Check out the whitepaper here to find out what this project is all about, our vision for the future, and why we feel like this is the perfect time to introduce something like this into the growing marketplace of creativity, innovation, and independent production.

Overview

Creative Circulation (CRCL) is a deflationary token built on the TRON blockchain network. Its purpose is to be used as an alternative compensation asset for creative projects.

While most popular cryptocurrencies ask their communities to buy and hold their coins, owners of CRCL are encouraged to use their tokens as a way to kickstart ambitious projects that face the difficulties of securing seed funding or pre-revenue cash flow.

This can be done by producers compensating their collaborators with a token of appreciation in addition to a standard cash rate. In this way, project managers can work with partners who are directly invested in the success and exposure of their shared collaborations.

The value of the token lies in its continued use as a tool in the production of real-world ventures valued by the marketplace. Through adoption and circulation with the specific intent of seed funding independent creative projects, those who accept CRCL as a form of compensation will see the purchasing power of their tokens rise in line with the future growth of the creative industries.

Whereas crypto projects like Bitcoin aim to be used as a digital store of value, Creative Circulation is used as a digital symbol of confidence. Specifically, confidence in a continued exponential increase in the production of wealth by the creative industries, and the gig economy at large.

How do I get Creative Circulation?

Download a TronLink wallet to get started. Then head over to SunSwap and make sure that you've selected V2 in the upper right-hand corner. You can then swap any one of several major cryptocurrencies in exchange for Creative Circulation.

You will need some TRX in your wallet to facilitate the transaction. TRX is the native currency of the TRON Network, which powers Creative Circulation transactions. If you already have BTC or ETH, you can easily exchange either of those for TRX. Otherwise, TRX can be purchased on many major exchanges, including Binance.

What's changing?

The following excerpt is the foreword to Jack Weatherford’s brilliant book, The History of Money, published in 1997. While this may have sounded rather radical 25 years ago, it’s becoming clear that Weatherford was scarily prescient.

---

"The dollar is dying; so too are the yen, the mark, and the other national currencies of the modern world. Our global money system is infected with a deadly virus, and, already severely weakened, it is now only a matter of time before it succumbs. The dollar, mark, and yen will join the ducat, cowrie shells, and the guinea in the scrap box of history, as items of interest primarily to antiquarians and eccentrics.

 Just at the moment in history when money dominates the whole of our society, it faces some strange and ominous challenges. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the global money system began to cough and sputter, to jerk and stumble. The currencies of several weaker nations unexpectedly sickened and died in a paroxysm of inflation, while the exchange rates of the strongest and healthiest currencies wobbled and lunged uncontrollably one way and then another. After reigning as the world’s major financial institutions since the Renaissance, banks teetered and fell under billion-dollar losses that seemed to occur inexplicably overnight. The United States continued to nurse a rising national debt, growing trade imbalances, episodic bouts of inflation, and a long-term decline in the value of the dollar. Despite rather awkward but extensive intervention at many levels, no government seems able to control its own currency, and new financial institutions now stretch across the globe in a network of interconnected businesses with a power never before known in history. Supposedly global agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the World Bank seem largely irrelevant to the finances of any but the weakest players already on the international dole.

Despite the alarming monetary situation, the demise of the present monetary order will mark neither the end of commerce nor the death of money. Even as the old system staggers hesitantly into its grave, we can discern the new system rising on the horizon to replace. We can see a flickering image of that new system in the soft glow of the computer screen, and we can smell its acrid scent among the electric cables on the floor of any international currency exchange. We can hear it in the electronic whir of encoded chips on plastic cards passing through the electronic readers that are already replacing the old cash registers. In the realms of cyberspace, money is now being reinvented as a free-floating force that can appear instantaneously anywhere in the world in any amount. No longer tethered to the fortunes of one government or a single country, the new money is emerging in a large variety of new forms. The new money is raw power.

The new technology is already changing the way we earn and use money, and it will create a whole new class system of rich and poor. The new money system will transform the way we distribute goods and the way we finance civic life. It will rearrange the political map of the world and create whole new local and global entities that are difficult to imagine today. The newly emerging system will change the very meaning of money.

The present revolutionary change in the nature and uses of money constitutes the third great mutation in money. The first generation began with the invention of coins in Lydia nearly three thousand years ago and resulted in the first system of open and free markets. The invention and dissemination of coins and the accompanying market created a whole new cultural system — the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean. The new monetary and market system ultimately spread around the world and gradually destroyed the great tributary empires of history. 

 The second generation of money dominated from the beginning of the Renaissance through the industrial revolution, and it resulted in the creation of the modem world capitalist system. It originated in the banks of Italy, and it eventually created the system of national banks and the paper money that they issued for use in daily commerce. The invention of banking and the paper money system destroyed feudalism, changed the basis of organization from heredity to money, and it changed the basis of economic power from owning land to owning stocks, bonds, and corporations.

Each of the two initial types of money created its own unique culture that differed markedly from all earlier ones. Now, at the opening of the twenty-first century, the world is entering the third stage of its monetary history — the era of electronic money and the virtual economy. The rise of electronic money will produce changes in society as radical and far-reaching as the two earlier monetary revolutions caused in their own eras. The new money will make sweeping changes in the political systems, in the organization of commercial enterprises, and in the nature of class organization. Virtual money promises to make its own version of civilization that will be as different from the modern world as from the world of the Aztecs or the Vikings."

---

So friends, let's make sure Q2 of the 21st Century is defined by the rise of the Creative Class

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”― Emma Goldman