Altnemo has an initiative where every stakeholder will receive a Silver coin, which essentially to some degree backs the currency.
Can this be expanded upon ?
This discussion thread wants to establish if Gold or Silver backing would be good for NEM and if it was then how could we implement the best system to accomplish it ?
It should be noted that the original intention for AltNemo was to sell these coins for a profit, for which the profit was to be used to finance its projects.
Now that there was a suggestion that these silvers were to be bought up using the sock coins and distribute them to the community (now being debated and voted upon in another thread).
Hello.
It seems this idea is spreading into other coins too 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=881230.msg10089231#msg10089231