RADICAL TRANSPARENCY

HOW VALUE
FLOWS

Heidegger warned that technology makes everything opaque — standing-reserve hidden behind interfaces. We refuse that. Every dollar, every token, every act of value creation is visible here.

“Truth in beauty” means financial truth too.

I.

THE FLOW OF VALUE

MEMBERSHIP FEES
Every membership dollar seeds the creator economy. Writers, artists, builders — paid first.
35%
→ CREATOR ROYALTIES
RITUAL MARKETPLACE
Goods and services exchanged between members flow 42% into the shared treasury.
42%
→ COMMUNITY TREASURY
NFC BOOK TAPS
Every tap of a Society Book pays the original owner. Full circle, zero extraction.
100%
→ MEMBER ROYALTIES
ARTIFACT NFT SALES
70% to the creator. 15% to protocol treasury. 15% burned as $SOE.
85%
→ ARTIST + PROTOCOL
MERCH SALES
Physical goods fund ongoing operations and a rotating design grant.
60%
→ DESIGN FUND + OPS
$SOE BURNS
Every ritual burn permanently removes tokens. Participation creates value.
100%
→ TOKEN SCARCITY
II.

WHERE EVERY DOLLAR GOES

CREATOR ROYALTIES
Artists, writers, thinkers who contribute
35%
MEMBER REWARDS ($EXP)
Active participation and exploration
25%
COMMUNITY TREASURY
Governed by founding members
20%
OPERATIONS
92B South St, infrastructure, builders
12%
TOKEN BURNS
Permanent scarcity via ritual mechanics
8%
“We are not a corporation extracting value from a community. We are a community generating value for its members. Every flow visible above is a refusal of standing-reserve.”
— SOCIETY OF EXPLORERS CHARTER
III.

THE $SOE TOKEN ECONOMY

EARN $SOE
⬡
Participate in the Salon
⬡
Complete Labyrinth passages
⬡
Share a Society Book (NFC tap)
⬡
Contribute artifacts to the marketplace
⬡
Refer a new member
⬡
Hold founding member status
BURN $SOE
⬡
Unlock secret Labyrinth passages
⬡
Request private thinker sessions
⬡
Activate a Society Book (first tap)
⬡
Mint a ritual NFT
⬡
Vote on governance proposals
⬡
Make an offering to the community treasury
IV.

USDC → $SOE

Real money enters as USDC (stable, transparent, on-chain). It converts to $SOE at the time of action. $SOE is non-transferable — it is reputation, not speculation. You cannot buy status here. You can only earn it.

→
USDC IN

Membership fees, marketplace transactions, artifact sales — all priced and settled in USDC. Transparent. Stable. Auditable.

⬡
$SOE MINTED

USDC inflows automatically mint $SOE for active participants. Non-transferable. Non-speculative. Pure reputation.

↑
$SOE BURNED

Ritual actions burn tokens permanently. Every burn reduces supply. Participation creates scarcity. Scarcity creates meaning.

All flows are illustrative of the Society's design intent. Live on-chain data will be linked here as the protocol matures.

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