An introduction to Network Services

  • On-chain governed blockchains such as those faciliated by the Substrate SDK open up exciting new design space for imagining digital communities that can maintain sovereignity over their economic, cultural and organisational infrastructure.

    They are an evolutionary leap from today’s incumbent social networks that exist to extract and monetise the creative contributions of ‘users’ - who gain access to free services in return for their attention becoming the product.

    In on-chain governed networks, token holders have the potential to form decentralised and emergent associations of members without the need for a central authority such as a corporation, or even a country to keep affairs things in order.

    Members of these networks are able to collectively maintain and upgrade the shared infrastructure on which they all depend, enabling interesting new organisational, funding and value accrual models.

  • In Edgeware’s case, 90% of the initial token supply was set aside for the public which had the eventual and perhaps inevitable result that no one group could dictate a roadmap, leading to the departure of the original founding team.

    This has led to many challenges when attempting to communicate the project's primary purpose, since it doesn't easily fit within category norms.

    This is a good thing.

    Edgeware is different. It is not a pre-defined thing you can put in a box, it is a process - an emergent organism, self-evolving into a vibrant ecosystem.

    It is a digital community, with organisational and economic super-powers that can be tapped by anyone, anywhere with talent, commitment and vision.

    As a result its 'use case' is representative of this new and emerging opportunity - for an emerging digital collective intelligence to harnness and shape its own direction - an artistic playground for co-operation and co-creation.

    What will you build?

  • The rise of sovereign, on-chain governed social networks such as Edgeware presents many novel opportunities for experimentation, however their decentralised governance can also present major challenges when it comes to coordinating their development.

    A network service provider (NSP) such as Decent Partners exists to address this challenge.

    NSPs onboard external talent, teams and projects to networks - curating, communicating and formalising proposals that are then voted on by a decentralised network of token holders, before ensuring the careful deployment and management of approved funds, the successful delivery of agreed milestones alongside the timely reporting of issues, progress and lessons learned through the project.

    Through this evolving process the NSP gains deep experience in the challenges of decentralised governance, grant funding, value capture and community development, which in turn then informs the recruitment of the next wave of talent, the establishment of new processes and the iteration of governance technologies in a positive feed back loop.

    Our expectation is that the many manually executed roles of an NSP will be gradually automated away as systems become easier to use and experience grows.

    With this said, we also think the role of a NSP will evolve as new challenges emerge, therefore ensuring the long term viability and necessity to the role.

    To encourage collective intelligence and to avoid centralisation, our intention is that Decent Partners will gradually decentralise by becoming a digital cooperative of members and a core part of the protocol.

    You cannot purchase membership, the only way to join the collective is through the successful delivery of funded proposals.

  • Decent Partners also retains genesis assets that represent the cultural collateral put forward by its partners as part of the funding process.

    These creative assets represent the earliest ideas, concepts or forms of a creative idea and can become valuable in the future through their emerging cultural impact, utility or access functions.

    Decent Partners holds these assets in a reserve as an emergent exhibition of the creative potential of connected minds.

  • Decent Partners puts forward proposals for on-chain governed networks to fund applied research and development within its own organisation and on behalf of partner groups.

    It also coordinates the development of new blockchain networks that faciliate some key function for its emerging collective of projects.

    Decent Partners receives:

    • 10% of each funding proposal approved - the Network Service Fee (NSF).

    • 10% of any licensing and service agreements that come through commercial partnerships of successful projects - the Network Service Share (NSS).

    • 1.5% stake in the initial supply of incubated blockchains such as the identity focused Kabocha - the Network Service Reward (NSR).

  • Decent Partners currently leverages its commercial income to offer teams it is incubating development loans fixed at 0% interest.

    These loans are repayable first in line from revenues derived from successful projects.

    This improves upon the standard terms set by startup incubators who generally take between 6% and 20% of a team's initial shares.

    It also sets a path to creating ventures that deliver positive cashflows generating, rather than looking to exit, ensuring teams can stay aligned to their long term goals.

  • Decent Partners offers Auto Fabrica (AF) support and funding in the form of a repayable 0% loan to develop a project.


    Decent Partners sources R&D funding from an on-chain governed network for the creation of a decentralised creator collective who will make use of the underling organisational infrastructure and tools.


    AF’s R&D is focused on a feasibility study for an Electric Concept vehicle that enables their large community to add their talents, have their contributions credited on-chain, be paid for their effort and become members of a potentially valuable on-chain organisation.


    The R&D is successfully delivered and advances to the development of a more ambitious project that will require larger funding and may also involve partnerships with existing corporations.


    Decent Partners now present AF’s larger vision and receive funding.


    DP negotiates with outside parties who are interested in collaborating with AF and the creator collective who brought it to life - as a way of scaling the ideas.


    The income is shared with those who contributed to the project, with returns automated depending on the assigned credit to a contributors Seed which also appends their relative contributions, leading to the further evolution of their on chain identity.