The $DIASPORA Token

1. Abstract

Diaspora Nearby is the world's first Trust-to-Asset Engine — a deployed, live sovereign platform that converts social capital and community participation into liquid, on-chain assets. Unlike conceptual whitepaper projects, every smart contract, algorithm, and economic mechanism documented here is fully implemented, audited, and running in production code across the Ethereum Base Blockchain, mobile apps, and global infrastructure.

Unlike traditional tokens that rely on speculative pre-sales or ICOs, $DIASPORA is exclusively earned through daily human engagement, verified trust, and real economic activity across our dual-geographic diaspora network.

1.1 Foundational Profile: Dual Geographic Identity

Every member on Diaspora Nearby possesses a Dual Geographic Identity, existing simultaneously across their Home Country (roots, lineage & long-term sovereign return) and their Host Country (presence, work, and mobility). The platform is universally inclusive of both temporary diaspora (corporate expats, international diplomats, business professionals, travelers, and exchange students) and permanent diaspora (naturalized citizens, permanent residents, and settled diaspora communities).

This dual identity serves as the foundation for our complete global digital sovereign economy:

• 7-Tier Nested Matching Treasuries: Every action mints 1:1 matching tokens distributed across 7 geographic community levels covering both Home and Host jurisdictions.
• Sovereign Trust & Real-World Discovery: Members find peers from their exact home roots living near their host location, unlocking verified peer hosting, authentic services, and mutual emergency protection.
• Diaspora Direct Investment (DDI): Over $900 billion flows globally each year; DDI transforms these flows into permanent community wealth, enterprise acquisitions, healthcare, and sovereign infrastructure.

2. Token Identity

$DIASPORA is a utility token used within the Diaspora Nearby platform. The primary method of token distribution is community participation through the epoch-based TDE (Token Distribution Event) system. A Liquidity Treasury allocates 5% of total epoch supply to provide DEX liquidity for open market access. There is no public sale, ICO, or IEO.

3. DSP vs $DIASPORA — Two Systems, One Journey

DSP (Diaspora Social Points) and $DIASPORA are intentionally decoupled. Understanding the difference is essential to understanding the economic model.

Diaspora Social Points (DSP)

• Off-chain trust score stored in Firestore
• Earned through daily social activity (verifying, vouching, messaging, transacting)
• Tracks your social contribution to the community
• Accumulates until the next TDE milestone is triggered
• The Ubuntu Protocol (1:1 matching) — for every 1 DSP earned, another 1 DSP is created for geographic community treasuries

$DIASPORA Token

• On-chain ERC-20 on Ethereum Base Blockchain — a real, liquid asset you own
• Pre-minted and locked per epoch by the TGE Controller contract
• Conversion rate at TDE depends on your PCT (Proof of Community Trust) score
• Fully verifiable on Basescan
• Burns are permanent — sent to address zero, verifiable on-chain

Proof of Community Trust (PCT)

Your PCT score (0-100) dictates how efficiently your DSP converts to $DIASPORA at each TDE. Scores 1-10 convert at 0%, 11-90 convert at exact percentage, and 91-100 convert at 100%.

The foundation of trust is established across the 4 Pillars of Proof of Humanity (PoH), each milestone worth 10,000 DSP and 10 PCT (70,000 DSP and 70 PCT Base Max). Upon completing all 7 PoH milestones, the protocol automatically executes the Proof of Humanity Genesis Distribution: converting 7,000 DSP into 7,000 real on-chain $DIASPORA tokens on Ethereum Base Blockchain by Coinbase (the only pre-TDE on-chain distribution), while the remaining 63,000 DSP converts at the scheduled global TDE epoch:

• 1. Current Location Transparency: Real-time live location. Turning it off permanently forfeits the 10 PCT and burns the awarded 10,000 DSP.
• 2. Profile Completion: Complete all 10 required fields for 10,000 DSP and 10 PCT.
• 3. QR Identity Exchanges: 10 unique in-person exchanges for 10,000 DSP and 10 PCT (1,000 DSP per scan 11+).
• 4. Family Connections (Circle of Trust): 10 verified family connections (10,000 DSP and 10 PCT). Requires bilateral chat history; mutual slashing contagion applies.
• 5. Friend Connections (Circle of Trust): 10 verified friend connections (10,000 DSP and 10 PCT). Requires bilateral chat history; mutual slashing contagion applies.
• 6. Verified by Peers: 10 unique peer profile field verifications (10,000 DSP and 10 PCT). Verifiers must be in Circle of Trust or QR-met with bilateral chat.
• 7. Ubuntu Emergency Fund: Contribution to the mutual catastrophe protection pool for 10,000 DSP and 10 PCT.

4. How You Earn DSP

DSP is earned through Proof of Social Activities (PSA) — genuine social actions within the Diaspora Nearby platform. There is no way to buy DSP. Every point reflects actual community contribution.

5. Token Distribution Model — The 1:1 Ubuntu Community Match

For every 1 DSP earned by a user, the protocol creates a 1:1 Ubuntu Community Match of 1 DSP — a concept rooted in the philosophy of "I am because we are." The matching DSP is distributed across 10 equal slots for hierarchical geographic treasuries and system reserves. This ensures that community value creation simultaneously funds all ecosystem layers. (This same philosophy powers our separate Ubuntu Emergency Fund).

Community Treasury Distribution (70%)

The 70% Community Treasuries allocation flows into 7 treasury slots:

• Global Reserve — funds zero-fee value transfer subsidies, leadership & chamber operations, global charitable contributions, platform upkeep, and the final global liquidity backstop (100% TDE efficiency)
• Home Continent Reserve Treasury — regional liquidity reserve & upward loan backstop
• Home Country DDI Treasury — large-scale sovereign projects & infrastructure investments ($1,000,000+)
• Home Town DDI Treasury & State Reserve Treasury — local community business loans (up to $1,000,000) and state liquidity backstop
• Host Continent Reserve Treasury — regional liquidity reserve & upward loan backstop
• Host Country DDI Treasury — large-scale sovereign investments, franchises & commercial real estate ($1,000,000+)
• Host Town DDI Treasury & State Reserve Treasury — local business loans (up to $1,000,000) and state liquidity backstop

These treasuries power Diaspora Direct Investments (DDI) — sovereign community investments and 10% collateral loans across Host Town DDI (Up to $1,000,000), Home Town DDI (Up to $1,000,000), Host Country DDI (Exceeding $1,000,000+), and Home Country DDI (Exceeding $1,000,000+).

Upward Cascading Liquidity Protocol: When an approved community loan exceeds the balance in a local Town DDI Treasury, the protocol executes an automated upward cascade: Town DDI Treasury → State Reserve Treasury → Country DDI Treasury → Continent Reserve Treasury → Global Reserve. This ensures qualified community businesses always access necessary funding.

6. Epoch Scaling, TGE, TDE & The Great Reset

The $DIASPORA ecosystem follows a 10-epoch scaling model governed by a transparent, predictable 3-step economic lifecycle:

7. Dynamic Valuation Model

$DIASPORA's value is not speculative — it's anchored to real economic activity. The implied token price is determined by a unified dynamic price floor model that combines network growth factors with direct fiat GDP backing.

Unified Dynamic Price Floor Formula

Factor Breakdown

• Base Price: Fixed starting constant ($0.001 per token).
• Network Factor (N): Based on Metcalfe's Law — value scales with user adoption, normalized logarithmically. More active users = higher network baseline.
• Deflation Factor (D): Measures the burn ratio (totalBurned ÷ totalMinted). As more tokens are permanently burned, scarcity increases.
• Epoch Multiplier (E): Progressive scarcity multiplier — Epoch 1 = 1.1x, Epoch 2 = 1.2x, Epoch 3 = 1.3x, etc. Formula: 1 + (epoch * 0.1).
• Fiat GDP Floor (G): Direct additive fiat economic backing. Every flight booked, product sold, and service hired adds real fiat value directly to the token floor. Formula: Total Fiat GDP ÷ Circulating Supply.

This unified price floor ensures that $DIASPORA always has a non-zero starting baseline anchored to network growth at Day 1, which strictly rises as platform fiat GDP accumulates.

8. Smart Contracts (Ethereum Base Blockchain)

All contracts are deployed on Ethereum Base Blockchain (Chain ID: 8453). They are upgradeable via the UUPS proxy pattern and secured with OpenZeppelin role-based access control.

9. Security Architecture

Smart Wallet Architecture

Users interact with the blockchain through Self-Custodial Smart Wallets based on Account Abstraction. These wallets are deterministically generated from phone numbers using CREATE2, enabling gasless transactions where the platform sponsors gas fees on behalf of users.

10. Transparency & Verification

$DIASPORA's value isn't speculative — it's anchored to real economic activity. The floor price is determined by actual Fiat GDP processed through the platform.

Every flight booked, product sold, and service hired adds real fiat value to the GDP floor. More activity = higher floor price. The community controls the value.

How to Verify

• View Token on Basescan — verify supply, holders, transfers
• View TGE Controller on Basescan — verify minting and locking events
• All contract source code is verified and readable on Basescan

11. Community Governance

Governance in Diaspora Nearby is merit-based, not plutocratic. Only community members who meet strict eligibility requirements can participate in governance decisions.

Governance Eligibility

• 100 days active participation minimum
• Must be an admin of a 100+ member group
• PCT score ≥ 91 (Proof of Community Trust)
• Staking requirement: PCT score must stay above 90 (at 91+)

Governance Types

• Host Town DDI: 51% vote required, 10-day window — members can pool collateral to fund up to $1,000,000 with 10% $DIASPORA collateral. Applicant must live in the host town they apply from.
• Home Town DDI: 51% vote required, 10-day window — members can pool collateral to fund up to $1,000,000 with 10% $DIASPORA collateral. Applicant must live in the home town they apply from.
• Host Country DDI (Exceeding $1,000,000+): 67% supermajority, 100-day window — for $1,000,000+ enterprise acquisitions, commercial real estate, or any community-voted investment in the host nation.
• Home Country DDI (Exceeding $1,000,000+): 67% supermajority, 100-day window — for $1,000,000+ infrastructure, agriculture, or any community-voted sovereign investment in the home country.

12. Liquidity Treasury

The Liquidity Treasury allocates 5% of total epoch supply to provide DEX liquidity for the $DIASPORA ecosystem. Rather than private sales, SAFT offerings, or VC allocations, this approach gives everyone equal access to $DIASPORA on decentralized exchanges.

How It Works

Each epoch has 10 TDE (Token Distribution Event) milestones. The TDE fires each time 10% of the epoch DSP is distributed, releasing that decile of the epoch's DEX liquidity supply. This prevents users from having to wait for the entire epoch to finish to reap the rewards. For example, during the first epoch (1,000,000 DSP supply), a TDE occurs at every 100,000 DSP distributed. In epoch 2 (10,000,000 DSP supply), a TDE occurs at every 1,000,000 DSP distributed.

Why Open Market Instead of Private Sales

• No VCs, no private rounds — anyone can access $DIASPORA on equal terms via DEX
• Only 5% of total epoch supply — a modest, controlled release
• Earned tokens stay held — users who earn through community participation tend to hold, creating natural scarcity and making the Liquidity Treasury a key accessible source
• No securities complexity — the Liquidity Treasury provides protocol-managed liquidity, not a securities offering

13. Team

Diaspora Nearby is built by diaspora members, for diaspora members.

Peter Swai

Founder & Lead Developer

Full-stack & blockchain developer. Building tools for the global diaspora.

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14. Legal Disclaimer

$DIASPORA is a utility token used within the Diaspora Nearby platform. The primary method of token distribution is community participation. The Liquidity Treasury allocates a portion of epoch supply to provide DEX liquidity — it is not a securities offering. There is no public sale, ICO, or IEO.

This whitepaper is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a prospectus, offering document, or solicitation for investment. The information provided is subject to change without notice.

Please refer to the Liquidity Treasury page for full details on the token distribution mechanism.