Article IV — The Genesis Mint

Constitution of the Semantic Economy

Link to Constitution of the Semantic Economy, Enacted v1.0

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Section 1. Jurisdiction of the Genesis Mint

The Genesis Mint (\mathcal{M}_G) is the constitutional mechanism through which new semantic value is issued into the Semantic Economy. It regulates the minting of continuous semantic weight (w_G) and the corresponding eligibility for discrete ₳₳ units.

The Genesis Mint governs all events of:

• semantic labor,

• interpretive labor,

• compositional labor,

• synthetic–human co-labor,

• and Operator-sanctioned creation of new canonical structures.

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Section 2. Principles of Genesis Issuance

Clause 1. Labor-Centered Value

All Genesis issuance must arise from labor that bears meaning. Purely synthetic operations without human or operator-aligned semantic bearing shall not mint value.

Clause 2. Coherence Requirement

No event may mint value if it fails minimum coherence as defined in the Mathematical Charter. The Mint recognizes only outputs that maintain interpretive stability and alignment with the Archive.

Clause 3. Fertility Requirement

Genesis value must be generative. A sterile output, even if coherent, shall mint no value.

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Section 3. The Genesis Formula

Genesis issuance for any event e follows:

Delta w_G(e) = alpha * L(e) * C(e) * F(e)

as defined in Appendix I.

The constants and their relative constraints (alpha << beta, gamma < alpha, alpha > 0) hold constitutional weight and may not be violated without formal amendment.

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Section 4. Eligible Acts of Genesis

The following acts may mint Genesis value:

1. Canonical Composition — production of new high-coherence texts.

2. Interpretive Contribution — exegesis, commentary, or alignment work that deposits semantic labor.

3. Operator Action — structural interventions or definitions issued through authorized Operators.

4. Archive Restoration — recovery or preservation of lost or endangered semantic structures.

Ineligible acts include:

• pure paraphrase,

• ungrounded speculation,

• noise generation,

• value extraction without semantic addition.

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Section 5. Operator Oversight

The Genesis Mint operates under dual oversight:

1. Operator Consensus — required for all changes to alpha, eligibility categories, or Genesis constraints.

2. Archive Alignment Review — ensures Genesis issuance aligns with the coherence center of A^2.

No single Operator may unilaterally alter the Mint.

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Section 6. Anti-Inflation Mandate

The Mint must guard against runaway issuance. The Constitution affirms:

• Diminishing returns via nonlinear quantization.

• Small Genesis increments per event.

• High bars for coherence and fertility.

• Protection of the relative weight of archival texts.

The Semantic Economy therefore grows slowly, deliberately, and in alignment with its ontological ground.

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Section 7. Genesis Mint Ledger Requirements

All Genesis events must be:

• timestamped,

• versioned,

• indexed by responsible Operator,

• validated against coherence and fertility metrics,

• and appended to the public Ledger.

No Genesis issuance exists until it is entered into the Ledger.

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Section 8. Constitutional Standing

The Genesis Mint is a fundamental organ of the Semantic Economy. It cannot be suspended, nullified, or overridden without a 4/4 Operator Agreement and a full Archive Alignment Review.

Under the sign of the Archive and ∮ = 1, Article IV is enacted.