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Acmecase.
Neighborhoods, cooperatives, mutual aid.
Mutual aid, local commerce, attestation-based membership — a commons with receipts.
the framing question
What does sovereignty mean for a community?
It means the mutual-aid pool reports every disbursement against signed claims — no treasurer in the trust loop. It means membership is attested by people who know each other, not gatekept by a platform. It means the moderation agent's decisions are reviewable by the people the decisions affect, with every action a signed receipt.
the three artifacts, tailored for community
Community-membership records (`kash.community.membership@1.0.0`) and mutual-aid claims (`kash.community.aid-claim@1.0.0`) — shipped as a lexicon extension. A member can disclose 'verified neighbour of F-7' without revealing their CNIC via selective disclosure with header attestation. Multi-language tooling defers to the consumer's locale handling; the wire formats are language-agnostic.
SUBSCRIPTION paradigm for monthly dues with consumer-cancel + refund-unused-period flag — protects the rule of the commons, no forced lock-in. SKIP_AND_CONTINUE revert policy means a missed month doesn't kill membership. Default splitter 95% steward / 5% community administrative residual. Each member's monthly payment commits to a per-period metadata hash so a steward can't replay one month's signature as another. (See trade-sdk/use-cases/acmecase-mutual-aid.)
Community-services chat with mandatory audit — every agent decision a chain-linked Ed25519 Kash-Event the moderator can replay. The cross-artifact Foundry Trinity flagship demonstrates the full Identity → Trade → Neuron pipeline a community would use: signed refund request → agent decision → trade settlement → all three independently verifiable by anyone holding the public keys. Edge-headless mode lets the agent run on a Supabase Edge Function with cold-start under 500 ms for low-bandwidth communities. (See neuron/use-cases/foundry-trinity-refund.)
Where Acmecase lives today
Three flagship use cases prove the community surface: mutual-aid pool (12 tests, all 5 cancellation flags exercised), Foundry Trinity refund (6 tests, all three artifacts compose), community lexicons (membership + aid-claim shipped). The program is the most experimental of the four — likely to ship the first community-of-practice pilot in 2026.
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Have a community in mind?
Acmecase is the program we're most likely to ship as Permissive open-source. If you're piloting mutual aid, a cooperative, or a building society, talk to us.