CURA

Speculative digital currency that innovates how we value and deploy care within civic infrastructures

Today’s economies are centered around productivity of waged labor, while ignoring the invisible ecosystems that make it all possible — care labor and reproduction. The work of care has long been hidden behind front doors, for no or low pay. It has been shared unfairly and violently, along the lines of gender, class, race, ability, and age. It has generated lifelong inequalities in social standing, job opportunities, income, and power. The past decades of austerity and financial cuts in the welfare state have further reduced the remit of people being cared for and further exploited those who are caring. 

CURA is a speculative digital currency that represents a new approach to investing in civic infrastructures by connecting the private and public domain around a narrative of care. CURA tokens are issued as a form of universal care allowance to compensate all genders fairly for caring for their dependents and our shared civic assets — the community resources, institutions, data, relationships, and governance competencies that form the basis of our collective welfare.