Prologue

A Base-amount with resonance: beyond the gesture, towards rhythmic reciprocity

A Base amount that derives its foundation from redistribution, donation, or tax compensation remains trapped in the paradigm of the giver and the recipient. It is a gesture — perhaps well-intentioned — but it lacks ground. As long as the amount comes from an external source, such as a lender or a government that redistributes, the recipient remains structurally dependent. The asymmetry is ingrained: who gives, decides; He who receives, obeys.

It is precisely that principle that we want to break.

We are designing a Base amount that does not rely on redistribution, but on rhythmic advances. It is not a gift, but a choreographic advance on future resonance. The member does not receive as an underlying party, but as a bearer of potential. Even when the amount is only consumed, it remains rhythmically linked to an infrastructure of reciprocity.

This amount is not corrected by control or recovery, but by the activities, attendance, and rhythmic participation of the member himself. Every installment payment is a final settlement moment: an act of settlement that cannot be denied, an on-chain confirmation of value that strengthens the legitimacy of the community.

This does not create dependency, but capacity. Not a power imbalance, but choreographic legitimacy. The Base amount is therefore not an endpoint of redistribution, but a starting point of rhythmic infrastructure — a federative gesture that activates agency rather than reduces it.

Manifesto: The Base-amount as Rhythmic Reciprocity

  1. Diagnosis: The gesture without ground
    • A Base amount that comes from redistribution, donation, or tax compensation remains a gesture from top to bottom.
    • The recipient becomes structurally underlying, dependent on an external will, a lender, or a government.
    • Inequality is not reduced, but solidified in a new form: passive, holding up hands, without a learning process or added value.
  1. Fraction: Away from the giver-receiver asymmetry
    • We reject the paradigm of the gift.
    • We are not designing an income model, but a choreography of reciprocity.
    • The Base amount is not an endpoint of redistribution, but a starting point of rhythmic infrastructure.
  1. Rhythmic advancement: Capacity instead of dependence
    • The Base amount is an advance on future resonance.
    • The member does not receive as an underlying party, but as a bearer of potential.
    • Every instalment payment is a final settlement moment: an act of value creation, visible and indisputable.
  1. Legitimacy: Not through control, but through presence
    • No clawback, no performance requirement, no surveillance.
    • But rhythmic participation, choreographic presence, infrastructure of reciprocity.
    • Legitimacy does not arise from evidence, but from the rhythm of participation and reckoning.
  1. Buffering: Against heroism, against reduction
    • We resist the idea that giving is noble and receiving is passive.
    • We choreograph infrastructure in which every member contributes rhythmically — visibly or invisibly.
    • We protect against the temptation of control, performance pressure, and performative legitimacy.
  1. Invitation: Federated, modular, rhythmic
    • This manifesto is not a doctrine, but an invitation.
    • To choreographic infrastructure, rhythmic reciprocity, and existential legitimacy.
    • To the design of sectoral modules, federated buffers, and circular value.

Room for dissonance

What you read here is not a proposal, but an invitation to reorientation.
Not to agree with us, but to relate.
If you feel resistance, come closer.
Because there is also room for you — not to follow, but to choreograph.

Introduction

It is 2026, and 3.8 billion people are still living in poverty.

The international poverty line is $3.00 per person per day. For upper-middle-income countries, this is $8.30. Almost half of the world’s population lives below that limit. But what does that really mean?

We tested it. A household in a cheap region of Indonesia, with four adults and two children, two incomes, no debts, and no rent. According to the standard, 55% of income goes to food. That’s $9.17 per day for six people. What do you get for that? A bag of rice, some vegetables, nothing luxurious.

The fixed costs — electricity, transport, health care, food — swallow up everything. That leaves $72.22 for a whole month. Not yet clothing, no medicines, no savings, no school fees. You have to choose: gasoline or rice.

For 60% of Indonesians, this is not an experiment, but a daily reality. The National Poverty Line (BPS) is IDR 609,160 per person per month. But according to the World Bank, 60.3% of the population lives below the international poverty line of IDR 41,093 per day.

Poverty is not a number. It’s an experience. It’s isolation. You are not allowed to participate. You don’t think about tomorrow, because today is already too hard. Your voice disappears. You are at the mercy of systems, of people behind desks, of algorithms. Today, they are civil servants. Tomorrow it’s AI developers. Jobs are disappearing. Rules are being rewritten. Artificial Intelligence promises abundance, but it is not there yet. What remains is a buzzword: Universal Basic Income.

But UBI remains a flow of money from top to bottom. It is a gesture, not an infrastructure. It provides temporary breathing space, but no rhythm, no reciprocity, no control. It remains a robbing Peter to pay Paul transaction: money goes around, but no new value is created.

We ask another question:
It is not will it be possible, but how do we choreograph social security without control, without guilt, without exclusion?

How do we design a Base amount that does not measure, but acknowledges?

What requirements must the solution meet?

Poverty is not a number. It is a state of exclusion, of surviving without breathing space. So, the solution cannot only be financial. Money is an intermediate step — not a destination. What is needed is an infrastructure that not only provides resources but also rhythm, community, and control.

  1. Equality of Possibilities, not of Outcome – Nobody starts right away. Equal outcome is an illusion. What is possible is an infrastructure that guarantees equal access to rhythm, space, and agency.
  1. No individual alone –A person alone is vulnerable. A community carries. That’s why we’re building micro-communities of 25 to 150 members — small enough for proximity, big enough for resilience. Dunbar nods. We listen.
  1. No heroes, no hostages –This project is not a monument for the initiators. Not a cage of rules. No dependency disguised as care. Power is decentralized, autonomy built in. Not as a principle, but as infrastructure.
  1. Security as a foundation – Security is not a luxury. It is a requisite. If your salary is insufficient to meet your basic needs, it is not a financial problem, but an existential disruption.
    • Psychological: chronic stress, crumbling self-image, panic decisions.
    • Social: shame, isolation, agency that disappears.
    • System level: fragility as design, work without dignity, and intention that fades.
  1. Scaling without exhaustion –
    Growth should not be exhaustion. The infrastructure must expand without losing its rhythm. Participating should be satisfying, not a burden.
  1. Not philanthropy, but reciprocity –
    This is not charity. Money doesn’t flow one-way, from donor to beneficiary. Every participant contributes. Every participant receives. This includes capital providers. This includes designers. This includes members. Reciprocity is rhythmic, not transactional.

Legitimacy rhythm and consumption

Legitimacy does not arise from possession or control, but from rhythm. Every UT installment payment is a final settlement moment: an act of value creation that cannot be denied. Even consumption is a signal for value creation: behind every CT spend within the IPE, a chain is set in motion — distribution, labor, trade in raw materials. The more a VFE or the IPE can carry that chain internally, the more value will stick.

The final settlement of the installments not only creates value but also confirms it: no longer hidden behind the walls of the IPE, but transparently and irrevocably recorded on a permissionless ledger. The monetary system can no longer deny this.

Six core values
  1. Equality of Possibilities, not of outcome
  2. Micro-communities of 25–150 members as rhythmic units
  3. Decentralization of power and autonomy for the members
  4. Financial-existential basic security as a starting condition
  5. Scaling with rhythmic limitation — no growth at the expense of members
  6. Value sharing for all involved, including capital providers

Why this is important for everyone

This is not another poverty project. This is a mechanism for control, transparency, and shared ownership. An infrastructure that affects not only the vulnerable — but everyone who feels that their position is no longer self-evident.

Where do you stand, now that Artificial Intelligence and automation are setting the pace? Are you still a driver at your own pace — or are you being directed? Do you still have a say, or is it decided for you what is enough?

We are promised a future of abundance. But abundance without autonomy leads to stagnation.

The infrastructure we build is robust. It can be worn anywhere. But its value comes only when you nourish it —first by receiving, then by choosing.

This is not a service. No benefit. No promise.

It is a bedding. An invitation.

A system that starts with you — and lives by what you put into it.