florian Hoyer
Local Money and Liquidity Saving, Posted on May 2021 by Ethan Buchman
Forschungs-Journal veröffentlicht 10 Artikel zur Währungsvielfalt, Posted on December 10, 2021 by Leander Bindewald of monneta.org
The Velocity of Money, Posted on January 2022 by Ethan Buchman
The Kolektivo Framework, Decentralized Exchange Trading Systems, Curve Labs & Kolektivo Labs, Original: June 2021, Last updated: August 2022 (v.3)
The Properties of Money, Posted on October 2022 by Ethan Buchman