Org Overview

We build dapps and tools to facilitate humanity’s transition to a globally regenerative and thriving civilization

What is Hypha?

Hypha is the name for a single hair that makes up a mycelial web. These webs are how healthy ecosystems transmit knowledge and resources across time and space. Hypha is here to serve as a similar organism to unite the myriad of organisations, movements, nation's and people to co-create a global civilization towards a shared purpose.

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Minimum Viable Collective

Be a bridge to the new paradigm by being a living evolving experiment

1. Basic structure: simple structure to co-evolve from.
2. Build the change while living the change.
3. Model how organisations can be a regenerative, nurturing and equalizing force for good.
4. We do this through a continuous and subtle shift in how we collaborate and co-create.

Hypha’s Values

• Radical Honesty If you think, feel or know something - say something. We tell people and each-other exactly what we think and feel and we welcome others to tell us exactly how they feel.
• Radical Transparency Salaries, roles, commitments - everything is transparent. We commit to being open with our actions and deeds.
• Interpersonal Communication We commit to using methods of communication that are not meant to offend or harm another.
• Radical Responsibility We are solely responsible for activating our purpose in our roles. We commit to resolving conflict when conflict arises. Using radically honest and non-violent communication we commit to airing our conflicts to the people in question. If we do not feel we are able to do this, we commit to asking another member to facilitate a conflict resolution process.

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Why Join Hypha?

We’re at the cutting edge of an evolution in human culture as distinct as the transition from hunter-gatherers to city dwellers. In these extraordinary times we have the opportunity to reimagine these systems and create new ones that better serve all life.

Benefits of Joining Hypha...

Experiential

A location-independent lifestyle. Yearly or bi-yearly retreats and gatherings. Launch team will travel the world.

Intellectual

Co-design and experience a decentralized cooperative global organization, helping shape and design the organizations of the future.

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Natural/Health

Create a healthier self and world. Hypha has no set ‘working hours’, providing you the freedom and flexibility to live a healthy life and contribute to the team of your choice.

Social

Join a community of activists and changemakers designing and implementing the systems a more beautiful world requires.

Cultural

Hypha is an organizational model that places utmost value on human thriving. Join a distributed authority organization and gain the freedom to create the change you're called to.

Spiritual

Creating a model that will provide economic empowerment to millions of people. Play a key role in reimagining our global societies. Join in designing the future systems that humanity desperately needs.

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Financial

Multiple and multiplied compensation. First investment opportunity. SEEDS Rewards. Success multipliers. SEEDS is literally creating money.

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Benefits of Joining Hypha...

Experiential

1. A location-independent lifestyle.

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• Yearly or bi-yearly retreats and gatherings.�
• Launch team will travel the world.

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See details in notes

Intellectual

1. Co-design and experience the forefront of theoretical technologies, creating realities out of theories and designing the future.�
2. Join a decentralized cooperative global organizations, helping shape and design the organizations of the future.

Benefits of Joining Hypha...

Natural/Health

1. Create a healthier self and world.

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• Hypha has no set ‘working hours’, providing you the freedom and flexibility to live a healthy life and contribute to the team at what time is the healthiest (and most productive) for you to do so. ���See details in notes

Social

1. Join a community of activists and changemakers designing and implementing the systems a more beautiful world requires.

Cultural

1. Hypha is an organizational model that places utmost value on human thriving.�
2. Join a distributed authority organization and gain the freedom to create the change you're called to.

Benefits of Joining Hypha!

Financial

1. Multiple and multiplied compensation.�
2. First investment opportunity.

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• SEEDS Rewards.

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• Success multipliers.

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SEEDS is designed to redirect the value of our financial system towards those building the systems that will truly serve humanity. SEEDS is literally creating money.

Spiritual / Purpose

1. Creating a model that will provide economic empowerment to millions of people, financing more fulfilling lives.�
2. Creating a Regenerative Society! Play a key role in reimagining our global societies.�
3. Join in designing the future systems that humanity so desperately needs.��See details in notes

Hypha - Decentralized Human Organisation

DHO can also be a:

Decentralized Holonic Organism

Decentralized Holacratic Organisation

Or simply the DHO (pronounced DO) as in - this is how we DO.

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To visit the current DHO click here

To see the future concepts of the DHO click here

Basic �Structure

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Core Teams�Contributors,

Developers,

Project Leads,

Ambassadors

Wider�Community�Supporters, Contractors, Proposers

Development

Branding

Business Dev

Dev & �Design

Operations

Networking

Wider�Network

Collective Sensing & Facilitation

Partnerships

Circles: Basic Circle Structure

Size: Circles should be around ~7 people before a split could take place. The intent here is that circles shouldn’t be to big for decision making and calls to be too arduous and tedious. Research shows that 5/7 people are ideal group sizes for effective action.

Purpose: Why does this circle exist?

Domain: What is under explicit control of that circle?

Accountability: What is this circle expected to accomplish?

Circles: Collective Sensing & Facilitation Circle

Purpose: Capture, synergise and align the information and wisdom of all the circles. This circle does not make strategic decisions, merely aligns the decisions made in represented circles for cohesion. Members will include the Representatives and Leads of the other circles within Hypha.

Domain: Organisation roadmap and timelines.

Accountability: Weekly/Biweekly alignment calls to synergise and align the circles towards our shared goals.

Current Members: Alex (Passport Lead), Franz (Ambassador Lead), Joachim (Hypha Project Lead), Max (Hypha Dev Lead), Nik (SEEDS Dev Lead), (PM)Lisa (Ops Lead), Nila (Networking Lead) (F)Rieki (Token Engineering / Faciliation Lead), Ronnie (Strategic Partners Lead)

Circles: Inter-Circle Flows / Operations

Purpose: Business operations, project management/coordination, budgeting (burn rate), sensing new roles, proposing updates to Hypha org structure, legal compliance

Domain: Project coordination tools, Hypha future budget, (DigLife tools integration)

Accountabilities:

• Legal compliance Hypha
• Hypha budget
• Sensing / recommending updates to DAO structure
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Current Members: Cece, Joachim, (PM)Lisa, Max, (L?)Reggie, (F?)Rieki, Ronnie, (GAP CFO -type Member)

Parallel: CFO, COO, Legal

Circles: Community Connection / Networking

Purpose: Tell the story to build a movement

Domain: Website, social media, Hubspot marketing, marketing agencies

Accountability:

Current Members: Nick, (L)Nila, Vishal, (F)Rieki, (PM)Lisa

Parallel: CMO / CBO

Circles: Ambassadors & Partnerships

Purpose: Weave the movement.

Domain: Hubspot CRM (Sales)

Accountability:

Current Members: Cece, Cyrus, Douglas, Faiz, (L)Franz , Joachim, (PM)Lisa, Michael H, Michael M, Nicole, Virginia, Ronnie (Sub Circle / Strategic Partnerships Lead)

Parallel: CSO

Circles: Development Memory (not a circle)

Purpose: Align, synergise and coordinate development between Hypha’s tools.

Domain: Organisation roadmap and timelines.

Accountability: Weekly/Biweekly alignment calls to synergise and align the circles towards our shared goals.

Current Members: Alex (SEEDS/Passport), Joachim (DAO), Max (DAO), Nik (SEEDS), (PM)Lisa, (F) Rieki

Parallel: CTO

Circles: SEEDS Interface/ APP Development

Purpose: Build a digital portal to the Regenerative Civilization. SEEDS Passport, Organisation API’s and other UI’s.

Domain: The SEEDS Passport and codebase

Accountability:

Current Members: Alex (Lead), Antonio, Vasyl, Estee, Piyush, Denis, Sanjeev, Bruno

Circles: SEEDS Contract Development

Purpose: Build the smart contracts for a regenerative decentralized evolvable financial system.

Domain: SEEDS Smart contract code base (until go-live)

Accountability:

Current Members: Nik (Lead), Igor, Rieki, Sebastian

Circles: Hypha DAO Design and Business Dev

Purpose: Design and grow a decentralized organisational toolset to empower the global transition towards a distributed governance future. Micro-economics

Domain: Hypha DAO roadmap and timeline

Accountability:

• Envision and implement 3rd generation DAO based on human-centered design principles
• Lead the implementation of the Hypha DAO development (wireframes, roadmap, milestones, issues, communications)
• Introduce intentional user interface and user experience for non-technical users (for both mobile and web)
• Create sensemaking and decision making protocols for scalability and resilience (eg. Biomimetic Conviction Voting)
• Enable social design process to engage multiple stakeholders in application development (eg. Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy)
• Provide outreach to early adopters for feedback loops, performance & usability checks and business fit
• Introduce unique visualization and card-based interface concepts for distinct brand experience
• Prepare client organizations for increasing complexity through organizational scaffolding & evolution

Current Members: Joachim (lead), Max, Augusto, Grace, Rieki, Ronnie, Simon

Circles: Hypha DAO Development

Purpose: Design and grow a decentralized organisational toolset to empower the global transition towards a distributed governance future.

Domain:

Accountability:

Current Members: Max (lead), Augusto, Craig, Gregory

Circles: Token Engineering / Macro Value Flows

Purpose: Architect the token economics of SEEDS, Hypha DAO, Hypha and other projects. Crypto/token engineering design & evolution.

Domain: Economic Modelling tools

Accountability:

Current Members: Rieki(Lead), Ronnie, Reggie, Michael S (?), Max, (PM)Lisa

Circles: Hypha House

Purpose: Foster physical locations and nodes for the movement.

Domain:

Accountability:

Current Members: Reggie (lead?), Igor(?), Brady(?)

Org Flows

Flows are critical to the livelihood and generative capacity of our organization. Without flows, organizations stagnate and/or create isolated pools of knowledge and power. Flows enable circles to perform their actions, remove barriers, and shift & direct energy to the right place at the right time. A good metaphor might be channeling flows of water through the organization so others can use these newly created pathways.

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Network�Flow

Value�Flow

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Trust�Flow

Business�Flow

Revenue�Flow

Currency�Flow

Knowledge�Flow

Org Transformation

While we boot up the organization on a smaller scale (the green core) we want to grow into a larger nonrivalrous & antifragile entity through a series of structure preserving transformations:

• Nested circle structure & roles with knowledge propagation
• New kind of visual user interface & experience design
• Org taxonomy to connect domains to organizational flows

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Org Evolution

Looking beyond our own organization how can we enable other organizations to perform similar transformations through a scaffolding around people, protocols, paths and places.

Coalitions

People�Attracting a large crowd of people

Places�Basic organizational structures.

Protocols

Establishing core generic principles.

Paths�Following large scale voting schemas.

People�Knowing who is here and in what capacity

Places�Traversing holonic org structures; knowing whereto;

Protocols

Applying context-sensitive protocols.

Paths�Understanding decisions and decision contexts.

People�Operating in multiple contexts and on multiple levels.

Places�Expeditions & domain traversals.

Protocols

Loosening the restrictions; boundary protocols.

Paths�Collective decision making & generative sequences.

People�Dissolving work, play & learn boundaries.

Places�Cross-organizational place making.

Protocols

Adopting cross-org standards & protocols.

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Paths�Co-governance and shared decision paths.

Rhizomes

Adaptability acceleration preparing for increasing complexity�(the need to evolve, not leaving any one or any org behind)

Compensation Levels & Requirements

2 major contribution categories:�

Role Based Core Team

60% Full time Min.�Circle members and role fillers. Hypha is their majority creative project. Members need to fill at least 60% of full time roles to be part of the “core team” and the various benefits that come with it.

Supporters

Per Contract Basis�Community proposals, advisors, auxiliary staff, part-time, interns, etc. This is a value “catch all” where anyone can propose anything to the DAO.

Roles and Assignments

Roles �Created by Hypha Members - a signal for what we need. By voting this in we're accepting that this role can be filled and a salary paid.

Requirements:

• Circle (optional)
• Domain - What does this role control?
• Accountability - What does it do?
• Minimum time % - Minimum full-time req.
• Compensation (fair market value + bands)

Assignments�People can choose what percentage of a role to fill there are mandatory minimums for various roles.

Requirements:

• Start Date
• Evaluation Date (revote required)
• Percentage filled��

Evolving beyond the punishment of rewards

1. Everyone in Hypha is a master of their craft - let’s unleash that potential!
2. Intrinsic interests and passions over extrinsic rewards (pay) for motivation.
3. Promote unity and teamwork (we all thrive together).
4. We have the opportunity to create a new paradigm of work (read play/ co-creating) - we can co-create our own means.
5. We can be led by purpose and passion and create tools that can radically transform civilization. We're at the cutting edge of these new ideas.

Provide a stable income so we can focus on being passionate about the greater cause. Experiment with “Gratitude Tokens” to move towards decentralizing salaries.

Membership Pay Levels Core Team

Seniority Bonus

Role + Seniority multiplier�

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Advisors

1k - 2k / Cycle

Ambassadors

Advisor Base �+ Commissions

Experience Bonus

Role + Badge multipliers�

Members are paid for the percentages of the various roles they are filling.��In addition members earn badges (for experience, seniority, etc) for accomplishments that provides that members with a multiplier for their various roles.

Ambassadors Circle Pay

Total commissions pool: S251,327,412

Ambassadors are the weavers, evangelists and face of this movement. All Ambassadors split commissions relative to % of time contributed. This is monitored by ambassadors themselves which choose who to bring in and remove.��Fostering:

• Teamwork > Competition
• Enjoyable creating conditions
• Collaboration > Getting the “sale”

Hypha’s Tokens

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Hypha Voice

The governance distribution of Hypha used to determine your vote weight on proposals.�Voice is non-transferable with a 1 year half life.

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Hypha Equity

The equity token of Hypha. Profits will be used to pay dividends to Hypha holders and to buy Hypha Equity to distribute to members.

Gratitude

(Coming Soon)

Seeds

The currency of SEEDS - used as pay in lieu of national currency.�

Note: Hypha DAO may have a unique token and Hypha may create more unique tokens for each project.

Pay Options (current proposal)

Pay

• Seeds are paid at the current Hypha contract rate proceeding payment.
• Each member decides what % up front vs deferred (Min. 50% deferred).
• Deferred pay comes with Hypha Equity and Seeds with a multiplier.
• Up front pay does not earn Hypha Equity.
• Deferred option ends when Seeds are sufficiently liquid.
• Buy back maximums set for members based off need and Hypha fiat budget.

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Pay Philosophy

Part of our mission as Hypha and our primary project SEEDS is to see Seeds become a standard medium of exchange and propel the adoption of it. By taking our pay in Seeds we’re tying our organisational success to our personal financial success. The more successful we are the more valuable and liquid the Seeds becomes.��Hypha will take investments in more liquid currencies (USD, BTC, EOS) to facilitate exchanges for Hypha Members until such a time that Seeds are sufficiently liquid.

Pay Options: Multipliers

Deferred Pay Multipliers

Up Front (Milestone Seeds)

• Seeds
• Guarantee fiat conversion with Hypha

Deferred (Hypha Escrow Seeds)

• Paid Seeds with Monthly Multiplier
• Earns Hypha Equity
• Massive benefit as you get both with multipliers!

Note: All months are rough - transitions are lunar cycles. Deferred options end when upfront pay is liquid enough for all salaries. Fiat conversions are limited by Hypha fiat budget and will go to those with highest needs first.

Jan

Seeds

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Hypha

1.4X

1.35X

1.3X

1.3X

1.3X

1.3X

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Revenue & Profits

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Fixed salary - as proposed

Revenue - (Expenses + Salaries + Reserves) = Profits ��Profits are split to pay dividends to shareholders and to buy shares to proportionally divide between existing members. ��This model pays dividends and has a buy back scheme which may drive up the price of each share while homogenizing & equalizing ownership between members.

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Collective Budgeting

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The membership base as a whole votes to fund various proposals from circles and members to finance development. ��For example: The Community Connection and Networking circle would propose a budget of 40k to pay for a new marketing agency. This proposal would then go up to all the members of Hypha for a vote to be compared against other proposals to the budget.

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Accountability

Requirements:

1. Weekly calls with circle (minimum)
2. Bi-Monthly calls with Hypha (every other off set to find aligning time)
3. Milestone tracking (for proposals)
4. Asana (task tracking - for verifying percentages claimed are accurate)
5. Time Tracking (Link here) - this integrates with all the tools we use to track time in one spot.

Recourse:

1. Assignment removal by circle or steering circle by those who collaborate with a member the most. Each circle creates their own rules for collaboration.

Tracking Time in Asana

1. Download the time tracking app.
2. Create an account and add app to google chrome bar.
3. You can track time right from Asana tasks (click here for more).�

Tracking Time Benefits

Track contributions: What you were doing, how long and when.

1. Will especially be useful in the first months of role creation when we can track what members are doing to advise what new roles need be created.
2. We can track how we spend our time as an organisation to seek ways to optimise how we utilize it.
3. Keeps things extremely transparent so all members can see how other members are showing up! �

We're not in the same place - showing up to the same office, so this way it becomes clear what people are doing and when.

Genesis Hypha Equity and Hypha Voice

Sweat Equity�

Hypha Equity @ Multiplier

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Hypha Voice = Hypha Equity * 2

Financial Equity

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Hypha Equity @ Multiplier

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Hypha Voice = Hypha Equity

Initial Hypha Equity and Hypha Voice will be distributed to the members who have been deferring pay and investing finances from December 2018 up until the DAO launch. These numbers will be confirmed over the coming weeks.

Proposed: For financial investors do not get equal voice to their investments - else we remove a primary benefit of decoupling voice from equity. We give voice primarily to those who are running the organisation as they are best suited to make decisions while still giving a voice to investors (just reduced).

Collaboration Tools

• Asana - Project management
• Telegram Hypha & SEEDS community - Daily chat / community engagement
• Hypha DAO with Matrix / Riot - Governance and Pay
• GDrive - Store docs
• Brandfolder - Branding and marketing materials
• Zoom - Conferences
• Hubspot - CRM, Alliance Flows & Marketing
• Gitlab - Development
• Msteams? - Team collaboration tool
• Peeranha - Telos Stack Overflow for Q&A forum

Click on the blue button to open a tool (this is a mockup of the future Hypha DAO tools section)

Riot

Hypha Team Chat

JOIN

Zoom

Video Conferencing

JOIN

Hubspot

CRM, Alliance & Mktg Flows

JOIN

OPEN

Telegram

Hypha & SEEDS Community

OPEN

GDrive

Hypha Documents

VIEW

Gitlab

Code Development

OPEN

Peeranha

Telos Stack Overflow Q&A

OPEN

Asana

Project Management

OPEN

Hypha DAO

Governance & Pay

GDrive

SEEDS Brand & Mktg

VIEW

Tech �Stack

Revenue streams / Business model

Short Term (Until Go Live)

• SEEDS Milestone Pay

Pending

• Block Producer Telos

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Medium Term

• Passport App (use rewards)
• SEEDS Proposals
• Hypha DAO (HDAO token)

Proposed

• Hypha Houses

What comes next?

Hypha Seeds distribution & deferred budget

Total Distribution: S628,318,531

Claimed �~S250,000,000 ~39%

Close approximates

Remaining �S378,318,531‬

Hypha total holdings

Illiquid (Deferred Seeds)

Seeds: S628,318,531

Liquid (From Milestones)

Seeds: ~S39,269,908

Telos: ~1500

Genesis Voting

We start the DAO as if it existed the whole time. We’ll go back to the earliest audit of token holdings (July 2019) and start from there. Then each member can propose their historical contributions and will be voted on by current voice token holders. �Proposal: 80% Unity, 20% Quorum for Funding, Role and Assignment proposals

67% for referendum proposals + institute more nuanced ways for governance that don’t require a vote.

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To Regeneration and Beyond

The reasons for simplifying and homogenising pay is to see that we’re all on equal footing.

That we’re all in this together.

This organisation structure is intentionally simplified - to give a foundation for members to evolve and build upon as needed without undue or burdensome rules for collaboration.

Now! Let’s get back to co-creating a globally regenerative and thriving civilization.

Regenerative Culture Reminder

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"We are transitioning to a regenerative culture. It is a culture of respect and listening, in which people arrive on time to commitments and deal with conflicts when they arise, using short feedback loops to talk about disagreements and issues without blaming and shaming. It is a culture in which we cultivate healthy boundaries by slowing down our yes’ and returning tasks when we are unable to follow through. It is a healthy resilient culture built on care and support. It’s consciously choosing to arrive and maintain integrity to the central purpose of midwifing the new paradigm."