O International - The World's First Water Price-Based Stablecoin

A cryptocurrency system with 142 global currencies, designed to provide stable, universal money for all humanity. O International is a French nonprofit association dedicated to building a water price-based stable cryptocurrency.

Key Features of O Blockchain

Water Price-Based: 1 O equals the average price of 1 liter of water in each currency. Prices measured by bots and randomly picked users in real time, online and offline.

142 Global Currencies: O_USD, O_EUR, O_JPY, and 139 more. One O currency for each national currency covering 195+ countries globally.

Water Price Peg: Each O currency equals 1 liter of water price in its local market. Exchange rates reflect water price ratios. Stability doesn't depend on human trust!

Incentive-Based Stability: Economic incentives through coin creation and dilution force actors to maintain water price-based exchange rates provided by the blockchain.

Unlimited Supply: Not backed by water or any limited resource - calibrated to water price only. Can scale to serve all humanity. Value tied to water price measurement (constant), not scarcity.

Decentralized: Built on Bitcoin Core. No central authority. Community governance. Open source MIT licensed.

How O Blockchain Works

Step 1 - Water Price Measurement & Exchange Rate: Blockchain sends invitations to randomly selected verified users worldwide to measure bottled water prices (0.9-1.1 liter containers) in their local fiat currency along with online bots. Data is captured online through URL or offline with pictures and GPS proof, then validated by human users. The Gaussian average of measurements establishes each O currency's value: if water costs $1.50/L in USD, then 1 O_USD = $1.50. Cross-currency rates are calculated from these values.

Step 2 - Stability Monitoring: Users and online bots are invited to measure the actual exchange rate between O currency and fiat currency (when available). The system compares these observed rates with the theoretical rates from water price measurements. To be stable, the observed exchange rate should equal the measured water price.

Step 3 - Stabilization Through Economic Incentives: When market exchange rates deviate from the theoretical rates (which are the measured water prices), new coins are created and given to stable currency users, diluting unstable currencies. This creates economic pressure to maintain the water price peg. Core principle: the offender's sanction is the reward of the offended.

Step 4 - Mining Rewards: Miners who secure the blockchain receive 700 O coins per block as a reward. This provides the security foundation for the entire system.

Step 5 - Repeat Cycle: The measurement and stabilization process repeats continuously, ensuring each O currency maintains its water price peg through automatic economic incentives.

Global Benefits

Universal Basic Income

O Coin's water price-based stability and unlimited supply could theoretically support Universal Basic Income. By pegging to a basic human need rather than fiat currency, it could provide equal purchasing power globally without inflation. Key benefits include stability based on basic need (water), equal purchasing power for everyone, unlimited supply without debt, and community-governed implementation.

Immigration Impact - Addressing Economic Migration

If UBI were implemented with O Coin, it could theoretically reduce mass immigration by addressing the root cause: economic desperation. By providing economic stability everywhere, people could build prosperity in their home countries. This could lead to economic stability in all countries, reduced incentive for economic migration, local economic development enabled, and potential reverse migration.

Climate Solution - Unlimited Debt-Free Climate Funding

O Coin's unlimited supply could theoretically fund massive climate restoration without debt. Traditional economics can't fund planetary cleanup (no ROI). O Coin could change this by creating money specifically for environmental restoration. Benefits include unlimited funding without creditors, reforestation, ocean cleanup, renewables, local production reduces transportation, and no financial return needed.

About O International

O is an "association de loi 1901", a French nonprofit association based in Côte-d'Or, France. It was created in September 2022 by Christophe Normand and Michel Inacio. Our mission is to design, program, and promote a stable digital coin based on potable water price. Our main source of financing comes from donations from individuals.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is O Blockchain? The O coin is a stable coin based on potable water price, defined as the average value to buy one liter of potable water individually. To avoid entering into the volatile system of supply and demand, the O coin isn't backed by any physical asset allowing unlimited supply and avoiding inventory/price manipulation.

What are the benefits of a water based stable coin? The benefits of a water based currency are huge because its value and stability don't depend on human trust or confidence but on the value of basic human necessities. The coin can be unlimited because it is not backed up by physical assets but based on calibration and real-time user observations.

Is the O coin open source? Yes, the O coin is an open source project for a peer to peer blockchain that doesn't rely on any central authority and with no ownership other than its believers.

Contact: Email support@o.international | GitHub: https://github.com/cno127/o-blockchain | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OInternational | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/o-international

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Universal Basic Income

How Universal Basic Income (UBI) Can Work With O Coin—a Water-Price Stable Currency

May 25, 2026·O International
Universal Basic Income on O Coin — newly issued, water-price-stable currency credited monthly to every verified human, funded by protocol issuance instead of taxes or debt.

TL;DR — Traditional UBI debates stall on 'who pays?'—higher taxes, cuts, or borrowing. O-based UBI starts from a different premise: the currency is issued as part of the protocol's design (like Bitcoin), not as a loan owed by citizens, and its value is anchored to the measurable price of one liter of water. That turns the monthly job for all of humanity into a short, auditable loop: create coins for verified, living humans on a schedule. Amounts are tied to a water-anchored food floor (~420 O) with a recommended ~700 O; balances accrue from birth but spend-ability is gated to age 18 with staged withdrawals; custodianship covers disability and incapacity; and value stays stable through water-price measurement rather than the confidence-only adjustment treadmill of fiat welfare.

Why O-Based UBI Does Not "Print Debt" the Way Fiat Welfare Often Does

Traditional debates about Universal Basic Income usually assume someone pays: higher taxes, cuts elsewhere, or sovereign borrowing. Each option feeds political deadlock, and borrowing silently pushes costs forward. The O Stable Coin starts from a different premise:

- The currency is issued as part of the protocol's design, not as a loan owed by citizens—like Bitcoin.

- Stability is independent of human trust; each national O coin is tied to the measurable price of one liter of potable water in the corresponding fiat lane, updated through transparent rules.

- Because the anchor is basic needs expressed through water cost, the conversation shifts from "confidence games" to "does the coin issuance match reality?"

We are not claiming monetary politics disappear. We are claiming the excuse—"we cannot afford UBI without crushing debt"—changes once issuance is native to a currency built for this job.

UBI in Code: The Whole Monthly Job Is a Short Loop

Welfare needs budget votes, agency staff, eligibility forms, appeals, and debt issuance before anyone sees a euro. The policy kernel for O-based UBI is different: create coins for verified humans on a schedule. Everything else—water-price calibration, identity, custody—is real engineering, but it does not turn UBI into a thousand-page bill.

The conceptual core is a single loop: for each verified, living human in the registry, ledger.mintAndCredit(human.account, MONTHLY_UBI_O)—new money, not tax, not debt. The rules around it (birth, age 18, custody, blocked countries) are safeguards around the same loop, not a different program per country.

What We Mean by Universal Basic Income Here

For this article, UBI means an unconditional monthly payment to every human on Earth—from birth until death. "Unconditional" refers to who receives it, not to every downstream rule of custody or access (those exist for minors, incapacity, and sanctions—as with any serious monetary system).

Start Date, End Date, and the "Life Account"

- Start: birth date—the entitlement begins when a human life exists and is registered. No back-payment, to avoid forcing early identity registration.

- End: death—issuance stops when mortality is confirmed under the same identity framework.

Money accrues conceptually from birth, but spend-ability follows rules so UBI does not become a lottery ticket for parents.

How Much Per Month? From a Water-Anchored Floor to a Policy Amount

The exact amount is a governance and rollout decision, but we can define a transparent floor tied to nutrition, expressed in O coins (each worth one liter of water everywhere):

- Minimum illustrative floor: 420 O per month. Assume one basic meal costs about 7 × the price of 1 liter of water; 60 meals per month → 7 × 60 = 420 O as a "food floor."

- Recommended working range: ~700+ O per month for more comfortable coverage of basic needs, supporting part of education, health, and lodging.

Democracies, contributors, and technical safeguards together decide the schedule—within the constraint that honesty about basics stays tied to automated measurement, not to panic-printing.

Remittance Date and the Age-18 Gate (Accrual ≠ Early Withdrawal)

From birth, the balance accrues in principle, but funds are not freely accessible until age 18. Why age 18? So there is no parent cash-out of a child's UBI by default; so young adults receive verifiable security as they enter independence; and to keep birth from becoming an income asset for third parties. Even after adulthood, full lump-sum withdrawal is restricted (velocity limits, staged release, savings-oriented defaults). The goal is stability of lives, not casino liquidity events. Issuance aligns to a calendar rhythm—for example, the first of each month.

If a Government Rejects the Free O Coin: Accrual Without Access

Some jurisdictions may block official interfaces, banking bridges, or merchant acceptance. Our stance: UBI still accrues for people there—we treat baseline economic security as a human-right framing, not a privilege issued by an administration. Access may be censored locally until politics or infrastructure changes. Universal entitlement can exist on-chain even when local exclusion refuses to honor it.

Disability, Mental Health, Incapacity: Custodianship Mirrors Real Life

Where a user cannot operate their wallet keys—temporary incapacity, disability, cognitive decline—the protocol needs custodian paths familiar from both fiat guardianship and crypto account abstraction: one or more designated custodians with scoped powers, plus auditable actions and limits so protection does not become extraction. Bad custodian design hurts vulnerable people first, so this layer must be legal, technical, and community-reviewed.

Do We "Adjust UBI" Constantly Like Fiat Programs? No Inflation

Fiat programs chase inflation with nominal tweaks—often late, often political. O's value logic is different: each O_X tracks water-priced reality in currency X through real-time water-price observation by users. You do not rely on the confidence-only adjustment treadmill; you rely on measurement plus rules. Calibrating on real-time water prices guarantees no inflation on basic needs.

Identity and Death: Not Blind Faith in Government Exports

Most states could supply birth and death records, but we do not plan to trust every registry as oracle truth—history is full of forged silence, delayed filing, and exclusion. Instead, expect layered proof: social-graph and vouching models, liveness and uniqueness technology, and cross-checks when signals disagree. The commitment is to verify humans and mortality with paranoia-by-design, not with a single country's database.

Closing: One Currency Story for Planetary Basics

The same protocol that runs the UBI loop is a water-price stablecoin first: 142 O currency lanes, unlimited stable supply calibrated to water, cross-rates from measured basics, and incentive-based stabilization when markets drift. That design is what makes planetary UBI plausible without a new tax story. Measurement-first money does not fix human nature, but it changes the excuse structure for saying "impossible." Learn more at https://o.international

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