Overview

A Digital Public Infrastructure for Resource Coordination

Free Association is a mathematically-proven coordination infrastructure that enables organizations, communities, and individuals to allocate resources efficiently based on mutual recognition of contributions—without centralized control, bureaucratic overhead, or market exclusion.

The Core Problem

Traditional resource coordination relies on three mechanisms with specific constraints:

• Markets - Exclude those without purchasing power

• Charity - Creates dependency relationships

• Bureaucracy - Slow and inflexible

These mechanisms face challenges matching the speed and scale required—from climate adaptation to humanitarian response.

The Solution

A fourth type of economic relationship based on mutual recognition—where entities acknowledge each other's contributions toward shared goals and allocate resources accordingly.

This creates a self-organizing coordination system that is:

• Fast - Allocations converge in seconds, not months

• Fair - Mathematically guaranteed proportional distribution

• Efficient - Resources flow directly based on declared needs and mutual recognition

• Decentralized - No central authority controls outcomes or data

Try It Now

interplaynetary.github.io/free-association

Browser-based, peer-to-peer, no installation required.

Next Steps

• Understand the coordination problem

• See how the system works

• Explore use cases

• Implementation options

Quick Links

• Organizations: Invitation to Coalition Coordination Sessions

• Coalition: Free Association Coalition participation framework

• Developers: Get started contributing

• Researchers: Mathematical foundations

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Contact:

• General inquiries: [email protected]

• Coalition and partnerships: [email protected]

• Technical questions: Open an issue