Matan Field

Matan Field is a theoretical physicist, entrepreneur, and activist. For a decade, Matan has researched string theory—the “theory of everything”—for which he earned his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Meanwhile, he founded an organic-food cooperative in Jerusalem and became increasingly curious about alternative economies and organisational structures. At the end of 2013, Matan founded one of the earliest Decentralized Application (DApp) projects based on blockchain technology—La’Zooz, a decentralized ride-sharing network, which was itself developed through a decentralized process. This project helped him identify some of the missing links for scalable evolution of the decentralised movement, which led him to found Backfeed at the beginning of 2015. Matan believes in connecting science and technology with social values and economics, in order to promote a sustainable, wealthy, and healthy society.

Backfeed
Backfeed develops the platform and infrastructure for large-scale, decentralized corporations of any kind, making it a universal basis for platform cooperativism. It contributes to the development of blockchain-based platforms by providing (a) a set of economic and collaborative protocols—including a p2p value-distribution and reputation system, which is an economic incentive model for the indirect coordination of agents—and (b) platform for a collaborative network of networks. Backfeed helps make possibly a new economic framework in which collaboration is the winning strategy.