Official SEEDS Constitution V 1.0
The first official constitution: values, member rights, the Visitor–Resident–Citizen structure, governance processes and the protocols that were to bind them. Long, and worth the time.
Legacy archive · 2017–2021
The record, kept separate on purpose
SEEDS produced an unusual amount of serious creation in four years: a constitution written in public assemblies, a complete economic design, onboarding paths for individuals and organisations, and a body of material that still repays reading.
It is gathered here so that it stays available, and kept in its own chapter so you always know which year you are reading. Where the community’s own living document is still open, both are offered: the PDF as it was published, and the live doc that can still be commented on.
Historical figures
How big SEEDS got, and when
The numbers SEEDS published about itself at its height, each carrying the moment it was measured.
- 11,000+wallet holdersreported 2021
- 88countries reachedas published on joinseeds.earth
- 6continentsas published on joinseeds.earth
- 50+languages spoken by membersas published on joinseeds.earth
- 450+partner organisationsalliance members, 2021
- 500+alliance applications receivedMay 2021
- 26alliance grant proposals acceptedMay 2021
- 55+projects funded via campaigns and alliancesas published on joinseeds.earth
Where these figures come from.
SEEDS' own reporting from the period, rather than an independent audit. Internal documents differ slightly on one of them — a relaunch draft records 85 countries where the website says 88 — so the published figure is kept and the discrepancy noted.
For the community carrying SEEDS forward today, see SEEDS today.
01 · Foundations
The founding agreements
What SEEDS agreed with itself. The constitution was drafted across five open assemblies beginning on Earth Day 2020 and finalised in July 2021.
Welcome to SEEDS
The onboarding guide, built around how much time you had: ten minutes, an hour, or an hour or two a week. Contains the precise Visitor, Resident and Citizen thresholds.
Read the PDF ↗SEEDS: A Conscious Currency
The case SEEDS made for itself — what was wrong with existing money and what a currency designed for regeneration would do differently. The clearest short statement of the original intent.
The SEEDS 4-Pager
The short introduction that was handed to newcomers: what SEEDS was, who it was for, and how to take a first step.
Read the PDF ↗02 · Economic design
How the economy was designed
The economics as designed and published: how value was created, pooled and exchanged, and how the Harvest was meant to fill.
A note on the figures. The token allocation document below contains a valuation plan from 2020–21, and its numbers describe that period. Nothing in this archive is an offer or financial advice.
An Economic Renaissance v4
The high-level economic design: a people's economy, a co-operative economy, a local food economy, a regenerative economy, an equitable economy — and the currency mechanics meant to produce each.
Token Allocation and Economics
The full token design as released: supply, allocation, the Harvest mechanics, and the valuation plan that was to culminate in a "go live" event. Historical reference — the figures describe 2020–21.
Distributed vs Decentralised
A short piece on a distinction the ecosystem leans on constantly and most writing about it gets wrong. Still useful, and short enough to read in a sitting.
Read the PDF ↗03 · Alliances and organisations
How organisations joined
The alliance programme was the part of SEEDS that reached furthest into the world — 500+ applications and 450+ organisations by 2021. The whole design is kept here because it is genuinely good, and because the next version will be built from it.
SEEDS for Organisation Partners
What SEEDS offered organisations: grants in Seeds to gift onward, an alliance share, shared branding, a marketplace listing. Also the source of the May 2021 alliance grant figures.
Guidelines: Alliance Activation
The process by which an interested organisation was actually walked through to activation — forms, calls, ambassadors, follow-up. An unusually practical piece of operational design.
Onboarding Process for Organisations
The step-by-step route an organisation took from first contact to being live in the ecosystem.
Alliance Onboarding — Part 1
The presentation used to bring new alliance organisations up to speed.
Read the PDF ↗SEEDS for Festivals, Events and Gatherings
How events run cashless on Seeds — rewards for attendees, rewards for organisers, and a people-and-forum layer alongside payments. The pattern the Regenerative Renaissance Gatherings build on.
SEEDS Ambassador Journey
The Ambassador Academy: the path by which members became people who could onboard others. Full-moon onboarding calls, tribes, buddies. One of the more transferable designs in the archive.
04 · Culture and craft
How SEEDS talked about itself
Two documents that shaped everything else — the master index of the ecosystem's resources, and the content guidelines that governed its voice.
Regenerative Renaissance — Ecosystem Resources
The map of everything: websites, applications, repositories, foundational documents, articles, the video series, the constitutional assembly recordings. The single most useful document for finding the rest.
Note: many links inside it point to services that have moved or closed since 2021.
SEEDS Content Guidelines
Tone of voice, style and language. It insists SEEDS is for a better way rather than against the current one, prefers "renaissance" to "revolution" and "co-create" to "create", and requires that jargon always be followed by a plain-language rephrasing.
These guidelines shaped the writing on this website.
Read the PDF ↗Elsewhere on this site
The rest of the record
Everything the ecosystem published has been brought together here rather than left scattered across separate domains.
- The Knowledge Explorer — the documentation commons: foundations, ecosystem mapping, action templates, organising tools, economic tools and cultural practices, each tagged with how it is governed and which chapter it belongs to.
- The SEEDS Library — all 151 essays, guides, films and field notes the movement made between 2019 and 2023, migrated in full under each author's name, and open to new submissions.
- github.com/JoinSEEDS — the code: smart contracts, the Light Wallet, translations, the invite manager, the economy simulation and the swap prototypes. Still open, still running.
Still to be gathered
An archive is never finished. Next to be added here: the State of SEEDS annual reports for 2022, 2023 and 2024; recordings of the five constitutional assemblies; the 2024 history film commissioned from Basil Childers; the ratified text of Constitution 2.0; and the video series that was once the main way people understood SEEDS. All of these exist, and each one belongs on this page.