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Trusted Seed Membership
- Be a core part of an altruistic & tech-forward community aiming to empower the commons with the new tools of #TokenEngineering
- Get access to Commons Hatches to steward and cultivate shared resources
- Legal mutual aid for any approved #Blockchain4good DAO or Commons
- Support the Commons Stack ecosystem in continuing to research and build towards our mission to Realign Incentives for Public Goods
- Receive Trusted Seed swag and more
- Apply for membership at commonsstack.org/apply
- After a short “Proof of Altruism” background check, our team will send you an acceptance email (within a week) with the next steps for membership
- Activate your membership in the Trusted Seed’s Swiss Association by contributing your membership dues at member.commonsstack.foundation
- Minimum dues are 450 DAI, but contributions above this amount are welcomed. Financial aid is available for those who are unable to afford membership fees upon approval. To apply for a scholarship, apply here
- Confirm you can see your TRUST Score in your dashboard & xDai wallet - you’re in!
For more information, read the full article here.
Entire organizations are not able to apply to the Trusted Seed at this time. It is outside the scope of coverage the Swiss Membership can provide.
However, a single individual representing their organization may apply as a Trusted Seed Ambassador. This Ambassador will hold a TRUST Score, and be charged to stay relatively up-to-date on the happenings in the Commons Stack ecosystem. Only the Ambassador will be eligible for the legal protection of the Trusted Seed Swiss Membership.
The legal structure of the Trusted Seed is designed for the most litigious legal environments (for example, within the United States). It is designed to protect its members from potential legal situations that could arise from normal good faith actions within DAOs and Commons that are often considered general partnerships with potential legal liability for individuals.
No. The legal structure proposed allows the membership to be treated in a similar manner as a membership at your local gym. There should be no reporting requirements but it is always a good idea to stay informed of regulatory changes within your local and national jurisdictions.
The rules are located in our Terms & Conditions that members must agree to before joining the Swiss Association. In summary, if you act in good faith and do not perform any intentionally illegal actions, you should remain eligible for legal protection.
There is not a defined list, but all good faith participation in approved DAOs will generally be covered.
The Trusted Seed doesn't remove any liabilities. Unfortunately, if you hold tokens in a DAO or Commons, in many jurisdictions you can be held 100% individually liable for any actions made by the DAO. However, if you are a Member of our Trusted Seed, and you were acting in good faith as a member of a qualified DAO, we will fight for you! We will contribute to your legal defense and rally support from the greater community.
To operate in ‘the real world’, only legal entities can limit liability.
- Avoids ‘general partnership’ designation
- Simple constitutional requirements
- Members rather than investors
- Open to anyone from anywhere
- Satisfies minimum viable centralisation
- Read the Swiss Association T&C’s & Statutes
TRUST Score
TRUST score ($TRUST), formerly CSTK score. The name has changed but everything works the same. It is still a non-transferrable reputation token that represents the “skin in the game” that value-driven members of the blockchain community have put towards advancing Commons Stack’s mission. Like $CSTK, $TRUST is on Gnosis Chain.
Anyone holding $TRUST is a member of our Trusted Seed, a highly curated list of reputable & experienced community members who are aligned with our mission of creating sustainable funding for public goods using token engineering and commons management best practices.
- Participate in governance decisions and the Hatch of upcoming Commons!
- Help steward resources and decision making for mission aligned projects
- Get TSLove tokens, which get you free Commons Stack swag from our store! (https://swag.trustedseed.org/)
- Join the Commons Stack Discord where we dish praise.
- Collaborate on Commons Stack initiatives & get praised for your work: Grab an issue “For Contributors” off our Github!
- At the end of each month, praise gets quantified into a TRUST score, which is added to you ETH address that you provided in your Trusted Seed application
- Enjoy getting dished praise? Curious about how to get the Praise Giver role? Join our Trusted Seed lounge calls every Tuesday at 12PM EST on the Commons Stack Discord server.
- $TRUST are native to the xDAI EVM chain, and we highly recommend storage on Metamask
- Smart contract wallets like DAO multi-sigs on Gnosis or Aragon are less compatible for cross-chain operations.
- Here’s a primer on how to set up Metamask to work on the xDAI network
- Remember, if worse comes to worst and your tokens become locked or unusable somehow: The Trusted Seed can always burn your old score and issue you new ones since we are centralized arbiters of the $TRUST!