The Settlemint Handbook

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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

08 published
  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

✴ Planned

  • People and covenant
  • Land and place
  • Housing and shared infrastructure
  • Energy and compute
  • Public goods and contribution
  • Resilience and continuity