M2M.plus — A manifesto for a human, decentralized future

1. Introduction:
A Turning Point in Digital History
The world stands at a turning point. Over the past three decades, the internet has profoundly reshaped our society — first as a tool, then as a platform, and today as a complex and often alienating system.
Web 1 was the era of reading: people consumed information without active participation. It was a phase of discovery — open, curious, but one-sided.
Web 2 brought interaction. Platforms seemingly empowered people to take part, but in reality, they shifted the power structures: users gave away their data, platforms collected, controlled, and monetized it. The human became the product.
Web 3 promised decentralization, security, and independence. Yet in practice, it remained too complex, too technical, too abstract for most. Decentralization became a buzzword rather than a lived reality.
Something got lost along the way: trust, authenticity, and closeness.
Social moments now vanish into clouds and chats, while centralized systems capture our attention and data. The digital space has come between people instead of connecting them.
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2. Problem:
Alienation in the Age of Data Capitalism
Our society increasingly suffers from the side effects of this evolution:
•    Loss of trust: Digital identities have become interchangeable; genuine encounters are hard to verify.
•    Data monopolies: Platforms own, control, and exploit personal data — not the individuals themselves.
•    Isolation: Social experiences are overshadowed by digital distraction.
•    Loss of the moment: At events or in daily life, focus on the present often dissolves in the effort to capture it digitally or exchange contact data.
•    Inefficiency: Photos, contacts, and memories scatter across chats, clouds, and marketing databases, losing their living context.
At the same time, regions, communities, and organizations face a pressing question:
How can we rebuild social bonds and local economies in an increasingly digital world?
Architecture and technology alone are no longer enough — we need a new economic and societal model that puts humans back at the center.
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3. Proof-of-Contact:
A Bridge Between Real Encounters and the Digital World
The answer begins with the simplest and oldest form of human interaction: personal contact.
Proof-of-Contact is a protocol that records real-world encounters between people — authentic, tamper-proof, and local — without any central platform or data transfer.
When two people meet, they can create a “Match” within three seconds using a QR scan or NFC tap. This Match confirms that the encounter truly happened.
All data is stored locally and encrypted on each person’s device.
There is no central database, no platform listening in.
Every Match is a quantum moment — unique, unrepeatable, yet verifiable.
From billions of these encounters, a new network emerges, built on trust and authenticity: the Human Hypergraph.
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4. The Human Hypergraph:
A Network of Real Encounters
The Human Hypergraph is the foundation of M2M.plus.
It doesn’t grow from data silos or algorithmic profiles but from authentic human interactions.
Each connection in the Hypergraph represents a genuine, mutually confirmed contact.
The structure is decentralized, distributed across the users’ own devices.
Instead of central servers, a living, organic network evolves — one that reflects trust, interests, recommendations, and shared experiences, not through algorithms, but through real-world interaction.
The Human Hypergraph is not a social network in the traditional sense.
It is a new infrastructure layer — a protocol that enables applications to use human encounters as valuable data sources without violating privacy.
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5. Interlaken:
A Lighthouse for WEB4
To make this vision tangible, Interlaken serves as the first model region — a living lab where technology, community, and decentralized currency can be tested in practice.
Here, the connection between encounters, social value, and local economy becomes visible — without central data exploitation.
Etherlaken is not a marketing campaign but a testing ground for WEB4:
an internet where people own, control, and use their data — and where every authentic encounter creates measurable value.
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6. M2M.plus:
Protocol, Not Platform
M2M stands for Mouth-to-Mouth, Match-to-Match, Mensch-to-Mensch (Human-to-Human) — and with the domain m2m.plus, it becomes clear: this is not about machine-to-machine, but human + technology.
M2M.plus is not a social network.
It is a protocol that:
•    Connects people in real time
•    Logs contacts in a decentralized way
•    Preserves data sovereignty
•    Enables new forms of economy and community
Technology moves into the background.
The encounter itself becomes the central moment again.
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7. The Sofa Moment:
Digital Depth Comes Later
A core principle of M2M.plus is the Sofa Moment.
During events or encounters, the shared time should belong entirely to the real experience.
No one should spend precious minutes installing apps, filling out forms, or typing numbers.
Instead, the Match happens in seconds — a quick scan, a locally saved contact — and the rest unfolds later, comfortably on the sofa:
•    Sorting and sharing photos
•    Adding notes or tags
•    Choosing communication channels
•    Extending interest links
The event time remains focused on human connection, while the digital layer evolves later, calmly and consciously.
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8. The First Products:
FotoMatch & KontaktMatch
To make the technology tangible, M2M.plus begins with two simple, instantly usable products:

📸 FotoMatch — The Self-Organizing Event Gallery
Guests scan a QR code at an event and automatically match with it.
They take photos and videos as usual.
After the event, a personalized gallery is created, based on individual interests (e.g. “band”, “family”, “paragliding”).
All data remains decentralized — users decide what to share.
Result:
Fewer phones in the air, more presence, better memories — and an organically growing user base, as events multiply usage.

🤝 KontaktMatch — The Business Card Reinvented
Two people scan each other’s code or tap via NFC.
Within three seconds, a Match is created and stored locally on both devices.
Later, they can choose which messaging app (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc.) to use for contact.
Optional: notes, interests, or tags — all local, private, encrypted.
Result:
A simple, fast, and secure way to digitally anchor real encounters — without platforms, without central storage, without data harvesting.
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9. Outlook
With FotoMatch and KontaktMatch, the core idea becomes tangible:
Every encounter counts. Every moment is decentralized.
Together, they form a network that carries genuine social and economic value.
This is just the beginning.
Part 2 will explore the long-term vision — decentralization, new application scenarios, and the economic layer: MatchCoin.
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10. Selfies as the Matching Tool of the Future
Selfies are an everyday part of social interaction today.
In the future, they can play a new role: as triggers for decentralized matches.
When two people take a selfie together, a unique, time-and-place-specific moment is created.
This can later serve as the basis for a Proof-of-Contact — without any complex steps during the event itself.
Example: Two people take a selfie at a concert. Days later, the system recognizes that both were at the same place and time. It offers them the option to confirm a match — voluntarily, decentralized, locally.
Thus, a selfie becomes a key to post-event connection, without any central platform or address book.
Encounters are not created by algorithms but by real, human moments.
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11. Messe2Messe:
Data Bridges Instead of Business Cards
Another powerful application field is the trade fair and event industry.
Today, trade fairs are full of inefficient contact processes: business cards, badge scans, data exports — most of which are lost or unused.
With Messe2Messe, this process becomes radically simpler and fully decentralized:
•    Visitors scan a QR code at a booth.
•    A Match is created and stored locally in their MatchVault.
•    Interests or topics can be tagged.
•    Exhibitors receive aggregated, anonymous insights about interest and reach — not personal data.
Visitors retain full control, sorting or selectively sharing later.
This creates meaningful data flows — without central platforms, without address trading, without loss.
Trade fair contacts become valuable, precise, and reusable for both sides.
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12. Decentralized Preference Data & New Mobility
A key advantage of the M2M.plus protocol is that preference data is stored with individuals themselves.
These data points — interests, themes, match history — are not held on servers but in each person’s MatchVault.
This enables deeply personalized experiences without centralized control.
Example: Mobility.
Imagine travelers voluntarily checking in their preference data before a train ride.
A decentralized system recognizes shared interests and can seat or connect people accordingly.
Instead of silent parallel travel, social spaces emerge — for those who want them — without any central authority tracking movements or profiles.
Decentralized preference data can thus reshape social interaction without sacrificing control or privacy.
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13. The Hypergraph as the Foundation of Decentralization
All scenarios — selfies, Messe2Messe, mobility — rest on one principle:
Human moments create decentralized data points that form the Human Hypergraph.
This network is:
•    Tamper-proof through mutual confirmation (Proof-of-Contact)
•    Decentralized, stored with the people themselves
•    Organically growing through real encounters
•    Open to countless applications without platform dependency
Instead of centralized data collection, a distributed, self-determined information landscape emerges — powered by human interaction.
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14. MatchCoin:
An Economic System Built on Human Encounters
Alongside the social Hypergraph, an economic layer arises that gives these encounters measurable value: the MatchCoin.
MatchCoin is not speculation — it’s a utility token whose value stems from real matches.
Every meaningful match — between visitors and exhibitors, guests and events, or people with shared interests — creates economic relevance.
Organizations that benefit from these matches pay for access, generating demand.
Its value doesn’t come from artificial scarcity but from genuine use.
The more people connect, the higher the real demand.
With optional burn mechanisms and a fixed total supply, MatchCoin forms a stable, decentralized value system — built not on debt or central banking, but on human interaction.
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15. Applications Across Events, Communities & Daily Life
The potential use cases are vast:
•    Events & Festivals: FotoMatch and KontaktMatch enable seamless, decentralized engagement.
•    Clubs & Communities: Interest-based connections without centralized platforms.
•    Brands & Businesses: Transparent, consent-based interactions instead of anonymous ads.
•    Education & Culture: Workshops, field trips, and gatherings become verifiable, meaningful encounters.
•    Tourism & Regions: Local economies and communities are activated through shared, authentic experiences.
In every case, the protocol, not a platform, is the core.
M2M.plus is the invisible infrastructure anchoring human encounters digitally — without owning them.
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16. Societal Shift:
From Platform-Centered to Human-Centered
The central thesis of M2M.plus:
Real encounters are the most valuable resource of the digital age.
Where platforms once extracted and monetized this value, M2M.plus reverses the model:
•    People own their data.
•    Encounters are documented decentrally.
•    Economic value arises where interaction truly happens.
•    Communities can organize, finance, and evolve in new, fairer ways.
This model democratizes data flows and strengthens trust, connection, and self-determination.
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17. Manifesto:
A New Kind of Internet
We stand at the threshold of WEB4 — an internet that no longer centers on platforms but on people.
•    Web 1 was reading.
•    Web 2 was interaction — but centralized.
•    Web 3 promised decentralization — but stayed technical.
•    WEB4 is human: encounters create value, data belongs to people, and technology serves as the bridge — not the center.
M2M.plus delivers this bridge technology — turning human contact into the foundation of a fairer digital world:
•    Proof-of-Contact as the core protocol
•    Human Hypergraph as the structure
•    MatchCoin as the economic layer
•    Decentralized preference data as the driver
•    FotoMatch & KontaktMatch as the first real-world tools
Together, these elements restore balance between technology and humanity.
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18. Conclusion
The path to a more human, decentralized future doesn’t begin with a platform — it begins with a simple match between two people.
From that single moment, a network arises that redefines trust, value, and community.
M2M.plus is not an app, not a social network, and not a trend.
It is the infrastructure for a new era of the internet — quiet, decentralized, and deeply human.