SEEDS Roadmap to Globally Regenerative Economies

This wiki page is based on the Roadmap to Globally Regenerative Economies Google Doc.

2017-2020: Landmarks 0-2 (Womb and Birth)

Concluded.

2021-Today: Landmark 3 (Crawl)

Primary Focus

• Audience: Innovators
• R&D (Pilots, Governance)
• Diverse Experimentation
• Rapid Protocol Evolution
• Economic Viability
• Generative Partnerships

Story for the Seeds currency

1. “Finance the Change” - align your value with your values
2. “Buy Seeds for a store of value” and help finance this ecosystem to continue building and experimenting.
3. “What can I do with Seeds?” - Invest in other DHO’s on the Seeds Swap. Plant Seeds to unlock various benefits and use it to trade amongst friends, family and local businesses.
4. Seeds as a currency is an audacious experiment and a risky investment with a long journey ahead of us. As such, high risks are compensated with a potentially high increase in the value of the Seeds currency as we progress towards Go-Live.
5. Not yet a currency to pay for work. Unless people don't need to sell those Seeds. In the early stages we need to balance buying and selling of Seeds to support the price of Seeds. If more people are selling Seeds then buying we risk dropping the price of Seeds and starting a downward spiral. For this reason we only compensate contributions (that are needed to pay bills) with money earned through the SEEDS sale (from Seeds that were already bought!) Note: this only applies to public funds. Everyone is free to use his/her OWN Seeds to pay for whatever they want.
6. Not yet a day-to-day currency as businesses require predictability, stability and a high degree of trust in the currencies they run their businesses with. Stability and protocol security hasn’t been established in SEEDS at this stage and could cause more harm than good if we promote Seeds as a stable medium of exchange or unit of account (when it’s not). It’s not advised to price items in Seeds yet (as you’d have to continue updating your prices as Seeds price is most volatile during this stage).
   Better to help organisations:
   1. propose an Alliance Share (so that they can grow value with us);
   2. run a campaign to invite their community;
   3. integrate the payment tools; and
   4. get prepared for go-live when it’s advantageous to start using Seeds as a medium of exchange (better than free) and unit of account (pricing their services/products in Seeds).
      Let the medium-of-exchange transition happen organically in later stages.

Intended optimal financial behaviours

1. Selling Seeds is detrimental to the ecosystem during this early formative phase.
2. Acquire (earning and buying) Seeds and hold/Plant them - Plant Seeds before the 30% bonus for planted Seeds cutoff date. Planting before this date is an optimal move for long-term commitment.
3. Preference to use a currency that’s losing value (e.g. central bank notes) to meet your needs, over a currency that’s gaining value (Seeds).
4. Hold onto the Seeds you’ve earned/purchased so that they can maximally appreciate in value (to redistribute the most value possible) before looking to spend them, or convert them to central bank currency.

Movement building focus

1. Building and structuring the SEEDS Public DHO’s
2. Supporting the Seeds Sale (not circulation) to provide funding for Public DHO’s (each DHO with their own focus) for DHO members to meet their needs with money obtained through the Seeds Sale
3. Networking with other ecosystems and forming and funding alliances (alliance requests) aiming for high-impact and generative partnerships (lowest hanging fruit and most aligned/largest communities first)
4. Running campaigns for distributing a relatively small number of Seeds to a broad number of people as invites for rewarding regenerative behaviours (working with our allies to invite their communities)

Proposal financing & funding focus

Which proposals are we able to fund? Those intended to provide:

1. The greatest regenerative impact
2. A small number of Seeds to a wide number people, through Invite Campaigns
3. Regeneration specifically by not needing to trade Seeds for central bank currencies to do so alliance shares for allied organisations within SEEDS (to give them some deferred Seeds to have as a stake in SEEDS’ success and/or some value to back their project tokens with)

Primary funding sources for transitioning wealth

Focus specifically on individuals buying Seeds at this stage as it comes with the greatest risk and also greatest upside. If SEEDS succeeds this will result in a massive redistribution and generation of wealth for those early adopters taking on the risk and providing the most support in these early stages. This provides the greatest upside directly to the people of SEEDS (as opposed to giving the greatest upside to institutions or funds). Focus on where the most value for SEEDS’ financial growth and liquidity may come from:

1. Individual regenerators buying small amounts of Seeds

Walk (Enabling Go Live)

Primary Focus

• Audience: Early Adopters
• Partnerships
• Collaboration
• Foundational Tools
• Community Growth

Story for the Seeds currency

• “Own the Change” - a way to put your value where your values are.
• Seeds as a currency is beginning to show itself as a viable alternative. We’ve worked out many of the most pressing and foundational protocols. The high risk of success has diminished moderately (though still quite risky). Risk is still compensated with a potentially significant increase in the value of the Seeds currency as we progress towards Go-Live.
• Most people are buying and still holding Seeds and participate in the movement in a myriad of other ways beyond spending Seeds as a currency.
• The largest movement of Seeds is coming from the SEEDS accounts (Campaigns, Alliances, Referrals) and moving towards the regenerators of SEEDS, distributing and decentralising value.
• Likely answer to “what can I buy with Seeds?” “Not much right now, the focus is on creating the foundations for a regenerative economy, not necessarily on using Seeds as a medium of exchange. That shift happens after Go-Live. The best move with your Seeds now is to just hold on to them and support the activities highlighted in Landmark 3do other things to help the movement progress.”

Intended optimal financial behaviours

1. Acquire (earning and buying) Seeds and hold/Plant them
2. Preference to use a currency that’s losing value (e.g. central bank notes) to meet your needs, over a currency that’s gaining value (Seeds)
3. Hold onto the Seeds you’ve earned/purchased so that they can maximally appreciate in value (to redistribute the most value possible) before looking to spend them, or convert them to central bank currency

Movement building focus

Minimum Viable Public DHO’s formed for each of the main organs (Storytelling, Tech, Movement Building, Research, Sense-making and reacting to ecosystem needs, etc). Focus remains to:

1. Supporting the Seeds Sale (not circulation) to provide funding for Public DHO’s (each DHO with their own focus) for DHO members to meet their needs with money obtained through the Seeds Sale
2. Networking with other ecosystems and forming/funding alliances
3. Running campaigns for distributing a relatively small number of Seeds to a broad number of people as invites for rewarding regenerative behaviours
4. Running local pilots (and providing liquidity for these pilots) to start experimenting with best practices for creating circular economies (starting with Active Regions)

Proposal financing & funding focus

Which proposals are we able to fund? Those intended to provide:

1. The greatest regenerative impact
2. A small number of seeds to a wide number people, through Invite Campaigns
3. Regeneration specifically by not needing to trade Seeds for central bank currencies to do so
4. Alliance shares for allied organisations within SEEDS (to give them some deferred Seeds to have as a stake in SEEDS’ success and/or some value to back their project tokens with)

Campaign funding for “Active Regions” (for regions that successfully reach 144 Citizens) to fund their Regional DHO (for each regions Citizens to decide on their own which proposals they prioritise and fund)

Primary funding sources for transitioning wealth

As SEEDS matures we can start to approach VC’s to make deals directly with the Citizens to buy Seeds from the Alliances (allies.seeds) account to access the quantity of Seeds they want at a fixed price (then Seeds are in escrow) this will start to bring in larger organisations to get a stake in SEEDS and provide resources to amplify the mission Focus on where the most value for SEEDS’ financial growth and liquidity may come from:

1. Individual regenerators buying small amounts of Seeds
2. Venture capital funds buying large amounts of Seeds

Run (Go Live)

Primary Focus

• Audience: Early Majority
• Economic Transition
• Seeds Circulation

Story for the Seeds currency

• “Be the Change” - a functional alternative currency.
• Seeds is a better-than-free currency and a more stable medium of exchange, there are a myriad of organisations willing to accept Seeds so members can start buying directly in Seeds to meet some of their needs.
• The risks of Seeds becoming a viable alternative have diminished greatly (though will always remain risky, as does anything). Risk for success is no longer primarily compensated with an increase in the value of Seeds. Instead contributions are compensated directly through the Harvest and Gratitude. Though Seeds may still increase in value against central bank currencies, much of this “increase in value” is actually due to the decrease in value of central bank currencies and any rapid influxes in adoption.
• Businesses may want to start pricing services and products in Seeds to avoid the inflation of Central Bank currencies (and “menu cost” of having to update prices to compensate for inflation).
• Using Seeds as a medium of exchange to avoid processing and payment fees and to increase your share of the Harvest.
• The largest movement of Seeds is no longer coming from the SEEDS accounts (Campaigns, Alliances, Referrals) as these have mostly been used up. Instead the largest movement of Seeds begins to shift to organisations and individuals trading amongst each-other.

Intended optimal financial behaviours

1. Contribute to SEEDS to increase your Individual, Business and Regional Contribution Scores
2. Circulate Seeds (buy, sell, trade) and Plant any Seeds you’re not immediately needing to use (savings account)
3. Preference to use a currency that’s rewarding you for using it (Seeds), over a currency that charges you fees; or at best, is free to use (e.g. central bank notes) to meet your needs
4. Begin to more comfortably, and slowly, transition a larger share of your value into Seeds

Movement building focus

Major shift! After Go-Live, Movement Building shifts towards Seeds being a medium of exchange/unit of account and to increases the circulation and flow of Seeds:

1. Onboarding businesses and organisations to start using Seeds as a medium of exchange to increase their revenue and grow their client base.
2. Onboarding businesses and organisations to start using Seeds for a unit of account to increase their revenue (avoid inflation) and reduce “menu costs” (routinely needing to update prices).
3. Networking with other ecosystems, marketplaces and more forming and funding alliances
4. Merging with other ecosystems (using the SEEDS Bank to acquire smaller ecosystems and merge them into SEEDS).
5. Running campaigns (if campaign funding remains) for distributing a relatively small number of Seeds to a broad number of people as invites for rewarding regenerative behaviours.
6. Running local pilots and getting organisations onboarded and people using Seeds as a medium of exchange to grow their local economy. Funding regions to further support creating circular economies
7. Supporting the Seeds Sale (not circulation) to fund Public DHO’s (each DHO with their own focus)

Proposal financing & funding focus

After go-live and as the Campaign and Alliance pools of Seeds come to an end. The global funding proposals may come to an end. On a global level Citizens are voting on:

1. Referendums (policy and protocol changes);
2. Constitutional Guardians (similar in function to a “Supreme Court”);
3. Global budget (which Public Organisations receive a share of public funds)

That’s it. No global funding proposals, all funding proposals will go through the relevant (topic or regional) DHO’s.

Funding proposals shift to regional proposals and Citizens are voting on proposals intended to provide:

1. The greatest regenerative impact (what’s going to increase their Regional Contribution score the most? A greater CS score wins that region a larger Harvest to work with (and thus increase their regenerative impact, creating a positive and regenerative feedback loop)).
2. Regional liquidity. Regions may start funding proposals that do require trading Seeds for central bank currencies in order to succeed. However, each region is motivated to provide their own regional liquidity in order to keep value in their region (and not leak value to other regions by selling the Seeds outside their region). Part of a region’s contribution score is how many Seeds are circulating. So, selling Seeds to other regions decreases that region's ability to circulate Seeds and increases the other regions ability (thus decreasing the CS of the region that sold Seeds and increasing the CS of the region that bought them). However, selling outside regions is, of course, permitted and helps reduce global inequality by giving liquidity to impoverished regions and assisting the transition of wealth from the wealthiest to the poorest regions.

Primary funding sources for transitioning wealth

Foundations, institutions and VC’s can make deals directly with the Citizens to buy Seeds from the SEEDS Bank. Focus on where the most value for SEEDS’ financial growth and liquidity may come from:

1. Venture capital funds buying large amounts of Seeds
2. Crypto traders moving into Seeds as a “counter-cyclical” token in cryptocurrency (e.g. a token that has the beneficial qualities of a stable currency, that may still be appreciating against USD in crypto down-turns. Potentially making it more ideal than the current USD Stable Currencies for this function. Additionally, the SEEDS Bank starts selling CDP’s for traders to get risk-minimised exposure to Seeds, further bringing in more liquidity to the SEEDS ecosystem.
3. Individual regenerators buying small amounts of Seeds
4. Foundations and other organisations invested in systems change funding entire sectors of Seeds growth (e.g. a foundation with a mission to end homelessness in a particular region could provide liquidity for regional proposals specifically aimed at tackling that issue in that region - or it could simply buy Seeds and support the whole ecosystem).
5. Institutional capital with ESG mandates providing liquidity (targeted and otherwise) for the SEEDS ecosystem by buying Seeds

Jump (Regenerative Villages & Bioregions)

• Audience: Late Majority
• Circular Economies
• Bioregional Regeneration
• Regenerative Villages
• Regenerative Business

Story for the Seeds currency

• “Grow the Change” - Seeds has demonstrated systemic regeneration and has begun to prove itself as a viable regenerative economy. Now, it is time to amplify the impact!
• Seeds is a better-than-free currency and a more stable medium of exchange with a rapidly growing adoption curve as more organisations get more comfortable in adopting Seeds for stable and better-than-free payments!
• The revenue (Harvest) that organisations can earn from adopting SEEDS and Regenerative Business practices is substantial and starting to become a significant source of revenue for small businesses (further propelling adoption).
• Likely answer to “what can I buy with Seeds?” “A whole lot!”

Fly (Regenerative Economy & Global Civilization)

• Audience: Laggards
• Federation
• Fractal Evolution
• Planetary Regeneration

Story for the Seeds currency

• “Unite the Change” - SEEDS is quickly demonstrating to the world that transition can happen, it can be rewarding and we’re doing it! Likely by this time there’s a number of global shifts taking place to get folks to set into new monetary systems (central bank digital currencies). By this time we’re mature enough to confidently state that we’re a viable alternative to these centralised systems and offer people a new route.
• Seeds is a better-than-free currency and a more stable medium of exchange.
• The risks of Seeds becoming a viable alternative have diminished greatly (though will always remain risky, as does anything). Risk for success is no longer primarily compensated with an increase in the value of Seeds. Instead contributions are compensated through the Harvest. Though Seeds may still increase in value against central bank currencies, much of this “increase in value” is due to the decrease in value of central bank currencies.
• Price your services and products in Seeds to avoid the inflation of Central Bank currencies. Buy things with Seeds to avoid processing and payment fees and to increase your share of the Harvest.
• The largest movement of Seeds is no longer coming from the SEEDS accounts (Campaigns, Alliances, Referrals) as these have mostly been used up. Instead the largest movement of Seeds shifts to organisations and individuals trading amongst each-other.