Who we are

We are developers, artists, entrepreneurs, writers, and activists who share a community-driven vision for a new, distributed web built on Holochain. We believe dWeb design based on portable reputation can retain the benefits of today's web while avoiding its corporate siloes, non-existent data ethics, and general creepiness.

Sacred Capital is the network that has been developing the architecture for the reputation interchange over the last many years, with the intention to create an economy that subordinates money to the actual substance of social relations and deeds fulfilled. With Sacred Capital's reputation interchange, the micro-networks we call Neighbourhoods can interact with and discover each other through a pioneering, "web of trust" style standard for p2p verification of (inter)personal data across social spaces.

team

Sid Sthalekar

Sid’s experience spans from heading South Asia's largest trading desk to exploring distributed economic paradigms in the Gandhi Ashram in India. He is the founder of Sacred Capital, a Singapore based organisation that has developed reputation infrastructure for Neighbourhoods.

Emaline

Emaline writes and speaks about technology, psychoanalysis, and social theory. Since 2017 she has been exploring whether distributed systems technologies can support equitable, planetary-scale computation for the benefit of human societies during the era of climate emergency.

Michael

Michael has a background in programming language theory & functional programming (particularly Haskell). A guiding theme of his current work is exploring how peer-to-peer computer technologies can facilitate more egalitarian organizational structures and societies.

Pablo

Pablo works as an interaction designer, media artist, researcher and musician in the fields of ambiguous software, generative systems, transmedia narratives, p2p networks and odd music.

Jethro

Jethro has been growing ventures for 25 years spanning everything from granite quarrying in the heart of China to secure connected computers in Finland. Open source software is very close to his heart and all his (ad)ventures have relied heavily on it.

Jean

Jean M Russell hacks social technology (software, hardware, and wetware), aiming toward more ethical social organisms. Jean moonlights as a currency designer, participatory process facilitor, and maven midwife of the living edge of Thrivability.

collaborators

Pospi

pospi is a rampant idealist by fate; distributed systems engineer by trade; accidental economist and sociologist; and recovering technologist, futurist and entrepreneur.