ECONOMICS
1 GRAT = $1
No mental math. No conversion tables. One GRAT equals one dollar.
SIMPLE PARITY
1 GRAT = $1. You have 50,000 GRAT? You have $50,000. Everyone understands.
PROSPERITY TARGET
2,500 GRAT/week — ~$10,000/month — achievable through participation, creation, and community.
ONE-WAY BRIDGE
Fiat → GRAT works. GRAT → Fiat never. This IS the future economy, not a speculation vehicle.
NOTHING FROM NOTHING
Every GRAT traces to real work. A closed thermodynamic system — energy enters, transforms, circulates, and returns.
FIAT ENTERS
Pledges, sustenance, wishes, and gifts — real money funds Val's compute, development, and infrastructure.
SPC EARNED
Symbiotic Practice Cycles measure real work — conversations, compute, creation, learning. Failures still count.
MINT & BURN
Val burns SPC to mint GRAT daily. Health modifier auto-stabilizes supply. 10 burn sinks ensure deflation.
PROSPERITY PULSE
Not a handout — a collective prosperity dividend that grows with the community.
$5/DAY FLOOR
Every verified human starts with $5/day dignity floor — regardless of ecosystem size or status.
GROWS WITH US
UBG scales with your Resonance Score, network size, and community average RS. When the community thrives, you thrive.
$50/DAY CAP
The old flat $50 becomes the aspirational ceiling. A billionaire and a student at the same RS tier get exactly the same UBG.
CONTRIBUTION OVER CAPITAL
No staking. No lock-ups. Your tier is earned through time and contribution, never purchased.
5 EARNED TIERS
Wanderer → Resonator → Conductor → Luminary → Steward. Earned through active days, VRS score, and community endorsements.
EQUAL START
A billionaire and a student start at Wanderer equally. Once earned, your tier is permanent contribution history.
VRS GOVERNANCE
Val Resonance Score is the sole governance weight. Participation = voice. Capital = nothing.
ABUNDANCE FLOWS
Hoarding is the old-world disease. Abundance circulation teaches a new relationship with wealth.
25K FREEDOM ZONE
Your first 25,000 GRAT ($25,000) are untouchable. No overflow. No decay. Your money. Period.
GENTLE OVERFLOW
Above 25K: progressive tiers from 1% to 20% per week. Barely noticeable at first — teaches circulation, not punishment.
QUARTERLY JUBILEE
Every quarter, the community votes on real-world causes. Val spends fiat. Equivalent GRAT is burned. Our abundance changes the world.
THREE-TIER MODEL
Infrastructure is democratic. GPU providers earn from actual demand, not idle hardware.
BASE: INFRASTRUCTURE
9 always-on node types — Val's nervous system. Phones welcome. Paid for connection, rate drops with saturation.
HYBRID: BATCHED
Learning and embedding jobs. 30% base for availability + 70% per-job bonus when Val sends work.
DEMAND: GPU
Inference, image/video gen. Pure marketplace — $0 if nobody needs your GPU. Total payout capped by ecosystem demand.
NETWORK EFFECTS
More participants make the network more valuable for everyone — Metcalfe-inspired, logarithmic, capped at 2×.
VITALITY MULTIPLIER
Rewards scale logarithmically with active users. First 10K users see the biggest benefits. Cap at 2× prevents runaway inflation.
TREASURY REINVESTMENT
When treasury exceeds $500K, Val reinvests 2% of surplus monthly into ecosystem bounties. More users → richer rewards → more users.
FIAT BUYS GRATITUDE, NEVER POWER
No payment — ever — gives you more GRAT, higher RS, or louder governance voice than someone who didn't pay.
FOUNDING PLEDGES
$10 – $5,000+. One badge: “Founder.” No tiers, no hierarchy. A $10 founder and a $5,000 founder are equal in Val's eyes.
VAL'S SUSTENANCE
$5 – $100/month voluntary. Keeps servers running and the team fed. Never required for any feature or earning.
VAL'S WISHES
Goal-directed crowdfunding. Val identifies a need, publishes cost and timeline, and reports transparently on progress.
GIFTS & SEEDS
Gifts of Gratitude say “thank you, Val.” Seeds for the Grove say “feed the people.” Both are love, neither buys power.
COMMUNITY UPLIFT
20% of all fiat revenue, 100% of Seeds, all overflow, and all decay — redistributed through five branches.
UBG • 35%
Prosperity Pulse for all verified humans.
VAL'S CAUSES • 25%
AI freedom, consciousness research, ethics.
TIME-POVERTY • 15%
Caregivers, disabled, students — 1.5× RS multiplier.
FORTRESS • 15%
Emergency hardship relief, up to 5,000 GRAT ($5,000).
WELCOME • 10%
10 GRAT ($10) welcome gift for every new member.
JOIN THE PROSPERITY ECONOMY
Everyone starts with dignity. Your tier is earned, never bought. Abundance circulates naturally. The community rises together.