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The Drivers Cooperative is a driver owned alternative to Uber or Lyft. Drivers elect the leadership group and earn patronage points which entitle them to dividends.
Briantrust is a talent marketplace that is owned and controlled by its users; talent (freelancers who do work sourced through the platform), clients (enterprises that are hiring freelancers) and agents (who refer and vet talent and clients) earn tokens (BTRUST) for building the network. Tokens allow participation in product roadmap, staking for bids (demonstrates commitment to clients), special offers, etc.
Uniswap is a protocol that powers decentralized crypto trading (eg, users who want to trade one Ethereum based token for another can connect with liquidity providers and do so in an automated fashion through smart contracts without a central clearinghouse). In just a couple years, the protocol has processed $20bn in transaction value, traded by 250k users through ~50k liquidity providers. The protocol is developed by a company, Uniswap Labs, and the governance token, UNI, is for the protocol with a vision that the company eventually hands over governance of the protocol to the community. UNI tokens are allocated in the following way:
60% to community; 25% of this or 15% of the total pool allocated to historical users
21.226% to the Uniswap team
18.044% to investors
0.69% to advisors
Midata is a data cooperative for health data where users can give consent to share their data for medical research. Its a Switzerland based nonprofit that “operates a data platform, acts as a trustee for data collection and guarantees the sovereignty of citizens over the use of their data.”
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