The current model is FavourBuck. The old coin branch has been archived as previous-model material. FavourBucks begin as capital-seeded credits; later, borrowed favours can become settled FB only when the recipient gives verified value back to the network.
FavourBuck starts as a bounded internal unit backed by real capital, escrow, and visible marketplace activity.
A borrowed favour creates provisional credit. The credit becomes settled FB only when the recipient later completes witnessed useful work for someone else.
Lucia delivers the milk. The recipient does not have FavourBucks yet, so the system records a bounded provisional credit instead of pretending new money appeared. Two weeks later, the recipient mows a neighbour's lawn through the network. That witnessed work is what converts the earlier credit into real FavourBucks for Lucia.
Receiving a favour can create provisional credit, but permanent FB settles only when verified reciprocal work adds value back to the network.
If Groups pay passive yield, Group membership becomes the new hoardable asset.
Recorded settlement is the default. Declared-private settlement is a narrow policy path that must still support audit, dispute, safety, and the commons.
If FavourBuck becomes redeemable, transferable, or cash-like, the charity-first shell needs strict boundaries around custody, redemption, and compliance.
Nodes trade declared capacity for FB. Reputation records whether each Surface reliably closed what it promised under the Rider spec.
A Logistic is not a flat ask. Need is stratified — and the Rider names the stratification. The network's job is to compose Surfaces of capacity to cover every layer.
When must this happen? Now, today, this week, whenever the route lines up.
What physical resources are required? Cooler, vehicle, tools, space, capital.
What level of vetting? Stranger-okay, Group member, credentialed, witnessed by name.
What capability is required? None, common, specialized, certified.
How big is the lift? Solo, household, Group-scale, community-scale.
The breastmilk delivery has all five layers. Lucia's Surface covered Urgency, Materiality, and the logistical route. Her Group's witness handled Trust. The recipient mother's hospital staff handled Skill at the destination. Composition is how the favour closed.
A DAO can concentrate what this system is built to distribute. Token-weighted ownership tends to reproduce, in faster code, the wealth-over-reputation logic Favour Bucks was designed to escape.
Most production DAOs default to token-weighted power, either formally or socially. Whoever holds the most can steer the system. Rule 02 above is reputation over wealth — token-weighted control inverts that on day one.
"Did Lucia deliver the milk in good condition?" is contextual, social, and human. The dispute ladder needs witnesses, Groups, and arbitration. Code-as-law cannot answer this question.
A governance token tends to become hoardable, tradable, and expectation-bearing. That is the failure mode the no-compound-interest rule was written against.
Tax-deductible escrow. Fiduciary defense in court. Mission lock against capture. Regulatory legibility for a Canadian launch. A generic DAO wrapper does not answer that public-benefit posture by itself.
In 2026, "DAO" signals token speculation, anonymous founders, exit-scam risk, and rug pulls. The brochure is a long argument against the extraction model that ecosystem is largely built on.
What we keep from the decentralized tradition: soulbound receipts, open protocol, federated Groups, public reporting, member-portable reputation. What we don't: token-weighted voting, smart-contract-only governance, ownership as power.
You may receive before you give, but the accounting settles when you give back.
Early FB enters against real capital and reserve policy.
Registered public-benefit shell, or separate entity for protocol operations.
Borrowed favours become real FB only after reciprocal work.
Credential proof belongs in the protocol. Tradable provenance, if it ever exists, belongs outside the core.