building a kinder economy

It’s time to transcend capitalism with an economic system grounded in giving and abundance for all. Jobs are going away.

Seeds is like a global, digital giving circle.

People from 30 countries & counting have redeemed SEEDS to have gifts fulfilled for college tuition, to stage Fringe Festival shows, to pay for an emergency cornea operation, to recover after top surgery, to take care of expenses while healing from rape, to combat homelessness, to fill up a tank of gas, to invest in digital assets, and lots more.

When a SEED is redeemed to make a request, it’s shown through our platforms to invite contributions.

When you give a gift to someone who has redeemed a SEED to make a Request for Help, we’ll send you SEEDS in thanks, because we want the giving people to be the ones who build wealth when the market goes up.

You can trade your SEEDS on third party, decentralized markets, stake them to earn a passive income, use them to make Requests for Help for yourself, or make requests on behalf of others. If you need, we’re happy to teach you how.

Our founder, Rachel Cook, saw a lot of misogyny in institutionalized finance (and in the world) when working as a futures and equities trader, and later when raising investment capital for Seeds.

After a good deal of Vipassana meditation and time spent alone in thought, she came to realize that the problem seemed to be capitalism itself. She recognized its OS as extractive and scarcity-based, conditioning humans of all genders to overvalue masculine energies and denigrate feminine energies within ourselves, in other people, and in the man-made structures of the external world.

Rachel saw that this energetic imbalance infused every institution that humans who were not consciously working to correct it had built to date: governing structures, financial mechanisms, and the essential building blocks of the technology we use everyday.

She learned that Leibniz, the father of binary code, read about yin and yang in the I Ching, which gave him the idea to use 1s and 0s to communicate logic problems numerically. His translation of these masculine and feminine energies - which are meant to flow together in equal balance - into 1s and 0s, concrete units of All or Nothing, make up the foundational workings of every technological system in existence (even those being used for quantum computing), which seemed to her to skew their development in an unhealthy direction from the start.

Rachel realized her mission in this life was to do all she could to right this energetic imbalance in herself and in the things she created, in the hopes that doing so could help others to shift it as well.

Seeds is an important embodiment of this mission, because it is an ecosystem built to allow us all to receive vital financial support, so that we can stop worrying about survival. When we have what we need, we can shift out of fear - and into abundance.

From there, we can begin to focus on healing ourselves and waking up, so that we have the space we need to tune into the inner voice guiding us toward our purpose in this life - and we can then joyfully share that purpose with others.

What if our economic system created a bigger pie for us all?