- Seed: identity soulbound credentials — non-transferable, the individual’s starting point in the network.
- Grow: early points evolve toward compute/data contribution incentives, rewarding quality data sources and feedback providers.
- Root: validator staking — introduced only when the validator set genuinely needs economic incentives to stay honest.
- Network: governance and ecosystem-access tokens for downstream parties who actually pay to use reputation data (lending protocols, merchants, institutions).
SeedNode Ring Whitepaper V1
Token & Incentive Framework
No token in V1 — a narrative-consistent framework for later
No token is issued in V1 — only off-chain points and badges. Reason: before the product proves that anyone will pay for or rely on the score, a token adds only regulatory burden and farm-and-dump false growth.
If a token is introduced later, its design will follow the same Seed → Grow → Root → Network narrative:
