A Community of Trust

To tackle today’s biggest environmental problems, we need to coordinate around our shared values more effectively than our current systems allow.

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology makes a new type of organization possible - the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).

The DAO is a network of stakeholders with no central governing body, but a set of rules encoded on the blockchain. DAOs have the collaborative potential that is the missing piece of the puzzle in the empowerment of the global society to transition to regenerative circular economies that are the key to the survival of the Human species.

The ASH DAO is emerging from a group of founders who have a high degree of integrity and commitment to the environment and pollution control.

We trust each other, rather than rely on legal mechanisms and corporate structures that define most traditional organization

Ash DAO Stakeholders

Instead of a traditional hierarchy of leaders/managers, we will focus on levels of commitment to give some structure to the organization.

The reality is, there will be different levels of commitment to suit individuals’ life situations and these will change over time.

These commitment levels will be well defined but fluid in that, people can move between them easily, completely decoupled from remuneration.

The commitment levels in descending order of impact and accountability:

Navigators

Navigators have a long-term commitment and significant ongoing contributions to growing the value and impact of the Ash DAO and Ecosystem towards a world free of pollution as powered by regenerative energy sources.

New Navigators are selected by existing Navigators. It is only natural, understandable, and fully acceptable that life situations of an individual Navigator can change and compel them to step down, if they are not able to maintain this level of commitment and contribution at any point in time.

Navigators make all key decisions, via an agreed decision-making process, that are of strategic importance and in the best interests of the Phoenix DAO Foundation.

These key decisions include:

Organizational Development

Accepting green project funding proposals and making decisions that evolve the purpose, values, strategy, constitution, token economics, management of DAO assets, and authorizing the operations and activities of the organization.

Managing Assets Issuance

Navigators have weekly operational meetings and monthly strategy meetings. The governance model will have rules defining how

Navigators can join or leave the Navigator Community and the conditions for maintaining the status of a Navigator.

Navigators are remunerated for their work in a combination of Ash Tokens and FIAT where possible.

Contributors

Contributors are individuals or organizations, such as corporations, non-profit organizations or governmental and intergovernmental organizations, who, in exchange for tokens, add value to the Phoenix Network, for example by voting on operational decisions, suggesting new features, projects, and activities through the Ash DAO.

If a Contributor is an organization, then they must have one individual decision maker who would represent the organization.

Contributors are invited to the Ash DAO by Navigators, who will vote and decide on their compatibility with the Phoenix Manifest and system of values along with their ability to contribute to the Phoenix Network.

Token Holders

Individuals can freely enter the Phoenix Network by purchasing or receiving tokens to wallets that can accept Ash Tokens.

Token holders can use their tokens to participate in the activities of the DAO through voting and suggesting new initiatives and features.

Service Providers

Service Providers are individuals or organizations who provide value-adding services and are paid in currency external to the Phoenix Ecosystem, i.e. in fiat or digital currencies.

The Navigators will always strive to get the best value for the ecosystem for the money paid to Service Providers. A Service Provider must at least be a Public Token Holder in order to be considered by Navigators to provide services to the DAO, but they can also be a Contributor or a Navigator.

A Service Provider may over time, be invited to become a Contributor, if the Navigators agree that they satisfy the criteria in terms of value provision, alignment over values, and capacity for long-term commitment to the responsibilities of the Contributor role.

Navigators can at any time decide to terminate the contract of a Service Provider, per conditions defined in the smart contract. Service Providers are remunerated for their work in fiat money or digital assets.

Constitution

The Constitution is a set of principles and operational rules driven by our values. The navigators will evolve the Constitution over time.