Neighbourhoods
P2P Platform
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License Open source (CAL-1.0 — Cryptographic Autonomy License v1.0); https://github.com/neighbour-hoods (sensemaker-lite, nh-launcher, applet-template, social_sensemaker, design-system). NH Launcher is a fork of Lightning Rod Labs "We" (now Moss).
Dev Status 🧪 Alpha
Dev Status Detail Alpha / Developer preview (Toolkit 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 developer previews released; Sensemaker API stabilization and Bazaar prototyping in progress; known multi-agent data-refresh issues noted in NH Launcher; no production 1.0 release).
Owner Neighbourhoods Foundation (charitable trust incorporated in New Zealand; parent entity steering the open-source Social Sensemaker and marketplace); grew out of Sacred Capital (reputation-economy venture founded by Siddharth Sthalekar, Singapore-based).
Governing Body Neighbourhoods Foundation (charitable trust, New Zealand)
Country New Zealand (Neighbourhoods Foundation charitable trust); Sacred Capital origin Singapore; distributed team.
Start Year 2019
Stack Rust (Holochain zomes/DNAs); TypeScript/JavaScript with Svelte and Lit web components (applets, launcher, design system); Nix dev environment; @neighbourhoods/* NPM packages (nh-launcher-applet, sensemaker-lite-types).
Funding Token-based and backer funding: $NHT token (Community Offering late 2021; listed on MEXC, SushiSwap, Uniswap; Ethereum/Polygon) with a Foundation-managed reserve; early-stage Sacred Capital backers; partner ecosystem (Holochain, Holo, h-REA, Edmund Hillary Fellowship, Lightningrod Labs, Rain Protocol).
Last Investigated Jul 1, 2026
P2P Platform Attributes
Origins Grew out of Sacred Capital, a reputation-economy venture exploring distributed economic paradigms, incubated over several years before spinning out as Neighbourhoods. Built deliberately within the Holochain ecosystem as a social-sensemaking layer on top of Holochain's agent-centric P2P substrate.
Database Holochain source chains + DHT (agent-centric; each agent holds its own source chain, shared data validated and stored across the neighbourhood DHT); Sensemaker stores assessments and dimensions as Holochain entries.
Query Language Holochain zome calls / HDK queries (no SQL or SPARQL); Sensemaker exposes assessment and computation queries via its API; applets retrieve resources and assessments through zome functions.
Data Formats Holochain entries (Rust-defined types serialized via SerializedBytes/messagepack); .webhapp / .happ application bundles; social data ontology defined by sensemaker-lite (ResourceTypes, Dimensions, Methods, CulturalContexts).
Collaborative Live Editing No (groupware coordination and assessment, not real-time collaborative document editing).
Rich Text Editing No (applet-dependent; the framework provides social computation and resource views, not a rich text editor).
Mobile Support No (currently desktop Holochain runtime / launcher; applets are web-based UIs but no dedicated mobile distribution).
Web Support Yes (applet UIs are web components — Svelte/Lit — rendered within the launcher; design system is web-based).
Native Apps Yes (runs as Holochain hApps via the NH Launcher / Holochain Launcher desktop runtime; packaged as .webhapp bundles).
Terms Open source (CAL-1.0); self-hosted via Holochain runtime; $NHT token used for Bazaar crowdfunding/settlement is optional to framework use.
Funds Unknown / not publicly disclosed (funded via $NHT token sales and reserve plus early Sacred Capital backers; no published budget figures).
Based On Holochain (agent-centric P2P runtime; built as a framework layer on top of hApps); NH Launcher forked from Lightning Rod Labs "We" (now Moss); h-REA / ValueFlows for the marketplace applet; $NHT settlement bridges to EVM (Ethereum/Polygon).
P2P Architecture Agent-centric DHT (Holochain): each agent holds a personal source chain; neighbourhood data lives in a validating DHT scoped to membranes; no global ledger or central server.
Development Tools NH applet scaffolding tool and applet-template (clonable template for nh-compatible "We" applets); @neighbourhoods/nh-launcher-applet and @neighbourhoods/sensemaker-lite-types NPM packages; Nix dev shell with pinned Holochain/Rust toolchain; design-system components and design tokens; codeless community-activation/configuration wizard.
Deployment Options Self-hosted Holochain nodes; applets installed into a neighbourhood via the NH Launcher (or within the Holochain Launcher); applets distributed as .webhapp bundles; future Bazaar for applet discovery and crowdfunding.
Authentication & Identity Holochain agent keys (public-key agent identity per source chain); membrane-invitations for neighbourhood access; roles/capabilities via key-forwarding, with planned integration of Holochain DeepKey for digital identity.
Storage Model Holochain agent-centric storage: data held on per-agent source chains and replicated across the neighbourhood DHT with validation; assessments and social-sensemaking metadata stored as Holochain entries; users retain local custody of data they own.
Interoperability Within the Holochain ecosystem: Sensemaker can attach metadata to entries from any other hApp DNA, making social data portable across applets and neighbourhoods (membranes); h-REA/ValueFlows compatibility in the marketplace applet; $NHT bridges Holochain crowdfunding to EVM (Ethereum/Polygon) contracts and wallets.
Social Graph Yes — community-centric social graph expressed through neighbourhoods (membranes), member roles, assessments, and reputation (leaderboards, badges, "social CVs"); reputation infrastructure derived from Sacred Capital.
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