Digital Reserve Registry Framework
Project Overview
Central Ura and Central Cru already circulate under the Credit-to-Credit Monetary System, but tomorrow’s global confidence depends on something more: a common digital backbone that catalogues every asset—gold, court-cleared receivables, carbon credits, productive land titles—no matter where it sits.
This project designs that backbone. It will guide ministries, exchanges, and—in time—the future Global Ura Authority (GUA) in building registries that talk to each other, publish live proofs, and protect data sovereignty. Globalgood’s role is advocacy, convening, and specification writing; governments, tech vendors, and audit firms will build and run the nodes.
Why It Matters
Transparent money creation – a currency is only honest when anyone can see the asset behind it.
Legal certainty – the UN Receivables Convention comes alive when a judge, banker or farmer can pull up a single record and verify ownership in seconds.
Inclusive access – a boda-boda rider checking a phone, or a sovereign-wealth chief checking an API, should get the same answer on reserve status.
Systemic stability – synchronized ledgers shrink the space for double-pledging and over-issuance, reinforcing national and personal economic sovereignty.
Core Outcomes
Create a multi-tier design: local registries feeding regional hubs, all mirrored in a GUA master ledger once the Treaty of Nairobi is in force.
Publish an open data model and API set that covers every admissible reserve class—receivables, bullion, carbon units, land titles, energy credits. The spec will be freely licensed so nations can self-host.
Launch proof-of-concept registries in three early partners—South Sudan, Ghana and Kenya—demonstrating live queries and quarterly proof-of-reserve uploads.
Extend Globalgood’s Open-Data Dashboard with an Audit Archive, time-stamping every report on-chain and mirroring summaries to consumer apps.
Deliver training packs and a help-desk so national clerks, fintechs and audit officers can run the system without foreign consultants in perpetuity.
Phased Road-map
Design & consensus 2026–2027
Globalgood will circulate a discussion draft, host virtual white-board sessions with national land registrars, receivables exchanges and carbon-registry technologists, then freeze the v1 schema before end-2027.
Prototype & sandbox 2028–2029
An API playground and reference code will be published on GitHub. Three pilot nations will run closed-door sandboxes to register limited asset sets and test cross-border queries.
Pre-GUA field pilots 2030–2031
Live registries open to local banks and auditors. Quarterly reserve proofs flow to Globalgood’s dashboard. Lessons feed directly into the Treaty drafting committee so the model can be adopted as a GUA annex.
Post-treaty scale-up 2032 onward
The new GUA Standards Board assumes custodianship of the spec, issues certification badges, and supports regional hubs (AU, ASEAN, Mercosur, CARICOM). Legacy silo ledgers can be decommissioned at each nation’s pace.
Advocacy Budget—Globalgood Only
Drafting workshops, translations and legal commentaries: roughly 300 000 USD spread over two years
Open-source prototype and sandbox hosting, including independent security review: about 400 000 USD across 2028-2029
Three in-country pilot round-tables and public-awareness media packs: 350 000 USD
Training-of-trainers curriculum and help-desk set-up: 250 000 USD
Total advocacy and specification spend over seven years: just under 1.3 million USD. Hardware, cloud, staffing and audit costs for the registries themselves are borne by host governments, private exchanges, and—after 2032—the GUA.
Stake-holder Engagement
National treasuries and central banks will own and run their local nodes.
Receivables exchanges and commodity-bourse operators will supply asset-verification feeds.
Audit firms and national accountancy bodies will certify quarterly reserve snapshots using existing IFRS or GAAP standards.
Tech vendors and open-source contributors will refine the SDK and maintain cross-language client libraries.
UNCITRAL and regional economic communities will advise on legal harmonization, ensuring registry laws dovetail with the Receivables Convention.
How You Can Help
Governments ready to pilot a registry node can request the draft blueprint via projects@globalgoodcorp.org.
Fintech firms and blockchain engineers are invited to fork the sandbox repo when it drops and submit pull requests.
Audit networks can volunteer pro-bono teams to stress-test the proof-of-reserve routines in 2029.
Foundations, CSR arms and multilaterals can underwrite translation, travel bursaries and the first cohort of registry administrators from low-income economies.
Building a transparent reserve spine is not ancillary to honest money—it is the plumbing that makes asset-anchored currencies credible for every payer, every saver, every sovereign. Join the build.