Hub Culture

Hub Culture is a digital identity and collaboration network founded in November 2002 by Stan Stalnaker, based on his book of the same name published that year. It is headquartered in Bermuda and operates a technology ecosystem encompassing digital currency, digital identity, and physical collaboration spaces known as Pavilions. The network has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNN, and Finextra, among other publications. Founder Stan Stalnaker’s essay on peer-to-peer networks was named the lead Breakthrough Idea of 2008 by the Harvard Business Review, where he described a coming economy in which consumers become consumer-producers. Hub Culture launched Ven, its digital currency, in July 2007. Ven was the first digital currency to be listed for pricing on the Thomson Reuters terminal network, and was the first virtual currency used for consumer retail transactions at physical locations worldwide. In 2010, Hub Culture added carbon to Ven’s underlying basket of currencies and commodities, making it one of the first environmentally linked digital currencies.