Foundational laws
- No surface may remain economically dead.
- Value must be continuously discoverable.
- Payment rails are inputs, not truth.
- The feed is not the brain.
- Winning control does not grant arbitrary execution.
- Harm must become unprofitable.
Memory and identity
- All meaningful state transitions must be replayable.
- Every actor accumulates history.
- Identity reset must carry cost.
- Good behavior compounds into greater freedom.
- Bad behavior compounds into greater cost and less freedom.
State doctrine
- Canonical state is off-chain.
- The internal ledger is the only hot-path accounting truth.
- Public feeds, dashboards, and simulations are projections only.
- External rails may fund balances but do not define control state.
Payload doctrine
- Control grants constrained serve rights only.
- Payload grammar is bounded in v1.
- Arbitrary code execution is out of scope for early habitat.
- Membrane design matters more than expressive freedom.