Rethinking Decision Making

A look into the various use-cases of Harbour

As the team here at Harbour keeps busy at further refining our protocol and platform, it has become evident on an almost daily basis the multitude of use-cases where Harbour is applicable. The team has so far come up with a quite a number independently, but we look forward to what the developer community will dream up as the months go by. Nevertheless, to whet the appetite, we wanted to list a number we’ve written on the chalkboard so far:

a crowd-based crypto-fund integrated with Melonport

municipality administration

shareholder operations

polls

local association voting

prediction market integrations

protocol upgrades of blockchain projects

The possibilities behind decentralized decision-making are really only limited to the imagination.

Diving deeper, how would a multi-tiered organization operate using Harbour, and how would Harbour help lead it to better, more transparent decision-making?

One possible scenario is the traditional shareholder corporation model. Typically, an organization will meet annually to discuss and take votes on a number of proposals either board or shareholder created. Harbour would easily, verifiably and efficiently operationalize this, but not only that, it would allow the ability of organizations to dynamically respond situations. For example, if an urgent situation developed that affected company strategy, yet require shareholder sign-off, organizations could easily push that vote through the Harbour platform as needed and as required, whether board or shareholder-side. In this model, immutable, verifiable voting and decision-making for a corporation should be as easy as sending a text.

While this example is based on existing and traditional models of business and how Harbour can be applied, we do believe that the world is slowly changing in terms of how companies are structured, and the disruption from VC models to ICO models we’ve now experienced is probably only the tip of the iceberg. We do see an increasing trend toward decentralization and disintermediation in general in all types of organizations as people more closely and directly interact with one another in a variety of ways.

Take, for example, a token model that is hard-coded that associates rewards with performance of the token? What if the reward system (tokenomics) is unfair or on further analysis does not hold water? Setting these models in stone for a future date is illogical and irresponsible. There needs to be some way to make them dynamic. We see Harbour as a required layer to all token-based projects moving forward so that their founding teams, foundations, management, and token holders can all potentially have a hand in designing and guiding their future and responding dynamically to the world around them.

There are a ton of possibilities out there, and we are looking forward to iterating more within the team, but we are much more excited to see what the community comes up with as well. Please feel free to get in touch at any of our community channels so that we can brainstorm all the possibilities together to help kick-start the final revolution in blockchain: decision-making.