While I have previously introduced the idea of Decentralized Public Administration Networks, or dPANs, as a mechanism to decentralize existing administrative systems, there is far more to this vision. Radical disruption of municipal systems is not something governments can easily accept or permit. History has taught us this. Local authorities operate under legal, political, and fiduciary constraints that make wholesale change impossible overnight. The entire purpose of dPANs is to provide a transitory system as a safe, auditable, and controlled framework through which governments can experiment with decentralized models while progressively delegating authority.

By maintaining accountability, securing citizen protections, and preserving budgetary integrity, dPANs create a path for gradual decentralization without risk of service disruption or political backlash. This article will explore how they can be harnessed, and a practical framework for them to operate within.

Along with this article, I'm announcing the launch of a new project called City/Sync.

City/Sync is a newly incorporated non-profit organization dedicated to reimagining how cities fund, govern, and coordinate public life. It seeks to build City/Sync Networks...a standardized, and replicable technology stack that implements a local blockchain for every city. Currently, the organization is made up of me, myself, and I. But, I'm hoping with more engagement from like-minded individuals such as yourself, it could develop into something much more. I don't have the talent, skills, or perspective to build this alone, but I do have the will to keep searching in the dark until I find those that do. So if it interests you, please do reach out...I'd love to talk.

At its core, City/Sync is about syncing the needs of people, the resources of governments, and the creativity of communities into one coherent, open, and participatory system. We (me and me and me) believe the tools of blockchain and decentralized coordination mechanisms can be used to reduce friction in public administration, increase transparency, and unlock entirely new ways of funding and delivering public goods and services.

The “go-to-market” strategy for City/Sync Networks will require two meaningful actions.

First, it must incentivize new social behaviors through volunteerism, motivating citizens to engage in public service through a tangible and rewarding system.

Second, it requires financial integration with existing local budgets, ensuring that tokenized civic work is meaningful, redeemable, and backed by municipal authority.

To accomplish this, each City/Sync Network will launch with a Volunteer Network dApp, the cornerstone of the open-source City/Sync Network stack, all integrated within a local POA chain. The Volunteer Network dApp allows government agencies and approved non-profits to offer volunteer opportunities directly through the network. Participation requires creating a Network Account and a Decentralized Identifier, or DID, establishing a secure identity for citizens.

This application not only coordinates volunteer activity but also serves as the onboarding mechanism for citizens into a new public-sector economy, linking contributions to rewards and governance power. Local governments will need to integrate this network with their existing financial programs to ensure that earned tokens can translate into meaningful, budget-backed value.

Throughout this article, I will explain exactly how to achieve these two meaningful actions as part of the standardized approach toward integrating local chains.

When I talk about $CITY tokens, it is important to understand that the term itself is a placeholder…a flexible label standing in for whatever the city decides to call its own civic credit system. The City of Oakland may issue $OAK, the City of San Francisco may issue $SF, and New York City may issue $NYC. Each of these tokens functions under the same conceptual framework, but they are individualized to their local context and administered according to the priorities of the municipality and the local chain.

The fundamental principle of $CITY is that it is earned through civic contribution. Citizens who volunteer, engage in verified public work, or otherwise contribute to the functioning of their communities can earn $CITY tokens through the Volunteer Network dApp. In addition to $CITY, each participant receives $VOTE on a 1:1 basis, representing non-transferrable governance power within the local chain. This dual issuance ensures that civic contribution is not only compensated but also tied to meaningful participation in decision making. It aligns incentives so that engagement and voice are inseparable from one another, creating a feedback loop in which public work and civic governance are mutually reinforcing.

Earning $CITY is intuitive and transparent. A citizen might spend an afternoon staffing a local library, assisting with neighborhood clean up, or helping to verify data for a city planning initiative. Each of these contributions is recorded, validated, and quantified through the Volunteer dApp. The result is a digital ledger reflecting not just the work done but the direct impact on the community. $CITY acts as a unit of measurement for civic contribution, while $VOTE ensures that those who contribute have proportional influence within the decentralized governance framework of the local chain. It is a system designed to embed accountability and transparency into the currency of civic engagement. The logic is simple: if you contribute to the health of the city, you earn tangible value and a voice in shaping how that city operates. This foundational principle sets the stage for an entirely new approach to public administration, one that is simultaneously participatory and digitally native.

The aspiration behind $CITY tokens traces its intellectual lineage to experiments in alternative monetary systems, most famously the Wörgl experiment in Austria during the early 1930s. In Wörgl, the city issued a local currency that circulated alongside the national currency, incentivizing work and community investment while demonstrating the power of a localized, complementary economy. Residents were able to earn a stamp scrip, and due to its unique implementation of demurrage, it incentivized citizens to spend the local currency on municipal projects, stimulating engagement and economic activity while bypassing some of the inefficiencies and inequities of the broader market. The Wörgl story captures the essence of why City/Sync seeks to establish a separate public sector economy that can operate parallel to the private sector.

This separation is critical because, historically, public sector goals and private sector incentives do not always align. Local Governments exist to provide public goods, manage collective resources, and maintain the infrastructure of civic life. Private markets, by contrast, optimize for profit, often leaving public needs underfunded or unserved. The introduction of $CITY allows a city to begin building a public sector economy that can operate independently while still interacting intelligently with the private sector when necessary. The vision is to have a currency and incentive system that measures and rewards civic contribution directly, rather than leaving it to market valuation or external funding mechanisms.

However, $CITY is not launched as a full currency from day one. In its initial stage, $CITY functions as a rewards and credits system. This is a deliberate design choice. By beginning as a rewards token, the city can pilot the system without introducing financial risk, speculation, or unintended consequences that might accompany a freely tradable public currency. The focus is on demonstrating that citizens can earn meaningful value through verified civic contributions. Over time, as trust, infrastructure, and understanding grow, $CITY can evolve toward a more sophisticated community currency, fully integrated with decentralized applications and broader economic functions.

The story of Wörgl is fascinating, but it is also cautionary. Wörgl ultimately succumbed to national policy restrictions and could not scale beyond its local context. City/Sync Networks and the $CITY framework are designed to learn from these lessons, leveraging modern blockchain technology, secure smart contract wallets, and tokenized governance mechanisms to ensure that local economies can maintain autonomy, transparency, and scalability. By embedding both $CITY and $VOTE into a single, verifiable digital ecosystem, local chains can provide not just incentives but a governance structure that prevents centralization of power and ensures that participation translates into both material and decision-making outcomes.

The question of value is both philosophical and practical. For local governments seeking to experiment with a City/Sync Network, the first challenge is deciding how to peg the value of the token. There are three fundamental models to consider: Market-Pegged value, Work-pegged value, and Budget-Pegged value. Each model captures different aspects of what $CITY represents and each comes with distinct benefits and potential failure modes.

A Market peg would treat $CITY as a tradable commodity, with supply and demand determining value. This model maximizes flexibility and portability, allowing $CITY to flow across applications, cities, and even beyond municipal boundaries. Market pegs allow citizens to capture the social and economic value of their contributions in a freely traded manner, and they can encourage innovation by creating a speculative premium for civic engagement. However, this approach is highly volatile and exposes local governments, vendors, and citizens to market fluctuations that may not reflect the intrinsic value of public work. Market peg systems risk creating inequality, as those with access to trading knowledge and/or capital can disproportionately benefit from market fluctuations, potentially undermining the democratic and civic intentions of the currency.

A Work peg anchors $CITY to the verified contribution of labor or civic effort. Every hour of public work earns a defined number of tokens, giving the currency a direct and transparent relationship to civic contribution. This model captures the value of engagement, encourages participation, and preserves the philosophical integrity of $CITY as a unit of public effort. The risks here include administrative complexity and the difficulty of calibrating value consistently across different types of civic work. If two hours of work in cleaning a park and verifying a building permit are treated identically, yet one requires more skill or cost to the city, for example, the perception of fairness may erode. Without careful design, Work-pegged systems can also face scalability challenges, as the city must reliably verify and audit every contribution.

Finally, the Budget peg directly ties $CITY to city-allocated funds. This peg is predictable and stable, as the value of $CITY is determined by how much the city is willing to redeem for them in exchange for specific public services from approved vendors. For example, a monthly bus pass might cost 28 $CITY because the city has allocated a specific portion of the transit budget to subsidize these redemptions. The Budget peg provides clarity, reduces risk, and ensures that $CITY always has real-world utility within your city. However, it introduces a dependency on municipal budgets, political cycles, and the ongoing willingness of governments to maintain the peg. At scale, citizens could become more reliant on government allocation than autonomous civic participation, potentially limiting the decentralizing potential of the system.

With that being said, $CITY will start with a Budget peg approach, because it allows for safe pilots, predictable vendor settlement, and immediate municipal oversight. Citizens, vendors, and officials can see precisely how $CITY relates to real resources, reducing friction and risk. Over time, as systems mature and trust builds, the model is expected to evolve into a hybrid approach, incorporating Work and Market-value elements to enhance decentralization, resilience, and portability. The Budget peg acts as a floor, guaranteeing minimum value, while Work and Market layers allow $CITY to reflect actual civic contribution and broader social valuation.

In order to fully integrate a Budget-peg for our $CITY token, we must also secure an onchain representation of municipal funds, allowing cities to programmatically budget and allocate resources while maintaining financial accountability. $cityUSDC is simply $USDC on a local chain, and is the financial backing for the redemption of $CITY tokens by public-sector vendors.  

In addition to this representation of municipal funds, $BUDG will be introduced as a method that organizes municipal funds ($cityUSDC) into a more purpose-specific form, with separate tokens for each service area such as transportation ($BUDG-Trans), libraries ($BUDG-Lib), parks ($BUDG-prks), etc. This will allow for local governments to create dedicated allocation pools backed by service area budgets.  

Each vendor onboarded will have an associated tag mapping their particular address to a specified pool.  The parks department, the transit agency, the libraries, etc. will each have a designated pool based upon their dedicated service area.  

When $CITY is spent at a public vendor, it automatically converts into $BUDGx, ensuring that funds remain "ring-fenced" and backed by $cityUSDC. Through the bridge from $BUDGx to $cityUSDC, vendors know that every token they accept can be redeemed for real, stable $USDC. This mechanism protects vendors, ensures fiscal responsibility, and allows cities to experiment with tokenized public spending without risk.

Together, they create a bridge between the city’s traditional budget accounting processes and the $CITY token economy, guaranteeing that civic contributions translate into real, auditable value. In addition, the cost of the provisioned good or service by vendors can be altered based upon the demand of their offering and the supply of $CITY generated within the network.

The beauty of this system lies not only in accountability but also in flexibility. Cities can calibrate redemption rates, adjust allocations, and even pilot experimental programs without risking the integrity of the entire accounting system. Citizens earn $CITY for work, vendors redeem $BUDG for guaranteed $USDC, and the city can transparently manage allocations in a way that fosters both trust and engagement. The example of Kepler buying his bus pass illustrates a key principle: $CITY is meaningful only insofar as it connects labor to services in a way that respects budgetary realities, vendor needs, and civic outcomes.

Decentralized Public Administration Networks, or d-PANs, provide the scaffolding upon which this vision of civic currency and decentralized governance can truly scale. A d-PAN is a framework for distributing public administration functions across a network of decentralized applications, validators, and verifiers, rather than concentrating authority in a single bureaucratic institution. Integrating $CITY and $BUDG into d-PANs allows cities to create a parallel system of public administration, where civic work, funding flows, and governance decisions are coordinated via a shared token economy and verifiable protocols.

In practice, each d-PAN application can issue $CITY for verified civic contributions relevant to its domain. Kepler might participate in multiple d-PAN apps: one tracking park maintenance, another verifying local housing permits, and another coordinating food distribution. Each task contributes to a ledger of public value, with $CITY and $VOTE earned in proportion to verified work. The issuance is automatic, traceable, and standardized across the network. From the perspective of local government, d-PANs serve as modular, decentralized service coordinators. They relieve central agencies from micromanaging every task while maintaining visibility, accountability, and program fidelity through blockchain-enabled reporting, all while reducing the cost of collective monitoring.

Beyond cost savings, this integration fosters a new form of civic culture. Residents see a direct link between their work and the functioning of their city. They earn tokens, participate in governance via $VOTE, and engage in meaningful decision-making. d-PANs amplify this effect by enabling interoperability between different public service applications. One standard volunteer verification can issue $CITY across multiple programs, enhancing efficiency and encouraging cross-sector collaboration. The networked nature of d-PANs ensures that civic contributions are not siloed, and the cumulative impact of residents like Kepler can be aggregated, analyzed, and rewarded holistically.

In the long term, the integration of $CITY into d-PANs represents more than a payment mechanism. It is a transformative framework for governance. It decouples the performance of public services from rigid departmental hierarchies, replacing them with measurable, incentivized workflows distributed across a network of citizens, non-profits, and local institutions. It preserves vendor confidence through $BUDG and $USDC settlement, aligns incentives through Work-value issuance, and creates opportunities for inter-city coordination and innovation via optional Market-Value pegging mechanisms. For residents, it turns civic engagement into a measurable, tradable, and governable form of value, embedding both responsibility and opportunity into the everyday practice of citizenship.

As City/Sync matures and d-PANs proliferate across multiple cities, the value model of $CITY evolves beyond the simple Budget-Value peg. While the initial approach provides stability and political defensibility, it is not sufficient to capture the full spectrum of civic engagement and decentralized governance. To realize the vision of a resilient, autonomous public sector economy, $CITY must incorporate a hybrid model that layers Work-Value and Market-Value pegs atop the Budget-Value floor.

For Work-Value issuance, these mechanisms allow each verified civic contribution to accrue a measurable unit of $CITY proportional to effort, impact, and complexity. Kepler might spend a Saturday volunteering to maintain a city garden, and the algorithmic attestation of that contribution automatically credits him with $CITY. Simultaneously, he receives an equal amount of $VOTE, giving him proportional influence over local chain governance decisions related to parks, public spaces, related d-PAN’s, or broader urban planning initiatives. By tying token issuance to verified labor, the system decentralizes power away from central bureaucracies, making citizens both contributors and governors of their city. This approach not only incentivizes engagement but ensures that the supply of $CITY reflects real-world impact rather than arbitrary budget allocations or speculative market forces.

Market-Value layers provide optional flexibility and interoperability. As $CITY matures, it may be traded or swapped across inter-city d-PAN applications, philanthropic initiatives, or even private sector partnerships. This creates a dynamic ceiling for $CITY, ensuring that citizens’ contributions maintain liquidity and relevance beyond local program boundaries. By carefully calibrating bridges, automated market makers, and policy rate limits, the system prevents volatility from undermining public trust while allowing citizens to leverage $CITY across networks, enhancing both mobility and engagement.

The hybrid approach also addresses scalability concerns. Budget-Value provides a guaranteed floor, Work-Value ensures proportional reward for effort, and Market-Value introduces flexibility and exchangeability. Together, these layers allow $CITY to function as a unifying token across d-PANs, capable of handling thousands of decentralized applications, millions of participants, and multiple cities, all while preserving transparency and accountability.

One of the most compelling arguments for local governments to adopt a City/Sync Network is the potential for responsible tax reduction. The system is designed to convert verified civic labor into tangible economic value, effectively offsetting operational costs that would otherwise require cash outlays. Kepler’s contributions within the Volunteer Network dApp are not just symbolic; they are real work that displaces labor the city would have had to fund directly. By quantifying the economic impact of citizen engagement through $CITY, cities can identify specific areas where public services are being delivered at lower cost.

Consider a city that spends one million dollars annually on park maintenance. Through a local chain, hundreds of residents like Kepler contribute verified hours of work, amounting to a substantial portion of that labor requirement. The city can then calculate how much of the budget is effectively covered by tokenized volunteer labor. This provides a defensible rationale for targeted tax reductions or reallocation of funds without cutting services. It is important to emphasize that this is not a token gimmick or an abstract incentive. Every $CITY earned corresponds to measurable work, every redemption is backed by ring-fenced $USDC through $BUDG, and every vendor receives guaranteed settlement. The system is auditable, budgeted, transparent, and accountable.

Moreover, local chains allow for phased implementation of tax reductions. Initially, tax relief can be targeted to programs with robust volunteer participation and verified cost offsets. As the network of d-PAN applications grows and measurement tools improve, broader tax adjustments may become feasible. Citizens and city officials can track the precise relationship between volunteer activity and fiscal outcomes, providing a data-driven foundation for policy decisions that historically have relied on intuition or political negotiation.

Beyond fiscal efficiency, the integration of $CITY into d-PANs fundamentally reshapes the relationship between citizens and government. Traditional public administration concentrates authority in centralized agencies, often creating bureaucratic bottlenecks, opacity, and inefficiency within their domain of operations. City/Sync networks decentralize these functions by embedding verification, governance, and funding flows directly into the network. Each d-PAN application becomes a modular node, orchestrating tasks, tracking impact, and issuing $CITY in real time.

For citizens, this creates a sense of agency and ownership. Kepler is no longer a passive recipient of municipal services; he is an active participant in producing, validating, and governing those services. Every action he takes, every token he earns, every vote he casts, contributes to a living ecosystem of public administration that is open and resilient. The result is a culture of participatory governance, where civic engagement is measurable and amplified through network effects.

For government officials, City/Sync networks offer visibility and predictability. The ring-fenced $BUDG allocations ensure that financial commitments are respected, while Work-Value issuance ensures that labor contributions are verifiable and quantifiable. Administrators gain real-time insight into service delivery, budget performance, and community engagement. Rather than micromanaging every department, they can act as stewards of a distributed system, guiding policy, monitoring outcomes, and adjusting allocations with unprecedented precision.

Trust is the lifeblood of public-life. City/Sync Networks seek to build trust through verifiable issuance, redeemable value, and open governance. Kepler knows that every $CITY he earns is backed by actual services and that his $VOTE carries real influence over decisions. Vendors know that $BUDG provides guaranteed $USDC settlement. The city knows that every token issued corresponds to either budgeted funds or verified public work.

Auditing and transparency are embedded at every layer. Smart contracts enforce rules without exception. Attestation protocols verify contributions and prevent duplication or fraud. Ring-fenced allocations prevent misuse of public funds. And by maintaining clear reporting channels, the network ensures that every stakeholder, whether they be a citizen, vendor, or administrator, can trace the path of funds and tokens from issuance to redemption. This is how we build trust within the public-sector.

City/Sync, $CITY, and d-PANs together offer the blueprint for a parallel public-sector economy, distinct from but interoperable with the private sector. By starting with a Budget-Value peg, expanding into Work-Value issuance, and optionally layering Market-Value bridges, cities can experiment, iterate, and scale without exposing citizens or vendors to unnecessary risk. The hybrid approach balances predictability with autonomy, centralization with decentralization, and stability with growth.

As citizens engage, earn, and govern, the system generates a self-reinforcing ecosystem. Civic labor becomes measurable value, governance becomes participatory and direct, and budget allocations become programmable. By quantifying impact, optimizing workflows, and distributing decision-making power, City/Sync Networks reduce reliance on centralized administrative control while preserving fiscal accountability. Over time, this creates the potential for lower taxes, higher civic participation, and more resilient local governments.

Kepler’s simple act of volunteering in his local park may seem small, but it is emblematic of a profound transformation. Each contribution ripples across the network, feeding into tokenized incentives, automated settlements, and new forms of governance. In aggregate, hundreds, thousands, or millions of contributions can transform how cities operate, demonstrating that public service is not a cost to be minimized but a networked economy of value that citizens actively shape and govern.

Another powerful possibility unlocked by City/Sync Networks and d-PANs is the interoperability between cities. While each city maintains its own $CITY token, ring-fenced $BUDG allocations, and budget priorities, the underlying architecture allows for bridges, standardization, and protocol-level interoperability. Kepler, for example, could volunteer in Oakland, earning $OAK, and later participate in a regional initiative in San Francisco, earning $SF. Through carefully designed market bridges and redemption policies, tokens can flow across city networks, enabling collaboration, knowledge sharing, and resource allocation on a broader scale.

Inter-city interoperability also creates resilience and optionality. If one city experiences budgetary constraints or programmatic delays, $CITY tokens earned in other municipalities retain value within the network, ensuring that citizens’ contributions are not confined or wasted. Moreover, interoperability encourages best practices and competition in civic administration. Cities can benchmark their d-PAN programs, observe how other municipalities calibrate Work-value issuance, and adopt successful governance or engagement models. The result is a network effect in which the collective knowledge and participation of multiple cities amplifies the impact of individual civic contributions.

The societal implications of City/Sync Networks extend far beyond efficiency gains or tokenized rewards. By converting civic work into a measurable, exchangeable, and governable form of value, the system reshapes the social contract. Citizens like Kepler are no longer passive recipients of municipal services. They become co-creators, co-managers, and co-governors of the public sector economy. Every action, from maintaining public gardens to staffing local events or verifying municipal data, is recognized, rewarded, and embedded into a broader governance framework.

This transformation fosters a culture of engagement and reciprocity. Civic contributions are no longer invisible or undervalued; they are quantified, recognized, and directly tied to governance power through $VOTE. Citizens can see the impact of their work, participate in decision-making, and influence the priorities and policies that shape their communities. Over time, this creates a self-reinforcing loop of participation, in which trust, engagement, and measurable impact grow in tandem.

Furthermore, local chains have the potential to redefine equity in civic life. By providing a structured mechanism for earning value through public work, it lowers barriers for participation among underrepresented or under-resourced populations. Kepler may be a student, a retiree, or a parent, and yet each hour of verified civic labor translates into meaningful tokenized value. These tokens can be redeemed for essential services or exchanged across d-PAN applications, allowing residents to participate fully in civic life regardless of their economic standing. In this way, local chains democratize access to governance, creating a more inclusive and resilient local society.

One of the defining features of City/Sync is the implementation of a Proof-of-Authority (POA) local chain. Unlike public, permissionless blockchains where anyone can participate in consensus, local chains give control to trusted institutions such as municipal agencies, universities, local non-profits, or other civic organizations that already carry legitimacy in that particular community. This governance model ensures that experiments in decentralized public administration can be conducted in a controlled environment, where local governments can run pilots, test new systems, and build citizen trust without exposing critical civic infrastructure to the risks of unverified actors.

In this context, “local” does not mean closed-off. Instead, it refers to a bounded network of operators and validators who are physically and socially tied to a specific community. Node operators might include the city’s department of transportation, the public library system, a local university’s IT center, or regional non-profits with long-standing commitments to civic life. This constellation of operators ensures that no single entity holds all control, while also anchoring the system in the lived experience of the community it serves.

From a technical standpoint, each city can launch its own chain configured for its governance needs. However, these chains must be interoperable, so that a citizen who participates in City A chain can move to City B while retaining their civic history, volunteer records, $CITY balances, voting credentials, and more. This portability is critical: it ensures that civic engagement recorded on one chain becomes part of a lifetime civic identity rather than a siloed experiment. Interoperability could be achieved through a shared identity layer and cross-chain bridging protocol, where user wallets can export their state from one city chain and import it into another.

These local chains function as civic sandboxes: safe, permissioned environments where governments can test tokenized budgeting, community rewards, and citizen engagement mechanisms. Over time, they can scale into interconnected public infrastructure, where each city retains sovereignty over its chain while contributing to a larger, federated civic network. In this way, local chains allow governments to innovate without losing public trust, and citizens to participate without losing their civic history.

The practical rollout of City/Sync Networks begins with pilots: small-scale programs targeting specific public services, such as park maintenance, libraries, or transit subsidies. These pilots establish credibility, demonstrate measurable impact, and provide the data necessary to quantify labor offsets and potential tax relief. Citizens participate, vendors settle through ring-fenced $BUDG, and local governments observe real-time dashboards of engagement, output, and financial implications.

As pilots succeed, d-PAN applications can be created and expand to include more municipal services, inter-city interoperability can be introduced, and hybrid pegging mechanisms can evolve. Work-Value issuance can become more sophisticated, Market-Peg bridges can be carefully integrated, and the system can grow into a robust, decentralized public-sector economy. Cities can then begin responsibly reducing local taxes, redistributing budget allocations, or investing in new public programs, all based on verifiable, networked civic contributions. The result is a new social and economic contract, one in which participation and governance are inseparable and valued.

City/Sync, $CITY, $VOTE, $BUDG, $cityUSDC, and d-PANs together constitute a reimagining of public administration for the digital age. This vision seeks to create a parallel public-sector economy in which verified civic work is tokenized, governance is decentralized, and public funds are both programmable and auditable. Citizens like Kepler earn tangible value for contributions, vendors receive guaranteed settlement, and governments gain transparency, efficiency, and the capacity to responsibly reduce taxes.

Ultimately, City/Sync is about more than tokens or technology. It is about rethinking how communities organize, value, and reward one another's civic life. It is about transforming public administration into a participatory and measurable ecosystem of collective action. It is about turning the everyday contributions of citizens into a currency of governance, and a metric of public impact. 

Through this vision, public administration is no longer a black box of bureaucracy; it becomes a living, tokenized network of people, tasks, and trust, capable of scaling, and adapting alongside the communities it serves. City/Sync offers a blueprint for a future where civic engagement is rewarded, governance is participatory, and the public sector economy is both independent of and complementary to the private-sector, ensuring that every citizen, from Kepler to the thousands of volunteers across multiple cities, has both a voice and a stake in the betterment of their city.

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