The Atreides Story

In an eerily familiar depiction, Frank Herbert’s epic Dune saga imagines the harsh realities of a planetary ecosystem virtually devoid of water resources: An arid wasteland where water is currency; where specialized suits are worn by humans to recycle and retain the body’s water; where inadequate resource management leads to political uprisings, interstellar wars, and millennium-spanning innovation efforts.

While the description of such an ecosystem might’ve seemed fantastical and otherworldly when the setting of Dune was first imagined in 1965, today it forecasts an impending reality for many areas within the United States absent a revolutionary change in management practices. In Dune, House Atreides, the dynastic namesake of the saga’s protagonist, was tasked with revitalizing a desolate planetary ecosystem by revolutionary means; Likewise, in 21st century America, Atreides the Company, acknowledges a similar role and responsibility.

Borrowing from Dune's proclamation that "the historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here. You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard for those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record. We have the record in front of us and our course is obvious." Through our harnessing of distributed ledger technologies and decentralized data, Atreides endeavors to serve the government and public with an accurate and transparent record of water rights, usages, and resources. From there, our course is obvious.