Why

Why do shop owners have to pay a tax whenever they want to receive digital money?

Why should I pay a transaction fee to some American company (Apple Pay, Google Pay, …) to transact at a local business?

Why do banks monitor all our transactions and know more about us than Facebook?

Why do I need to go back to cash, a less convenient payment method, to avoid this tax and being monitored?

What if we could reclaim and manage our payment system as a common good infrastructure?

Mission

With Brussels Pay, we are on a mission to make payments a common good infrastructure again.

Instead of giving 1-2% of all our transactions in Brussels to Visa/Mastercard Apple/Google Pay, what if we could keep that to fund a participatory budget to fund public goods in Brussels?

Approach

Today, we have the open-source technology to create secure payment networks at a fraction of the cost.

Brussels Pay is a citizen initiative that makes use of the latest available technology of web3 to create an alternative payment system for Brussels.

It is controlled by the citizens for the citizens through a digital cooperative (aka DAO, for Decentralized Autonomous Organization).