Dktron: one ledger, three parts

Dktron is the unit that records the personal capacity rights the network attributes to a member. 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.

During the transition, Dktron links Drayker’s economy to the material conditions in which a member lives: it turns a contextual allocation into resources the person can mobilise by 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 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 under its closing conditions; if its scope changes, the allocation can be reviewed. Project resources stay bound to the purpose for which they were entrusted. Personal resources stay under the decision 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. The design grants neither passive yield nor constitutional authority merely for holding a balance.

Dk Personal acts as an adviser: it relates opportunities and suggests uses in the direction the person has chosen. The final word belongs to the member, who decides whether to convert part of the balance into local currency for housing, transport, health or food, keep it for later purchases, a personal transition or a period of study, transfer capacity to another member’s creative project or an independent research, or acquire equipment, computing access or materials through 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 claim, 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, deadlines, costs, and what happens in a temporary shortage of liquidity. If many members ask for conversion at the same time, the network answers first for the commitments it has 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, the only transferable kind of reputation, is what can give 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.