SEEDS Glossary
Glossary of Terms
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 place to help Players understand the basic fundamentals of the game and be prepared to set up pilots in their communitie and organisations.
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 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/Resident/Visitor
SEEDS uses nomenclature and models found in our legacy nation-states to ease the transition into SEEDS - further, many functions of our societies today play important roles that can be remodelled to serve us better. One of those functions is the process by which a person can join a new society (or nation-state). The barrier to become a Visitor is extremely low, allowing you to come and experience what SEEDS can offer. When you become a Resident, you begin earning a Harvest and increase your allocated transaction volume based on how many Seeds you have planted. When you become a Citizen, you unlock further abilities to increase your Harvest and begin earning Trust Tokens to participate in governance.
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:
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.
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
This 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.
DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
An entity with no central leadership. Decisions get 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. 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.
Delegate
An action of entrusting another account with directing your Trust Tokens.
Delegatee
One who receives the delegation of Trust Tokens from another Citizen.
Delegator
One who delegates their Trust Tokens to 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
The government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver.
Global Passport
“SEEDS Global Passport” is a mobile application for accessing SEEDS. If SEEDS is the internet, the Passport is but a single site on it. Other methods for accessing SEEDS already exist (such as the Light Wallet). The Passport is meant to offer the tools for people to create “Minimum Viable Societies” and use this application to create a foundation for new and regenerative global civilizations. The Passport comes with the following key features:
- A forum section for earning reputation for sharing wisdom, proposing changes, discussing projects, and more.
- A people section for connecting and meeting other Players.
- A governance section for voting on proposals.
- A ”Game of SEEDS” section for doing quests, earning Seeds and learning about this renaissance in a more joyful way!
- A wallet section for all your economic actions.
Go Live
The milestone when Citizens vote on whether or not they believe the SEEDS economy is robust enough to start stabilising the value of the Seeds currency and start the "Harvest". This occurs when the SEEDS economy is large enough to start meeting needs using Seeds. This event won't occur until the price of Seeds is at least $0.80 USD.
Governance
The process of direct, transparent and quantifiable impact in the evolution of all rules, protocols and value distribution of SEEDS.
Gratitude Tokens
Gratitude is a tool and exploration into radically redesigning how value is distributed. It’s a way to build gratitude into the foundation of our new culture. Gratitude helps Players sense, recognise and distribute value to other Players for contributions of all kinds to the wellbeing of our new civilizations and the people that comprise them.
Growing
The term used to describe the minting process of generating new Seeds. At the same time, Bitcoin uses an energy-intensive “mining” process. Eosio (the protocol under SEEDS) is 64000 times more energy efficient as it uses a different protocol to Bitcoin to secure the network. eosio2 which came out at the beginning of 2020 is an additional 16 times more efficient.
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. Once the community approves the Go Live event and Seeds begin to stabalise, the distribution of Seeds will go through the Harvest.
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.
Light Wallet
The Light Wallet offers Players a light-weight tool to participate in SEEDS. With a focus on providing tools for merchants and businesses. The Light Wallet comes with the following key features:
- Basic and advanced wallets.
- Access and sign action on your DHO or Swaps sites.
- Setup “Key Guardians” to recover your account should you lose your keys.
- Setup your storefront, marketstall, or business on SEEDS to accept payments.
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.
Money
Money is said to have three primary characteristics: 1. Store of value 2. Unit of account 3. Medium of exchange Seeds aim to optimise money by making it a better unit of account - by creating a more stable currency - and medium of exchange - by creating “better-than-free” methods to exchange money.
Multi-Option Voting
This ability allows Players to pick one of many options within a proposal. This tool helps crowd-source wisdom and find the most preferred outcomes.
National Currency Liquidity
A national currency is a legal tender issued by a country's central bank or monetary authority, for example, USD, GBP, AUD. Liquidity refers to the availability of cash or cash equivalents to meet short-term operating needs. In other words, liquidity is the amount of liquid assets that are available to pay expenses and debts as they become due.
Peer-to-Peer Exchanges
Where the people of SEEDS exchange their various currencies directly with each other as opposed to through centralized exchanges. I.e. Bob can trade Joe 100 USD for 100 Seeds by sending Joe 100 USD directly to his bank account. This is mediated by escrowed smart contracts.
Planted Seeds
Staked, locked away, similar to a “term deposit”. When Seeds are Planted, accounts restrict their access to them in exchange for a higher Contribution Score and increased bandwidth for transactions. This ensures that people who are using the network are financially committed to the network.
Player
Any account within SEEDS is considered a Player. This is the term that comprises Visitors, Residents and Citizens.
Pre-Cast Vote
Voting 'For', 'Against' or 'Abstain' for a Campaign before choosing how many of your votes (Trust Tokens) you are willing to distribute among the Campaigns you Pre-Cast Voted for.
Proof of Stake (PoS)
A protocol of block verification based on how many coins the account holds. This system solely rewards those who have the currency based on how much currency that user has. PoS systems give the most voice and rewards (harvest) to those with the most money.
Proof of Work (PoW)
A protocol of block creation based on processing power (work). This is the basis of ‘mining’.
Proposals
There are two types of Proposals:
- Campaign proposals are for offering a gift to a wide number of people for doing any number of actions that benefit people or our planet, as voted by the Citizens of SEEDS.
- Alliance proposals are for gifting aligned organisations, movements or businesses a share of Seeds in gratitude for the actions they’ve taken to create a healthier civilization and to align their interests with the SEEDS economy.
Regenerative Design
A process-oriented whole systems approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials. Regenerative design uses whole systems thinking to create resilient and equitable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature.
Renaissance Explorers
A place for advanced Players who want to dive into the depths of this game. This is a space to tap into future possibilities, redesign our inner and outer landscapes, test models, experiment with new protocols, engage with the Citizens and propose evolutions to the game.
Renaissance U
A place to explore all the other tools, ecosystems and projects that comprise the Regenerative Renaissance and how Players can engage with these other tools to create Regenerative Civilizations.
Reputation
The foundational metric of trust within the SEEDS ecosystem, it’s how Players determine which accounts are human, trusted, unique and beneficial to the health of the whole system.
Reputation Points
Points that accounts earn for participating in governance, maintaining trust, and other ways of contributing to SEEDS.
Reputation Score
Players total Reputation Points ranked on a scale of 0-99 amongst all other Residents and Citizens using a spline curve and given a relative multiplier of 0-2 (see Reputation Multiplier Curve Table). This means that if an account has a multiplier of 0, then it will earn no rewards - regardless of the other scores. Likewise, if an account has a multiplier of 2, it will earn double the rewards it would have if it maintained a multiplier of 1 (which is the mean).
| Reputation Multiplier Curve Table | |
|---|---|
| Reputation Score | Multiplier |
| <7 | 0 |
| 52 | 0.5 |
| 68 | 1 |
| 84 | 1.5 |
| 99 | 2 |
Samara
A “generation 2 DHO” focused on serving the people and projects of the Regenerative Renaissance with running pilots and on-the-ground activations of movement building. They’re currently in the DNA stage and discovering what their purpose is. If you’re wanting to deeply commit to creating a new type of organisation focused on growing the Regenerative Renaissance — this may be the place for you!
SEEDS
Name of the protocols, accounts and smart contracts that make up the open-source code-base and ecosystem. Used interchangeably with ‘network’.
Seeds
Name of the currency used by the SEEDS Ecosystem. Divisible to four decimal points. Use interchangeably with ‘token’.
Seed Bank
A part of SEEDS - a series of banking contracts that fulfil many functions of legacy banks to offer a variety of financial services, such as CDP’s (collateralized debt positions), decentralized monetary policy and more.
Seeds Tokens
Seeds are a tool that looks and acts most similar to money from the legacy games. These characteristics were chosen to give Players a money tool similar to what they’re already used to, in order to start playing, contributing, building value and exchanging with each other more readily.
Self Organization
Also called (in the social sciences) spontaneous order. A process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when sufficient energy is available, not needing control by any external agent. It is often triggered by seemingly random fluctuations, amplified by positive feedback. The resulting organization is wholly decentralized, distributed over all the components of the system. As such, the organization is typically robust and able to survive or self-repair substantial perturbation.
Sow (as in 'Sow your Seeds')
You “Sow Seeds” when you invite new people to join SEEDS by sending them Seeds. If they become Residents and Citizens, you earn more Seeds, which may be greater than the number of Seeds you sowed to invite them. In this way, it’s very much like sowing seeds - where some seeds may not sprout to bear fruit, while those that do return your seeds in greater abundance. By requiring people to send their Seeds to invite another person, you’re invested in that person becoming a Resident, and you’re limited in how many invites you can send.
Tokens
A cryptographically secured digital representation of a set of rights, including smart contracts, provided on a digital platform. Tokens help Players create new methods of tracking, exchanging, and distributing information and value. There are 3 main types of tokens within SEEDS:
- Currencies and Assets
- Can be purchased and sold.
- Used to exchange and distribute value amongst Players.
- Example: Seeds Tokens
- Governance
- Cannot be purchased or sold; only earned.
- Used to distribute voice amongst Players.
- Points (Coordination)
- Cannot be purchased or sold; only earned.
- Used to distribute and track the value of Players as they contribute to the game.
- Example: Gratitude Tokens, Abundance Tokens
Total Supply
The total amount of Seeds in existence at the moment, minus any coins that have been verified as burned.
Transaction
Any blockchain action (not just sending Seeds), like giving ratings, vouching, forum votes, casting Trust Tokens.
Trust Token
SEEDS decouples equity tokens and Trust (voice) tokens. In today’s dominant paradigm “money talks” and simply by virtue of having money, one could buy up a majority voice in any organisation. This is true of many crypto-projects as well. If we’re to build a system that can’t be co-opted or corrupted by our dominant paradigm, we cannot allow legacy value to buy governance in SEEDS. For this reason, Seeds are not what is counted when weighing voice, but rather the number of Trust Tokens an account has earned. Trust is earned through participation and contribution, where money committed is but one metric and not the whole story.
Unity (Consensus)
The threshold of agreement that needs to be reached for a proposal or referendum to pass.
Wallet
Wallets hold the private keys that control your assets. Many applications have a wallet built in, where you’re able to transfer and control all your SEEDS assets.
Weighted Voting
This ability allows Players to quantify how much for or against a proposal they are. Opposed to the binary “yay or nay” of classical democracy, Players get to choose a range of options to express their perspectives (e.g. I’m 100% for this or 10% against this).