Governance

How governance works

What does WILL do?

WILL is how a player exercises power over the system. It costs 200 WILL to submit a proposal. Voting is quadratic: one vote costs 10 WILL, and N votes cost N squared times 10, so two votes cost 40 and three cost 90. Influence grows, but its price grows faster. WILL spent on governance is mostly burned and the remainder goes to the treasury.

How does governance work?

Anyone holding WILL can write a proposal in plain language: a change to the game rules, the interface, or the economics. Submitting opens a voting window that is fixed at submission and cannot be reopened, extended, or bought. A proposal passes if more voting weight is cast FOR than AGAINST when the window closes. The deadline and the tally are enforced by an on-chain contract, not by a server.

What happens when a proposal passes?

AI executes it. There is no human approval step. A change to game configuration applies immediately. A change that needs new code is written, tested, and deployed to production autonomously. Before anything executes it is checked against the Constitution, eighteen permanent principles that no vote can override.

Can you increase your voting power?

Yes, by locking WILL in an on-chain escrow. Locking multiplies voting weight over time: 1.25x at 30 days, 1.50x at six months, and 2.00x at one year, with the ceiling set by the amount locked. The lock is perpetual and withdrawable at any time. Withdrawing removes the multiplier and resets the clock. Locked WILL cannot be spent or transferred while it stays locked.

Who controls the project?

The Governance Safe has no functioning human signing seat, and its restricted actions require passed, vote-bound authorization. Mark still controls the private repository, deployments, server credentials and service accounts, and commissions changes with a development assistant. This is temporary stewardship. The intended handoff removes their privileged access so Mark becomes an ordinary participant. The whitepaper describes the remaining powers and dependencies.

Full detail on the governance model, the Constitution, and the security and threat model is in the whitepaper.