SEEDS

SEEDS is a decentralized financial system based on regenerative values, governed directly by the citizens. It is the collective name for the protocols, accounts and smart contracts that make up this new ecosystem. It is designed to finance a regenerative economy by subsidizing and rewarding regenerative practices (social, environmental, financial and other domains), campaigns, and solutions; aligning business incentives towards regeneration; providing grants for regenerative projects and campaigns; and empowering local and circular economies through subsidizing the transition to regenerative industries.

See the SEEDS Guide to learn how to participate.

Foundation

Vision

• Humanity as wise, joyful and loving partners, co-creating a flourishing world together, with our Earth and the Web of Life.
• Cultures rooted in compassion, insisting on informed and transparent decisions about the ways we meet our needs as responsible future ancestors, in partnership with our Earth, and honouring the gifts we all share.
• Our economic, financial, and governance systems honour the carrying capacities of our Earth and regenerate the multiple dimensions of life we share, thus increasing the caring and carrying capacities of our worlds.
• Our societies have become diverse and fertile gardens of abundance that are overflowing with art, song, music, dance and joy; blooming with multispecies cities, drinkable rivers, thriving oceans, fertile living-soil, nourishing air, and compassionate-food.

Purpose

To serve the Regenerative Renaissance by co-creating economic, governance, and financial systems for regenerative and thriving civilisations.

3 Principles

1. We acknowledge how our universe exists and evolves as a single unified entity, an undividable wholeness. The universe is a single unified being.
2. We acknowledge how our universe evolves coherently and is finely tuned to make life possible. The universe evolves through deepening coherence and increasing complexity.
3. We acknowledge our universe as an expression of consciousness, a continual learning journey of discovery through which we develop our capacities to thrive together. We actualize our consciousness by learning, experimenting, collaborating, reflecting, and sharing together.

5 Keys

1. Tools - SEEDS starts with familiar tools (like starting with a currency that looks and feels like money and voting that looks and feels like democracies we know), while also creating entirely new tools. SEEDS supports the myriad of change-maker movements by providing tools for harnessing the power of wealth creation and for scaling global coordination. The tools include, among others - financial and governance systems, and decentralised organisation tools for creating regenerative communities.
2. Systems - SEEDS provides an open platform for unifying the many tools into a coherent ecosystem for coordinating global movements. As a ‘conscious currency’, SEEDS is much more than a currency and gives us tools to evolve coordination beyond simply exchanging money. Namely, by providing systems to evolve new structures for decision-making, coordination and value exchange. SEEDS is designed to better meet our changing needs while aligning the interests of funders, users, communities, movements, bioregions and our Earth.
3. Voice - SEEDS offers voice, influence and power to those prepared to steward the health of our Earth and future. Citizens (those who have participated in the success of SEEDS and received this badge) govern the evolution and operation of the SEEDS ecosystem. Our voices fractal out to local and global communities within SEEDS for evolving our economies and cultures, giving rise to diverse approaches for creating healthier communities and civilisations.
4. Community - SEEDS is a community, where people across the globe are coming together to more joyfully and rewardingly learn and experiment together to co-create this journey into a thriving civilisation.
5. Resources - SEEDS provides finance, subsidies, expertise, and other resources to empower this Renaissance, with emphasis on compassionate actions, food for all life, Renaissance art (song, music, dance, etc.), movement building, free and open technologies, and ecological regeneration.

8 Values

1. Exploration - Experimentation and discovery through a process of learning by doing and sharing.
2. Reciprocity - Responsive and mutually beneficial (value-driven, over punishment-driven) relationships and protocols that seek complementary value for all.
3. Openness - Voluntary, accessible, transparent, and encouraging diversity.
4. Integrity - Being and acting from a place of authenticity, intuition, and coherence with who we truly are and the wisdom of life.
5. Courage - Boldly standing for the wellbeing of people, planet, non-human life, and our future as well as standing for the required changes and transformations.
6. Trust - Building and promoting systems for revitalising and scaling trust in each other, life, and our shared future.
7. Commitment - Dedicating our hands, feet, and heart to our personal transformation journey and to take responsibility for and embody the changes we wish to see.
8. Compassion - Cultivating and pursuing our passions with authentic care, respect, love, and empathy for all life.

13 Architecture Protocols

1. Openly Share Knowledge - Open Source Code - Life is open Source code, it openly shares knowledge, wisdom, resources, and value. We mimic this in SEEDS through open knowledge sharing and shared learning opportunities.
2. Enable and Encourage Choice - Citizen Governed Life enables choice points to evolve itself. We mimic this in SEEDS where Citizens maintain a direct voice in governance and in steering its evolution.
3. Include Spaces to Dream - Architect from the Future - Life is future creative. We mimic this in SEEDS by working with the future as an imaginal possibility space and source of inspiration.
4. Capture Carrying Capacities - Operate Within Sustainability Thresholds - Life creates carrying capacities with systemic boundaries. We mimic this in SEEDS by including sustainability thresholds (ecological ceilings and social foundations) in the SEEDS Operating Systems. We aim to act with integrity to honour these vital boundaries.
5. Increase Carrying Capacities - Improve Resilience and Health - Life creates resiliency and systemic health. We mimic this in SEEDS by applying regenerative feedback loops to increase systemic resiliency and health.
6. Encourage Diversity - Strengthen Evolutionary Coherence - Life increases and embodies diversity, coherently. We mimic this in SEEDS by encouraging and including diverse perspectives, backgrounds, experiences and wisdom for developing our collective stewardship.
7. Communicate Inclusively - Create Resonance and Alignment - Life is communicative and inclusive, creating resonant alignment. We mimic this in SEEDS by providing tools and systems that enable Citizens to make what we offer and do relevant, meaningful, and resonant for their unique local and regional contexts.
8. Be Transformative - Develop Capacities Together - Life is transformative; capacities develop and evolve by learning and building together. We mimic this in SEEDS by developing our transformative capacities together through experimentation, co-learning, and shared evaluation.
9. Collaborate for Thrivability - With the Patterns that Connect - Life collaborates for thrivability through connective patterns. We mimic this in SEEDS by weaving collaboratively with the patterns that connect, integrating the best of the old and newly emerging worlds for the purpose of regeneration and thrivability.
10. Be a Good Future Ancestor - Allocate Prosperity Equitably - Life creates conditions for the thrivability of our future. We mimic this in SEEDS by thinking, designing, and acting as a future ancestor - with hindsight, insight, and foresight.
11. Design in Fractals - Scale Holistically - Life is fractal by design, scaling and integrating holistically. We mimic this in SEEDS by using fractal patterns in our design and programming, to make complexity thrivable and workable.
12. Enhance Fertility - Create Abundance Regeneratively - Life is fertile and creates collective abundance regeneratively. We mimic this in SEEDS by promoting regenerative abundance through financial incentives that reward collaborative behaviours in service of life, and cross-pollinating successes, solutions, and wisdom gained.
13. To be Co-Created ... Open Space to Dream into Together - Life is an ongoing creative process, a continuous journey of discovery. We support this through SEEDS by leaving this space open for us to dream into together.

16 Commitments

The SEEDS Quest

We commit to:

• 1. Answering the call of the Renaissance Quest;
• 2. Taking responsibility for our power;
• 3. Investing our power in our thrivability;
• 4. Becoming renaissance agents by offering our talents, passion, and wisdom.

The SEEDS Architect Tools

We commit to:

• 5. Applying this constitution as our navigational compass;
• 6. Designing from the architecture of healthy living systems;
• 7. Creating and continuously improving our tools and protocols;
• 8. Becoming an architect of future civilisations.

The Quest Allies and Partnerships

We commit to:

• 9. Partnering with our earth for our common health and prosperity;
• 10. Playing compassionately with others;
• 11. Allying with our future ancestors;
• 12. Celebrating our transition moments and growth.

Building our New World While Transitioning from the Old

We commit to:

• 13. Opting out of systems of harm;
• 14. Opting into systems that heal and regenerate our world;
• 15. Purposefully creating thrivable communities and ecosystems;
• 16. Becoming the world we wish to live in, one seed at a time.

3 Tools for Scaling

1. Proposals - Proposals are a tool to collectively decide changes to the SEEDS economy or to fund projects, ideas and organizations its citizens collectively support.
2. Contribution Scores - Contribution Scores consciously decide, track and reward a variety of contributions to new civilizations, most suited for trackable and quantitative metrics.
3. Gratitude - Gratitude functions as a “swarm intelligence” based on the principles of a gift economy, most suited for contributions that are highly visible and exciting.

Foundational Documents

• SEEDS Constitution - The foundational guide to the participation and evolution of SEEDS
• SEEDS 3-Pager A quick introduction to SEEDS
• The SEEDS Guide - An in-depth look into how the Game of SEEDS works (SEEDS Guide wiki)
• Regenerative Renaissance (Ecosystem Resources) - A reference list of SEEDS resources

Alliances and Campaigns

Alliances

Alliances are organizations, movements or businesses aligned with creating healthier civilizations through the SEEDS economy.

• Regenerating Central America - Whole Systems Approach for Large-Scale Regeneration through Community Empowerment

Needs a link to list and profiles of Alliances

Campaigns

Campaigns are programs that gift Seeds 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.

Needs a link to list and profiles of Campaigns

History

SEEDS is co-created by Hypha together with the Seeds Community, and stands for Sowing Ecological, Equitable and Decentralized Societies. Hypha is a Decentralized Human Organization (DHO), a global, transparent, open organization that is owned by all who contribute and open to all.

Co-Learning Spaces

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.

1. Inner (how we co-create / future possibilities).
2. Outer (what we're co-creating / current possibilities).
3. Storytelling (creating narratives to share the process).

Renaissance Explorers Handbook

Ambassador Academy

A place to help Players understand the basic fundamentals of the game and be prepared to set up pilots in their communities, organisations and more! Renaissance Explorers

• Overall view of the Ambassador Academy
• Overview of being an Ambassador

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.

Apps

Foundational Apps

Global Passport

The Global Passport offers Players a community-centric approach to SEEDS. 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.

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.

Financial and Economic apps

Regen DEX (Decentralised Exchange) / Seeds Swap

The Regen DEX is a website tool for Players to exchange value directly (without a middleman) amongst each other with a variety of tokens and decentralised (on-chain) currencies and assets. Players can create organisation, village, team or other types of tokens and swap value with people across the globe.

Peer Swaps

Peer Swaps is a tool for Players to exchange value directly (without a middleman) amongst each other with Seeds and a variety of (off-chain) currencies (such as central bank notes).

Organisational and Governance Apps

DHO’s (Decentralised Holonic Organisms)

This decentralised application offers Players a structure to create new types of organisations and regional governance systems that offer:

• contribution accounting for fair value distribution;
• transparent, direct and evolvable governance tools (helping Players decide at scale);
• unifying protocols where the typical roles of “investors”, “users”, and “employees” become one (for new paradigm organisations);
• the ability to more easily build the change while living the change;
• launch organisations within the SEEDS legal jurisdiction;
• a regional governance system for Players to coordinate locally.

Key Terms and Definitions

• Allies or 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.
• 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.
• Burning - A process in which Seeds are destroyed and removed from the ecosystem.
• Campaigns - Promotions for giving Seeds to our community and rewarding people for being part of the creation of a healthier society. From planting seeds to doing good deeds, people earn Seeds.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Governance - The process of direct, transparent and quantifiable impact in the evolution of all rules, protocols and value distribution of SEEDS.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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’.
• Reputation - Points that accounts earn for participating in governance, maintaining trust, and other ways of contributing to SEEDS. The reputation of an account goes from 0-2 and acts as a multiplier to the rest of the Contribution Scores. This means that if an account has a 0 reputation, then it will earn no rewards - regardless of the other scores. Likewise, if an account has a reputation score of 2, it will earn double the rewards it would have - if it maintained a reputation of 1 (which is the mean).
• 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.
• 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.
• Total Supply - The total amount of Seeds in existence at the moment, minus any coins that have been verified as burned.
• 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.
• Visitor / Resident / Citizen - 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. After you gain your citizenship, you unlock further abilities to increase your Harvest and begin earning Trust Tokens to participate in governance.
• 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.

Resources

• SEEDS website
• SEEDS Library - Information portal for the SEEDS movement.