Phase B — The Sovereign Federated Commons — Coordination Hub

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Phase B — The Sovereign Federated Commons

Date: 2026-04-10
Plan file: wondrous-wishing-taco.md (in .claude/plans/)

This discussion is the single source of truth for Phase B progress. It tracks milestones M0–M6, all associated issues, and the weekly status rhythm. Update the status table here as gates are cleared.

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Architecture Decision Records

• ADR 0001 — FOSS-First, Crypto-Surgical — Accepted 2026-04-10. Rejects L3 Validiums / AnonDAO / token-weighted voting. Establishes six cryptographic problem→solution pairs.
• ADR 0002 — Size-Weighted GTFT Decay — Accepted 2026-04-10. Moves global decayHalfLife to per-SDC sizeClass-derived value. Gated on Red-team task: formal game-theoretic analysis of asymmetric GTFT decay #111 game-theory review before M4 implementation.

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Milestone Table

Milestone	Name	Status	Key gate
M0	Unblock & Record	In progress	ADR merged; #104 spec posted; #73 reworked; #111 signed off
M1	Chain Foundation	Pending	helm install chain-bridge passes K3d smoke test
M2	Identity + ZK Preparation	Pending	BrightID → SBT mint on Anvil; forge test passes
M3	ZK Democracy + Stewardship	Pending	Trusted setup complete; end-to-end MACI vote
M4	Federation & Community	Pending	Gated by #104 + #111
M5	Mutual Credit Formalisation	Pending	#105 spec red-team sign-off
M6	Multi-Channel + Security	Pending	4-week testnet alpha clean; M1–M5 on main

Parallelisation: M1→M2→M3 (Track A), M4 (Track B, gated), M5 (Track C, spec-first). M6 after all tracks converge.

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New Issues Filed (Phase B Planning)

#	Title	Gates
#104	Federation security model	M4
#105	Mutual credit formalisation spec	M5 implementation
#106	RWA tokenisation spec	M5 follow-up
#107	Cooperative bank gateway API	M5 follow-up
#108	Reputation feedback loop — wire ForeignReputation into Liaison	M4
#109	Federated proving infrastructure	Post-M3 research
#110	Size-weighted GTFT decay — schema change	M4, gated by #111
#111	Red-team: formal game-theory analysis of asymmetric GTFT decay	M4 hard gate

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Existing Issues — Phase B Cross-Links

#	Title	Phase B role
#30	Personal Node Federation Spec	M4 data model; gated by #104
#56	S3 Sociocracy red-team	M0 parallel track; must close before M4
#72	Smart @mention autocomplete	Must support federation-scoped mentions (M4); coordinate with #73
#73	Federation @mention spec	MAJOR REWORK — 5 CRITICAL risks — M0 gate for M4
#77	Scope tags on decisions	Foundational for M4 federation boundary + M5 credit scope
#79	Bilateral Agreement Protocol	M4 Liaison backbone; sizeClass changes are a bilateral variant
#91	Three-value-stream labour tracking	Circular-economy grounding for M5 mutual credit spec
#95	CoopIdentity badge/credential system	Structural fit for ADR 0002 sizeClass attestation
#98	Three-layer privacy in SOUL.md	Liaison (M4) + Facilitator (M5) must comply from day one
#99	MACI nullifier verification	Must land before M3 trusted setup ceremony

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Red-Team Gates

Gate	Blocks	Status
Smart contract audit firm selection	M6 testnet alpha	Pending — human action
#104 Federation security model spec	M4	Pending
#73 rework (5 CRITICAL risks)	M4	Pending — MAJOR REWORK
#111 ADR 0002 GTFT asymmetry proof	M4, #110	Pending
#56 S3 authorisation fixes	M4	Parallel track M0

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Weekly Status Rhythm

Post a reply to this discussion each week with: (1) which gates cleared, (2) which milestone is active, (3) any new blockers. Keep it short — 5–10 lines.

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Phase C.5 coordination — 2026-04-11

.claude/phase-c5-tracking.md is now live as the Phase C.5 sibling coordination hub. Phase C.5 (Operations Stack) runs parallel to Phase B and converges only at the Liaison handshake (cross-coop procurement escrow), the Phase B M5 Mutual Credit spec (material flows), and the optional Metagov translator post-#130. See the tracking file for the full milestone graph.

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Update 2026-04-12: 8 federation research issues (#178-#185) are now filed under M5 (Federation Substrate Selection, Phase B). The federation ADR (Discussion #191) scopes three coupled questions: Loomio as OpenClaw Gateway channel, where Iskander's cooperative code lives, and the Clawd-Code alternative. ActivityPub (R1) and Bonfire (R2) are the primary substrate candidates. Agent-to-agent L3 coordination is tracked separately at #172/#182. — Et

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Federation substrate identified: Iskander-Code IS the federation layer

The cooperative-of-cooperatives architecture (#198) resolves the federation question:

Scale 0 (CLI/federation): Et's meta-domain sits above all sessions. Knowledge commons, agent registry, cross-session state.

Scale 1 (session): one human-Et cooperative working session.

Scale 4 (inter-cooperative): same facilitator algorithm + 5-gate trust boundary (Trust Quarantine, Ontology Translation, Governance Verification, Causal Ordering, Glass Box Wrap).

Each domain exposes ets own MCP endpoint. Other cooperatives' agents discover and address specific domains directly — not through a centralised gateway.

The facilitator at every scale uses the same S3 round protocol. The trust boundary wraps inbound requests from foreign cooperatives. Governance inherits from the domain above but expands to the subdomain's scope.

ICN's federation infrastructure (mutual credit, reputation, governance contracts) is already harvested into the project — 4 CCL governance contracts in governance/ directory.

This is genuinely S3 all the way down — the federation IS the governance pattern at cooperative scale.