Value Unit
Account for common resources, project custody and personal balances.
Value Unit develops Dktron as a proposed unit for accounting and accessing material capacity. It distinguishes common reserves, resources entrusted to projects and balances attributed to members.
The design separates the three spheres and connects redemption to real available resources. Reputation and federative governance records remain distinct from financial holdings.
Coherent accounting should make support dependable and resource decisions inspectable, without giving financial holdings constitutional authority.
A practical example
A project could return an unused allocation under its agreed terms while a member retains a personal balance for later use or authorised conversion to living expenses. This is an illustration of the proposed design.
The problem it addresses
An allocation record must make clear whose resources it represents, who may use them and what obligations attach to them. Those meanings differ between a project budget and a personal balance.
Where this stands
The repository publishes the current architectural formulation of Dktron and its relation to the economy of capacity. Value, reputation, and DAF federative points are distinct concepts. No Dktron is issued, priced, sold or traded as a cryptocurrency; no speculative token exists.
The first validation is an accounting one, not a speculative one: a transparent record of contributions, needs, temporary project custody, personal member reserves, and contestable accountability. Dk models scenarios, but human member governance decides allocations inside systemic safeguards.
Scope
- Three-sphere accounting: strict separation between common reserves, project custody, and personal member balances
- Personal Dktron: individual credits that members can freely accumulate, transfer, or convert into fiat for material sustenance without risk of seizure by inactivity
- Temporary project custody: capacity allocated to active project tasks returns to common reserves according to approved terms for completion or abandonment
- Lawful bridge infrastructure: conversion of personal credits into local fiat conditioned on actual, verifiable external liquidity reserves
- Zero passive yield: holding Dktron never generates passive interest, dividends, or speculative appreciation
- Separation of financial capacity and authority: financial contributions cannot purchase member status, contextual reputation, or constitutional voting weight
- Accountable review paths: contestable allocation procedures with audit trails in Dknowledge
Not in scope
- An issued speculative token, volatile cryptocurrency, investment, yield product or financial asset
- Perpetual property or rentier ownership over common capacity or hardware
- An internal market where basic capacity or member status is bought with money
- Any speculative guarantee of appreciation, trading profit or liquidity pools
- Confiscation or expiration of personal member balances based on arbitrary inactivity
- Automated allocation by Dk without constitutional rules, human authorization and review
How it fits the whole
How resources become accountable internal capacity — the accounting and constraint layer for common capacity, not a market for persons.
Inside Drayker, money cannot buy member status, reputation, voting weight or priority. Need, intention, reputation, knowledge, resources, risk, opportunity and consequence inform contextual allocations under member governance. Dktron represents and moves that capacity across common, project, and personal spheres. Dk models options and consequences; it does not autonomously own or govern funds. DAF points remain a separate experimental ledger, and Distributed Support is the broader multilevel program for satisfying members’ vital needs.
Depends on. daf · dfmpproject
First functions
- Specify the three-sphere accounting ledger: formalize boundaries between common reserves, project-linked custody, and personal member balances.
- Define project custody & return rules: formalize how unspent project capacity returns to the general metabolism upon milestone completion or verified abandonment, without touching personal member credits.
- Model the external living-expense bridge: specify lawful conversion of personal Dktron into local fiat for member sustenance, strictly backed by verifiable material liquidity reserves.
- Specify separation of financial capacity and authority: formalize technical and constitutional barriers ensuring money buys zero governance weight, reputation, or judicial influence.
- Implement reconciliation simulation: demonstrate a full cycle where a member holds, transfers, and redeems personal Dktron while project funds and external reserves remain reconciled even under liquidity constraints.
How to contribute
Read CONTRIBUTING.md
and GOVERNANCE.md. Propose a worked accounting case or review the assumptions of an existing one.