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The Settlemint Handbook
The operational field manual for designing, establishing, maturing, and operating Settlemints — one module per operating domain, with practical guidance, checklists, examples, and maturity criteria.
✴ Modules
14 published- HB_01The Settlemint Stack: Functions Before ModulesA Settlemint stack is the coordinated set of human, physical, institutional, economic, and digital systems required to make a settlement function and become more capable over time.
- HB_02Membership and Belonging: Who Belongs and Who DecidesBelonging is the recognized relationship through which a person can truthfully say, "I am part of this, and this people or place has a claim on my responsibility."
- HB_03Maturity Stages and Proof TestsHow a Settlemint assesses its own maturity as a per-domain profile and advances each function from claim to institution through proof tests and an evidence ledger.
- HB_04Governance and Dispute ResolutionGovernance is how a people repeatedly make, execute, review, and correct legitimate decisions together — and a Settlemint stands it up by making decision rights, obligations, and accountability clear enough to practice repeatedly.
- HB_05Starting a SettlemintHow a Settlemint actually begins — with people and place rather than software, an honestly chosen origin path, a minimum viable threshold that must be met before the name is claimed, and a first functioning system that turns real needs into verified work and evidence-based trust.
- HB_06Work, Economy, and TreasuryA settlement's economy is real coordination of labor, capital, exchange, contribution, production, treasury activity, and public goods — a token does not prove an economy, and only repeated productive function can prove that it endures.
- HB_07External RelationshipsA Settlemint must interact meaningfully with neighboring communities, governments, institutions, markets, suppliers, partners, and other polities — naming each relationship precisely, treating recognition as a spectrum, and never confusing recognition with capacity.
- HB_08ATX: The Implementation Case StudyATX is a genesis Settlemint in formation — the reference implementation where the framework must prove itself through lived human function, tracked in a dated public evidence ledger that never states a claim beyond its proof.
- HB_09People and CovenantHow a body of people becomes a people — the threshold of "we," the binding principle stronger than convenience, households as a real unit, and the formation of shared memory, culture, and duty before any administration begins.
- HB_10Land and PlaceLand proves only that you have land — this module consolidates what place must actually demonstrate, from habitation and stewardship of the site to regenerative land systems and the legal honesty that ownership creates rights within a jurisdiction, not sovereignty.
- HB_11Housing and Shared InfrastructureHabitation is a required settlement function — proved by durable presence, rightly ordered public, common, and private space, maintained systems, and infrastructure whose dependencies are visible, resilient, and survivable.
- HB_12Energy and ComputeEnergy and compute are settlement infrastructure domains the edge must be able to operate locally — operational autonomy with honest dependency profiles, not legal sovereignty, with useful excess shared under a deliberate privacy boundary.
- HB_13Public Goods and ContributionPublic goods are named inside the economic function a Settlemint must prove, and contribution to them must be remembered, governed, and evidenced — a commons is shared capability under stewardship, not simply something free.
- HB_14Resilience and ContinuityCare and continuity are proven functions, not sentiments — how a Settlemint responds when people, systems, or relationships fail, and how every other function keeps working after attention, money, founders, or agreement fall away.
✴ Planned
- People and covenant
- Land and place
- Housing and shared infrastructure
- Energy and compute
- Public goods and contribution
- Resilience and continuity