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title: Universe Guide Breakdown 1-27-22 ⚔️
tags: [Universe Guide, Gitcoin Graphic Novel]

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# Universe Guide Breakdown 1-27-22 ⚔️
The UQ is an **interface** between the fantasy **lore** of the comics and the core **principles** of Gitcoin.
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### Transactions
1. **Compensation**: In the MC work stream: money incentivizes an individual to contribute labor as either creative content or infrastructure. Txn #1 is how the contribution is recognized and paid. A bounty system?
2. **Acceptance**: The contribution needs to be evaluated to be accepted into the UG or denied for clear reasons. How is this decision made? Democratic consensus via Snapshot or signal voting? A central admin seving as gamemaster/lore keeper?
3. **Retroactive Changes**: Can anyone propose to change any component, both lore and technical? Are these changes permissioned to admin, DAO members, or via other gated access? Are there mutable and immutable parts to the canon? Are there code validity checks? How does the change affect the larger lore "code base" to ensure that the change doesn't "break" the canon?
4. **Forking Canon**: How to impliment forking and illustrate these branching timelines while retaining a tether to a core "tap root" that be followed? Reference: The DAO hack in 2016 leading to ETH forking into ETH Classic and the Ethereum we have today. This was a cultural and technological fork.
5. **Visual Metadata**: Easy enough to create a proposal for changing text/coded data, but what about aesthetic/visual content? How are the changes recognized technically, subjectively, and canonically? Reference: Figma and Sketch use symbol/component libraries (a visual design system that can be shared across projects). Change a local instance does not affect other instances, but changes made at the symbol/component level do affect all instances of that component. Is the symbol layer mutable? Who permissions access and changes? Admin, etc?
6. **Dendrites**: A proposal that opens up a tangent, a story that runs parallel to the primary "tap root" and build off of its canon without proposing changes. (If it does propose changes to canon, see txn #2, 3, 4).

### Transmedia
1. All content contributed might be scrutinized for its potential regenerative value for the greater crypto economy. The primary considerations here are 3 fold:
    - **In-game economy.** Sustain the UG economy to encourage ongoing interaction, ie: the UG as a public good. 
    - **Out-game economy.** Sustain the contributors themselves, ie: artists as a public good. 
    - **Metaverse>Meatspace economy.** Capture value for grant matching pools, ie: generate value for other Gitcoin public goods projects. 
2. **How is the value captured?** Taxes/payments for submissions? Artist kickback mechanisms? "Software" as a service? Marketing monetization models? Public goods fundraising mechanisms like Yeeter, quadratic funding, etc?
3. Immediate goal is to **reduce the overhead for writing future comics** and to have the Universe Guide serve as a value generator in supportig this initiative.
4. **Explore instances from the Web3-DAO ecosystem**:
    - NFT DAOs: collective purchase and ownership over visual assets
    - Krause House: DAO trying to buy an NBA basketball team
    - Constitution DAO: trying to buy a copy of the constitution, but *why?* This is more than economic investment, larger philosophical implications.
    - Community support DAOs: Gitcoin quadratic funding, Panvala and Giveth matching, DAOhaus + RaidGuild Yeeter tool
5. Fundraising the **UG as shared infrastructure** with accountability and skin in the game for how the product develops, without an explicit monetary return. **Not an investment.** Value-based proposition over hourly rate: to raise the highwater mark of collective sanity for the whole ecosystem.
6. **Let's avoid Merch, Memes, Marketing**, and other product-oriented ideas. Not to exclude them, but the production should be driven by the cultural value add.