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Q is a blockchain protocol designed for the creation and management of decentralized organizations, offering a secure environment termed “Layer Q”. This layer serves as a neutral, human-monitored digital economy for decentralized organizations, beyond the simplistic paradigm of “Code is Law”, and it’s meant to interface the on-chain world with the existing legal system.
Q’s more interesting offering is what one could call “Governance as a Decentralized Service” but they also provide a series of services, ranging from decentralized finance -as any other Layer1 blockchain- to consulting. The protocol also includes “The Chamber”, a network offering insights and guidance on organization building and governance.
Its Layer 1 blockchain is based on Ethereum and thus EVM compatible; the blockchain is technically managed by Q development, subsidiary company of the Q International Foundation, not-for-profit foundation based in Liechtenstein and the initiator of the Q protocol.
Q is on CER as it’s addressing a crucial dimension of the blockchain space and of distributed economies around the Commons worldwide, the governance layer; it offers services with a novel infrastructure and approach that we consider absent in the current landscape, adequately facing the complexities of governing decentralized entities beyond techno-centrism.
It shows a growing community of experts with great experience in the legal field and of organizations already using the protocol, at the beginning of what we hope will be a new season for effective and democratic governance worldwide.