Open Source Coin

Discontinued

Last updated 2026-03-15 · Update this page

Historical record. This platform is discontinued and should not be treated as an active option.

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.

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Goal: Project support. Model: Infrastructure. Status: Historical.

Should you use this?

Best for: Projects whose main blocker is hosting, CI, storage, AI tooling, or operational overhead.
Not ideal for: Projects that need direct maintainer income rather than cost reduction.
Why choose it: Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.
Watch out for: Credits and tooling reduce burden but usually do not fund maintainer time directly.
Setup effort: Review setup requirements
Fees: A current fee or value-capture model could not be validated from surviving public material.
Last verified: 2026-03-15
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Goal Project support

Model Infrastructure

Tags

Decentralized OSS-specific

Verification	Unverified
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.