Participants: Gaia AI: Shawn Anderson, Darren Zal Block Science: Peter, Jamshid, Luke, Michael Zargham Mentioned: Gregory Landua Opening and Introductions The meeting opened with participants gradually joining the call, while the Block Science team mentioned that Fathom and Otter note-taking tools were running to capture the discussion. After initial greetings, the group decided to wait a few minutes for others to join before formally beginning. As they waited, one participant from Block Science shared that he was working toward starting his master's thesis, though the work hadn't quite begun yet. His focus was converging on multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), a topic he had previously presented to Block Science. He explained that MDO serves as a coordination tool in systems design contexts, where teams of engineers work independently on subsystems of larger projects. Each team runs intensive disciplinary analysis software for their particular subsystem and is responsible for optimizing their piece of the puzzle. However, since these subsystems must ultimately integrate into a cohesive whole, local design decisions inevitably affect other teams' work. This creates a complex optimization problem around information sharing and finding solutions that work for both individual teams and the overall system design.

1. Differential Specification Overview This differential specification characterizes how the Avalanche economic system evolves over time, providing a mathematical framework for understanding system dynamics that may be governable, environmental, relational, or mechanistic. The specification builds upon the Avalanche Economic Network exploratory analysis developed in previous milestones. This document seeks to formalize the state dynamics and feedback loops inherent in in the avalanche network. The Avalanche network represents a complex adaptive dynamical system where technical and economic components influence each other continuously. This creates distinct economic challenges and opportunities that require sophisticated control-theoretic understanding to navigate effectively. This specification provides formal and analytic contexts through which to analyze the unique architecture of the Avax Token, the Primary Network and application-specific Layer 1 blockchains (L1s) that the Avalanche network provides. Building on the foundational economic concepts (Milestone 1) and systems engineering perspective (Milestone 2), this differential specification provides a rigorous mathematical framework consisting of coupled differential equations that model the dynamic interactions between token supply, staking behavior, fee markets, and the L1 ecosystem. The specification transforms qualitative understanding into mathematical relationships, enabling systematic analysis of how financial and governance interfaces can impact the network behavior. 2. Mathematical Framework and Control Theory Foundations Mathematical Notation Reference The following table provides a quick reference for all mathematical notation used throughout the differential specification, making it easier for readers to understand the mathematical framework without having to search through the document for definitions.

Executive Summary This System Map provides a comprehensive operational specification of the Avalanche network's economic architecture, serving as the practical implementation guide that complements the theoretical foundations established in the differential specification. The map documents the complete information flows, decision protocols, and value exchange mechanisms that govern the network's economic behavior, enabling stakeholders to understand how theoretical economic principles translate into operational realities. The system map reveals a sophisticated economic architecture built on four protocol layers—governance, economic, consensus, and network—with seven distinct agent types interacting through precisely defined interfaces. The architecture processes over 240 million AVAX tokens across staking, fee markets, and L1 ecosystem dynamics, creating a complex adaptive system where micro-level participant decisions aggregate into macro-level network behavior. Through detailed protocol specifications, decision logic algorithms, and value flow diagrams, this map enables implementers to build robust integrations while providing operators with the guidance needed for optimal network participation. Critical operational insights emerge from the system analysis, including the identification of twelve high-impact parameters that serve as primary optimization leverage points, from the base reward rate governing inflation to the gas update constant controlling fee market volatility. The map reveals systemic bottlenecks in validator onboarding, L1 discovery, and cross-L1 liquidity that currently limit network growth potential. Risk analysis identifies staking concentration as the primary systemic threat, with the top 10 validators controlling approximately 25% of total stake, while economic attack vectors would require between $2.8 billion for consensus manipulation and $15 million for sustained fee market disruption. The system map demonstrates that Avalanche's economic architecture exhibits robust operational characteristics, with natural balancing mechanisms preventing extreme states while maintaining flexibility for growth. The comprehensive monitoring framework specifies real-time metrics, alert thresholds, and dashboard requirements necessary for maintaining system health. Implementation guidance includes atomic state transition requirements, audit trail specifications, and emergency pause mechanisms essential for production deployment. This operational foundation positions Avalanche for sustainable growth while maintaining the security and decentralization properties essential for a global financial infrastructure. 1. System Architecture Overview

Overview The Avalanche network is a complex economic system with multiple interacting subsystems: Staking Dynamics, Token Supply, Fee Dynamics, L1 Ecosystem, and Governance. This specification defines the mathematical framework for modeling these interactions using a differential specification approach. State Name Symbol Definition Initial Value Total Supply

This document contains 10 example use cases of web3 that can be utilized by Water Unite. This document was preparred by Shawn Anderson under auspices of MycoCivics, a recipient of Quadratic Funding in the Gitcoin ecosystem. 1. Multi-Signature Treasury Management for DAOs Process Enabled: Decentralized financial governance through multi-party approval systems Example Implementation: A climate action DAO manages $5M in funds using a 4-of-7 multi-sig wallet. Board members across different continents can approve expenditures without traditional banking delays. Smart contracts automatically execute approved transactions, with full audit trails visible on-chain. Key Benefits:

Overview Full Name: "Weaving the Movement: A Lab for Mapping, Prototyping & Regenerative Collaboration"Short Name: "Mapping the Movement" Event Details Dates: Thursday, June 12th through Monday, June 16th, 2025Note: Originally scheduled for June 5-9, but dates were updated based on feedback Location: EcoTerra's Incubator & Lodge, Catskills, NY Format: Donation-based gathering

Executive Summary This report presents a detailed analysis of 100 AI models available in 2025, representing the most comprehensive comparison of cloud-based and locally-deployable solutions. The research reveals a transformed landscape where open-source models rival proprietary offerings, costs have plummeted 285x since 2022, and consumer hardware can now run sophisticated 70B parameter models through advanced quantization. Key Market Findings Performance Revolution Benchmark Convergence: The performance gap between open and closed models has narrowed to just 1.7% on key metrics Reasoning Breakthrough: New test-time compute models achieve 96.7% on mathematical benchmarks, approaching human expert performance Multimodal Standard: 68% of flagship models now support vision, with 42% offering full multimodal capabilities Economic Transformation

The 9.98-acre property at 4229 Goldstream Heights Dr represents a unique opportunity to create a regenerative agricultural ecosystem that builds soil health, strengthens community resilience, and generates sustainable prosperity over multiple generations. This comprehensive strategy integrates 30+ regenerative business ventures across a 30-50 year horizon, transforming this Malahat property into a thriving hub of ecological and economic innovation. Located in the traditional territory of the Malahat Nation, part of the W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) peoples, this property sits at the convergence of ideal market access - 35 minutes from Victoria and 20 minutes from Duncan - with spectacular views of Saanich Inlet and proximity to established agricultural communities. The RR-2 zoning permits domestic agriculture and agritourism activities, while recent updates to BC's agricultural regulations support innovative regenerative approaches. Phase 1: Foundation building (Years 1-5) The journey begins with enterprises that generate immediate cash flow while building critical soil health infrastructure. Market gardens will anchor the operation, with 2 acres of intensive no-till production following Curtis Stone's proven model. By focusing on high-value crops like salad greens, microgreens, and herbs, this intensive system can generate $100,000-200,000 annually while employing regenerative practices that sequester carbon and build soil organic matter from the current baseline. Pastured poultry operations launch simultaneously, with laying hens providing weekly egg income and meat birds offering 6-8 week production cycles. Following Joel Salatin's proven stacking model, chickens will follow initial cover crop establishment, their scratching and manure deposition accelerating soil biology development. A small CSA program of 25-50 members provides upfront capital through spring payments while building direct customer relationships essential for premium pricing. Critical infrastructure priorities focus on water security first - drilling a well and establishing basic irrigation systems ($15,000-25,000), followed by all-weather road access and a multi-purpose barn for equipment storage and initial processing ($30,000-50,000). Three high tunnels ($9,000-15,000) extend the growing season and enable premium winter production, while basic composting systems transform farm waste into soil-building inputs.

The Cognitive Frontier The human mind exists in a perpetual state of forgetting. Our consciousness, brilliant as it may be, discards far more than it retains—shedding context, connections, and insights that once sparkled with clarity. This fundamental limitation has defined the boundaries of human potential since the dawn of cognition. Today, we stand at a unique inflection point where technology has matured enough to transcend these boundaries, not by replacing human thought, but by extending it across dimensions previously constrained by biological memory. The Cognitive Ecosystem, with its topological mapping of life context, represents this transcendence—a system that preserves the multidimensional richness of lived experience while making it navigable, shareable, and generative. The Context Collapse Problem Current knowledge management systems fundamentally misunderstand the nature of human cognition. They conceptualize knowledge as static content to be filed away, retrieved, and transmitted—a digital filing cabinet of discrete artifacts. This model fails to capture how understanding actually develops: through an intricate web of connections that evolve across time, relationships, ideas, and endeavors. When we attempt to record our thoughts in traditional systems, we experience a devastating context collapse—the flattening of a multidimensional cognitive space into linear text or hierarchical folders. The resulting fragmentation forces us to constantly reconstruct context, draining cognitive resources and leaving insights stranded in isolation. The Convergence Opportunity We find ourselves at a moment of extraordinary convergence. Advances in graph databases enable complex relationship modeling. Vector embeddings can represent semantic proximity in high-dimensional spaces. Agent-based systems can autonomously maintain and navigate information landscapes. Visualization technologies can render complex topologies in accessible forms. Crucially, our theoretical understanding of cognition as an extended, embodied process has matured alongside these technologies. This convergence creates the conditions for a paradigm shift in how we extend our minds beyond biological constraints—not merely storing information, but preserving the living context that gives it meaning. The Topology Thesis

Abstract We introduce Threshold-Based Flow Funding, a novel resource allocation mechanism designed to address sustainable funding challenges in decentralized networks. While quadratic funding mechanisms effectively aggregate preference signals, they often struggle with long-term sustainability for individual contributors. Flow Funding establishes minimum viability thresholds while preventing resource concentration through controlled overflow redistribution. By combining threshold guarantees with participant-directed allocations, our mechanism creates dynamic resource flows that balance individual sustainability with network-level optimization. We formalize the mathematical properties of this mechanism, analyze its convergence conditions, compare it with existing approaches, and demonstrate its effectiveness through simulation. Flow Funding provides a promising framework for creating self-regulating economic systems that support public goods production while maintaining contributor sustainability. Keywords: flow funding, mechanism design, public goods funding, decentralized coordination, boundaries and thresholds, network flow, quadratic funding 1. Introduction The funding of public goods and commons-based work faces persistent challenges in both traditional and decentralized contexts. Existing approaches often struggle to properly value contributions, allocate resources efficiently, or ensure the sustainability of contributors. In recent years, quadratic funding (QF) has emerged as a powerful mechanism for aggregating preference signals and determining funding allocations (Buterin, Hitzig, & Weyl, 2019). While QF excels at capturing the breadth of community support, it may not guarantee sustainable funding levels for individual contributors or prevent excessive concentration of resources. In this paper, we introduce Threshold-Based Flow Funding, a novel mechanism that addresses these limitations by incorporating minimum and maximum thresholds with controlled overflow redistribution. The mechanism draws inspiration from natural water systems, where resources flow from areas of excess to areas of need according to established pathways. By setting minimum thresholds that ensure basic sustainability and maximum thresholds that trigger redistribution, Flow Funding creates a self-regulating economic system that balances individual needs with efficient network-level allocation.

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Papers Analyzed Bioregional Financing Facilities (BioFi): A framework for decentralized financial resource governance supporting planetary regeneration Grassroots Economics: Alternative economic systems rooted in ecological wisdom and ancestral practices MycoFi: Mycelial design patterns for regenerative economics inspired by fungal networks Our Biggest Deal: Transformative economic and leadership frameworks for planetary prosperity Section 1: Concepts Common to All Four Papers Executive Summary All four papers converge on a fundamental reimagining of economic systems through ecological principles and indigenous wisdom. They share a vision of transitioning from extractive to regenerative paradigms by decentralizing decision-making, integrating multiple forms of value beyond financial returns, and embedding economic activity within natural systems. Each framework challenges the conventional separation between economics and ecology, proposing instead that human economic systems must function as subsystems of the broader ecosphere. They all emphasize relationship-based approaches that recognize interdependence among humans and with the natural world. These convergent frameworks collectively call for systems designed to circulate resources rather than accumulate them, distribute governance rather than centralize it, and measure success through holistic wellbeing rather than narrow financial metrics. Their shared vision represents a consistent pattern of thought emerging across multiple disciplinary approaches to addressing the ecological and social crises of our time.

Abstract This thesis introduces "Endocrine Economics," a biomimetic framework that applies the mathematics of hormonal regulation to the design and analysis of regenerative financial systems. Drawing on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) axis as a foundational model, this work demonstrates how the mathematics of feedback loops, oscillatory behavior, and phase transitions can inform the development of regenerative financial architectures that balance stability with adaptive capacity. By mapping endocrine system components to financial system structures and developing a mathematical framework based on coupled differential equations, this thesis establishes a rigorous approach to analyzing how changes in feedback sensitivity affect system dynamics. The resulting framework offers insights into designing financial systems that can maintain homeostasis while avoiding both rigid equilibrium and chaotic instability, pointing toward practical implementations in complementary currencies, bioregional financial facilities, and decentralized financial governance. This approach bridges physiological wisdom with economic design, contributing to an emerging field of embodied economics that reconnects abstract financial processes with living system dynamics. Introduction: The Need for Regenerative Financial Design The contemporary financial system exhibits patterns of behavior that parallel physiological dysregulation—periods of rigid stability punctuated by dramatic phase transitions into oscillatory cycles or chaotic turbulence. These patterns manifest as boom-bust cycles, financial contagion, and periodic systemic crises that destabilize not only economic systems but the social and ecological systems in which they are embedded. The 2008 global financial crisis vividly demonstrated how instability in one sector can rapidly propagate throughout interconnected markets, ultimately affecting communities far removed from the initial disturbance. More recently, climate-related financial risks have emerged as a major concern, with the Network for Greening the Financial System warning that climate change represents "a source of structural change in the economy and financial system" with potentially severe consequences for financial stability. These challenges are fundamentally systemic, arising from the structure of our financial architecture rather than from isolated failures or external shocks. Current approaches to financial regulation often attempt to impose rigid stability through centralized control mechanisms or permit unconstrained behavior through deregulation, neither of which produces the dynamic stability characteristic of healthy living systems. The Basel banking accords, for instance, establish uniform capital requirements that fail to account for regional differences or cyclical conditions, while stress testing exercises typically rely on linear risk models that cannot capture complex system dynamics. Meanwhile, regenerative finance initiatives—from community currencies to impact investing—often lack coherent frameworks for understanding system behavior or predicting how their interventions will affect broader economic dynamics.

Abstract This paper introduces Permeable Gradient Ontology (PGO), a theoretical framework that reconceptualizes boundaries in complex systems as dynamic gradient interfaces rather than fixed demarcations. Building on insights from developmental biology, cosmological evolution, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and cognitive science, we propose that boundaries emerge as temporary stabilizations within interacting probability gradient fields. We formalize this framework mathematically, connecting it to dynamical systems theory, information geometry, and field theory. We demonstrate how this approach transforms our understanding of problems ranging from biological morphogenesis to climate systems, and outline a research agenda for empirical validation. PGO offers a unified perspective that bridges traditionally separate domains while providing testable predictions about boundary formation, information propagation, and agency in complex adaptive systems. Keywords: complex systems, gradient fields, boundary theory, scale invariance, emergence, bioelectricity, morphogenesis, dynamical systems 1. Introduction Traditional approaches to complex systems begin by defining boundaries that separate entities from their environments or divide systems into discrete component parts. While pragmatically useful, these imposed boundaries often obscure underlying dynamics. Recent work across multiple disciplines suggests a different approach: boundaries as emergent features within continuous gradient fields rather than as ontologically primary entities. This perspective emerges simultaneously across diverse areas. In developmental biology, Levin's Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME) framework reveals cognition-like behaviors emerging from bioelectric gradient patterns in non-neural tissues [1]. In complex systems science, DeLanda's analyses of meshworks and hierarchies demonstrate how stable structures emerge from and dissolve back into decentralized flows [2]. Chapman's concept of nebulosity highlights how meanings exist as patterns within indeterminate fields rather than as discretely bounded entities [3]. In systems neuroscience, the free energy principle reframes cognition as gradient descent on prediction error [4]. Even in cosmology, models of universes evolving through black holes suggest reality itself might be understood as patterns propagating through gradients across scales [5].

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