When a new social model demands new tools
The founding work La Sageocratie describes an alternative model of societal organisation — grounded in wisdom, relational harmony and a living economy. Every new organisational model calls for its own infrastructure. A world shifting paradigm cannot indefinitely rely on the tools of the paradigm it is moving beyond.
Web Harmonie is charged with designing these digital infrastructures: decentralised exchange systems, a transition currency adapted to internal exchanges within sageocratic organisations, and distributed applications that make governance without a single centre of power possible.
The Reliances infrastructure
A system for recognising contributions — decentralised, immutable, without central authority. That is what Web Harmonie is building.
Our mandate
La Sageocratie defines the Reliances as a system for recognising contributions to the living world — distinct from any currency, points system or rating mechanism. The concept is documented and explained in detail on the Sageocracy.org website.
Our role is different: to design and develop the technical infrastructure that makes this system possible, reliable and unalterable. A decentralised application — DApp — hosted on a low-energy blockchain, without a central server, without a single owner.
The central constraint is as much technical as ethical: what is recorded must not be modifiable. Not by an institution. Not by a state. Not even by us.
What the DApp must enable
- ◈ Contribution declaration — each member can submit a contribution with its context, beneficiaries and observable impact.
- ◈ Multi-level collective validation — local recognition by the relevant group, co-validation by direct beneficiaries, final on-chain recording.
- ◈ Permanent traceability — verifiable history for all, with no possibility of retroactive modification. Immutability is not a rule — it is a technical impossibility.
- ◈ Governance without a centre — no single actor, including Web Harmonie, holds privileged access to the system once deployed.
Low-carbon DApp architecture
The Reliances rest on a decentralised application infrastructure designed from the outset to minimise energy impact and maximise resilience.
Lightweight consensus protocol
Replacing energy-intensive Proof-of-Work with adaptive consensus mechanisms (Proof-of-Authority, Delegated Proof-of-Stake or hybrids) calibrated for community networks with low transaction volumes.
Governance smart contracts
Community rules — Reliances issuance, voting rights, membership conditions — are encoded in audited and immutable smart contracts. Governance becomes transparent and free of any centralised trusted third party.
Lightweight & accessible interfaces
Progressive web applications (PWA) provide access to the Reliances without requiring any technical expertise. The goal: an experience as simple as a standard bank transfer, for all user profiles.
Data sovereignty
Every member controls their own cryptographic keys. No central entity can freeze an account, censor a transaction or access personal data without the explicit consent of the holder.
Resilient peer-to-peer network
Peer-to-peer architecture eliminates single points of failure. The network remains operational even if some nodes go down — essential resilience for communities wishing to operate independently of centralised infrastructures.
Open interoperability
Bridges to other complementary monetary systems enable inter-community exchanges while preserving the rules of each network. Interoperability without uniformisation.
What the Reliances will enable
Rewarding contributions
Recognising acts of service, teaching, care or creation within the community — contributions currently invisible to the dominant economic system.
Internal exchange markets
Decentralised marketplaces where goods, services and expertise are exchanged among members — without intermediary commissions, without value extraction by third-party platforms.
Collective project funding
Community co-financing mechanisms (crowdfunding in Reliances) allowing the community to collectively direct resources towards the projects deemed most valuable.
On-chain voting and governance
Transparent, verifiable voting systems for collective decisions — from adopting new rules to electing representatives of sageocratic governance circles.
Sovereign identity
Self-held digital identity (DID — Decentralized Identity), allowing each member to control their credentials, contribution history and rights within the community.
Immutable community registries
On-chain recording of community commitments, agreements and contracts — an unalterable collective memory, without dependence on an external legal authority.
Research & deployment phases
Theoretical modelling
Formalisation of Reliances issuance rules. Exchange circuit modelling. Governance model definition. Study of low-carbon blockchain protocols. Technical specification writing.
- Reliances white paper
- Formalised economic model
- Consensus protocol selection
Prototype & test network
Development of core smart contracts. Deployment of a test network (testnet) with a restricted group of participants. User interface iteration. Security testing and contract auditing.
- Audited smart contracts (v1)
- Progressive web interface (PWA)
- Community testnet
Pilot deployment
Mainnet launch in a restricted community environment. Training of first users. Adjustment of monetary parameters based on usage feedback. Open documentation to enable adoption by other communities.
- Reliances mainnet v1
- Full open-source documentation
- Adoption kit for third-party communities
Interoperability & proliferation
Development of inter-community bridges. Opening the protocol to other organisations sharing compatible principles. Contributing to a global ecosystem of decentralised transition currencies, in service of a living economy.
- Open interoperability protocol
- Network of partner communities
- Contribution to emerging standards
◆" Money, in its current form, is the language of the system we seek to move beyond. The Reliances are another language — that of relationship, contribution and balance. "
La Sageocratie — Founding work
Research anchored in the Irrinium Universe
La Sageocratie
The philosophical framework and organising principles within which the Reliances find their full meaning. The founding work defines the conditions for a balanced economy, governance circles and collective decision mechanisms that the DApps are built to support.
Discover La Sageocratie →Le Laboratoire Conscientiel
The first experimentation ground for conscious interfaces and digital tools in service of inner development. The Laboratoire contributes to the specification of use cases and the evaluation of DApp interfaces from a living practice.
Discover the Laboratoire →Web Harmonie
Design and development of the entire technical infrastructure. Web Harmonie translates sageocratic thought into concrete digital architecture — smart contracts, interfaces, protocols. The same sensitivity to harmony that guides website creation also guides the design of monetary systems.
Our approach →Join the conversation
This research is open. If you are a researcher, developer, economist or simply curious about a different future — let us talk.