We created Decentralized Rulebooks to empower trust, democracy, and self-regulation on the Internet.
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Exonym is a civic tech project
It's hard to know who to trust online
Trust online is reaching a breaking point. Between misinformation, anonymous users, and advancing AI, it's increasingly difficult to know who or what to believe online.
Current tools to moderate content and users are reactive, fragmented, and inconsistent. They cannot manage the speed and scale of the web today.
As new tech like AI grows more powerful by the day, the need to establish robust, reliable trust online cannot be overstated.
This is why we created Decentralized Rulebooks.
What are Decentralized Rulebooks?
Rulebooks are a simple, universal tool for anyone to create rules, standards, or regulations for any context online.
If you join a Rulebook, you get a 'digital badge' that you can use to express that you follow those rules. This badge is your key to accessing different online services and perks.
Here's an example: Want to run ads in Germany? Secure a badge saying you adhere to German advertising laws. You can then use this same badge on any ad platform.
If you break a rule, you can lose your badge and face penalties to get it back. This ensures accountability, even between anonymous users.
Rulebooks empower the web to self-regulate safely and effectively, reducing the need for top-down, one-size-fits-all legal protections.
For web platforms, Rulebooks are a game-changer. Platforms can hand off the hefty task of governance to the network to save significant resources and gain safer, more trustworthy environments.
How can I use Rulebooks?
Rulebooks help you manage rules and privileges in a way that is cryptographically secured and uniform across the web, unlocking transformational civic and commercial opportunities.
Civic applications
AI governance
Leverage Decentralized Rulebooks to make AI governance compatible with a uniform protocol to foster the shift from siloed competition to global cooperation.
Misinformation management
Establish more highly efficient means to qualify and differentiate various standards of content published online and delivered across social media feeds.
News media sustainability
Resolve multiple key industry challenges: regain parity with Internet giants, build a safe advertising environment, manage misinformation, and protect press freedom.
Agile policymaking
Design transactional environments, stimulate markets, protect consumers, and tackle societal challenges with Rulebooks' rapid, responsive policy framework.
Peer-to-peer exchange
Safe anonymous transactions online have not been possible without an intermediary. Rulebooks enable safe, trustworthy transactions between strangers.
Self-regulating Internet
Rulebooks empower a bottom-up, user-led Internet, enabling self-regulation with ample pressure to reduce the need for top-down, one-size fits all legal protections.
Commercial applications
Microservice revolution
Unlock utility and multi-organizational networks for the microservice economy by deploying standardized protocols, authentication, and compliance on the web.
Decentralized finance regulation
Stabilize and unlock DeFi original market potential with standardized, streamlined compliance protocols between ecosystems and international regulation.
Future trust networks
Leverage Rulebook's trust network to lower the barrier to compete with Internet giants; build the 'trustworthy Twitter,' 'distributed Amazon,' or 'federated Airbnb,' etc.
Content moderation
Shed the societal pressures, governmental burdens, and extreme overhead costs to moderate platform content; refocus those resources to augment your core services.
Copyright and licensing
Issue and manage licensing for the use of copyrighted materials, data, or content through a cryptographically secure and universally compatible system.
Globalized ad standards
Ensure a level playing field between national and international advertisers, secure your ad environments, and protect consumers.
Dive deeper into specific applications
Or explore the rest of our key insights and ongoing research here.
For policymakers & researchers
Take policymaking from static, traditional regulation to rapid, responsive, and agile policy deployments with standardized interoperability across the Internet.
For developers
Rulebooks are open-source; our test network is live. Leverage advanced anonymous authentications, web-scale single sign-on, clone prevention, and distributed web governance.
For organizations
We are discounting pre-registrations over 80% for first movers in the ecosystem. This is tailored for organizations that want to pioneer the next era of civic and economic opportunity.
For everyday web users
Rulebooks reshape economics to ensure governance is not monopolized by a few tech giants but is co-created by its most important stakeholders: the users. Support us to invert the web.
We build technologies to redistribute governance and realign economic incentives to ensure the web can be equitable, open, and democratic for everyone.
Learn more about Exonym's mission and vision here.
Don’t keep reacting to the future. Join us and shape it.
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