Nondominium

Decentralized Application

A resource-sharing application built on Holochain and the ValueFlows standard. Agents create, hold and transfer shared resources called Nondominium Objects (NDOs), which the project intends to be organisation-agnostic. Each NDO has a permanent identity anchor (name, initiator, lifecycle stage, property regime and resource nature) and moves through ten lifecycle stages checked by the integrity rules. People enter through a permissionless Lobby, join Groups by invite link, each Group being its own cloned DHT network, and browse and create NDOs inside them; each NDO is itself a cloned Holochain cell whose DNA hash is its identity. Economic events are recorded through a bundled hREA DNA, and a reputation system based on Private Participation Receipts (PPRs) is specified. The project's own changelog states that governance-as-operator, PPR wiring, economic processes (use, transport, storage, repair) and role promotion are designed but not implemented in the first pilot release, so reputation is currently inert. It is a venture of the Sensorica open value network, aimed at helping open-hardware communities and traditional organisations share resources .

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License Custom copyleft with economic reciprocity: the repository's LICENSE.md is the 'OVN License for Digital Resources v1.0' (SPDX identifier OVN Digital-1.0), which builds on GPLv3 and the Peer Production License and requires users to allocate at least 0.5% of material benefits (non-commercial entities) or at least 2% (commercial entities) to contributors under a contribution pie-chart. The Sensorica site states that all software developed by its network is licensed GNU AGPL, which conflicts with the repository text. https://github.com/sensorica/nondominium
Dev Status 🔨 WIP
Owner Sensorica, an open value network, under the Sensorica GitHub organisation; the repository has two principal developers, and the Sensorica project page names no custodian entity or exchange firm for the venture
Governing Body The Sensorica open value network; changes go through pull requests with one approval required, between the two principal developers, and a third Sensorica participant is notified for visibility without blocking merges; the project page's governance section is an unfilled template
Country Canada (Sensorica origin) / global (network).
Start Year 2025
Stack Rust zomes (Holochain HDK 0.6 / HDI 0.7, WASM); SvelteKit 2 with Svelte 5, TypeScript and Vite 7; UnoCSS, Melt UI and Effect-TS; @holochain/client; Sweettest and Playwright tests; bun and Nix; the hREA DNA vendored as a git submodule
Funding Public funding and crowdfunding are the stated short-term model; the project page records a failed NGI Assure application in 2023 and a crowdfunding effort not yet launched, and offers contributors a share of grants through Sensorica's contribution logging
Last Investigated Oct 29, 2026

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Topology view: NondominiumThis tool in the centre and the things it is directly related to. Each line names the kind of relationship.NondominiumFlowsta (Aims to interoperate with)FlowstaUnyt (Aims to interoperate with)UnytValueflows (Based on, Built on, Speaks protocol, Stores in)ValueflowsHolochain (Built on, Speaks protocol, Stores in)Holochain
  • Flowsta (Tool): Aims to interoperate with
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  • Valueflows (Tool): Based on, Built on, Speaks protocol, Stores in
  • Holochain (Tool): Built on, Speaks protocol, Stores in

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Use Case Domains

Mutual Aid & Exchange Group Formation & Governance

Affordances

Non-monetary exchange Transparent stewardship Composable groups

Decentralized Application Attributes

Origins Sensorica's open value network tradition: infrastructure for a peer sharing economy and, later, peer production, built on ValueFlows and hREA and on Holochain's agent-centric design, so that shared resources are governed by embedded rules, peer validation and reputation rather than by platforms
Database Holochain source chains and DHTs (one for the Lobby, one per Group, one per NDO), with the bundled hREA DNA for ValueFlows events
Query Language N/A: Holochain zome function calls and discovery through link anchors; no query language
Data Formats Holochain entries defined as Rust types; ValueFlows EconomicResource, EconomicEvent and Commitment structures; NDO identity with lifecycle stage, property regime and resource nature
Collaborative Live Editing N/A: shared state syncs over the DHT, not through collaborative editing
Rich Text Editing N/A
Mobile Support Partial: a phone-width app shell and NDO header were added in October 2026; distribution is a .webhapp for the Holochain Launcher and there is no mobile app
Web Support Yes: a SvelteKit web UI, run locally in development and packaged as a .webhapp; no hosted public deployment is described
Native Apps None of its own: it is packaged as a .webhapp for the Holochain Launcher
Terms Free to use under the OVN licence's reciprocity terms
Funds Not stated by the project.
Based On Holochain, ValueFlows and hREA (vendored as a submodule); Unyt and Flowsta integrations are planned after the first release
Use Case Category Peer resource sharing and commons resource management for open-hardware communities, makerspaces and organisations in transition
User Interface Type SvelteKit web UI with a Lobby, Group and NDO hierarchy, a filter browser, lifecycle transitions and a fork-friction modal
Offline Capabilities Not stated by the project.
Collaboration Features Groups joined by invite link; shared NDOs; work logs and soft links in the Group DNA
Data Portability Not stated by the project.
Integration Ecosystem An hREA bridge (Person and ReaAgent mapping, ValueFlows events); Unyt and Flowsta integrations planned; Sensorica's notes record discussions about ERP Libre and Tiki Wiki integrations
Web2 Data Export Not stated by the project.
Prosocial Coherence The project states aims of organisation-agnostic, 'uncapturable' resources governed by embedded rules, peer validation and reputation; the governance and reputation parts are specified and not yet implemented
Economic Flows ValueFlows events and commitments recorded through hREA; Use, Transport, Storage and Repair processes are specified and not built; PPR reputation receipts exist as callable functions but nothing issues them automatically; no token or payment feature, with Unyt integration planned after the first release
Governance & Decision Making Resources are meant to be governed by embedded rules (governance as operator), not yet implemented; lifecycle transitions are validated by the integrity rules and authorised by an initiator check; project decisions go through pull requests with one approval
Media / Publishing N/A
Knowledge Management N/A
Sensemaking N/A
Project Management N/A
Communication Model Peer-to-peer synchronisation over Holochain DHTs between agents who share a Lobby, a Group or an NDO cell; no messaging feature is described
Network Resilience Each Group and each NDO is its own DHT; the first pilot's scope is two agents on different machines sharing a Group and an NDO over a live DHT, and resilience at larger scale is not evidenced
Discovery Mechanism A permissionless Lobby DHT with a global group registry; Groups are joined by invite link; NDOs are found through anchors held by their Group
Max Participants Not stated by the project.
Data Sovereignty Agent-centric: data is tied to individual agents with public and private separation, and capability-based sharing exists in the person zome with no UI that drives it yet

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