2026-07-10 –, The Seedbed
Simulating a reputation-based sharing economy where communities share their resources and rate one another on reputation and fairness. The goal is to understand how we could replace money with measures that represent our values, to create a regional economy with more social equity and environmentalism built into the way that communities interact.
The Sufficiency Economy game is designed to have people re-imagine what a regional economy could look like Based on principles of fairness and sufficiency, the game simulates a reputation-based sharing economy where communities share their resources and use subjective measures of reputation and fairness. The goal is to understand how we could create an economy where everyone has their basic needs met, and where local and regional culture determine systems of distribution and care. The Sufficiency Economy allows people to imagine replacements for monetary transactions that better represent their values.
Players will create a role where they represent a community or organization, and they will role-play different types of social and economic interactions with the other participants. Gameplay surfaces not just economic values, but what it means to share in ways that feel fair to others in the region. In other words, the economic game emphasizes trust as the most important measure of a sustainable economy to meet people's needs.
Grace Rachmany is the Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). She’s an expert in the areas of new economic models, digital democracy, tokenomics, blockchain governance and distributed technology. She is the co-founder of Sideways.Earth and works on bioregional governance and tools for systems change at a regional level. Grace recently co-authored the Blueprint for Decentralization in her previous role as a Supervisory Council member for the SingularityNet DAO. Grace is an expert in practicalities of how to lead a decentralized/distributed organization, having worked with hundreds of organizations in the blockchain space. Grace’s work involves experimentation in infrastructure for human collaboration, governance, and non-monetary economic systems.