Mission

Taxir is an initiative working to facilitate blockchain adoption in the Arab region.

Taxir's mission is guided by our nuanced and multifaceted understanding of blockchain.

We first see blockchain as a general purpose technology, having the potential to deeply impact various aspects of our lives. Insofar, blockchain’s greatest legacy can be seen in the finance and culture sectors. With time, we expect to see blockchain technology transforming many more sectors.

Secondly, we understand blockchain as a social movement, born as a response to unsound monetary policies, and grew as a protest against intermediary / platform economy, work crisis, exploitive and inefficient business models and a highly centralized world.

Throughout the past decade, the blockchain sphere has hosted progressive conversations around governance, exit to community, scaling democracy (quadratic voting and funding) and radical decentralization. This sphere also bears the influence of systems theory, game theory and system thinking.

By combining our comprehensive understanding of blockchain with our lived understanding of the Arab region and its potentials and challenges, we came to build our initiative around the following objectives:

• Presenting blockchain as an alternative financial infrastructure for the large unbanked and underbanked populations of the region, and promoting specific use cases around financial inclusion and economic integration (remittance payments, saving, business transactions, invoicing, etc).

• Introducing personal finance culture to an audience that has been long excluded from the financial world, and promoting financial literacy as a contributing factor to decreasing global economic inequality. Exploring new trends in personal finance such as social investing and financial services provision (liquidity provision, loans, insurance, staking, etc).

• Promoting approaches of decentralized and horizontal governance / self-organization as a corner stone to building alternative, better business models, and a potential solution to many problems that non-profit organizations and initiatives (NGOs, CSOs, Independent Media, etc) face in the region.

• Exploring how blockchain, both as a technology and a movement, can revitalize the cultural economy of the region by creating fairer, more inclusive and democratic art institutions and cultural infrastructure.

• Encouraging the region’s youth to learn blockchain skills and capitalize on the supply / demand imbalance. Promoting ways to gaining exposure to blockchain other than capital investment.

• Creating a favorable and safe regional blockchain sphere, by advocating for progressive regulations, and educating on safe practices on the legal, technical and financial levels.