Glossary
For all the 'What's this?' answers
Abundance Tokens
Abundance is a tool and exploration into radically redesigning how value is distributed. Abundance tokens can be earned through a multitude of Citizen chosen actions, such as paying more than the average price when using the Gift Economy API.
Allies/Alliances
Organisations, platforms and movements that have aligned with SEEDS and will accept Seeds and promote SEEDS. Some partners will offer discounts and other gifts to the Residents and Citizens of SEEDS.
Ambassador Academy
A program to help members understand the basic fundamentals of the SEEDS ecosystem and be prepared to set up pilots in their communities and organizations. The program has a length of approximately 1.5 - 2 lunar cycles. Ambassador Academy website
Badges
Badges help Players create new methods of acknowledging and distributing rights, information and value. They give various rights, abilities, and rewards to Players who hold them. The design space for badges is expansive and SEEDS offers Players the tools needed to create and issue such badges.
Better-Than-Free
Accounts build their Contribution Score (and increase their Harvest) through transacting as opposed to being charged fees. So, not only are transactions free, but they are “better-than-free” because you can earn more Seeds for engaging in and supporting the Seeds marketplace.
Bioregion
A region is defined by characteristics of the natural environment rather than by man-made divisions. Each Member and Organisation can choose which Bioregion they belong to. This is what SEEDS considers “local”.
Burning
A process in which Seeds are destroyed and removed from the ecosystem.
Campaign
Promotions for giving Seeds to communities and rewarding people for being part of the creation of a healthier society. People are gifted Seeds for educating others and doing good deeds.
Circulating Supply
The supply of Seeds that are available for exchanging and trading. i.e. Seeds that are not Planted, in the Seed Bank or other system accounts.
Citizen
The type of individual account in SEEDS (following Visitor, Resident) which enables the most abilities:
Vote for Campaign and Alliance proposals.
Vouch for others so they get up to 40 Reputation Points.
Defining Visitors, Residents, Citizens Requirements for becoming a Visitor, Resident, Citizen
Co-Learning Spaces
Spaces for co-creating and co-learning about this new landscape and game. These spaces are designed to provide tiers of compensation to Players for taking an active role in researching, experimenting, movement building, knowledge sharing and more. Players earn badges and often direct compensation for participating and contributing to these spaces and those badges may offer various rewards and rights to the badgeholders. Co-Learning Spaces include:
Community Fund
A dedicated fund to sponsor the Stake for Proposals, and is returned if the Proposal is successful. Details.
Conscious Currency
A currency that is evolvable (pseudo consciousness) and goes towards healing, regeneration and other activities that are for the wellbeing of all life (conscious).
Constitution
The document outlining the rules, intention and agreements of the SEEDS ecosystem. This document, once ratified, is only changed through decentralized governance and is referenced when conducting arbitration or making protocol upgrades.
A copy of the Seeds constitution is available here
Contribution/Contribution Score
This score is the combined total of all other scores (Planted Seeds Score, Transaction Score, Reputation Score, Community Building Score, etc.) that make up an account’s total contributions.
Conviction Voting
his ability allows Players to vote on open-ended proposals and to withdraw these votes again at any time. A vote gains more weight over time if it remains assigned to the proposal, and once withdrawn loses weight gradually, similar to a bucket that slowly fills with water or drains water if there’s a small hole.
Council
A distinction for those who secure and apply evolutions to the network. Similar to 'witnesses' and 'block producers', from other networks.
Cryptocurrency
A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
Cycle
A lunar cycle. 29.5 days. This is the most referred unit of time in SEEDS.
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
An entity with no central leadership. Decisions are made from the bottom-up, governed by a community organized around a specific set of rules enforced on a blockchain. DAOs are internet-native organizations collectively owned and managed by their members. Wikipedia defines DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) as an organization represented by rules encoded as a transparent computer program, controlled by the organization members, and not influenced by a central government. As the rules are embedded into the code, no managers are needed, thus removing any bureaucracy or hierarchy hurdles. SEEDS utilizes a human-centric version of DAO known as DHO (Decentralized_Human_Organization).
DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation)
A subgroup of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) except that a DAC pays dividends. There is a concept of shares in a DAC which are purchaseable and tradeable in some fashion, and those shares potentially entitle their holders to continual receipts based on the DAC’s success.
Dashboard
The main screen of the Global Passport.
Deferred Seeds
Seeds that aren't available or liquid until going through the Harvest after Go Live.
Delegate / Delegatee / Delegator
Delegating is the action of entrusting another account with directing your Trust Tokens.
Delegatee is a user who receives the delegation of Trust Tokens from another Citizen. One who receives the delegation of Trust Tokens from another Citizen.
Delegator is a user who receives the delegation of Trust Tokens from another Citizen.
DHO (Decentralized Human Organization)
A framework to build an organization from the ground up in an organic and participative way and together with others. The DHO is in many ways similar to a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organisation Except in that it places the humans that comprise it in the center. Opposed to trying to automate humans away, the DHO seeks to automate the majority of tasks to empower humans to more effectively and joyfully collaborate.
DHO Global (G-DHO) - Global Decentralized Holonic Organisation
The G-DHO is a single account that’s managed by all the Citizens of SEEDS. It is the owner of the SEEDS contracts and through decentralized governance by the citizens of SEEDS can upgrade contracts, change parameters and distribute funds for global initiatives.
DHO Regional (R-DHO) - Regional Decentralized Holonic Organisation
The R-DHO is the regional equivalent to the G-DHO. Each Citizen belongs to a R-DHO for their local community. This is used to finance local projects and evolve local governance processes.
Exchanges (as in 'Buy Seeds on exchanges')
Seeds may be offered up for exchange on a number of platforms that facilitate the conversion and trade of a wide variety of assets. You can buy and sell Seeds on these exchanges.
Fiat Currency
This refers to a government-issued currency, that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver.
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