# **MVV for House of Stake, draft v0.1.1** ## VISION: ``` text 1.1. Decentralised governance for humanity-enhancing AI ``` ## MISSION: ``` text 2.1. House of Stake's mission is 2.2. to establish a new kind of governance system, 2.3. co-created, co-operated and co-governed by NEAR owners and users, 2.4. fully embracing AI, 2.5. to be incorruptible, uncapturable and sovereign by default, 2.6. and bring in the era of user-owned, humanity-enhancing AI ``` ## VALUES: ``` text 3.1. Credible Neutrality 3.2. Experimentation with Safety 3.3. Builder & Business Centric 3.4. Autonomy with Accountability 3.5. Adaptive Governance 3.6. Meaningful Participation 3.7. Transparency with Dignity 3.8. AI-Augmented, Human-Governed 3.9. Public Goods as Growth Engines 3.10. Cultural Stickiness ``` ### Principles and behavioural tests behind the values: #### `3.1. Credible Neutrality` **Principle:** Governance must remain resistant to capture by individuals, institutions, or cartels. ***Behavioral Test:** Would this decision still hold if only a few top stakeholders coordinated against it?* #### `3.2. Experimentation with Safety` **Principle:** Governance models, funding mechanisms, and AI tools are tested in lower-stakes environments before being merged into the main system. ***Behavioral Test:** Can this experiment fail without endangering the ecosystem’s integrity?* #### `3.3. Builder & Business Centric` **Principle:** Governance must create the conditions for both individual developers *and* institutions to thrive — from the developer experience to enterprise-scale adoption. This includes funding the infrastructure, tools, and programs that make NEAR the most attractive platform for adoption that scales. ***Behavioral Test:** Does this decision improve NEAR as a place where developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprises can build lasting businesses?* #### `3.4. Autonomy with Accountability` **Principle:** Workstreams and contributors have freedom to innovate, balanced with clear success gates and measurable outcomes. ***Behavioral Test:** Does this program have both the freedom to act and clear metrics to evaluate success?* #### `3.5. Adaptive Governance` **Principle:** Governance should evolve iteratively, guided by feedback loops, changing ecosystem needs and emerging opportunities. ***Behavioral Test:** Is there a mechanism to review and adapt this process if it no longer serves the ecosystem?* #### `3.6. Inclusive & Meaningful Participation` **Principle:** All stakeholders — large and small — must have meaningful ways to engage in governance. Influence at the top may be proportional to stake, but lower levels of governance provide opportunities where every voice can matter, keeping people engaged and invested. ***Behavioral Test:** Are we creating real roles for smaller stakeholders to contribute value, even if they don’t have significant voting weight at the meta-governance layer?* #### `3.7. Transparency with Dignity` **Principle:** Decisions, funding, and performance are open and legible, while respecting privacy and personal boundaries. ***Behavioral Test:** Can the community easily understand this decision without it becoming surveillance or overreach?* #### `3.8. AI-Augmented, Human-Governed` **Principle:** We embrace AI as a tool for more representative, efficient, and adaptive governance — augmenting human judgment without replacing human values. ***Behavioral Test:** Does this use of AI improve participation or decision quality while keeping humans in charge of values?* #### `3.9. Public Goods as Growth Engines` **Principle:** Investment in shared infrastructure, tools, and governance systems is not overhead, but a powerful enabler of compounding network effects. ***Behavioral Test:** Will this investment increase the resilience, long-term potential and growth of the ecosystem beyond one project or cycle?* #### `3.10. Cultural Stickiness` **Principle:** The DAO cultivates rituals, norms, and shared ownership that build loyalty across diverse participants. ***Behavioral Test:** Does this initiative make contributors more likely to identify with NEAR and remain engaged long-term?*