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Duker News – Web3 community funding universal income on-chain

Duker News – Web3 community funding universal income on-chain

by kindkang2024·Mar 30, 2026·3 points·0 comments

AI Analysis

MidBold Bet

On-chain HN clone promising universal income without clear tokenomics or liquidity.

Strengths
  • Transparent on-chain recording of all community interactions and boosts.
  • Attempts to align community incentives with direct financial redistribution.
Weaknesses
  • Vague economic model lacks details on surplus calculation or sustainability.
  • Bare-bones UI offers no advantage over existing Web3 social protocols.
Category
Target Audience

Web3 enthusiasts, crypto community members

Similar To

Steemit · Hive · Lens Protocol

Post Description

I spent the past few weeks building Duker News, an HN-style platform where every interaction is recorded on-chain and can seed DUKI (/dju:ki/,Decentralized Universal Kindness Income). The conviction behind it: for any community to thrive long-term, it must be a positive-sum game.

But positive-sum is easy to claim and hard to prove. So here's my test, and the core premise of DUKI: if a community can consistently contribute 1% of its surplus to everyone else, and do it transparently on-chain, then that's not just talk. That's proof.

Duker News is my very first attempt to manifest this. It's early, but it's real, and it's all on-chain. Let's see where this goes.

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