SEEDS (ecosystem)

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context

SEEDS stands for "Sowing Equitable Ecological Decentralized Societies". it is the boldest project i know of that aims to create a viable alternative for our capitalist system - a complete set of decentralized, voluntary, regenerative governance, economic, financial and organizational systems.

the project has been mostly on hold since 2022, when at ~10k participants (but only ~100-200 more active participants), it failed to get traction to keep growing sustainably. then, folks at hypha (the starters and initial stewards of the ecosystem) received a grant from the EOS foundation and shifted their focus from building the ecosystem itself to the DAO management tools they'd built (which is a smaller part of it), aiming to create more runway by monetizing the tools this way.

it's an incredibly complex, deep and thoughtful project, with lots of hands, hearts and minds involved. and it requires a big commitment/learning curve to really understand its scope and how much has already been developed, if you want to learn about it. nonetheless, i strongly recommend it.

i was very involved during the whole year of 2021 - i did the tools for the regenerative renaissance course, the ambassador academy, SEEDS leadership course, proposed campaigns, co-created proposals, participated in the renaissance explorers (alchemists/architects) cohorts, reviewed the SEEDS Guide, etc...

it's one of the most cohesive, deeply researched/well-thought-out projects i know of, moving beyond simplistic notions of regeneration, to building out actual implementations of sacred economics, informed by the work/research on the metacrisis, and with a design/scope much more sophisticated than the vast majority of the web3 and refi projects as well.

resources

i strongly recommend you start with their videos. their "journey to a regenerative civilization" series is superb, and i curated all of my favorite introductory videos into this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj8H7uBaUwDsuLtfdVu27aylRnjLMJvtA

a good short, 15-page visual summary:
https://joinseeds.earth/pdf/Economic-renaissance-v5.pdf

due to the decentralized nature of the project, there's a LOT of content/information spread out, each with different degrees of implementation and up-to-dateness. the latest wiki is - https://explore.joinseeds.earth/.

for nerds/people wanting to dive deep, you can check out the SEEDS Guide here (a "manual" of how everything works) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C4w9Ol8VGabCIcQDVPDrwcTRoJXBqhrb7VjslwQbUGU/edit

major systems:

the SEEDS game is conceptualized/comprised of the following systems:

ecosystem overview:

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