What is seeds?
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.
how seeds works
A mock-up of the Seeds UX in a mobile app that has integrated our free tools. When you redeem a SEED to ask for help, your request can appear much like Isah’s does above.
What if our economic system created a bigger pie for us all?
It takes just a few minutes to complete the form to redeem a SEED to ask for help, and your request is then shared with the Seeds community. This used to happen within other apps that had integrated our tools, but now takes place on our website via one-time and recurring gifts made to help folks through Seeds.
When you give to someone in need via our platforms, 100% of the value of your gift goes to that person, minus any transaction fees charged by third parties like the Ethereum network and Stripe. We send you SEEDS cryptocurrency in thanks for your kindness, and gifts themselves are sent in SEEDS as well.
You can then trade your SEEDS on the decentralized cryptocurrency markets, stake them for a passive income, or redeem them to make further requests for help for yourself, or on behalf of others.
The biggest Request for Help we’ve granted to date was for over $162,000 USD. As our community grows, we hope that Seeds can be used as a tool to pay for bigger and bigger things, like your feature film project, or your dream home.
We want folks to use Seeds to build a better future: to pursue startup ideas, create art, and/or quit working jobs that they hate, so that they have the space and support to instead explore what they love.
So what would you do if you didn’t have to worry about money? Let us know, and we’ll do our best to help. :)
Another example of how a Request for Help from someone who redeemed a SEED may be shown through a partner mobile app that has integrated our free tools.
a new paradigm
Seeds is creating a new economic paradigm: a bigger pie for all. Give $1 to someone in need, & receive $1 or more worth of SEEDS in thanks. Join the abundance revolution today. 💗
