# Introducing Grassroots Economics and the Barter & Beyond Game – San Francisco 2025

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2025-10-07
- Duration: 11:00
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-hkKhbJz1h-E
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkKhbJz1h-E

## Description

Introducing Grassroots Economics and the Barter & Beyond Game: Will Ruddick shared the journey of Grassroots Economics from paper-based community currencies to blockchain-based mutual credit systems rooted in ancestral traditions. Highlighting real-world deployments in Kenya and beyond, he introduced a protocol inspired by Elinor Ostrom's principles that enables communities to curate, value, limit, and exchange commitments—reviving local reciprocity networks with blockchain tools.

Speaker: Will Ruddick (Grassroots Economics)

This session was part of the 12th edition of Funding the Commons, held March 15–16, 2025, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io