Open Source Coin

Discontinued Unverified

Last updated 2026-03-15 · Update this page

Discontinued. This listing is kept in OSS.Fund for reference, but the platform no longer appears active.

Oscoin aimed to rethink how open source collaboration, reputation, and value sharing could work if the underlying coordination layer were decentralized from the start. The project now appears dormant, but it remains relevant as a historical example of attempts to treat OSS sustainability as an infrastructure and protocol problem rather than only as a donation problem.

Area Operational Support

Category Infrastructure

Tags

Decentralized OSS-specific

Organization	Corporation
Open source status	Open source
Platform technology	Open source blockchain collaboration project
Monetization model	Decentralized infrastructure for projects
Payment methods	Not publicly documented
Platform fees	A current fee or value-capture model could not be validated from surviving public material.
User activity	The original website could not be validated during this audit and surviving public references point to an abandoned or dormant project rather than a live network.
Evidence	https://lobste.rs/s/mwgp5v/trust_sustainability_foss https://www.skypack.dev/view/oscoin