Research Overview

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.

Resources

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.

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Discovery Infrastructure

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.

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Peerfunding and Commons-Based Finance

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.

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Monetary Architecture

A visual breakdown of the monetary and value-flow architecture underpinning commons-oriented and regenerative economic systems.

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Organization & Governance Models

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.

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Sovereign Stack Model

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.

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Graph Explorer

Explore how tools, use case domains, affordances, stack layers, organizations and suites connect.

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Reference

Glossary, API, and calibration references for using the data directly.

Definitions Glossary

Every term and category used across the Convergence Matrix, defined in one place.

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API for Developers

The same data that powers the Navigator and Matrix, as a free, read-only JSON API — no key required.

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Centralized Platform Risks

Five familiar centralized platforms, scored the same way, as a calibration anchor for reading Capture Risk elsewhere in the matrix.

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