SEEDS New User Guide

The SEEDS New User Guide provide the basics of participating in the SEEDS community.

Section 1: Regenerative Organizing

How We Contribute to Co-Creating New Civilizations

Becoming a Visitor, Resident and Citizen

There are three types of individual accounts in SEEDS:

• Visitors
• Residents
• Citizens

Visitors

Players automatically become a Visitor when they first join SEEDS. Visitors are required to “plant” (analogous to a minimum balance in a bank account) Seeds to reserve their bandwidth (use of the blockchain to make free transactions) and to cover the costs of blockchain account creation.

Visitor Requirements Table
Index	Action	Description	Setting	Setting ID	Impact
1.1.1.a	Plant Seeds	Plant [N] Seeds in the account to have an active SEEDS account	5	vis.plant

Notes:

1. Check your status in the Global Passport app under your username in the top left.
2. The minimal planted Seeds is automatically covered by the Player who sent the invite.
3. More on Planting.

Residents

Benefits

• Vouch for others so they get up to 20 Reputation Points.
• Submit Campaign and Alliance proposals.
• Receive part of the Harvest after the "Go Live" event.

Requirements

Players earn Resident status by doing the following:

Resident Requirements Table
Index	Action	Description	Setting	Setting ID	Impact
1.1.2.b	Plant Seeds	Plant [N] Seeds in the account	50	res.plant
1.1.2.c	Gain Reputation	Obtain at least [N] Reputation Points	50	res.rep.pt
1.1.2.d	Send Seeds	Conduct [N] transactions	1	res.tx
1.1.2.e	Refer Players	Invite Players and have at least [N] become a Visitor	1	res.referred

Notes:

1. Execute and monitor all of these requirements in the Global Passport app. Check your status under your username in the top left.
2. To earn Seeds to Plant, review offers on the campaigns_growing_the_renaissance channel on the SEEDS Discord.
3. Earn 50 Reputation Points (and no more) by being vouched for by Residents or Citizens. Only Residents and Citizens can vouch for others. The higher the status (Resident, Citizen) and Reputation Score of the person vouching for you, the more Reputation Points you will receive. Residents can contribute up to 20 Reputation Points, and Citizens up to 40 Reputation Points.
4. You can conduct transactions by sending Seeds to others.

Citizens

Benefits

• Vouch for others so they get up to 40 Reputation Points.
• Vote for proposals.
• Receive part of the Harvest after the "Go Live" event.

Requirements

The final status for Players is Citizenship status earned by doing the following:

Citizen Requirements Table
Index	Action	Description	Setting	Setting ID	Impact
1.1.3.a	Plant Seeds	Plant [N] Seeds in the account	200	cit.plant
1.1.3.b	Gain Reputation	Obtain a Reputation Score of at least [N]	50	cit.rep.sc
1.1.3.c	Send Seeds	Conduct [N] transactions	5	cit.tx
1.1.3.d	Refer Players	Invite Players and have at least [N] become a Visitor	3	cit.referred
1.1.3.e	Refer Players	Invite Players and have at least [N] become a Resident	1	cit.ref.res
1.1.3.e	Account Age	Have an account age of at least [N] cycles (29.5 days per cycle)	2	cit.age

Notes:

1. Reputation Points and Reputation Score are two different things. Your Reputation Score is based on an algorithm that ranks members from 1 to 99 (the higher the better) based on their Reputation Points.
2. The simplest path to a Reputation Score of 50 is vouching for someone who hasn't been vouched yet (e.g. someone you invited) and supporting them to become Residents.
3. You can conduct transactions by sending Seeds to others.

Contribution Scores - Individual

The Contribution Scores determine how many Seeds Residents or Citizens earn of the Harvest and how many Trust Tokens Citizens earn for use in governance.

Planted Seeds Points and Score - Individual Accounts

This metric tracks a Player's committed financial value (e.g. “skin in the game”) within the economy.

When Players Plant Seeds they’re restricting access to them in exchange for:

1. an increase in “Planted Seeds Points”; [# Planted Seeds = Planted Seeds Points]
2. an increased number of fee-free transactions;
   1. Players may make an average [N] transactions/week per planted Seed (see transaction quota table).
3. meeting the requirements to become a Resident or Citizen.

Planting in SEEDS is similar to:

1. “staking” tokens in other blockchain protocols;
2. a term deposit in a bank account, where people restrict their access to money in exchange for greater rewards;
3. banks requiring a minimum balance in order to have an account.

Transaction Quota from Planted Seeds

Transaction Quota From Planted Seeds Tablen Requirements Table
Index	Action/Name	Description	Setting	Setting ID	Impact
1.3.1.a	Minimum Transaction Quota	All accounts, regardless of Planted Seeds amounts, are able to make [N] transactions each week.	7	txlimit.min	High
1.3.1.b	Increase Transaction Quota	Plant [N] Seed(s) to increase transaction quota by 1 per week.	1	txlimit.mul	High

Reputation Points and Score - Individual Accounts

Players earn reputation points for a diversity of actions.

Reputation forms the foundation 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.

This section covers SEEDS current approach to DID (Decentralised Identification).

Web of Trust - Individual Account Vouching

The SEEDS vouching process forms the foundation to a “web of trust” as an account’s reputation is based on the reputation of the accounts who vouched for it; creating stronger or weaker webs based on the total reputation of the web. At the core of SEEDS is building systems to scale trust. The following tools lay those foundations.

• Vouching for an Account - Vouching occurs when one Player uses the ‘vouch’ action for another Player. Sending an invite automatically vouches for the new account.

Example: Chan is a Citizen with a 99 rep score (multiplier of 2) when he vouched for Suzy. This would have provided Suzy with [N] Vouch Points and Reputation.

• Receiving a Vouch - When being “vouched for” the receiving Player gains Reputation Points based on the reputation and status (Resident or Citizen) of the vouching account.

Vouching is a 2-way trust relationship as either party can lose reputation if the other loses reputation. Since these accounts are tying their relationship together then both need to agree to enter into that relationship.

1..3.4.1.3.a [After an account has “vouched” for another account, the receiving account needs to accept the vouch.]

Notes:

1. This is to prevent accounts vouching for people they don’t actually know in an attempt to earn Reputation Points.
2. This creates recursive reputation losses for better eliminating/policing bot-networks or otherwise fraudulent accounts.

Building Reputation - Player Vouching Table - Individual Accounts

Transaction Quota From Planted Seeds Tablen Requirements Table
Index	Name/Action	Description	Setting/Calculation	Setting ID	Impact
1.3.4.a	Vouch	Players can earn reputation by vouching for other humans and their singular account..	(Status) * (Reputation Multiplier) of account vouching = Vouching Points received.
1.3.4.b	Max Vouch Reputation Points	Players can earn a maximum of [N] Reputation Points from being vouched. After which no more Reputation Points from vouching can be earned for that account nor accounts vouching for it.	50	maxvouch	High
1.3.4.c	Resident Status Base Points	[N] = The base Vouching Points given by a Resident when vouching.	4	res.vouch	High
1.3.4.d	Citizen Status Base Points	[N] = The base Vouching Points given by a Citizen when vouching.	8	cit.vouch	High
1.3.4.e	Max Non-Invite Vouches	Maximum times an account can vouch for other accounts.	250	sendvouchmax	Med
1.3.4.f	When Vouched Becomes a Resident	When an account you vouched for becomes a Resident you earn [N] Reputation Point(s).	1	vouchrep.1	Med
1.3.4.g	When Vouched Becomes Citizen	When an account you vouched for becomes a Citizen you earn [N] Reputation Point(s).	1	vouchrep.2	Med

1.4 Reputation - Building trust in our new civilization

Total Reputation Points are added and ranked on a scale of 0-99 amongst all other Residents and Citizens.

1. An account’s Reputation Score (0-99) is translated using a spline curve into a multiplier (where 99 = 2 and 50 = 1) which is applied throughout SEEDS in various actions, totals and scores.
2. Reputation gives Citizens a building block to recognise beneficial actions and defend against a variety of abuse and attacks.
3. Reputation has the ability to zero out any rewards.
4. Reputation Multiplier Curve Table Visualised: