ValidbookA universal platform for cooperation.

An effective way to organize information, cooperate and learn about something or someone

by Bohdan Andriyiv29 December 2016

To understand the idea of Validbook, please read next 3 slides.

What is Validbook?Validbook is a universal platform for cooperation, built on open source and open governance principals.

Validbook consists of 3 main parts: • a universal log – a tool to store and organize information

• a universal communication platform – a tool for social, work, or interests

related communication

• a store and exchange for tokens* – a tool to create, store and exchange

indestructible tokens

*Tokens are smart documents. Tokens behave similarly to real-world, physical paper documents. They can be stored, exchanged, collected. Tokens can be destroyed only by their current owner.

Validbook Mission

Validbook mission is to enhance cooperation, by making it more transparent and reliable.

Transparency of cooperation is improved by Validbook books, that can be used to organize information and make observable and unobservable qualities of subjects and objects of cooperation clearer and more understandable. Reliability of cooperation is improved by Validbook tokens (smart documents), that can be used to decrease reliance on trust when needed and make cooperation more certain and unfailing.

*By cooperation we understand the process of entities (people, things or virtual entities) acting together for a common or mutual benefit. We use the broadest concept of cooperation from small scale, one-time, dyadic cooperation to large scale, multi-generational, many parties cooperation.

How does Validbook governed and maintained?

• Validbook is a public utility and a common good. It is a not-for-profit social interest enterprise.

• Validbook is user controlled and openly governed. It is operated by elected representatives of Validbook users. No one owns Validbook. Validbook is funded through debt and its own operational income.

• Validbook developed with open source code.

The following slides provide the examples of Validbook usage, describe its main features, governance and funding model.

You may skip the following slides and explore Validbook directly at

http://validbook.org

What you can do with Validbook● You can organize information and learn about something or someone by using

Validbook books.

● You can create your universal digital identity by organizing information about different facets of your identity, so that you can communicate and cooperate better. Use Validbook books to organize knowledge, show your interests, hobbies, experience or other observable or unobservable qualities.

● You can create and exchange tokens* to store important information, for example, agreements, certificates or ownership claims.

● You can communicate and cooperate with people by following them or their books and by exchanging messages and tokens with them.

*Tokens are documents. Tokens behave similarly to real-world, physical paper documents. They can be stored, exchanged, collected. Tokens can be destroyed only by their current owner.

Examples of Validbook usage

• Interest books. Collect and show information about your interests and hobbies For example, see – http://validbook.org/bohdan.andriyiv/books/58-Interests.

• Work books. Create work logs and portfolios. You can create detailed work logs or summary work logs, similar to CV. For example, see – http://validbook.org/bohdan.andriyiv/books/57-Work.

• Karma books. If you want to receive external validation on your work or other activities you can do it by collecting feedback into your karma books.For example, see – http://validbook.org/bohdan.andriyiv/books/471-Professional-Karma

• Tokens. To put simple tokens are documents. As in usual paper documents, the text and images in tokens preserve and display information for as long as tokens exist. Tokens are stored in caches and cannot be destroyed until their current owner decides to destroy them. Besides storing valuable information tokens can be used as collectible items, that can be exchanged. Each token has unique ID number. For example, see – http://validbook.org/bohdan.andriyiv/tokens/6-Public-cache

How to use Validbook as a universal log? Create books and log stories into them.

You can use books to store and show whatever you want: your interests, life, work, hobbies. (For example, see books of this user – http://validbook.org/bohdan.andriyiv/books)

When you log stories, you can choose, whether to log them loudly or quietly.

When you log story loudly, this story will appear in channels of your followers and followers of book. Also you can automatically share story to Facebook or Twitter.

When you log story quietly, this story will be just logged into your book. It will not go into the channels of your followers, evenif you log it into an open book.

How to use Validbook as a storage for tokens? Tokens, are documents, similar to paper documents. Tokens behave like real world objects. They can be stored, exchanged, collected. Tokens can be destroyed only by the current owner of tokens.

Create, send and receive tokens when you feel there is a need to use documents (more details on slides 20-21).

Validbook is a not-for-profit social interest enterprise. Validbook is meant to become public utility and global natural monopoly.

Validbook developed with open source code. Validbook is openly governed and user controlled. All key positions in Validbook will be filled by open elections.

Validbook is funded through debt and from its own operational income. Investors can invest into the development of Validbook by lending it money via Validbook debt notes. The rate of return on Validbook debt notes will be determined by the market. People can invest into Validbook development by making work contribution-debts into the open source development of Validbook in exchange for Validbook debt notes. These contributions will be payed back using the same rate of return as for Validbook debt notes issued in exchange for money. Measurement and approval of the volume of work contributions will be done in open and peer to peer reviewed way.

Validbook code repository available here – https://github.com/Drabiv/Validbook.Validbook contribution-debts log available her – https://github.com/Drabiv/Validbook/blob/master/contribution-debts%20log. Email list to coordinate governance and development of Validbook – https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/validbook (When common books of Validbook are fully functioning, this email list will be transferred to ‘Validbook’ common book)

Validbook governance and funding

Main use cases

Validbook use cases

• Use universal log to store and organize information• Create and manage universal digital identities • Manage relationships, including relationships of ownership by using tokens• Participate in complex group cooperation by using common books and virtual entities• Cooperate with intelligent things by using API and TACOs• Manage reputation by using karma books• Communicate about your interests by using interests books • Communicate about your work by using work books • Engage in social communication by using Wallbook and private books

• Validbook is non-proprietary, open source and user controlled platform • Key positions in Validbook will be filled by open elections • Validbook design is made to provide as much as possible freedom and control to individuals over their digital identities and information that they see in their streams

Openness and control related reasons to use Validbook

VALIDBOOK FEATURES:USER PAGE

User page in Validbook

You can see on the left side of the user page, that in Validbook every user has stories, books, people, things, tokens and common books.

Parts of user page

Stories is a default subpage on a user page. It shows all stories from all user’s books which are open to you.

Books are places where user can store, organize and display their stories.

People page contains lists of people that are connected to user in someway. For example lists of followers or following.

Things page contains intelligent things that user connected to Validbook.

Tokens page contains tokens and caches. Tokens are smart documents. Caches are places where user can keep their tokens.

Common Books – are books that do not belong to one user and are used to communicate on common topic or coordinate common activities.

VALIDBOOK FEATURES:BOOKS

Books

Books are places where people store and display their stories.

New users by default have only one book – Wallbook.Wallbook is a default, open to anyone book.

Users can create other books to store information about their interests, work, life, reputation etc.

Books can be open or closed. Open books can be used to showcase different sides of identity. Closed books can be used to store personal information. Books can have sub-books.

On the screenshot, we see that user has many open books: Interests, Work, Karma, Ask me anything, and Example books. Based on the icon we can see that user’s Life book is closed.

Books can be followed separately from user. For example, if you are not interested in all stories from the person, but only in work related stories you can follow respective books.

You can follow different books in different channels.

VALIDBOOK FEATURES:CHANNELS

Channels

Channels page is a default starting page in Validbook. On channels page you can see stream of stories from people and books that you follow.

Channels

Channel is a stream of stories from people, things or books that are followed in the channel.

Mashup channel is the main channel. By default everything except things are followed in mashup channel.

User can create other channels, to follow specific people, books or things. For example, on the image we see that user created a number of thematic channels.

VALIDBOOK FEATURES:TOKENS

Tokens

Tokens are smart documents that can be used to preserve and represent rights, relationships, agreements or thoughts. Tokens behave similarly to real-world, physical paper documents. Tokens can be stored, exchanged, and collected. Tokens can be destroyed only by their current ownerTokens may have embedded logic, so that they can be executed automatically, that’s why they are called ‘smart’ documents.

Every token has unique number.

Tokens are stored in caches.

It will be possible to hash tokens and link them into Bitcoin blockchain. Tutorial to do this will be provided so that users can do it from their own secure environment. Ownership over tokens will be determined by blockchain and not by Validbook servers.

Caches

Cache is a place were user stores their tokens.

Caches can be public or private.

By default user have such caches:• Exchange – this is a special cache used to receive or send tokens. When someone send you token they first come into your exchange, then you can accept or reject them.• Sash – is the default public cache, that user can use to showcase the most interesting tokens.• TACOs caches* – are caches to store tokens that provide access, control or ownership rights over physical or digital assets (tokens of ownership). • Private cache – one private cache is created for a new user by default. • Public cache – one public cache is created for a new user by default.

*Future feature. Currently this functionality does not function. Here they are given to outline future development and for better understanding of Validbook idea.

VALIDBOOK FUTURE FEATURES:INTELLIGENT THINGS, COMMON BOOKS, VIRTUAL ENTITIES

Common Books* – are books that do not reside among internal books of a person or a thing. They are usually used to communicate about common topic or coordinate common activities. Common books can be of 2 types, forum common books and coordination common books.

Virtual entities* are used to represent entities that do not exist in physical world, for example legal persons. Also, virtual entities can be used as pseudonyms. Virtual entities are always created from and based on common books.

First common book is “Validbook books” – http://validbook.org/common-books/83-Validbook-Books. First virtual entity will be – “Validbook”*.

Intelligent things* are things that have sensory, logical and communicative abilities.For example, flower pot is intelligent if it can sense how humid the soil inside it is, deduce if the soil is too dry for a flower and communicate this to whoever can water it.Currently, Validbook provides simple API to connect intelligent things to Validbook via HTTP protocol. The most important use case for intelligent things is the determination of ownership over things by using TACOs (Tokens of Access, Control and Ownership rights).

*Future features. Currently this functionality does not function properly or at all. Here they are given to outline future development and for better understanding of Validbook idea.