{
  "module": {
    "name": "meridian-collective",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "kernelVersion": "^0.1",
    "description": "Kernel instantiation for a ~1,200-member online collective with a shared treasury. Personhood-based equal suffrage (no token weighting), secret approval ballots with public tallies, adaptive quorum decay against participation collapse, sortition jury for disputes, and a Moloch-style pro-rata fork right. See examples/dao-commentary.md for the reasoning behind every value.",
    "maintainers": ["meridian-stewards-wg"]
  },
  "polity": {
    "name": "Meridian Collective",
    "scale": "network",
    "expectedMembers": 1200,
    "description": "A distributed collective funding open infrastructure from a common treasury."
  },
  "parameters": {
    "suffrage": {
      "criteria": ["proof-of-personhood", "accepted-membership-pledge"],
      "minimumAge": null,
      "onboardingWaitDays": 30,
      "proxyVoting": true,
      "exitGraceDays": 14
    },
    "voting": {
      "method": "approval",
      "weighting": "equal",
      "secretBallot": true,
      "tieBreak": "status-quo",
      "defaultPeriodDays": 5
    },
    "quorum": {
      "base": 0.15,
      "escalated": 0.25,
      "adaptiveDecay": {
        "enabled": true,
        "halvingPeriodDays": 14,
        "floor": 0.05
      }
    },
    "amendment": {
      "proposalSponsors": 12,
      "reviewPeriodDays": 14,
      "votingPeriodDays": 7,
      "cooldownDays": 60,
      "thresholds": {
        "patch": 0.5,
        "minor": 0.6,
        "major": 0.7
      }
    },
    "fork": {
      "assetSplitRule": "pro-rata",
      "minimumFaction": 0.1,
      "noticePeriodDays": 21
    },
    "emergency": {
      "enabled": true,
      "declarationAuthority": "council",
      "maxDurationDays": 14,
      "renewalThreshold": 0.66,
      "autoSunset": true,
      "suspendableScopes": ["spending-limits"]
    },
    "disputes": {
      "forum": "jury",
      "jurySize": 9,
      "selectionMethod": "sortition",
      "termDays": 90,
      "appealTo": "full-vote"
    }
  },
  "userland": {
    "rules": [
      {
        "id": "treasury-spend-tiers",
        "title": "Treasury Spending Tiers",
        "text": "Spending up to the small-grant cap may be approved by any working group within its budget. Spending above the cap requires a collective vote at base quorum. Spending above 5% of treasury in any 30-day window requires escalated quorum and the minor threshold, regardless of how it is split across proposals.",
        "params": { "smallGrantCap": 2000, "windowDays": 30, "windowFractionOfTreasury": 0.05, "currency": "USDC" },
        "tests": ["scenario-salami-slice-treasury-drain", "scenario-51-percent-self-grant"]
      },
      {
        "id": "working-groups",
        "title": "Working Groups",
        "text": "Working groups are chartered by patch vote with a stated budget, mandate, and term not exceeding 180 days. Renewal requires a fresh vote. A working group's internal decisions bind only its own budget and mandate.",
        "params": { "maxTermDays": 180 },
        "tests": ["scenario-perpetual-committee-entrenchment"]
      },
      {
        "id": "grants-round",
        "title": "Quarterly Grants Round",
        "text": "Grants are awarded quarterly by approval vote across all submitted proposals. Sponsors of a proposal must disclose conflicts of interest on the ledger before the review period closes; undisclosed conflicts void the award and are a dispute under Art IX.",
        "params": { "cadenceDays": 90 },
        "tests": ["scenario-undisclosed-self-dealing"]
      },
      {
        "id": "contributor-compensation",
        "title": "Contributor Compensation",
        "text": "Compensation rates are set by a public schedule amended by patch vote. No citizen may vote on a proposal whose sole effect is changing their own individual compensation; they retain their vote on schedule-wide changes.",
        "params": { "scheduleReviewCadenceDays": 180 },
        "tests": ["scenario-payroll-faction-ratchet"]
      }
    ]
  }
}