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SEEDS = Sowing Equitable Ecological Decentralized Societies
Seeds = Our crypto currency 'SEEDS is to Seeds as Europe is to the Euro'
Conscious Currency = A currency that is evolvable and goes towards healing, regeneration and other activities that are for the wellbeing of all life.
Wallet = Wallets hold the private keys that control your assets.
Player = Any user account within SEEDS “SEEDizen” -> Visitors, Residents and Citizens.
Bioregion = A region defined by characteristics of the natural environment rather than by man-made divisions.
DAO = A Decentralized Autonomous Organization provides a ruleset and basic game for people to coordinate at scale and autonomously deliver compensation (like Bitcoin paying miners who create blocks) without the need to centralize power or authority.
DHO / “dhu”= Decentralized Human Organisation -> A Human-centric DAO -> pronounced like “dhu” where groups of humans come together to experiment with a wide diversity of alternative governance and coordination styles.
Liquid Democracy = This ability allows Players to vote directly on proposals or to delegate their vote to other Players at will, to represent them in each category of governance.
FIAT = Government-issued currency (USD)
DEFI = Decentralized finance
REFI = Regenerative finance
Deferred Seeds = Seeds that aren't available until going through the Harvest after Go Live.
Planting = aka staking, a process of locking a token up for a period of time. Often to earn or unlock benefits.
Harvest= The process by which new Seeds are algorithmically created and distributed to the whole ecosystem. The Harvest produces the new Seeds that participants earn for contributing to SEEDS
Token = A cryptographically secured digital representation of a set of digitally provided rights
Swap = Exchanging one coin or token for another, “trading”
Smart contract = A smart contract is a self-executing contract directly written into lines of code.
NFT = Non Fungible Token - meaning each token is unique and has a unique creation/history. Unlike fungible things (like central bank money, where all $1's are treated equal).
Minting = Rewarding users with newly created assets for community participation
White paper = A report used to inform the public of a project’s specifications
Burning = A deflationary method in which tokens become un-spendable
Cycle = A lunar cycle. 29.5 days. This is the most commonly used time unit in SEEDS.
ROI = Return on investment
Fork/Branch = When a blockchain splits into two separate chains
Proof of Stake (PoS) = A protocol of block verification based on how many coins the account holds.
Proof of Work (PoW) = A protocol of block creation based on processing power (work). This is the basis of ‘mining’.
Star'DHO = A DHO to empower humans with tools to joyfully self-organize.
Renaissance Explorers DHO = A place for advanced Players who want to dive into the depths of this game.
Hypha DHO = A DHO to develop tools for Regenerative Villages to coordinate, create bespoke economies, redesign governance while providing opportunities to investors to own fractions of Regenerative Villages and benefit from financing the transition to regenerative civilizations.
MoM DHO = The Movement of Movement DHO for the movement building
DHO Tell = A living organism serving its evolutionary purpose of inspiring, connecting and empowering communities and individuals to create vibrant and thriving regenerative content
Samara = A field for discovering the depth of the subconscious of the collective mind
Permatours = Co-creating a sustainable future through joyful local learning experiences
Regen Civics = Recipe Book for a Regenerative Civilization
SATOSHI NAKOMOTO = The pseudonym for the unknown entity that created the first blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and Bitcoin
Gitbook ← You're here!
The Gitbooks is our 'user manual for the ecosystem'. The websites, socials, decks, videos, etc are all built by single organisations or individuals... Meaning, they're more limited perspectives of SEEDS.
We needed a shared source of truth to coordinate from.
Blockchain is fine for the economic stuff.
Discord is too chaotic, we needed a grounded, well curated, community Co-created, Regenerative Commons Compendium. Co-created by all of us and edited/curated by those voted in to hold those compensated roles by the community.
The curators roles are to keep it coherent and consistent for functionality.
The community's roles to provide the insights, wisdom, and resources. This too is compensated (link) as quests (link).
This Gitbook is an ongoing collaboration from anyone in SEEDS (anyone is able to make merge requests) and overtime it will continue to grow to contain the greater the truth of SEEDS, just as we did with our Ratified agreements; such as the Constitution, Guide and other founding documents.
Gitbook ← Follow this guide
seedslibrary.earth ← Articles, news, and media for the SEEDS movement
Library ← Follow this guide
Passport.joinseeds.earth ← Web Passport
SEEDS Passport ← Mobile App Passport
The Passport is the most integrated way to communicate as forum posts and their discussions are integrated into governance proposals to keep information all in one place.
The Passport will serve as our long term immutable record of the evolution of our movement.
Forum.joinseeds.earth ← SEEDS Discourse Forum
Get an invite to the Passport (if you don't already have an invite to SEEDS) by asking in the SEEDS Discord (below) and start posting.
The Discourse forum is open to all.
Check out this getting started with Discord guide.
SEEDS Discord ← Discord invite
Join here, introduce yourself, and start co-creating!
"I see Notion as the entrepreneurial, bottom up, creative, self organized, non-hierarchical, no approvals needed, laboratory, incubator, sandbox for creating, publishing, sharing SEEDS content created effortlessly without needing to learn new skills, from which pages can be selectively published to the Gitbook site." - Neil T. Notion (Be the Change Co-op)
For everything else!
Short answers to questions on Neighbourhubs are attempted here. While links to factual answers wherever possible are provided, parts in these answers could still be outdated (by AshGeorge#8028)
Seeds, the currency, was designed by Hypha just after Etherium provided EOS tools to create new ecosystems on the blockchain. A team of people realised we could use Cryptocurrencies as a tool to work towards protecting the Earth. Work at Hypha started in 2017.
While most monetary work in 2017 revolved around Hypha tokens, there was a need to create a universal currency / token - Seeds was born from this need. Some of the initial Seeds contracts were created in 2018, refined through 2019 and 2020 by updating additional contracts on the blockchain.
Hypha is a decentralised organisation, implying nobody owns it, members of the public could own a piece of Hypha by buying Hypha tokens like Hypha Voice. People can also take up roles in Hypha, advertised on their website . Due to reasons like exhaustion, Hypha Members keep leaving or joining the organisation and so a handy list of who were the founding members isn't available. However, the list of people holding the tokens currently can be found by checking Telos block explorers for Hypha tokens (A link to one of the Hypha group accounts, Hypha.hypha is provided below: )
Seeds, the currency is decentralised, implying it's not meant to be run by a single person, it's designed to be run by you and me. This is primarily done through voting.
In addition to initiatives by people like you and me, a body called SEEDS COMMONS addresses day-to-day issues in the Ecosystem. The Seeds community voted in late 2021, to move the managerial aspects of the currency from Hypha to the Seeds Commons. Seeds Commons is a group consisting of representatives of all DHOs (Decentralised Human Organisations) using Seeds. Hypha remains the developer of Seeds and continues to maintain and update the technical aspects. You can find more about Seeds Commons below and check some of the issues addressed on Discord (#Seeds-Commons-general, )
While Seeds Commons addresses issues, Seeds remains decentralised and is still run by people like you and me. There are volunteers like me (Ash) who try our best to answer your questions. There are Citizens like me who run neighbour-hubs. If you need changes (you'll need to at least be a Resident to start a referendum) you're free to seek a vote (it's advisable to discuss changes with Seeds Commons for issues like duplicacy & implementation). The community (i.e. Citizens) will vote and approve / reject your proposals, including changes to how the ecosystem is run, approving your campaign or alliance etc.
Please check out the list of admin and moderators on Discord and telegram (the list of people is separate for each platform, check each platform to know the moderators on that platform), they help create new threads or control spam messages.
Other systems that the ecosystem relies on, include Nestr, Gitbook (This website), Notion etc. There are volunteers running each system and reporting structure within those apps are decided by these volunteers. Please reach out to individual app to check out who is managing the information on them. The team approving Gitbook content is provided here: )
There are additional applications that the ecosystem relies on, some of the list is provided here (some of these are developed by Hypha while others are third party EOS apps):
There are no shares of Seeds, however, people can own huge volume of Seeds. For the sake of addressing conflict of interests, the biggest Seeds accounts can be found below. You can also check Seeds ownership of popular names on Discord on these Telos blocks:
This video by Mark also details Seeds Tokenomics when it was created:
Even though Seeds Commons takes care of day-to-day issues, it cannot be technically called a Board as it does not own any shares or voting rights. It is the Citizens (i.e. people like you and me who try to use Seeds), who have all voting rights in the ecosystem. As long as Citizens don't lose their reputation points (e.g. involvement in frauds), each citizen gets one vote for every proposal, be it changes in the system or an alliance or campaign funding grant.
The biggest reward system for people in the Seeds Ecosystem (includes volunteers like me as well as holders, DHOs, Hypha techies, Seeds Commons and communities using Seeds) is to increase the usability of Seeds, so that Seeds buy multiple day-to-day items, while helping other continue their regenerative work.
Another reward is through the increase in value of Seeds on decentralised exchanges like DeX and Uniswap. To maintain a steady flow of Seeds in and out of the Ecosystem, a proportion of Seeds are allocated on these exchanges. Through these exchanges, Seeds can always be bought or sold, even when there are no buyers or sellers on community markets (like Discord Swap thread or telegram). Even though the price of Seeds at the moment is decided by the Seeds Commons, the price of Seeds on these exchanges could be higher or lower than the Commons price, depending on the demand / supply of Seeds on these exchanges. Thus, a higher price will imply people relying on Seeds for their wages (e.g. all the roles on Hypha are paid in Seeds instead of Fiat currencies), can receive higher value for their work in the Ecosystem.
Communication patterns are still under construction.
The SEEDS Communication agreements have yet to be copied over or ratified by the Citizens of SEEDS. You can explore the current process below.
Communication Patterns for Joyful Collaboration By Renaissance Explorers