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Welcome to Gardens: planting the seeds for the public economy

Gardens is a social, financial, and technical foundation for online communities to organize. This empowers people to coordinate around causes, social movements, or even memes.

Today we are introducing the Gardens-V2 platform, an engine for common goods to flourish. Each Garden gives its community powerful tools to experiment at the edges, create currency policies, allocate shared resources, and make decisions bottom-up. Everything while keeping the system credibly neutral, accountable, and self-improving.

actions in the Garden are bound to the community’s mission, values, and rules. And they’re protected by a dispute resolution protocol in case bad actors want to abuse the system.

The result is a flexible, multi-layered system where various communities can flourish, each with its own identity and purpose, yet all linked to a central hub

Who should use it:

Many other organizations are better off with bottom-up governance, like:

1. Those concerned about security and longevity. Communities at risk of governments deciding they don’t like them, or communities that want to outlive their team of leaders.
2. Organizations with passionate members. Those intrinsically motivated to make that community better. This can be done by a centralized organization or company too, by dedicating a portion of their treasury to a Garden.
3. Communities that build public goods, where the value a community creates is subjective to those who share its wealth. In a pre-DAO world, these communities are charities, clubs, government agencies, activists, religions, or a neighbor who takes time out of her day to clean broken glass off the sidewalk.

Gardens + Safe = Council and Tribunal