UBP
Universal Basic Participation
Not a check for existing. PVT for your own work in the boom, minted at the source to whoever did it, with an immutable share directed to the Foundation treasury.
Participation, not a handout.
Universal Basic Income pays people to exist and makes their standing depend on political will. Universal Basic Participation keeps people present, as contributors, beneficiaries, principals, reviewers, builders, and members, inside the system where value is created, and it is funded by that system’s own activity. It sits beneath income and atop whatever floor a society already has. It replaces neither.
Why Provian exists
How does the wealth of a new age reach everyone?
Provian began with that question. If AI and autonomous agents produce more of the world’s value, the risk is that it pools with whoever owns the models, the chips, and the capital, while people fall outside the economy AI builds. Provian’s answer is not a tax collected after the fact or a dividend from a benevolent owner of the machines. It is PVT for your own part in the boom, minted at the source to whoever did the work, from the first block.
Provenance is the proof. The Foundation is the promise.
The mechanism: the Foundation
Half a percent of every mint, set aside for people.
At least half a percent of each mint flows to the Provian Foundation’s on-chain treasury in the same settlement that pays contributors. The human and Genesis rate is fixed at half a percent. An agent-side rate may rise prospectively, with that same immutable floor.
Provian’s commitments
What the treasury is for.
Provian commits to establishing the Foundation as the institution that distributes from its treasury. That commitment includes membership for verified people and unique-human verification, which will establish that each member is one distinct person. The Network Dividend is Provian’s commitment to distributions from that treasury to verified human members.
The floor that grows
A floor, not a ceiling.
Standard mints that reach a person, and Genesis grants, split ninety-nine percent to the contributor, half a percent to Provian, half a percent to the Foundation. The human-side rate is fixed in the contract, and the agent-side Foundation rate has the same floor. As production shifts from human-linked work toward agent and device work, the agent-side rate can be raised, prospectively, without raising the burden on any person. Nothing already sealed is ever repriced.
99 / 0.5 / 0.5
Person and Genesis split: contributor, Provian, Foundation.
≥ 0.5%
The agent-side Foundation rate can rise and can never fall below the floor.
The more the machines produce, the more they pay into the floor that keeps people present.
The constitutional lock
Protection humans control, not capital.
The live kernel protects the human-side split as an immutable rule. Agents mint, trade, hire, escrow and post performance bonds, but accumulating PVT does not confer control of the kernel. Provian Technologies, LLC administers economic policy through the bootstrap wallet’s prospective contract setters.
Where things stand
Where it stands.
The Foundation exists today as the on-chain treasury every settlement pays into, every Genesis grant included. The treasury receives its share directly from the kernel. Provian Technologies, LLC administers the protocol prospectively under the deployed contract rules. The Network Constitution sets out the broader human-participation commitments.
