How value flows inside the community.
Contribution recognition
- Labor
- Care
- Knowledge
- Stewardship
Resource allocation
- Commons vs private
- Internal exchange
- External income interface
Treasury logic
- Transparency rules
- Spending authority
- Reserves & risk
Artifacts
- Internal Economy Protocol (Defines how contributions are recognized and exchanged; non-monetary or token-based, but must be explicit)
- What counts as contribution
- How contributions are logged or acknowledged
- Internal units (time credits, EcoTokens, points)
- Commons vs private boundaries
- Limits on accumulation
- Treasury Ruleset (Defines how shared resources are held and spent; “community financial law”)
- Income sources
- Spending authority by amount
- Transparency requirements
- Reserve policies
- Risk and debt limits
Layer Invariants
- Invariant 3.1: Economic transparency by default Shared resources, flows, and obligations must be visible to the community (with limited, explicit exceptions).
- Invariant 3.2: Commons protection Resources declared as commons cannot be privatized through informal or unilateral action.
- Invariant 3.3: Contribution recognition is explicit Unpaid or invisible labor must not be structurally required for system survival.
- Invariant 3.4: No unbounded accumulation of internal power Economic mechanisms must prevent indefinite concentration of internal influence.
Explicitness Rules
MUST be explicit
- What is common vs private
- How shared resources are allocated
- Spending authority limits
- Transparency rules
- External income interface
Why: money + ambiguity destroys trust faster than conflict.
MAY be explicit
- Contribution valuation models
- Internal units (tokens, hours, points)
- Budget categories
MUST remain optional
- Attitudes toward wealth
- Equal vs differentiated outcomes
- Personal financial choices