The "LunApollo Bond" funding system. 1969.

 

Following the successfull LunApollo Moon missions with astronauts, spationauts and cosmonauts from all nations, the LunApollo Space Program launched a public offering as a mean to fund the next phases of mankind travel to planets of the solar system and to the closest stars. This financial product known as "LunApollo Bond" had the originality of being backed simultaneously by gold and the arts.

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Inspired by the fractal nature of the universe, of everything nature produces, the LunApollo bonds consist of fractals of the LunApollo Space Program database monolithic sculpture as a division of 2 to the 23rd, hence a supply of  8,388,609 bonds. Two rules: 1) This cap is hardcoded into the protocol to ensure scarcity, and 2) The total supply will never exceed 8,388,609 to ensure the LunApollo Bond's deflationary nature. 

 

To secure a tangible value, the "LunApollo Bond" system links each one of the 8,388,609 fractal monolith artworks to 1 gram of gold. Therefore all bonds amount to a total of 8,388,609 grams of gold, around 8,4 tons. Based on the 1969 value of the spot price for 1 gram of 24-karat (999.9) gold approximately at $1,30, the total value of the LunApollo bonds reached about $10,905,192, around $11 million.

 

So, the LunApollo Bond system combined a value fluctuating with the gold market and a value growing with the constant increase of information the LunApollo monolith sculpture gathers in its hardrive database. A bond with two criterias, one speculative, gold, and the other genuine, knowledge. A spiritual combination for the space age!

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Within the first year of its launching, the LunApollo Bond program generated over $10 million, and by the end of the next decade the successful flights to all planets of the solar system and the preparation for the first interstellar flight to Proxima Centauri saw the fund pass the $1 billion mark. As the original Founder of the LunApollo Space Program, just retired President John F. Kennedy was all smile!

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