WHY CONSTITUTE?
For some time now, there have been calls within the Regen Network community to establish a Constitution. There is a paradox contained within visionary decentralized communities. On the one hand, they are sourcing a new visionary ontology and epistemology [1], and this essence is quickly lost if decentralized too quickly. On the other hand, when decentralization is core to the essence of a project (as is the case with Regen Network), a failure to effectively decentralize spells failure for the project. At the core of this paradox is the challenge of essence-sourced agency: how can a heterogeneous community align around a shared vision and simultaneously each contribute their diverse and various skills? This is where a Constitution can come in.
CONSTITUTION EXAMPLES FROM THE BROADER SPACE
Within and beyond the greater Cosmos/Interchain community, there have been precedents for such a process, some failed, and some successful. There is the Cosmos Hub, which went through the Atom 2.0 process [2]—which was not implemented in full, but which did serve as a catalyst for action and discernment within the community of ATOM holders. Juno Network also went through a Constitution process [3], including a chartering and constitution convention.
It is worth noting that the contexts that gave rise to the need for a constitutional process within the Cosmos Hub and Juno communities are dissimilar to the Regen Network context. Within Cosmos Hub, you might say the problem was too much decentralization—dozens of different projects each working without much sense of a common vision. Within the Juno community, there were essentially unaligned factions, and the need to bring coherence across different working groups in the community answering questions of how they relate to each other, and how they manage a shared treasury. There are different challenges within Regen Network: namely, to magnetize planetary regenerating through the common infrastructure of Regen Network
