Abstract
A six-month budget is proposed for the Executive Branch (EB) to take MoonDAO's lunar-economy stack public and turn it into revenue and network growth. The term has four priorities:
- Publicly launch Moon Base Zero, the to-scale lunar settlement simulation, and the DePrize capability ladder on Arbitrum, starting with Touchdown before the next lunar landing attempt.
- Follow through on the Overview Effect Flight by securing two seats with a provider: Frank White named on the flight manifest, and the second seat held for a MoonDAO Citizen.
- Grow the Space Acceleration Network with a repriced Citizenship that includes MOONEY bought on the open market and staked in the Citizen's name, supported by MoonDAO's first paid acquisition campaign.
- Use current AI agents to automate most recurring DAO operations, so the EB's fixed cost can come down after this term.
Core operations continue throughout: governance and the project system, treasury and liquidity management, communications, website, Launchpad, billing, sales, and community.
The guaranteed core budget is $25,250 per month through December, 4% below MDP-249, then $27,417 per month in Q1 once a third Executive Lead starts. The budget is paid in two transactions three months apart, so the Q1 half is converted at January's prices rather than today's. Growth spend (ads, travel, equipment, and an X contractor) is released in tranches against published gates. A runway guardrail freezes that spend automatically if the treasury falls below a set floor.
Problem Statement
What the last cycle delivered (MDP-249, May–September 2026)
- DePrize went from design to deployment. The shared market stack and the DePrize 0.8 contracts are live on Arbitrum. An internal end-to-end prize ran on mainnet from August 25 to September 1, and a security fix to the market factory shipped on September 11. The four-rung capability ladder (Touchdown, First Tracks, Water Ice, Night Shift) runs on Sepolia and is operated by the Executive Safe. The jurisdictional controls are built: exclusion of U.S. persons and restricted countries, VPN and sanctions screening, attestations, and on-chain reconciliation.
- Moon Base Zero was built and presented at Rio Innovation Week. It is a true-to-scale lunar settlement on the Shackleton ridge with 12 capability races, 50 projects, and 33 organizations.
- Frank's campaign has a mandate. $OVERVIEW holders voted 92.9% to keep options open and continue fundraising for two seats. The raise was re-opened with a ledger that refunds each of the 94 on-chain backers exactly what they paid.
- Network: Citizens grew from 199 to 262 against a target of 300. Teams grew from 20 to 26 against a target of 30. Teams added 16 new marketplace listings (target 15) and 7 new job listings (target 15), and 62% of Teams have used jobs or marketplace (target 60%). Q3 2026 was the best subscription-revenue quarter on record.
- Operations: Project System v9 (MDP-267) is live. Team registration opened to the EU/EEA. The proposal pipeline stayed full at roughly 20 proposals a quarter.
Not delivered: a public prize with outside money, the lunar challenge raise, the EB election, the for-profit arm proposal, the advisory board, and Citizen registration in the EU/EEA/UK.
The problem now is sustainability. Nearly everything above is built but not yet public, and none of it earns revenue yet.
- Official liquid AUM is $451.8k (September 28, ETH at $2,697). About two-thirds is ETH, a quarter is WBTC, and 6% (about $27k) is stablecoins, which is less than one month of burn.
- Measured cash revenue over the trailing twelve months is about $4.5k: Citizens $2.6k, Teams $1.8k, Launchpad $0.1k, DePrize $0. MDP-249 cited $24.5k. Staking income ended when the 96 ETH was withdrawn in June 2026.
- About $22k is already committed but not yet paid: second-half payments to the Q3 2026 project grants, the Q3 retroactive and Contributor Circle rewards, and MDP-249's milestone bonuses. After those outlays, the treasury covers about 15 months of net burn at the MDP-249 cost stack and today's prices. MDP-176 and MDP-194 set a standard that yearly net outflow should be no more than one third of assets. Today that allows about $12k per month, and the EB alone costs about twice that.
This term therefore has to do two things at once. It has to take the finished products public fast enough that they start to earn. It also has to remove the recurring manual work that keeps the EB's fixed cost high.
For the ladder, timing is the constraint. Astrobotic's Griffin launches no earlier than November 2026 and is the only Touchdown competitor that can land in 2026. If Touchdown is not live on mainnet before that launch, the flagship prize could resolve with no public participation.
Solution
The EB will run five objectives with a midpoint checkpoint on December 31 and a final report after March 31. All spend is tracked through the project system and reported monthly.
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Public launch of the capability ladder and Moon Base Zero. Touchdown moves from its Sepolia rehearsal to Arbitrum by November 1, under the Executive Safe as operator and oracle. /moonbase and /deprize come out from behind the access gate at the same time; the country gate, attestations, and reconciliation stay on for betting. A free forecast mode, open to everyone including people who cannot bet, is the top of the funnel. First Tracks and Water Ice get published rules of record and go live on Arbitrum by the end of the term. Night Shift stays a public placeholder. Every rung's purse is a community payload purchase on a future flight. The EB will look for outside sponsors for those purses and for Moon Base Zero districts. Before any single market holds more than 5 ETH, the contracts get an independent security review.
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Frank's flight. Following the $OVERVIEW holders' decision (Option B), the fundraiser stays open through the whole term. The raise does not close until the full payment for both seats is covered. Working from the existing report on every provider, the EB will place only fully refundable deposits unless holders vote otherwise. It will work toward a signed two-seat reservation, with Frank named on the manifest and the second seat held for a MoonDAO Citizen. The Candidate process cannot close before the fundraiser does, so it does not run this term; it starts once the raise closes. When a seat is purchased, the Launchpad payout takes 7.5% of the total raised as cash to the treasury: the usual 2.5% treasury split, plus the 5% that would have seeded MoonDAO-owned liquidity. No liquidity is added. On the ~$172k already raised or pledged (about $190k at today's ETH price: 27.39 ETH plus $116.5k in off-chain pledges), that is about $14,300 of secured, one-time cash.
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Citizenship as a stake in MoonDAO. Citizenship moves from about $30 a year to $99 a year, set in ETH and reviewed quarterly. $25 of each payment buys MOONEY on the open market and locks it as vMOONEY in the Citizen's name, using the same escrow pattern as the quarterly project rewards (VotingEscrowDepositor). Every new Citizen therefore has real voting power from day one. When a new Citizen joins through a referral link, or names a referrer, another $25 of the payment goes to the referrer in ETH or USDC. This replaces the current MOONEY referral reward. It is paid once per new paying Citizen and keeps the existing self-referral and duplicate checks. Both $25 amounts come out of the $99 price, so neither needs a treasury budget. Existing Citizens keep their current price for one more renewal. New Teams move to $499 a year, or $199 for nonprofits and schools. MoonDAO runs its first paid acquisition campaign for Citizenship behind a $3,000 test gate. Citizen registration opens to the EU/EEA/UK with no personal data on the public chain. Either the Citizen NFT is matched to an off-chain record, or the data is posted on-chain encrypted so that only MoonDAO's server can read it; the approach is chosen with counsel before launch. This also opens that market to the campaign.
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Agent-run operations. The EB will catalogue every recurring task and move as many as possible to AI agents that act under human approval. That covers proposal-cycle operations, weekly treasury and KPI reports, communications drafts from on-chain events, docs-grounded community support, bug intake, and payout preparation. Agents never hold signing keys. Every agent-prepared Safe transaction is checked against an allowlisted address book, because both the payout Safe and the treasury were targeted by address poisoning in September. The goal is measurable: 70% of recurring task-hours automated by the end of the term. That is what makes a smaller guaranteed EB budget possible from Q2 2027.
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Executive functions and sustainability. The EB budget is paid in two transactions three months apart: the Q4 half at passage and the Q1 half three months later, in January. Each is sized in dollars and converted from ETH and WBTC at that day's price. The EB will publish burn monthly and correct the August financial disclosure, which still counted the 96 ETH that was withdrawn in June. It will deliver the for-profit arm proposal and open a seed round, so that external capital, not the treasury, can fund DePrize and Moon Base Zero development in 2027. It will run the EB election and form the advisory board, both carried over from MDP-249. By March 1 it will bring a Q2–Q3 2027 operating plan in which guaranteed EB cost is no more than $15k per month, or the difference is covered.
Current revenue streams
| Revenue stream | Basis | Trailing 12 months (cash) | End-of-term target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen subscriptions | 86 payments at 0.0111 ETH | $2,575 | $12,000 annualized |
| Team subscriptions | 6 payments | $1,800 | $6,000 annualized |
| Launchpad fees (Frank) | 7.5% of the raise, all cash: 2.5% treasury + 5% liquidity redirected | $128 | ~$14,300 secured, one-time |
| DePrize trade fees | 1% LMSR fee, not yet live on mainnet | $0 | Tracked, not targeted |
| Uniswap LP fees | Accrue inside the position; not cash | Not measured | — |
| Total cash | ~$4,500 | ≥ $18,000 recurring + ~$14,300 Launchpad |
Figures are ETH that reached the Arbitrum treasury, matched by sending contract (the same method as /admin/financial-overview), valued at ETH $2,697.
Team structure
- @pmoncada — Executive Branch Lead. Strategy, product (DePrize, Moon Base Zero, Launchpad), agent and automation architecture, provider negotiations for Frank's flight, treasury operations, and the for-profit arm. Hosts the weekly townhall.
- @ryand2d — Communications & Partnerships Lead. Socials, newsletter, Discord, the weekly Senate meeting, and AMAs. Owns the sponsor and partner pipeline, Team onboarding, project-cycle operations, and the Frank campaign.
- Third Executive Lead (open seat, from January 1). See below.
- @moguel — Engineering & Automation (half-time). Mainnet ladder deployment and UI, the Citizenship checkout (MOONEY stake and referral payout), agent pipelines, and testing. Safe signer.
- X / social contractor (hired from the open role, ≤ 10 hrs/week). Owns growth of @OfficialMoonDAO, working from agent-drafted content.
Third Executive Lead
From January 1 through March 31, the EB adds a third Executive Lead at 10 hours per week and $50 per hour. The quarter is counted as 13 weeks, so the allocation is 10 × 13 × $50 = $6,500 (about $2,167 per month). It is paid in full with the January budget transaction. The seat is open; the scope is set when the person is named, inside those 10 hours. This line is salary only. It is not part of the milestone bonus pool, which stays split across Pablo, Ryan, and Miguel.
Agents are supervised by the members above. They draft, prepare, and report; humans approve anything public and sign anything financial.
Variable reward. For this term, the 2% treasury-growth reward from MDP-194 is replaced by the milestone bonus below, because ETH price moves are not EB performance. The 10%-of-revenue reward continues, so the EB is paid for growing revenue.
Benefits
- MoonDAO's two most distinctive products, a public lunar settlement simulation and a prize ladder for real lunar capabilities, go live in time for the next landing attempts. That positions MoonDAO as the place where the lunar economy is tracked, forecast, and funded.
- Frank's flight moves from open-ended fundraising to a signed reservation with Frank named on the manifest, which is the proof contributors were promised. The payout also sends about $14,300 of already-raised money to the treasury (7.5% of the raise).
- Citizenship gives members a real stake: every new Citizen holds staked MOONEY and votes from day one. The recurring buy supports MOONEY and moves supply into long locks. The $25 cash referral makes every Citizen a recruiter.
- The first paid acquisition test tells MoonDAO what a Citizen costs to acquire, and that number should shape every later growth budget.
- Agent-run operations cut key-person risk and recurring cost. They are the basis for a smaller fixed EB from Q2 2027.
- The for-profit arm opens a path for external capital to fund the lunar products without drawing the treasury down further.
Risks
- Runway and ETH exposure. Two-thirds of AUM is ETH, and stablecoins cover less than a month. Mitigation: pay the budget in two transactions three months apart, each converted to USDC at that day's price; release programs with them; and apply the runway guardrail below.
- Regulatory exposure of prediction markets. Mitigation: the existing U.S. and restricted-jurisdiction exclusion, attestations, VPN and sanctions screening, reconciliation, and marketing checklist; counsel review before launch; free forecasts for anyone who cannot bet.
- Smart-contract risk with real money. Mitigation: an independent review before any market holds more than 5 ETH, the Executive Safe as operator and oracle, and signed-off Sepolia rehearsals for every admin path.
- Launch timing. Griffin could launch before the ladder is ready. Mitigation: Touchdown's November 1 date is the first milestone and gets priority over everything else in October.
- Frank's flight. No stratospheric balloon provider is operating crewed flights yet, and campaign fatigue is real. Mitigation: refundable deposits only, the existing provider report as the bar, the raise kept open until both seats are paid for, monthly updates to holders, and a contingency vote if no provider meets the bar by March 31.
- The price increase may reduce conversion. Mitigation: $25 of staked MOONEY with every Citizenship, the $25 referral payout, one-cycle grandfathering, and weekly tracking. Pricing is revisited if new Citizens fall below half the Q3 pace for four straight weeks.
- Thin MOONEY liquidity. The main pool holds about $58k per side. Mitigation: batched buys capped at 1% price impact per swap, routed through the deepest pool and published weekly.
- Ads may not pay back for a web3 membership. Mitigation: a $3,000 test; the rest is released only if the cost per paying Citizen is at or below $100.
- Automation errors. Mitigation: human approval for anything public or financial, no keys held by agents, an address-book allowlist, and logs for every agent action.
- Team capacity. Two and a half people carry five objectives through December. Mitigation: a third Executive Lead joins on January 1 at 10 hours a week, automation is itself an objective, and October is reserved for Touchdown and the ops inventory.
Objectives and Key Results
Midpoint targets are due December 31, 2026. End-of-term targets are due March 31, 2027.
Objective #1: Publicly launch Moon Base Zero and the DePrize capability ladder on Arbitrum.
| Key result | Midpoint (Dec 31) | End of term (Mar 31) |
|---|---|---|
| Touchdown live on Arbitrum, Executive-Safe operated, rules of record published | Live by Nov 1, at least 14 days before Griffin's launch | Running or resolved per its rules, with no incidents |
| /moonbase and /deprize public (access gate removed; betting controls kept) | Public by Nov 1 | — |
| First Tracks and Water Ice | Rules of record published | Both live on Arbitrum |
| Independent security review of the market and DePrize 0.8 contracts | Complete, findings fixed, before any market holds more than 5 ETH | — |
| Free forecasts live on mainnet, open to everyone | Live; ≥ 150 forecasters | ≥ 500 forecasters |
| Unique wallets that bet on or fund a prize | ≥ 100 | ≥ 300 |
| Moon Base Zero unique visitors, counted from Nov 1 | ≥ 3,000 | ≥ 10,000 |
| Moon Base Zero: per-competitor models for every district (construction district currently shares one generic model) | Construction district done | All 12 districts done |
| External funding for ladder purses or Moon Base Zero sponsorships | 10 sponsor conversations, 1 letter of intent | ≥ $25k committed by ≥ 2 organizations |
| Funded MoonDAO projects represented in Moon Base Zero or feeding a rung | 1 | ≥ 2 |
Members responsible: @pmoncada, @moguel, @ryand2d
Objective #2: Secure two seats on a flight, with Frank White named on the manifest and the second seat held for a MoonDAO Citizen.
| Key result | Midpoint (Dec 31) | End of term (Mar 31) |
|---|---|---|
| Two-seat reservation with a provider that meets the bar in the existing provider report | Signed two-seat reservation or LOI (refundable unless holders vote otherwise) | Frank named on the manifest with a target flight window, confirmed in writing; second seat held for a MoonDAO Citizen |
| Fundraiser kept open through the term; new commitments (on-chain, fiat, sponsors) | +$50k | Raised + pledged + partner discount covers two seats with the selected provider |
| Launchpad fee on the existing raise, 7.5% cash to the treasury (2.5% + 5% liquidity redirected) | — | ~$14,300 collected on payout |
| Contributor transparency | Monthly updates; no open refund requests | Same |
| Contingency | — | If no provider meets the bar, a follow-up $OVERVIEW vote within 30 days |
Members responsible: @pmoncada, @ryand2d
Objective #3: Grow the Space Acceleration Network and make Citizenship a stake in MoonDAO.
| Key result | Midpoint (Dec 31) | End of term (Mar 31) |
|---|---|---|
| Citizenship at $99/yr: $25 bought and staked as vMOONEY for the Citizen, $25 to the referrer | Live by Dec 31 | ≥ 150 Citizens holding staked MOONEY from their Citizenship |
| New Team price $499/yr ($199 for nonprofits and schools) | Live | — |
| Citizens (262 today) | ≥ 310 | ≥ 375 |
| Teams (26 today) | ≥ 29 | ≥ 34 |
| Paid acquisition: $3k test, then scale only if cost per paying Citizen ≤ $100 | Test complete; go / no-go published | ≥ 100 ad-attributed Citizens |
| Citizen registration open in the EU/EEA/UK, with no personal data on the public chain | Live | — |
| Jobs and marketplace (7 active jobs and 26 listings today) | ≥ 12 active jobs | ≥ 20 active jobs, ≥ 40 listings, ≥ 70% of Teams using either |
| Citizen renewal rate (baseline measured in October) | Baseline published | ≥ 60% of expiring Citizens renew |
Members responsible: @ryand2d, @moguel, @pmoncada
Objective #4: Automate MoonDAO operations with AI agents.
| Key result | Midpoint (Dec 31) | End of term (Mar 31) |
|---|---|---|
| Every recurring EB task catalogued with owner, frequency, and hours per month | Done by Oct 31 (baseline) | Kept current |
| Share of recurring task-hours automated or agent-run under human approval | ≥ 40% | ≥ 70% |
| Project cycle runs intake → Senate → Member Vote → retro with humans only approving, voting, and signing | Q4 cycle mostly automated | Q1 2027 cycle fully automated |
| Weekly treasury and KPI report generated from on-chain data and posted publicly | Weekly from Nov 1 | Weekly; monthly burn versus this budget |
| Communications agent drafts posts, threads, newsletters, and announcements from on-chain events | ≥ 5 approved posts per week | Newsletter 100% on schedule |
| Docs-grounded support agent on Discord and the site | Live | ≥ 70% of questions resolved without escalation |
| Bug intake → tracked issue → fix | Automated intake | Median ≤ 5 days from report to merged fix |
| Safety: no agent keys; allowlisted address book for every agent-prepared Safe transaction | In force | Zero incidents |
| Cost: non-AI SaaS < $1,000/month; ops + AI line ≤ $2,000/month | Met | EB hours on recurring ops down ≥ 50% from baseline |
Members responsible: @pmoncada, @moguel
Objective #5: Manage executive functions securely and put MoonDAO on a sustainable path.
| Key result | Midpoint (Dec 31) | End of term (Mar 31) |
|---|---|---|
| Operate within this envelope; budget paid in two transactions (at passage and in January), each converted at that day's price; monthly public burn report | On budget | On budget |
| Restated financial disclosure (the staked ETH was withdrawn in June) | Published with the midpoint report | — |
| Recurring subscription revenue run-rate (about $4.4k today) | ≥ $9k | ≥ $18k |
| Launchpad fees from Frank's raise, 7.5% cash to the treasury | — | ~$14,300 collected on payout |
| Total cash revenue received during the term | ≥ $6k | ≥ $34k (recurring plus the Frank payout) |
| For-profit arm | Proposal ratified | Seed round open: deck, data room, ≥ 10 investor meetings |
| Executive Branch election under the Constitution | Process published | Held by Feb 28, 2027 |
| Advisory board | 3 candidates engaged | ≥ 3 advisors confirmed with a written charter |
| Q2–Q3 2027 operating plan with guaranteed EB cost ≤ $15k/month, or the gap covered by revenue or external capital | — | Presented by Mar 1 |
| Proposal-cycle uptime | 100% | 100% |
Members responsible: @pmoncada, @ryand2d
Performance Bonus Structure
The bonus pool is $18,000, in two tranches of $9,000. The first is earned against the December 31 midpoint checks and the second against the March 31 final report, so half of the pool is not six months away. It is paid only for verified milestones: on-chain where possible, otherwise documented and confirmed through governance. Ladder milestones count usage by a date, not just being live. Payment is 25% in USDC and 75% in four-year vMOONEY, taken from treasury MOONEY at the 30-day average price. That keeps the cash cost at no more than $4,500. Payments are split equally across the three core members unless otherwise agreed, and nothing is paid for a missed milestone.
Midpoint tranche ($9,000), verified at the December 31 review
- Ladder live and used ($3,500). $2,000 if Touchdown is live on Arbitrum by November 1 with /moonbase and /deprize public and the security review complete. $1,500 if, by December 31, ≥ 100 unique wallets have bet on or funded a prize and ≥ 150 people have made a free forecast.
- Frank ($2,000). A signed two-seat reservation or LOI by December 31.
- Network ($2,000). $1,000 for ≥ 310 Citizens. $500 for ≥ 29 Teams. $500 for the $99 Citizenship, with its staked MOONEY and referral payout, being live.
- Automation and sustainability ($1,500). $750 for ≥ 40% of recurring task-hours automated. $750 for the for-profit arm proposal being ratified.
End-of-term tranche ($9,000), verified at the final report
- Ladder complete and used ($3,000). $1,500 if First Tracks and Water Ice are live by March 31. $1,500 if, by March 31, ≥ 300 unique wallets have bet on or funded a prize, ≥ 500 people have made a free forecast, and Moon Base Zero has had ≥ 10,000 unique visitors.
- Frank ($2,000). Frank named on a manifest with a flight window, and the second seat held for a MoonDAO Citizen.
- Network ($2,500). $1,500 for ≥ 375 Citizens. $500 for ≥ 34 Teams. $500 for ≥ 150 Citizens holding staked MOONEY from their Citizenship.
- Automation and sustainability ($1,500). $1,000 for ≥ 70% of recurring task-hours automated. $500 for the seed round being open with ≥ 10 investor meetings.
Budget
All figures are in USD.
| Line | Monthly | Six months | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core (guaranteed) | |||
| Pablo — Executive Lead | 12,000 | 72,000 | Unchanged from MDP-249 |
| Ryan — Communications & Partnerships Lead | 7,500 | 45,000 | Unchanged from MDP-249 |
| Miguel — Engineering & Automation (half-time) | 2,750 | 16,500 | MDP-249 month 4–5 rate |
| Third Executive Lead | 2,167 | 6,500 | January–March only; 10 hrs/week at $50 (13 weeks) |
| Operations & AI agents | 2,000 | 12,000 | Infra, subscriptions, model and API usage; non-AI SaaS under $1,000 |
| Flexible | 1,000 | 6,000 | Returned if unused |
| Core subtotal | 25,250 / 27,417 | 158,000 | Q4 / Q1. Q4 is 4% below MDP-249's $26,400/month |
| Growth programs (gated; unspent funds return to the treasury) | |||
| X / social contractor | up to 2,400 | 12,000 | November–March, from the open role; reviewed at midpoint |
| Citizenship paid acquisition | — | 12,000 | $3,000 test; the rest only if cost per paying Citizen ≤ $100 |
| Travel | — | 10,000 | Each trip tied to a key result, with a short public trip note |
| Equipment | — | 5,000 | Content, event, and agent hardware; kept on a DAO asset register |
| Programs subtotal | 39,000 | ||
| At-risk | |||
| Performance bonus pool | — | 18,000 | $4,500 USDC + $13,500 in vMOONEY; half on midpoint milestones |
| Maximum envelope | 215,000 | Maximum cash $201,500 |
The Citizenship MOONEY stake and referral payouts come out of the $99 price and have no budget line.
Budget request: $197,000 in USDC ($158,000 core plus $39,000 gated programs), plus a bonus pool of up to $4,500 in USDC and $13,500 in MOONEY. The standing core ($151,500) is paid in two transactions three months apart: half at passage for Q4, and half in January for Q1. The third-lead allocation ($6,500) is paid entirely in the January transaction. Each transaction is sized in dollars and funded by converting ETH and WBTC in proportion to holdings at that day's price, so the treasury does not end the term more concentrated in either asset. Program funds are released with each transaction and stay gated.
Salary in MOONEY. Each core member may elect to take up to 25% of their salary as four-year vMOONEY, from treasury MOONEY at the 30-day average price. The election is made before each transaction, and the USDC not paid out stays in the treasury.
Net impact and sustainability path. The runway counts about $22k of committed but unspent outlays:
- about $6.4k in second-half payments to the Q3 2026 project grants;
- $6.9k in Q3 2026 retroactive and Contributor Circle rewards;
- up to $9k of MDP-249 milestone bonuses, subject to the Senate's review.
After those outlays, at today's prices and with subscription revenue flat, official AUM would end the term at about $257k if only the core is spent, or about $271k once the ~$14,300 Launchpad fee from Frank's raise is collected. If every program and the full bonus cash pay out, it would end at about $214k, or about $228k with that fee. Both pairs include the project-system pot (3% of AUM per quarter under MDP-267). These are the numbers this term has to change, which is why every objective carries a revenue or cost key result. The path to cash-flow sustainability by the end of 2027 has three parts: recurring network revenue, sponsor-funded prizes, and external capital through the for-profit arm, all arriving while an agent-run EB brings guaranteed cost down to ≤ $15k per month from Q2 2027.
Runway guardrail. If official AUM on /admin/financial-overview closes below $300,000 for seven consecutive days, all unreleased program tranches freeze automatically. Verified milestone bonuses are still paid. The EB then brings a revised budget to the Senate within 30 days.
Monthly burn against this envelope, and every program tranche release with the gate it passed, will be published through the project system and the weekly treasury report.