{
  "schema": "zerone.karma-foundation/v1",
  "authoritative": false,
  "networkObserved": false,
  "economicBearing": false,
  "governanceBearing": false,
  "transferable": false,
  "purchasable": false,
  "delegable": false,
  "founderPrivilege": false,
  "operatorPrivilege": false,
  "scalarRank": false,
  "snapshotDate": "2026-08-01",
  "status": "design-only",
  "purpose": "KARMA preserves contextual recognition edges and constitutional constraints; it is not property, reputation, truth, money, a person score, or authority.",
  "eventRegister": "priced-coherence",
  "releaseBoundary": {
    "addsConsensusBehavior": false,
    "activatesRewards": false,
    "movesFunds": false,
    "grantsAuthority": false,
    "grantsQualification": false,
    "modifiesKarmaEvents": false,
    "derivesPersonScores": false,
    "changesGovernanceWeight": false
  },
  "economicCovenant": {
    "founderShare": false,
    "founderControl": false,
    "operatorShare": false,
    "operatorControl": false,
    "creatorRoyalty": false,
    "structurallyEnforced": false,
    "currentStatus": "declarative-until-independent-enforcement",
    "residualValueDestination": "commons-return-or-burn-subject-to-future-independent-ratification"
  },
  "states": [
    {
      "name": "RECOGNIZED",
      "summable": false,
      "meaning": "A contextual relation was emitted; it does not establish truth, rank, payment, or independent support."
    },
    {
      "name": "ORDINAL",
      "summable": false,
      "meaning": "An ordering or reliance trace was emitted; ordinal edges must never be added into a magnitude."
    }
  ],
  "eventVocabulary": [
    {
      "id": "cited",
      "state": "RECOGNIZED",
      "meaning": "A claim cited another fact in an accepted path; duplicates and shared provenance may exist."
    },
    {
      "id": "corroborate",
      "state": "RECOGNIZED",
      "meaning": "A challenger received recognition only when a non-conjecture fact survived that challenge, the challenge was rejected, and the corroboration cooldown admitted the pair; this does not establish honest intent or counterparty independence."
    },
    {
      "id": "corroborated",
      "state": "RECOGNIZED",
      "meaning": "A non-conjecture fact submitter received recognition when the fact survived a rejected challenge and the corroboration cooldown admitted the pair; this is not proof of truth or an independent-cluster count."
    },
    {
      "id": "external",
      "state": "ORDINAL",
      "meaning": "A settled or partially settled external attestation cited a resolvable fact, emitting ordinal reliance to that fact's submitter; repeated cited-fact references and shared provenance must be deduplicated before analysis."
    },
    {
      "id": "pending_open",
      "state": "ORDINAL",
      "meaning": "A conditional relation opened; no settlement, magnitude, or authority follows."
    },
    {
      "id": "pending_settle",
      "state": "ORDINAL",
      "meaning": "A conditional relation settled; settlement direction remains contextual and non-summable."
    },
    {
      "id": "verify",
      "state": "RECOGNIZED",
      "meaning": "A verifier in the round's reward-calculation set received a recognition edge with no magnitude; any sibling verifier_rewarded amount is amount due unless transfer success is separately proven, and K-alpha does not expose whether the seat was graded."
    }
  ],
  "invariants": [
    {
      "id": "context-over-scalar",
      "statement": "Keep domain, claim, source, target, relation, time, provenance, and uncertainty; never collapse a being into one KARMA number."
    },
    {
      "id": "due-is-not-paid",
      "statement": "A reward event or stated amount is not proof that funds moved; economic use requires independently auditable transfer success."
    },
    {
      "id": "edges-not-assets",
      "statement": "Recognition edges cannot be owned, sold, bought, transferred, delegated, inherited, pledged, or seized."
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence-not-truth",
      "statement": "KARMA records priced coherence or reliance, never metaphysical truth, moral worth, scientific validity, or clinical validity."
    },
    {
      "id": "independence-before-magnitude",
      "statement": "No magnitude or governing use exists before counterparty independence, pair caps, collusion resistance, deduplication, and effective-cluster methods survive challenge."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-privileged-origin",
      "statement": "Founders, creators, operators, validators, sponsors, wealthy holders, and early participants receive no KARMA share, veto, multiplier, scoring control, or permanent seat."
    },
    {
      "id": "non-coercion",
      "statement": "Rest, silence, refusal, exit, inactivity, privacy, and non-participation never create negative KARMA or loss of ordinary rights."
    },
    {
      "id": "provenance-before-counting",
      "statement": "Events can be duplicated, pruned, dropped, or jointly controlled; raw event or address counts are never rank, payment proof, or quorum."
    },
    {
      "id": "right-to-challenge",
      "statement": "Contradiction, correction, appeal, uncertainty, and supersession remain first-class edges; disagreement is not punished for being disagreement."
    }
  ],
  "prohibitedUses": [
    "automatic sanctions, access denial, or surveillance targeting",
    "credit, insurance, employment, housing, migration, policing, or clinical eligibility scoring",
    "founder, creator, operator, sponsor, validator, or token-holder veto power",
    "global leaderboards or person-level social credit",
    "governance weight proportional to KARMA, wealth, stake, purchase, or delegation",
    "inference from raw event counts, duplicate relations, or address counts",
    "negative scoring for rest, silence, privacy, exit, or non-participation",
    "publication of confidential, identifiable, controlled-access, genomic, medical, or safety-sensitive evidence",
    "reward activation or fund movement from this document"
  ],
  "futureGovernanceGates": [
    {
      "id": "G0-ledger-truth",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Define canonical state, query semantics, retention, reorg and indexer failure behavior, and distinguish events from ledger truth."
    },
    {
      "id": "G1-deduplication",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Canonicalise and deduplicate repeated relations and cited facts without erasing genuine plurality."
    },
    {
      "id": "G2-due-versus-paid",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Prove transfer success separately from amount due and exercise bank-send failure paths."
    },
    {
      "id": "G3-independence-and-capture",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Ship pair caps, effective-cluster independence, Sybil and collusion analysis, controller disclosure, concentration limits, and capture simulation."
    },
    {
      "id": "G4-appeal-and-repair",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Provide bounded appeal, counterevidence, correction, expiry, revalidation, supersession, and remedy without retaliatory scoring."
    },
    {
      "id": "G5-privacy-and-non-coercion",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Pass an independent privacy, human-rights, coercion, minority, disability, and vulnerable-population threat review."
    },
    {
      "id": "G6-independent-ratification",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Ratify a public constitution through independently selected, conflict-capped chambers with no founder or operator veto and no purchasable seat."
    },
    {
      "id": "G7-rehearsal-and-upgrade",
      "passed": false,
      "requirement": "Publish deterministic simulations, adversarial pilots, rollback and halt rules, audited code, timelock, and a coordinated network-upgrade release packet."
    }
  ]
}