A time bank: give an hour, earn an hour credit, spend it on anyone's help in your community.
Grace tutors maths for two hours and spends the credits on Ben fixing her bike. Open Hours records each exchange with both sides confirming, so the town's time economy is visible and nobody can mint free hours.
Make everyone's time count the same, so a town can trade help even when it is short of money.
Communities are full of skill and short on cash. A retired teacher can tutor, a young mechanic can fix bikes, but neither can easily pay the other. Paper time banks work but are hard to run and easy to fake.
Open Hours is a time bank for your community: give an hour of help, earn an hour credit, spend it on anyone else's help. Running it on someone else's platform puts your neighbours' records in their hands; owning it means your town, your rules, your membership gate and an hour ledger nobody can fake because both sides confirm every exchange. It makes a local time economy visible.
Your own time bank with 100 confirmed hours and 10 organisations paying for hosted instances.
Two applications submitted with real hours data.
A verified contract from your wallet, a builder profile, and 100 or more confirmed exchanges.
One submission to a social impact track with a new feature.
You trade at least 4 hours of your skill for 4 hours of help you needed this month.
At least 30 active members and a monthly in-person swap.
One partner organisation enrolling its members in your time bank.
A case study of your time bank linked from your CV.
Three paying organisations running time banks you set up.
Not if you open with a blank board. Start with 10 people you know, each posting one offer and one request, and broker the first five exchanges by hand. Time banks grow from a small trusted core outward.
They do not need to think about it. Members sign in, post offers and confirm hours. Credits are soulbound, so there is nothing to buy, sell or lose value. Keep the language about hours, not tokens.
Both sides confirm each exchange, so a disputed hour is not credited. Members can see each other's history. Add a simple community agreement and a membership gate if trust is a concern.
Yes. The contract and member records are deployed from your wallet. The community keeps its history even if you hand over running it.
In many places traditional time banks are treated as non-taxable because an hour equals an hour and credits cannot be cashed out. Rules differ by country, so check how local time banks are treated before you launch.
Everyone stakes a conviction, encrypted. The chain tallies it without ever seeing a single take. FHE on Base.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
Crowdfunding where backers get refunded by contract if the goal or the milestones are missed.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
Lend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
A rotating savings circle (ajo, susu, chama) with payouts enforced by contract and trust scores for members.
Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.