Dark Matter Labs are exploring how houses, forests, rivers and more can buy back their ownership in the pathway to becoming public goods.

Frin is a modular smart contracting suite for the rapid prototyping of decentralised civic infrastructure, combining centralised databases and smart contracts within a low-code environment.

Designed for projects in urban and rural areas which are intending to transition into the commons, a built-in wealth-distribution structure flows to a common reserve, sharing value with those that helped make it while allowing the underlying infrastructure to sequentially free itself.

The aim is to be able to connect Frin up to a range of front-end interfaces for rapid prototyping or collaborations.

Although this project starts with the concept of a self-owning house, the modules are being designed in such a way that they are be adaptable to other ‘Free-’ entities such as rivers, lakes, mountains, forests and lands as well as the management of civic objects such as cameras, energy meters or door locks. You can read more on our blog.

Three design principles

1. UI/UX should be familiar and social. No swaps, no network selection.
2. Privacy-enabling approaches in mind
3. Selective storage on public ledgers. Pragmatic mix of web2 and web3.

Note: This is a learning and development project and as such the information above should be for educational purposes and does not indicate an intent to launch a token.