Basic Information
Project Name: D-Library
Project Track: consumer-social
Team Name: datapond
Team Members: lawpond, opened to new members.
Interview: Sept 2025
Social Info
Website: https://datapond.earth
Discussions: https://github.com/data-pond/the-library/discussions
Github: https://github.com/data-pond/d-solidity
SubStack: https://datapond.substack.com/
Social: Hylo
Project Overview
D Library: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Access
The Role of Libraries
Historically, libraries have been the heart of learning—serving teachers, students, professionals, and communities alike. Most libraries are found in schools, universities, or are funded by public institutions.
They act as the foundation of knowledge, shaping how children learn, think, and eventually contribute to industries, trade, and society at large.
Audience
- Teachers – who guide and influence tomorrow’s thinkers.
- Parents – who want a say in what their children are taught.
- Self-learners – who seek freedom to tailor their own education.
- Legal departments and judges – who may, give a state grant, use the system for moderation and safe-removal of inappropriate content.
Together, this represents a broad, diverse community—each with different ways of interacting with the platform.
Core Design Principles
The system relies on subscriptions and user votes:
Every action a user takes (e.g., downloading a book, favoriting a topic, reporting unsafe content)
is recorded as a vote.
These votes collectively shape the library.
Levels and costs:
Membership costs $0.50.
500 user actions = “Level 100,” which translates into another $0.50 spent for those votes to persist.
Thus, $1 supports a fully active “Level 100” contributor.
Public sharing:
Once you level up to become a member, you can share your curated index.
Others may subscribe, amplifying your voice.
Proof of contribution:
Every user has a generated ID representing their actions
this ID can be shared as proof of trustworthiness.
Curation Model: Removal-Only
Unlike traditional platforms, no one can add content directly.
Safety and quality are curated through removal only, ensuring: No spam or harmful uploads.
Over time, only the best and safest content survives.
Privacy & Data Model
All actions are visible and analyzable, but never tied to personal identity - because we never ask for some..
This ensures accountability, while keeping every user’s private details secure.
Public Analytics
Every action—downloads, reports, removals becomes open analytics:
It unlocks the free rankings of the most downloaded, most trusted, and most reported content.
As the a result, tehre is no reliance on private cloud providers; all analytics being natively public and allready computed on the blockchain..
Community-driven insights become freely available to all.
Durable Storage Guarantee
The library’s content is uploaded to crypto-backed, prepaid storage guaranteed for 250 years.
Which means: Zero recurring costs + 100% long-term availability.
Governments and schools can share permanent links to books or speeches,
knowing they will remain accessible, free, and unmodified across generations.
This durability makes the library a cost-effective public good.
Social & Political Context
Many rural and low-income communities lack resources for books and quality education.
Often, powerful lobbies determine what children learn—optimizing education for industry needs, not the child’s future.
This project aims to return control of education to families, teachers, and communities, empowering them with:
- Free access to knowledge.
- Freedom to decide what children should learn.
- Protection from political or ideological bias in the core public domain library.
Scenarios of Use
A village elder may curate a “safe library index” for local schools, and share it for just $1. Teachers and parents can then adopt it as their trusted source.
Classrooms can use it as an exercise: e.g., students collaboratively removing unhelpful or misleading books—thus shaping their own knowledge base while learning about curation.
Circular Economy Model
5% of all donations are pooled into a shared wallet to provide free keys for those who cannot pay.
For classrooms or villages, a set number of free keys can be pre-allocated.
level 100 Members can be grouped by interests ad take part into public voice conversations around a book of their choice.
Project Development Preview:
Project Test Instructions:
The Grantor & Governance section of D-Library is currently in active development.
Technical Details:
D- Library and datapond.earth uder the D-Code @ GitHub - data-pond/d-solidity: Solidity Smart Contract powering the library
The goal of D-Library is to be fully autonomous and many of its mechanism to be fully automated and indestructible.
How is the Project Governed?
Coming soon.
Funding & Business Model
This is not a Business. The Model is a circular public good - which can only be donation based.
Funding Request:
D-Library will have a project funding section included in its member section, where any grantor can anonymously donate funds to sub-projects. I am also in the process of setting up an open-collective account.
Revenue Model:
The D-Licence forbids any financial transactions on the platform.
However, D Library provide a service that allows users to vote for content, and persist their changes. To do so, they need to donate to become a permanent member of the crypto club of their choice (TREE, SUN or WATER clubs)
Interested in TRON Having a Stake?
YES - I like the idea of having Tron funding their ideal public domain technical implementation of a Staking contract, minimizing user’s fee.
Preferred Collaboration Method:
Donation Only, maybe provide a team for a project.
, wishing all the best, I think you to state how much you needed for the funding request
