Access to finance
In-community and external finance brought together so communities can fund their own activity and growth — not wait for permission to start.
- In-community
- External
- Growth cycles
selfdriven · Finance
Finance that helps communities self-actuate.
selfdriven.finance opens access to in-community and external finance, brings the value of bitcoin to communities, and gives TradFi experts a place to make the move to DeFi.
Read the litepaper Or see how activity & growth cycle financing worksIn + Out
in-community and external finance, working together
BTC
the value of bitcoin, brought to communities
x402
internet-native payments for people and agents
DeFi
a place for TradFi experts ready to make the move
Purpose
Not finance done to communities. Finance they drive.
Communities that self-actuate need capital that moves with their activity — sourced from within, topped up from outside, and settled on open rails they can verify for themselves.
Communities act. Finance follows the cycle.
Activity & growth cycle financingBitcoin value, community use
Bringing the value held in bitcoin to communities — bridged onto programmable rails where it can fund, settle, and be accounted for openly.
- Bitcoin
- Cardinals
- Cardano
From TradFi to DeFi
A place for traditional finance experts who want to transition to DeFi — bringing risk, structuring, and governance experience to open, community-run finance.
- Expertise
- Structuring
- Governance
Tech references
Open rails for community value.
The protocols and services selfdriven.finance builds on — payments native to the web, bitcoin assets bridged to Cardano, and smart contracts delivered as a managed service.
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01 · Payments
x402
An open payment standard built on the HTTP 402 status code, so people, apps, and agents can pay for resources directly over the web.
x402.org -
02 · Bridge
Cardinals
Bitcoin Ordinals bridged to Cardano for the first time, using the BitVMX protocol.
IOHK newsroom -
03 · Specification
Cardinals spec
The open specification for how Cardinals are represented and moved between Bitcoin and Cardano.
github · cardinal-spec -
04 · Contracts
Managed contracts
Maestro's managed contracts API for Cardano — ready-made smart contract functionality reached through an API instead of bespoke on-chain code.
Maestro docs
Explore
The model, the exchange, and the interfaces.
Where to read about how selfdriven.finance works, and where to use it.
Resources
How it works.
The financing model for self-actuating communities, the protocol and service that supports it, and the litepaper.
- CommunitiesActivity & growth cycle financingFinancing for self-actuating communities, structured around the cycles of what they do and how they grow.
- Protocolselfdriven.exchangeThe protocol and service that supports selfdriven.finance.
- PaperLitepaperThe short-form case for selfdriven.finance — purpose, model, and approach.
Interfaces
Built for humans.
Interfaces people use directly to see and act on market and community finance data.