Dktron: one ledger, three parts

Dktron is an accounting unit that records rights to personal capacity assigned by the network, which the member can hold, transfer or use under known conditions. External conversion requires liquidity and settlement rules, and a personal balance does not buy institutional authority or automatic priority over common project resources. Common reserves and project custody are recorded alongside it in the same ledger, and capacity becomes Dktron when it is attributed to a person’s sphere. The ledger distinguishes resources held in common, allocations entrusted to a project and balances attributed to a person; these records have different purposes and obligations.

Dktron is an internal accounting unit for the settlement and clearing of personal capacity. During the transition, its function is to link Drayker’s economy to the material conditions in which the member lives: it converts a contextual allocation into resources the person can mobilise according to their own decisions.

Common capacity

Common reserves represent resources available for support and collective activity. Their usefulness depends on the assets, services and liquidity actually available, together with accountable decisions about allocation. An accounting entry alone does not create the resource it represents.

Project allocations

A project allocation places capacity under temporary custody for an agreed purpose. Its record should identify the authorised use, responsible participants and review conditions. What happens to a surplus depends on the context: it can return to the common reserves, stay reserved for a next phase already planned, or be reallocated by a new decision, according to the approved terms. If the project is abandoned, the resources still tied to its execution return to the system according to the closing conditions; if it changes scope, the allocation can be revised. Project resources remain tied to the purpose for which they were entrusted. Personal resources remain at the discretion of whoever received them. Custody is distinct from a personal balance.

Personal balances

A member’s personal balance may be retained, transferred or converted through an authorised resource or liquidity bridge. Inactivity alone does not cause forfeiture. Conversion for needs such as housing, food or tools depends on real reserves and the conditions of the bridge. Personal units can offer liquidity, stability and security, but merely holding them produces no passive income: there is no automatic interest, no dividends, no equity stake and no increase in institutional power just because someone accumulated a larger amount. The design grants no constitutional authority for holding a balance either.

The personal Dk works as an adviser: it relates opportunities and suggests uses according to the direction the person has chosen. The final word belongs to the member, who decides freely whether to convert part of their Dktrons into local currency to pay for housing, transport, health or food, set these credits aside for future purchases, for a personal transition or for a period of study, transfer capacity to make possible another member’s creative project or an independent piece of research that moves them, or acquire equipment, computing access or materials brokered by the network. No one asks the network’s leave to use a personal balance.

Before each attribution, the answers are known: what the member can demand, keep, transfer or use, who can change those conditions, and what returns to a common project. The conditions of conversion are known in the same way before the attribution: how the value is calculated, time frames, costs, and what happens during a temporary shortage of liquidity. If many members ask for conversion at the same time, the network answers first for the commitments already made. A project priority never silently erases a balance that already belongs to someone.

For example, closing a project could require returning an unused project allocation while the same participant keeps a separately attributed personal balance. The ledger must preserve that distinction and prevent the same capacity from being counted or spent twice.

Two sides of each record

Each record has two sides: the balance a person can mobilize and the material commitment of the network behind it. Four rules keep the two sides consistent:

• The same resource never appears at the same time as a reserve and as a free budget.
• A transfer changes the holder without creating a second claim.
• Contextual allocation stays separate from the settlement of claims.
• An expected future revenue stays distinct from a resource already received, and the network keeps recognising what it has already attributed.

A balance does not buy priority. The reward, a specific type of reputation, the only transferable one, which recognizes funding and the contribution of capacity, is what gives faster or priority access to resources (Value Unit); a Dktron balance is a different record.

Related records

Contextual reputation concerns contribution and evidence. DAF federative points concern a separate governance experiment. Neither is interchangeable with a Dktron balance. The interpretation and treatment of contributions belong in explicit governance rules, rather than an automatic exchange rate between money and standing.

Development boundary

No Dktron is currently issued, priced, sold or exchangeable. Reserve accounting, redemption and liquidity mechanisms require specification and testing. A first worked ledger should keep common reserves, project custody and personal Dktron balances apart, and demonstrate authorised transfers, project closure and a redemption limited by actual available resources.

Sources

• Value Unit, the component proposal.
• Drayker economy, the system-level account.
• Current governance, the institutional context.