WeXchange: a unique opportunity for female entrepreneurs - and a key stepping stone for WABA.network

By Marina Solanas. I was first introduced to WeXchange in 2016. Created in 2012 by Susana García Robles (IADB Labs) and co-organized at that time by Marta Cruz (NXTP Labs), it was designed to become a high-quality event for Latin American and Caribbean women entrepreneurs in STEM, with inspiring talks, helpful content and tips for early stage entrepreneurs, mentoring with … Read More

MonedaPAR: real problems, real solutions, real users

More often than not blockchain is associated with a highly complex technological ecosystem and with the big financial world. However, its true game-changing capacities reside in a different context: real everyday interactions between peers. As it happened with many revolutionary technologies before, blockchain will not be able to fulfill its actual potential until it is not embraced by the average … Read More

MonedaPAR: problemas reales, soluciones reales, usuarios reales

Muy frecuentemente la tecnología blockchain se asocia con un ecosistema tecnológico altamente complejo y con el mundo de las grandes finanzas. Sin embargo, su verdadera capacidad para generar impacto social reside en un contexto totalmente distinto: las interacciones cotidianas entre pares. Como sucedió con muchas tecnologías revolucionarias en el pasado, blockchain no podrá alcanzar su potencial real hasta que no … Read More

Nuestra Co-CEO Marina Solanas fue seleccionada como una de las 6 finalistas del Pitch Competition de WeXchange 2018

WeXchange, la plataforma que conecta a emprendedoras de alto crecimiento de América Latina y el Caribe con mentores e inversores, anunció las 6 emprendedoras finalistas del Pitch Competition seleccionadas entre más de 200 postulantes de América Latina y el Caribe, y nuestra Co-CEO Marina Solanas es una de ellas. En esta ocasión y bajo el lema “Mujeres STEMpreneurs en la era digital”, … Read More

WABA.network’s Euro Tour 2018: a recap

During 6 weeks, between May and June 2018, WABA.network’s team traveled across Europe to give presentations, meet with investors and communities, present the guidelines of the project and build new and fruitful alliances. The Tour took our Co-CEO’s Marina Solanas and Sebastián Valdecantos and our CTO Pablo Tutino to more than 15 cities in 9 different countries, where they delivered … Read More

¿Cómo funciona MonedaPAR?

MonedaPAR es la primera red de crédito mutuo y sin interés basada en tecnología blockchain de Argentina. La plataforma fue creada en 2017 por nuestra compañía trabajando junto con organizaciones sociales y think tanks económicos. La red tiene usuarios en cuatro de las ciudades más grandes del país, incluida su Capital Federal, y ha permitido la emisión de préstamos sin intereses … Read More

How does MonedaPAR work?

Moneda PAR is the first blockchain-based, peer-to-peer, zero-interest credit network of Argentina. The platform was created in 2017 by our company, working alongside with social organizations and economic think-tanks. The network has users in four of the country’s biggest cities, including its capital city Buenos Aires, and has enabled the issuance of zero-interest loans in PAR (the token it operates … Read More

Rescuing money from the banks’ dictatorship (or how a virtuous money should be)

Money is a social technology that, far from emerging spontaneously from barter (as both mainstream and marxist economists claim), is deliberately created by social groups with a preexisting political organization in the pursuit of a certain goal. Historical records demonstrate that the origins of money date back to a time where the market economy did not exist yet. Moreover, the … Read More

Towards a new stage in the history of Complementary Currencies: new horizons opened up by the Blockchain technology

The mainstream idea stating that money emerges spontaneously as a result of the interaction of atomised agents that, seeking for profit maximization, create it to overcome the inefficiencies of barter has been so powerfully embedded in the collective conscience that money existence is taken as natural as that of water or air. Money is simply out there. It existed before … Read More