Most people can't hold their own currency on chain. Here's the map of who can.
Most people find theirs in the dark half of that map. That's usually the moment this stops being somebody else's problem.
The top four are about the world and each one says where it came from. The four below are ours, and we say so. Mixing those together is exactly what our charter says we can't do.
And the part that is ours to answer for
More than ninety-nine per cent of all stablecoin value is a claim on the United States dollar. For a worker in Manila or Lagos that is not ownership. It is exposure to another country's monetary policy, plus a currency problem at the till. The instrument arrived. Their money did not.
None of this happens in a year. But all of it can be counted, so we publish the count once a year and you can check our working.
A stablecoin in the money people actually get paid in and pay rent in. Not a dollar with a local name stuck on it. Their own currency, on chain, redeemable, from an issuer a regulator can actually find.
A wallet, savings, and money you own outright. No bank hours, no remittance counter that shuts at five, nobody's permission needed. This is the slow part. It's also the part that changes anything.
A token nobody will trade isn't much use. A currency only counts once someone is willing to quote it against another one at a fair price. That's a job. Someone has to choose to do it.
Sera.cx calls the week, runs the programme and publishes the count. That's all we do. The charter spells out what we're not allowed to do.
India, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia and 48 others run their own version under the one name. Organised locally, by people who live there.
Bring a corridor, a demo, or something you were announcing anyway, and time it to the week. Competitors welcome. That's kind of the point.
You can't lobby a central bank and you shouldn't try. What actually moves this is small stuff you can do from a laptop. Say which currency you live on. Bring one person in. Write the explainer nobody has written in your language. Run a workshop for ten people.
Pick yours. The board shows what state it is in and what your move is. Status comes from a September 2026 fact-check of public sources, and it is deliberately incomplete. If we have missed a stablecoin in your currency, or got one wrong, that correction is the most useful thing you can send us.
Over a forty-five day window the order book received 1,460 quote requests across 124 pairs. 776 of them found no liquidity on the other side. These are the biggest gaps. This is Sera's own quote log, not an industry statistic, and we publish it because the industry is who can close it.
Roughly ordered by effort. The first one takes two minutes. The last takes a weekend. All of them pay into the experience ledger you already have at community.sera.cx, and none of them cost money.
One post, in your own language, saying which currency you live on and whether it has a stablecoin. Sounds trivial. It isn't. Every post puts a country on the map, and you can't write it without picking a side.
Not a hundred people. One. Someone who sends money home, runs a small import business, or gets paid from abroad. They're who this is for. And honestly they'll be more convincing at a family dinner than any of us are online.
In most languages there's nothing readable on what a local stablecoin is, what it isn't, and where the law stands. Write 800 words. Be honest about the risks. Link your sources. There's nothing else out there in your language, so people will find it.
Send real money to a real person. Write down the corridor, what it cost, and what it replaced. Compare it to what a bank or a remittance shop would have charged. If it came out worse, say so. Verified stories go on the public wall and they do more work than any thread.
A room, an evening, ten chairs. There's an agenda further down this page. You don't need to be an expert. You need to be about a week ahead of the room, and to say so when you don't know something.
Every country has a chapter. During the Epoch yours runs its own edition under the one name. Someone has to put their name on it, book a room or a call, and write up what happened afterwards. That can be you.
Nobody explains this part properly. Quoting a currency pair is a real job with real risk and real income, and it's the only thing that turns a dead token into a working corridor. Learn it, do it small, then teach someone near you.
Pick your currency. You get a card worth posting and some words you can edit to sound like you.
Screenshot this. It's built to be posted.
Ninety minutes. No slides needed after the first ten. The only equipment is one phone per person and somebody willing to be the example.
| Time | What happens | Why it is in the agenda |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Ask the room who sends or receives money across a border, and what it cost them last time. | Starts with their problem, not your topic. The numbers people say out loud are always worse than they expect. |
| 0:15 | Show what a stablecoin in your own currency would be. Name the ones that exist near you. | Makes it local immediately. A dollar token is an abstraction; their own currency is not. |
| 0:30 | Everyone installs a wallet and receives a very small amount from you. | The moment it becomes real. Keep the amount trivial so nobody is anxious. |
| 0:50 | Do one live swap between two currencies and read the rate out loud against a bank's. | The comparison is the argument. Do not editorialise, just read both numbers. |
| 1:05 | Explain where yield comes from, and where losses come from. Both, at the same length. | If you only teach the upside you have taught them to get hurt. See the yield page. |
| 1:20 | Ask who wants to run the next one, and write their name down before anyone leaves. | A workshop that does not produce the next organiser was a talk, not a chapter. |
This is the bit that turns a dead token into a working corridor, and it's the bit nobody explains honestly. Read the losses section as carefully as you read the income section.
Nobody is promising to pay you a percentage. There's no rate card. If someone shows you a fixed one for this, they're selling you something else.
Money parked and left alone earns nothing here. The income shows up because you're doing a job. Stop doing the job and it stops.
There's a specific way this loses money, described below. It's not a rare edge case. It's just the cost of doing it.
Bids on one side, asks on the other, a gap in the middle. You post both prices and leave them resting. The gap between them is the spread, and on a live corridor competition keeps it to a small fraction of one percent.
Somebody crosses your price because it beats their alternative. You now hold more of one currency and less of the other, and you have earned the difference from the middle.
The income is in the round trip, not the single fill. Buy below the middle, sell above it, repeatedly, on a pair with genuine two-way flow. One-way flow is not a business, it is an inventory problem.
Teach these in the same breath as the income, every time, to everyone.
Sera publishes an open source bot that does the quoting for you. It only ever posts, never takes the other side of a trade, and it signs a heartbeat every six minutes so the book knows your quotes are still live. The public dashboard is at earn.sera.cx.
Start with a corridor that already has flow both ways, not the most exotic one on the board. If you don't have a feel for how that currency moves in a normal week, you're not ready to quote it.
Not an amount you'd be upset to lose. An amount you could lose entirely and be fine. This is the rule that keeps people around after a bad month.
The package is on npm as the Sera earn bot, and you can see what other makers are doing at earn.sera.cx. It is non custodial: it signs orders with your key and cannot move funds anywhere you have not authorised. Read the source before you run it, and do not run any trading software you have not read.
Tighter spread, more fills, less on each. Wider spread, more per fill, but it might sit untouched for days. The position cap is what stops a bad day turning into a disaster, so set it before you need it.
Look at what actually filled, which way you ended up leaning, and whether the income covered the move against you. A week of small real numbers will teach you more than this page will.
This is where it compounds. Five people in a chapter quoting the same local pair can move that currency from issued to trading. That shows up on the board and in the annual count.
A chapter is one country. Not a region. Nobody can lead Southeast Asia, but somebody can lead the Philippines. There's no application and no fee. The lead is whoever earned the most in the last thirty days.
Open your dashboard at community.sera.cx and declare your country. One per person, changeable. If you do not pick, one is inferred from where you log in.
Nobody appoints it. The top experience holder over a trailing thirty days holds the seat and the Flag Bearer badge, with a grace window before it changes hands.
Which is the point. A seat you can't lose is just a title. A seat that changes hands is a reason for the second most active person in the country to keep showing up.
Set low on purpose, so five people in a room can clear it. Specific on purpose, so nobody can take the name and run something we wouldn't stand behind.
One real person who puts their name to it publicly, in advance.
Posted on this site before it happens, so anyone in that country can turn up.
A short write-up afterwards: who came, what happened, what you would change.
Somebody from the country who is not from the community. An issuer, a journalist, a shop owner.
A borrowed room, ninety minutes, the workshop agenda from the playbook. Cheapest to run, highest conversion, produces the next organiser in the room.
Ninety minutes, three local voices, recorded and posted. Works where distance or law makes a physical gathering awkward, and it leaves an artefact behind.
Attach to a fintech or developer meetup that already exists in your city and take a thirty-minute slot. Fastest route to a room full of the right people.
These are the countries the community already posts from. They're the remittance-heavy, FX-squeezed places where this actually bites. Click one to jump to its currency on the board.
Issuers, payment firms, wallets, exchanges and the rails under all of it. Being listed isn't an endorsement and nobody paid to be here. It's incomplete by definition. Corrections are the most useful thing you can send us.
The Epoch doesn't compete with the industry's calendar, it sits on top of it. Most of what's listed here is somebody else's event and we had nothing to do with organising it. That's what makes the week global in year one.
National weeks run under the one name from the second week of October onward. India, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, China and any other chapter that puts an organiser's name forward. If you want yours listed, that starts in the playbook.
A movement run by a company that competes with the people in it only works if the limits are written down where anyone can check them. These are the limits. If we break one, say so publicly. We'll either fix it or stop calling this convened.
A week every year, and a count published once a year. The week is whatever chapters and participants make of it. The count is the part that has to stay consistent, because a movement with no marker is just the same announcement over and over.
The founding edition runs 5 to 10 October 2026. It's the first one. We say that plainly, so a small turnout reads as a start rather than a flop.
Sera.cx calls the week and pays for it. That doesn't buy us anything beyond what's below. These are the commitments that make the rest of this site worth reading.
Any issuer, payments firm, wallet or exchange can take part. Including our direct competitors. Including ones who are rude about us. Taking part never depends on having a commercial relationship with us.
Nothing here requires you to open an account, hold a token, or route a payment through us. Every single thing in the playbook can be done without touching our product.
No fee at any level. No sponsorship needed to appear. No paid placement in the directory. Nobody on this site paid to be here and nobody can.
Numbers that come out of our own systems get labelled as ours, every time, in the same size type. If an outsider can reproduce a number from public chain data, we say so. If they can't, we say that too.
We don't make statements on anyone else's behalf, and we don't use a participant's name or logo in a way that suggests they're endorsing us rather than the week.
A recognised chapter keeps the right to use the name for its edition no matter what it says about us, as long as it meets the standard in article three.
Low enough that five people in a borrowed room clear it. Specific enough that nobody can take the name for something we wouldn't stand behind.
One real person, named publicly, in advance.
Posted here before it happens, so anyone local can attend.
A short write-up afterwards. Who came, what happened, what you would change.
Chapters operate under their own jurisdiction and may adapt the local name where the standard one creates a problem.
The baseline. Every future edition gets measured against this, which is exactly why we're publishing it while the numbers are still small and a bit embarrassing.
| Measure | 2026 | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Currencies in circulation | 155 | ISO 4217, excluding fund, metal and special-purpose codes |
| Currencies with a stablecoin of any kind | 30 | September 2026 fact-check of public and issuer sources |
| Currencies with nothing at all | 125 | The remainder, and the actual size of the job |
| Largest non-dollar stablecoin | A rouble token | Under US, UK and EU sanctions. Counted, not linked |
| Country chapters open | 52 | community.sera.cx, one per country, lead won on thirty-day activity |
| Live corridors on the convener's book | 3 | Convener's own figure. Reproducible from public contracts on chain |
| Tokens in the convener's registry | 40 across 22 currencies | Convener's own figure. Public endpoint, checkable by anyone |
This site went up fast and parts of it are wrong. That's not an apology, it's just the working assumption.
If your currency has a token the board doesn't show, that's the most useful thing you can send us. The count is the whole product.
Issuers change hands, tokens wind down, domains move. Three of our rows were already out of date within a day of being written.
If you're in the directory and would rather not be, tell us and you're off the same day. Being listed isn't an endorsement and it isn't compulsory.