Ethical Purchasing Groups (GAS) as Decentralised Autonomous Organizations – An architecture

We can leverage many existing decentralized applications to create organizations implementing models that can better us as producers and consumers under capitalism. A possible way to do so is what I am proposing here: this model aims to help implementing a reproducible decentralized organization for purchasing groups, that is a group of people cooperating to buy a variety of products directly from producers, both for economical and environmental reasons.

I am assuming the reader as familiar with decentralized applications, cryptocurrencies and the like so I can cut to the chase.

TL;DR: find a mindmap here

The system leverages a variety of components that can work in a decentralized manner as a way to avoid the burden of a formal cooperative or other organization and let users totally self-manage and self-operate. Let's find out what these components are and how they work together.

This model is easily implementable, since the only costs are a few ether cents in gas fees for the DApps and, if we want to, a small server to host an always-on IPFS node, even at home. Configuration is also easy since we are making use of basic functionalities of each of our components. The hardest part, let's face it, is always adoption: we have to bring producers and consumers, buyers and sellers on the cryptocurrency side. However is my firm belief that the best way to raise adoption is experimenting until something moves in the right direction for good.

Everything we saw has been briefly tested and will probably be converted in a PoC soon. The only exception is District0x's marketplaces, which are not ready to be directly brought up yet. I plan to update this post with a PoC and meanwhile AMA on my fediverse profile @cirku17@mastodon.bida.im .