RES COMMVNES OMNIVMcryptocommons.churchInstrumentum primum · MMXXVI

FROM THE ASHES OF THE SCAM THE CODE IS BORN.

An open protocol for real regenerative economies. No node rules another and nobody signs with their name: the key is the signature, and the canon belongs to everyone.

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2 trillionUSD evaporated, 2022

850,000BTC in someone else's custody

3collapses, zero cryptographic failures

0owners. Now and after.

Ithe cost of not writing the values down

WHAT BURNED

Three collapses, three public figures, one single cause. None of them was a cryptographic failure. All three were someone holding other people's keys, promising a yield with no source, or closing the books.

2014Mt. Gox 850,000 BTCOne company held everybody's keys.

May 2022Terra / Luna ≈ 40 billion USDA yield no work was producing.

Nov 2022FTX ≈ 8 billion USDPrivate books, and nobody with the right to read them.

Ostrom published how to avoid all three in 1990. Twenty-four years before the first one.

IIthe two economies

WHERE THE VALUE GOES

The difference is not ideological, it is a matter of trajectory — and a trajectory can be drawn. In one, value leaves the territory once and never comes back. In the other it goes all the way round, and the only thing that leaves, leaves published.

EXTRACTIVE ECONOMY

open trajectory

The territory produces. The value travels. The territory keeps the wear.

The surplus passes through once. What stays behind is the wear on the soil, the water and the body that produced it.

REGENERATIVE ECONOMY

closed trajectory

The territory produces. The value goes round. The only thing that leaves, leaves published.

The surplus passes again through the same hands. The only way out is the tithe, it travels to a public address, and it comes back as reciprocity from another node.

IIIthe network of networks

UNSTOPPABLE BECAUSE IT ALREADY EXISTS

Co-operatives, community currencies, seed banks, commons land, gardens, savings funds, barter. Every node is already running and none of them asked permission. What is missing is the common protocol that lets them recognise each other without passing through a centre.

nodes that already exist · link = shared canon

IVthe code puts the value in

A VALUE THAT CANNOT BREAK IS NOT A VALUE

A principle in a manifesto gets admired and not kept. Written as a condition, it breaks loudly. Five of the eight rules cannot be amended, not even unanimously.

i · keys holder == member Nobody holds them for you.

ii · books publish(accounts) every 30d With addresses, and in the open.

iii · door exit(node) ⇒ node.assets You leave with what is yours.

iv · yield require(source ≠ member) Or it comes out of you.

v · debt every 7 years ⇒ forgive(internal) The jubilee, written as a condition.

No node rules another. Whoever changes these five took a fork, not the network: they can keep the merchandise, not the canon.

Vthe registry

NOBODY SIGNS WITH THEIR NAME

The key is the signature. A node that enters claims a colour from the spectrum and is written into the rainbow list: a public registry of sovereign nodes, with no hierarchy, no biographies and no centre. Access to the registry opens with a token.

Spectrum · one colour per node

free

Twelve colours in the first ring, none of them claimed yet. When the ring fills, the registry opens another. There are no reserved places.

Notice · rainbow list · access

Key on this device: none
Access token: not issued
Gate: closed
Canon: readable

The token is issued at step 02, once the first ring of nodes has published its addresses. No names asked, no emails, no photographs. The key is the signature.

Read the full canon

A node is a key, a colour and a territory. Nothing else goes into the registry.

Draft I · not yet adopted