Money

Victor, 2026-09-05: “the money i am unsure exactly how to use it, its part of what we’d need to work out. id prefer it not go to me, but instead be deployable by the village.” This page holds what is measured about the mechanism, what the village already tried, and the decisions left.

The principle

Money raised in the name of Liminal Commons goes to the people setting up their spaces, their oikoi, and is deployed by the village rather than by Victor. He hosts; he does not hold.

Artizen’s Fund, measured from its playbook (2026-09-05)

• A Fund is a curated slate. Artizen seeds an approved Fund with at least $1,000. Sponsors contribute to the Fund; their dollars are pooled and used to unlock match from Artizen’s endowment, “deepening the support available to your curated projects.” Sponsor dollars are not paid out directly.
• Projects get the money. A curated project sells Artifacts to its supporters; 100% of the sale goes to the creator, and each dollar unlocks match from every Fund that curated it, at that week’s multiple, while the pool lasts. Creators receive one payout after the season.
• A Fund’s prize compounds. Weekly Fund prizes are not paid as cash; they roll into that Fund’s match pool for the next drive. Unused match is never lost; it rolls forward, and a balance left at season’s end stays with the Fund into the next season.
• Activation and self-curation. A Fund needs five curated projects before it is active and can compete. For every five it curates, one may be a project its own team is on.
• Review discipline. Funds review submissions within two to three weeks, on eligibility, not quality; a project that does not fit is removed with a short note so it can revise.
• Directors are compensated “for operating their Fund and providing services including: community building, marketing, partnerships, curation, and program management.” Victor can decline this or route it to the pool; the playbook does not say whether that is a setting. (still forming)
• Fees are taken up front on Artifact sales and sponsorships; no deduction at payout.

What this buys the village: a funding mechanism without an entity. Artizen holds and pays; the Fund curates. The December 2025 strategy call named the entity question as the thing to solve “as soon as we start handling money.” Under a Fund, the village does not handle it.

What the record already tried

• The Quadratic Funding Strategy (2025). Three tiers for individual builders, ~$500, ~$1,500, ~$3,000, with a monthly cap “so no single project drains the pool,” community signal as the primary driver, and a builder layer that steers part of the pool to “the essential ones … the vital work overlooked by the mainstream.” It funded individuals, not organizations. Artizen’s match-and-boost is the same two-stroke, run by someone else.
• The Grant Guild (2025). Members contributing 20% of successful grants back to the commons. A norm the Fund could keep as an invitation, never a condition.

What the money is for

1. Hosts setting up their spaces. Time, tools, and the small costs of a venue: a domain, a calendar, a first gathering. Through the Fund this is match on what a host’s own people give.
2. Nothing to the platform. The Kosmos is not funded by this; it is the founder’s own work. Node hosting for others’ oikoi, later, is a host’s cost and a host’s ask.
3. Nothing to Victor, by his word, including the Director’s compensation unless he decides otherwise.

Decisions left

• A sponsor’s first contribution to the Fund, and from whom. The record names people who said they would put money in; that is his conversation, not this page’s.
• Whether a share-back norm like the Guild’s 20% belongs in the Fund’s description or nowhere.
• The Director’s compensation.

Forming. Revised 2026-09-05. These pages are kept as plain files by their author and will move onto the Kosmos when it can host them.