The present invention is directed to a distributed ledger-based platform for buying and selling tokens representative of a person's value creation potential. Tokens represent both intrinsic and talent-based value creation potential. In one embodiment, a productivity identity is associated with a user account of the platform based on attributes attributing to the user's value creation potential by at least one non-fungible token (NFT) which links the productivity identifier to a user account's cryptocurrency wallet. In one embodiment, user accounts of the platform are further placed into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).