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Local Resource Exchange Network
A decentralized platform connecting local producers and consumers to facilitate the exchange of essential goods and services within a community. Focuses on resilience and minimizing reliance on fragile global supply chains.

Projects inspired by this Product Idea

What if financial crash is a beginning for something new?
The Reef: A Speculative Economy of Interdependence: 'The Reef' visualizes a decentralized, localized resource exchange network built on a tactile ‘Value Token’ system, reflecting the emergent behavior of trust and mutual aid in a post-collapse world.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Consumers demand greater transparency, driving a market shift towards brands with verifiable sustainable practices, impacting product pricing.
Extrapolated from TrusTrace & Tapestry Team Up For A Model To Battle Environmental & Social Damage - Forbes

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.