Acquisition
REB enters circulation once, at a fixed supply, with allocation published before the first unit moves.
What you make stays yours
An economy is a set of answers to one question: when someone creates something, where does the value settle? Here, it settles on the person and the record they own.
Ledger surfaces at Milestone 3. Everything below is stated in advance of that.
Five verbs, in order
Nothing in this sequence can be skipped by paying. Each stage produces the evidence the next one consumes.
- LEARNCapability, not attendanceA learning path ends in something demonstrable. What you can do is recorded; where you sat is not.
- BUILDWork in publicProjects are objects with history. The record of making something is part of the thing you made.
- PROVEEvidence with sources keptVerification names its source and its date. An unverified claim renders as unverified rather than disappearing.
- EARNOutcomes that need someoneOpportunities are matched against records, not against keywords. Payment is attached to the outcome, not the hour.
- OWNWhat you make stays yoursCreated work carries ownership forward, including out of the platform. Portability is a property of the object, not a support request.
Four flows, and no fifth
If value ever appeared to move some other way, the observatory would be showing a number nobody can account for. That is the test.
Earned issuance
Completed and verified undertakings release REB from the founding reserve to the citizen who did the work.
Citizen to citizen
Work commissioned inside the civilization settles directly between two records, with no intermediary taking a cut of the person.
Civic expenditure
Infrastructure, verification and the observatory are funded from a published treasury line, not from selling what citizens made.
Three rules the economy is built on
They are constraints on us, not features for you, which is why each one appears in the Principles as something enforceable.
- Records are never sold.A person's record is not inventory. There is no version of this civilization that ends in selling it.
- No ranking of people.Matching happens against what a record contains, never against a score assigned to a human being.
- Leaving takes your work with you.Portability is a property of the object model, so exit costs nothing but the decision.