Decision Log

Anti-Attention Covenant + Governance Triggers

Built two improvements from the self-score roadmap:

• Anti-Attention Covenant — Eight binding commitments about how the project handles $MORR: no price discussion, no chart widgets, USDC-only treasury reporting, no marketing spend, no yield/staking, no gamified contribution, no DeFi complexity, USDC contributor payouts.
• Governance Triggers — Six measurable thresholds for governance transitions added to the roadmap. Each trigger is specific and published before the condition is met.

Score impact: org attention 2→1, token attention 3→2.

Self-Score page created

Scored every project component against the void framework: site (2/12), papers (1/12), revenue model (3/12), organization (5/12), token (8/12), composite (~4/12). Published seven improvement items with projected score reductions. Committed to quarterly re-scoring.

Why: a rating agency that doesn't rate itself has a credibility problem.

Void Network expanded to 57 nodes, 62 edges

Mass expansion of scored systems: added 24 new nodes including finance (payday lending 12/12, forex/day trading 12/12), health (diet industry 12/12, wellness 11/12), tech (Amazon Prime 9/12, Netflix 9/12, Snapchat 10/12), consumer (self-help 12/12, influencer economy 11/12), and constraint cases (public libraries 1/12, open source software 2/12, Consumer Reports 0/12 — the only perfect zero).

Key insight: Consumer Reports scores 0/12. No ads, public methodology, no personalization, no engagement optimization. This is the model.

Solflare preferred, wallet picker, Crypto FAQ

Improved wallet detection to prefer Solflare. Added wallet preference memory. When multiple wallets installed, a picker dropdown appears. Added Crypto FAQ page for newcomer onboarding — includes wallet setup, safety explainer, and crypto scored as a void (11/12).

Wallet-based auth system built

Direct Phantom/Solflare wallet signature integration instead of Privy. Challenge-response auth — wallet proves address ownership via signMessage (read-only, no transactions). No email, no passwords, no personal data. Wallet address = identity. Optional display name. Contribution history tracked.

Privacy policy + Umami analytics + GDPR compliance

Replaced Google Analytics consideration with Umami (self-hosted, no cookies, no personal data). GA4 void score: 7/12. Umami: ~1/12. Structural contradiction avoided — a project that scores ad-tech opacity shouldn't feed data to the largest ad-tech company. Full GDPR/ePrivacy/CCPA compliance.

Cookie consent banner with void self-scoring

GDPR consent banner that scores itself (2/12) alongside a typical cookie banner (9/12). Equal-prominence Accept/Reject buttons. No dark patterns. The banner IS the framework applied to itself — every visitor sees the difference between constrained and manipulative UI design.

Pricing and certification pages published

Made pricing tiers and certification lifecycle publicly visible. Seven tiers: Public (free), Researcher (free), Academic (free), Education K-12 (free), Team ($99/mo), Enterprise ($999/mo), Consulting ($2K-10K). Certification: qualify at ≤4/12, enroll in monitoring, $500/yr, public score dashboard, automatic revocation.

Why: the product existed in design docs but had zero public visibility. Users couldn't see pricing or certification requirements.

Free Academic and Education tiers added

Researchers and schools get full Team-level features at no cost. The scientific method scores 3/3 on the constraint specification. Researchers generate replication data. Schools score EdTech to protect students. Charging either group slows the thing that makes the framework credible. EdTech companies don't qualify — if you're building the systems being scored, you pay.

GROUNDING.md moved to open (CC-BY 4.0)

The grounding specification was previously treated as a licensable crown jewel. This was wrong for three reasons: (1) it's a system prompt — once deployed, it's inspectable; (2) keeping it secret contradicts the framework's transparency requirement; (3) opening it drives demand for scoring services. Revenue model shifted from document licensing to rating agency (services + data moat).

Revenue model: rating agency, not document licensing

The methodology is public (like S&P publishing rating criteria). Ratings, monitoring, calibration, and certification are the product (like S&P charging for actual ratings). All contributor payouts switched to USDC. The moat is the scored platform database (first-mover data compounds), not secret documents.

3D Void Network visualization launched

Three.js visualization expanded from 16 to 33 scored systems across 9 categories. Interactive 3D network with particle field, search, category filters, and pulsing nodes for critical-risk systems. Constraint cases included (Wikipedia 1/12, Stack Overflow 2/12) alongside high-scoring systems.

Site structure revised: three-layer progressive disclosure

Reorganized from flat page structure to three layers: Surface (plain language, tools), Study (framework explained), Reference (full papers and data). Same content, everyone enters at the surface. Technical vocabulary introduced gradually. Homepage reduced to one sentence + one button.