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A decentralised finance system where investors in crypto can create a pool using stable coin of the corresponding fiat currency in the jurisdiction. The investors can see the ratings and reviews of the farmer group before creating a pool and repayment history. The farmers can access from liquidity pool the money equivalent to the fiat currency like INR by paying some transaction charges and not interest. The disbursal of money is done as per the stage of farming and requirement. The farmer group should ensure that the money is deposited back in the end of the season, its it's a group responsibility, that is, even if one farmer fails the other farmer can help him/her so as to ensure the group rating is good for subsequent seasons.
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Alice is a user in crypto world and she has 10 Ethers which are currently valued as 10000 USD at 1000 USD each, she sees a philanthropic drive which helps farmers in India with some returns (not very high but something that is not risky and decent return she can’t get easily in US)
Alice converts her Ether as a collateral to get some INRT (let’s say 1 USD = 75 INR, so a total of 750000 INRT, she gets 700000 INRT and rest is kept)
Bob gets referred and commit 5 more ethers and so on
The FPO or any farmer group gets INRT in their account
The way liquidity pool works is that the INRT is given without interest but transaction fee is charged for every transaction which is minimal and the amount is disbursed at specific time for specific activity. For example, a farmer needs INR 10000 for buying seeds, he/she takes that amount by paying INR 100 as transaction fee. Next he needs 30000 for labour, he/she takes that amount from the liquidity pool by paying INR 100 as transaction fee and so on. When they return the money they pay 100 ruppe as transaction again
The transaction charges go as the return to Alice along with the amount whenever is given back, so she gets her 700000 plus lets 300*100= 30000 for 300 transactions done
Alice goes back after six months, convert 700000 INRT to 10 ethers which had probably shot up to 1100 USD and she earned ~ 5 % extra return
Idea 3:
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Coordinate to a common goal through FarmerHeroCoin (FHC)
Problem
Current ways of solving globally relevant problems are not as fast as they should thereby ever increasing gap of what needs to be addressed and what has been addressed.
How can internet users help farmers get incentives to be able to achieve a common goal that affects everyone like adoption of climate smart practice or natural farming?
Solution
Summary
DG creates a FarmerHero.network which issues FarmerHeroCoins (FHC) to the backers. The value of FHC is governed by what is a called a bonding curve (more to it later) which ensures the value of the token is going to increase as more people back it and for any amount of FHC in the circulation there is a ceiling and floor of the value that can be obtained. 50 % of FHC will be dedicated towards promoting climate smart practice or similar environmentally sustainable farming methods and anyone who is able to prove gets THC. This creates incentive directly for farmers. There is also incentive for curators who curate information about the topics, let’s say statistic or Key trends and so on.
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Example of how it works
Let’s say value of FHC to ether is as per a mathematical function that has the value that 1 Ether = 1000 FHC, 2 Ether = 1900 FHC, 3 Ether = 2700 FHC, 4 Ether = 3400 FHC, 5 Ether = 4000 FHC
At any given point of time it is decided that 50% FHC can be used for backing the actual farmers who are adopting climate smart practices
DG starts the pool and put in 1 Ether and gets 1000 FHC
Alice in US likes it and puts 1 more Ether and gets 900 FHC
Bjorg in Finland likes it and puts 1 more Ether and gets 800 FHC
Total FHC in circulation = 1000+900+800 = 2700 FHC
1350 FHC is available for backing climate smart practices and every acre fetches a farmer 10 FHC
The payment is made directly to the farmers and if FHC is removed the value of FHC decreases with farmer getting (10/2700)*3 Ethers = 1/90 Ether to USD
With time, more backers, philanthropists, social organisations come to know and contribute increasing the value of FHC that DG has put in originally and anyone who was the early backer of the project
Chetna is a statistician in India and closely follows the project and realises that since there is nobody coordinating centrally leading to a big mess of information from all places while there is a strong demand in the community discussion to get more information
Chetna creates a curation market of stats information in the FHC.Statistic and stakes 20 FHC
Alice and Bjorg like that and further stake 10 FHC each for the topic and Alice likes Chetna’s credentials and stakes her 10 FHC to Chetna
Chetna, therefore, has 30 out of 40 FHC on this topic implying she can curate, upvote an information and her vote will weigh 75 % (30/40) initially
As the topic grows, more people start backing topic as well as her and more experts also join along using which they can upvote sub topics and create network bounties
In time the statistic topic has total of 1000 FHC and Chetna has 100 FHC staked which means 10% influence
There is a research organisation working with farmers who see the value in some insights for example, XYZ crop with ABC crop leads to higher growth
The organisation member creates a sub-topic and mark it as task payable in FHC and defines how this needs to be evaluated, associated data required etc
The organisation hard codes that once the solution is obtained x % will go to the data owners, y % to seed curator (who posts the information), z % to relevant backers who verify, s % to analysts and so on
Using this the community earns FHC tokens to achieve common goal and the FHC tokens can be exchanged for actual money
Curation market diagram below:
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