OpenHaven's tech-tool catalog, alongside separate research on governance, economics, and prosocial use cases for decentralized systems — related, but standing on their own.
The two core tools
The Navigator and the Convergence Matrix are OpenHaven’s core tools for exploring decentralized tech tools — protocols, platforms, standards, and apps.
In-depth research on the economic, governance, and infrastructure questions decentralized ecosystems have to answer.
Prosocial and Relational Ecosystem Use Cases
A comprehensive, platform-agnostic taxonomy of human activities that prosocial technology must support — organized by use-case domain, centered on trust, and designed for interoperability across the decentralized technology ecosystem.
A proposal for how existing technologies could combine into a federated, community-governed way to index, search, and map a wide range of data sources across many independently run instances, including two rough draft specs for the pieces that do not yet exist. Nothing described here has been built.
A reference taxonomy of the funding mechanisms, models, and governance structures available to commons-oriented and regenerative projects — the capital-and-coordination companion to the open-protocol landscape OpenHaven maps.
How decentralized communities and other organizations organize decision-making, membership, and resources — DAO, Network State, Network Nation, NAO, cDPO, DisCO, nation-state, corporation, nonprofit and GAN, compared side by side.
An architectural model for evaluating self-sovereign technology stacks. Start here for an interactive map of the sovereign-technology stack, real-world entity placements, and — once published — a full discursive white paper.