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Eden Fractal tools empower communities with unprecedented potential for creative collaboration, independence, and mutual benefit. This article provides an overview and documentation for various tools that the Eden Fractal community is building to help people cooperate. It features deep explorations of tools, games, and other helpful resources for community builders.

All Eden Fractal software is open-source and free for anyone to use. All communities can greatly benefit by playing consensus games and we encourage you to try our tools to empower your community. Everyone is welcome to join weekly events with amazing community members who building these tools. You can explore EdenFractal.com to learn more. You can also see how we’re using these tools by exploring show notes for each meeting at EdenFractal.com/videos. Readers who prefer a broader overview with less technical details may prefer to view our welcome guide or an overview of our games.

Please note that this article is an early work in progress and will be updated soon. We offer comprehensive consulting services to help you empower your community and can help connect you with expert developers who are building these tools. Feel free to reach out with questions or comments in the Eden Fractal telegram group. Enjoy!

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Eden Fractal tools empower communities with fun consensus games, collaborative tools for independence, and other cooperative innovations. Eden Fractal creates tools that make it fun and easy for anyone to empower their community.

Our tools provide a comprehensive cooperating system that can help all communities thrive with greater enjoyment, independence, and collaboration. We offer tools for fun social games that anyone can learn to play in minutes, independent community computing infrastructure, and a wide variety of complementary resources to help communities in all aspects of cooperation.

You can read a high level overview of Eden Fractal apps and games below, then more more detailed descriptions and other cooperative resources below.

We believe that well-designed social games are the key to leveling up our communities, societies, and civilization. You can see why we’re so excited to create the future of gaming in our articles about Games, GameFi, and Consensus Games. The two games that play at each weekly meeting are called Eden+Fractal and Cagendas.

The combination of these games provide the foundation for a powerful cooperating system that can greatly empower all communities. Communities who meet each week to play these games can enjoy profound benefits that are not possible with other tools. Fractal consensus games provides a powerful primitive for community collaboration and we are excited to share more exciting games in the future.

We offer two complementary apps that empower communities with fun meetings and independent community computing infrastructure. The apps are called Fractal and Fractalgram.

Fractal and Fractalgram are tightly integrated, so players can enjoy playing consensus games during community meetings and then post their scores on a blockchain in just two clicks. These apps unleash the benefits of Web3 with a fun and intuitive Web2 experience that anyone can enjoy.

While the tools above provide a foundation for communities, there are also many other helpful resources to enable cooperation. These resources include both software and ideas, or software and ‘socialware.’ First we’ll explore the games and tools in greater detail, then provide an overview of various other resources that help empower communities.

Consensus games are an exciting new type of game where players work together to help each other, find agreement, and achieve shared goals. After cooperating with consensus games at weekly meetings for over a year, we are confident that there is no better way to bring people together for both fun and productivity.

The consensus games that we create are inspired by ƒractally and Eden Elections, a revolutionary innovation from Web3 pioneer Daniel Larimer that helps people cooperate to create public goods and mutual benefit. We’ve been innovating with new consensus games with weekly meetings for over a year at Eden Fractal and are empowering several communities, such as Alien Worlds Fractal with one of the most popular web3 games.

In this section, we’ll start with a more detailed introduction to the consensus games that empower communities during meetings, then explore details about the apps that make it possible below.

All communities must occasionally meet to achieve shared goals and benefit from collaboration. Eden Fractal tools provide structure to help communities play consensus games, inspire collaboration, and create mutual benefit.

Each meeting can be a couple hours a week or less, but it provides essential connectivity and incentive structures that can inspire community members to invest far more energy to help their fellow community members achieve shared goals. You can learn more about community meetings in page 19 of the ƒractally whitepaper.

Eden Fractal tools are inspired by ƒractally. The ƒractally team created a profoundly helpful consensus game where participants rank each other’s contributions from one to six in breakout rooms during weekly meetings. You can learn about this innovative consensus game by watching the ƒractally introductory video or reading page 19 of their whitepaper. You can learn more about ƒractally by exploring fractally.com.

ƒractally is a consensus game for community members help each other and accomplish shared goals. It is a coopetition where players simultaneously cooperate to help each other and compete to help each other most.

Inspired by nature, our unique consensus games enable communities to cooperate fractally. Just like the plants around us grow in fractal patterns, communities need to cooperate in fractal patterns to flourish. Whether you’re just starting a community with a couple friends or working with thousands of people, fractal games can help your community coordinate far better than ever before.

Eden+Fractal is a social networking game where community members share their work, elect delegates, and give each other respect!

It’s called Eden+Fractal because it combines the original idea of Eden elections with the ƒractally consensus game. With this elegant cooperating system, community members respect contributions to the community and elect leaders in breakout rooms of four to six people. Everyone gets respect for helping the community and groups reach consensus to determine the relative contributions of each community member. Delegates form councils that update each week, then recent councils cooperate to help make community decisions. You can learn more about Eden+Fractal in this article and the debut episode of Creator Talk.

Cagendas is a new kind of social coordination game that helps communities prioritize discussion topics, review proposals, and create community agendas. It pairs perfectly with Eden+Fractal to create a super fun game combo that enables communities to cooperate with unprecedented decentralization, autonomy, and democratic coordination.

You can read a quick intro to how we play Cagendas in Eden Fractal meetings here. For a more detailed explanation, you can read all the rules that we use to play cagendas during Eden Fractal meetings specified in our moderator guidelines and this related article, which explains the relationship between the moderator and delegates. These approved proposals describe how we cooperate by playing cagendas in the hour after breakout rooms. The second page of the moderator guidelines explains the version of cagendas that we play called Vlalendas. You can also explore the show notes from Eden Fractal meeting 28 to see related resources about these proposals.

If you’re interested in exploring more about Cagendas, you can read our original articles about Cagendas, Vlalendas, and Agendas. Please note that these articles were created while cagendas was in very early stages of development and have not been updated since our moderation guidelines were approved in the 28th EF meeting. These three articles show the history, context, and thought processes that led to the current configuration, but do not reflect the current state of the cagendas and will be updated with newer information soon.

See our article about DAMS to learn more about how these consensus games provide a perfect opportunity for video collaboration on an unprecedented scale. Welcome to the next generation of video games ;)

It’s important for communities to grow on stable foundations that enable independent collaboration, data accessibility, and incentive alignment. Web3 infrastructure provides essential tools that empower community members to help each other thrive by doing what they love!

Eden Fractal apps are designed with the benefits of Web3 at their foundation. One of our core tools is a set smart contracts that enable players to enter results of consensus games onto a blockchain and communities to instantly distribute respect tokens to players based on their scores. These are integrated into a powerful app called Fractal.

You can learn about the smart contracts that enable this consensus game on Antelope blockchains reading documentation about many functionalities in the original code repository. You can also learn more about how this works by viewing the Eden.Fractal EOS Account and EDEN token account.

Respect tokens or points can be distributed immediately to all players in proportion to their rankings in consensus games with a simple action. A permission can be created to enable an admin(s) to trigger the action for automatic distribution and simple instructions are provided for admins. Tokens are distributed in a fibonacci ratio by default, which you can learn more about in page 22-25 of the ƒractally whitepaper. Multiple tokens can be distributed instantaneously in a configurable amount or proportion.

The app can be deployed on any Antelope account and communities can configure can flexibly configure MSIG permissions as they wish. Account permissions can be configured manually or automatically based upon rankings or delegation. Vlad recently completed smart contracts to automatically update MSIG permissions based upon weekly rankings in fractal consensus games.

The MSIG permission automatically updates signatories each week to include the six accounts that received the most respect over the past twelve weeks. Vlad has also been building additional components to complement this feature for several months and the software can be customized for other configurations in the future. You can watch Vlad introduce this feature here and explain this feature in more detail during the last forty minutes of this interview.

For the past several months, Vlad’s been working with Matthias and Lennar to build the next version of the Fractal app. This app combines aspects of the current app and Consortium into a much more intuitive and functional interface. It adds many helpful news features, including video functionality via WebRTC, on-chain scheduling of meetings, and a comprehensive system for proposals and cagendas topics. The WebRTC functionality is already deployed and the ZEOS team is using it to conduct weekly developer calls, which you can watch here.

You can learn more about the features and value propositions of the upcoming app by reading this overview, which was written by Vlad. You can view Figma designs for the new app that Vlad is building here and explore a basic wireframe with some of these designs here. Vlad recently built functionality to automatically update community MSIGs based upon respect and is aiming to release the full app by the end of Q2. More details about this automated MSIG functionality are provided below. You can explore the ZEOS developer chat on telegram to learn more about this app.

In August of 2023, Vlad shared the newest documentation outlining planned deliverables:

https://www.notion.so/51d00c9a51b141d4a6ece6adf3aece87?pvs=4

Fractalgram is a fun and innovative telegram web app that makes it easy for communities to play consensus games. Fractalgram provides an intuitive interface that makes it easy and delightful for non-technical communities to play fun web3 games and cooperate more effectively!

Players can use Fractalgram to rank contributions and elect delegates with automated Telegram polls, then push one button to immediately send all scores to the web app. The process of voting and entering scores is fun, simple, and seamless for players of all ages with Fractalgram.

You can learn more about Fractalgram by reading the introductory blog post and watching Tadas’ provide demonstrate how it works here. You can also watch Tadas introduce the app for the first time in this demo. The app features smooth integrations with the Eden Fractal web app and you can hear about on-chain compatibility here.

The client side code of Fractalgram is totally open source, which you can see in the Github repository. You learn many more exciting details about Fractalgram by watching EF 35, EF 36 and reading this story.

In addition to smooth integration with the Fractal app, Fractalgram is also built into Firmament to provide a powerful system for helping communities become more independent with with fractal cooperation.

Firmament combines elements of git, blockchains, and IPFS to enable communities to reach consensus on all types of information relevant for communities. Upon release, communities will be able to use Firmament with EVM compatible blockchains to determine community respect, websites, and files with minimal dependencies on external infrastructure providers.

You can watch a detailed presentation and discussion about Firmament during the fortieth Eden Fractal meeting here. You can learn more about the Albedo research initiative related to Firmament in this article and grant. You can learn more about Firmament in this story and interview.

Below you can find many helpful resources about Eden Fractal tooling. These resources will be organized much better in the future.

This is a draft article that aims to provide a welcoming introduction for new participants at Eden Fractal meetings. You can read the Welcome Guide here.

Consortium is a voting application that empowers communities to make helpful decisions. So far, we mostly use Consortium to prioritize discussion topics in Cagendas and signal opinions on community proposals. You can learn more about Consortium by exploring the app here and reading this article.

You can see proposals and delegates in Eden Fractal in this spreadsheet. Vlad is building the next version of the Eden Fractal and Consortium apps in the new Fractal app, which will make it easier to see all the proposals that have been approved.

(Art from the fractally keynote)

Eden Fractal tools enable anyone to deploy the software and configure permissions as they wish on whatever account they want. For example, the software is already configured on the eden.fractal account on EOS, spanish speaking fractal account, and the fractal.moon account on WAX (which was used for the Alien Worlds Fractal pilot).

The MSIG can be manually chosen or automatically updated based upon delegates or top ranking contributors in the community. For example, the Eden Fractal MSIG includes 11 signatories along with custom permissions and weights that were manually chosen by elected delegates via the community proposal system. You can learn about Eden Fractal MSIG and our process to configure this arrangement in this article. The 11 signatories on this MSIG are all community members who have participated in weekly meetings, but there is currently a bit of a disconnect in that the signatories are not necessarily the elected delegates or top ranking contributors in the community.

We are now exploring ways to automatically update the MSIG based upon who is elected as a delegate or is a top ranking contributor in the community. Software has already been developed and is ready to be tested for both of these options. Each of these options offer unique benefits and I imagine that different configurations will probably be more fitting for different communities.

Here is an overview of these two options to automatically update account permissions:

Vlad recently completed smart contracts to automatically update MSIG permissions based upon weekly rankings in fractal consensus games. The MSIG permission automatically updates signatories each week to include the six accounts that received the most respect over the past twelve weeks. This feature empowers communities with an unprecedented independence, decentralization, and autonomy. You can watch Vlad introduce this feature here and explain this feature in more detail during the last forty minutes of this interview. You can watch Vlad introduce this feature and the Eden Fractal community discuss it in detail during their 44th meeting here.

The Eden Fractal community elects delegates each week with the Eden+Fractal consensus game, which you can learn about in this article. The Eden OS software includes smart contracts that automatically update an MSIG permission based upon who is elected as a delegate in recent elections. You can see an example of automatically updated MSIG permissions in the board.major and board.minor permissions in this account. This software is currently built for quarterly elections and has not yet been thoroughly stress-tested, so some additional work would be needed to make this feature work with weekly elections that we use with the Eden+Fractal process.

In addition to using Fractalgram for Eden+Fractal consensus games, we also use telegram for live chat to facilitate Cagendas. Cagendagram, if you may. You can learn more about how we use telegram in the show notes here and read more details in this article. You can join the Eden Fractal telegram group to learn more.

Team functionality is in development on Antelope software. As the ƒractally team wrote, "Teams make everything more fun. People working together with a diverse set of skills are far more productive than the same number of people working independently.

Teams enable managers, organizers, and leaders to bring together people with diverse talents to produce something collaboratively.” You can learn more about teams in page 27 of the of the ƒractally whitepaper.

(Art from the fractally whitepaper)

Eden Fractal community members are creating the next generation of social media to help empower communities!

For example, you can explore EdenTalk.com and this article to learn how we’re building with BBS, an network of Web3 message boards where people can share respect by interacting on social media. You can explore ThiagoRe at thiagore.info and this article to learn how community members are combining the powers of hive and fractal cooperation to create an innovative, decentralized ‘UpLove' social network.

You can also read pages 15 and 29 of the ƒractally whitepaper to see some of our future plans for social media apps. The whitepaper is written by Daniel Larimer, the creator of the first Web3 social media networks. More details coming soon!

Functionality for participant agreements are built into the Eden Fractal software. You can see the documentation for this functionality here and learn more about participant agreements in this article.

Eden community members are pioneering innovative processes to resolve disputes peacefully, fairly, and amicably. Much of our work is based upon the concepts created by Daniel Larimer in this article and the insightful book, More Equal Animals. You can view a first version of a decentralized dispute resolution system approved in the Eden on EOS bylaws on this last two pages of this document and watch this show to learn more about the future of decentralized governance for dispute resolution.

Communities that meet weekly to play consensus games and elect delegates with the Eden+Fractal process can revolutionize peaceful dispute resolution with the principles in Dan Larimer’s article. There are also sections about Codes of Conduct and Agreements that complement dispute resolution processes above and below.

Eden Fractal community members are exploring plans to compliment a dispute resolution system with a code of conduct. A code of conduct can help communities cooperate by establishing guidelines for behavior and interaction within the community. This can help prevent misunderstandings and conflicts by setting clear expectations for how members should behave. It can also promote a culture of respect and foster a more helpful environment for all members. Additionally, a code of conduct can provide a framework for addressing and resolving conflicts when they do arise, helping to ensure that disputes are handled fairly and efficiently.

For example, the Contributor Covenant provides a code of conduct that has been adopted by many of the leading open source projects in the world. It's been adopted by projects including Linux, Golang, JRuby, Swift, F#, Rails, and the open source portfolios of organizations including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and Intel. You can read this code of conduct here. More details coming soon!

In addition to graphical interfaces and leaderboards shown in Antelope block explorers (ie EDEN), there are two comprehensive spreadsheets and dashboards to view respect amongst community members. You can view this spreadsheet and dashboard to see detailed statistics from the Genesis Fractal.This dashboard will automatically update when new changes are pushed to its Github repository.

There are many more features designed by the ƒractally team, such as Adjustable Token Inflation Schedules. You can read about this feature in their articles about Fractally White Paper Addendum and Refinement of Token Distribution Math. Currently this functionality is built into a google spreadsheet.

Eden Fractal community members are exploring various innovations from Holocracy, Sociocracy, and other governance systems to help communities cooperate. For example, Eden Fractal has approved a proposal to use the sociocratic method to review proposals more efficiently during meetings. You can learn more about our explorations in our draft articles about holocracy and sociocracy.

We provide instructions for admins using Eden Fractal software to confirm consensus results and easily distribute respect to participants.

In addition to videos and show notes for each meeting, community members also create brainstorming sessions with more in-depth discussions about Eden Fractal tools. You can learn about brainstorming sessions here and watch more updates on the NovaCrypto Youtube channel, which you can find here.

The fractally team has expressed interest in open-sourcing an innovative, fun, and intuitive user interface that facilitates ranking contributions. Several eden fractal community members are also working to create this UI with EOS.

The UI is built on a web app that will be accessible on all major platforms that can run on an internet browser. This reduces dependencies on video providers like zoom. The UI enables intuitive drag and drop functionality for selecting the most valued contributions to the community. Elements of the UI will turn green when consensus is reached on each contributor.

You can learn about this upcoming interface in this funny video from the Fractally team. You can read the full blog post from the ƒractally team to learn more. Daniel Larimer and Brandon Fancher also shared exciting details about this UI in the last 30 minutes of ƒractally meeting 24.

In addition to Antelope Fractals and Firmament, we can also help empower communities with related open-source software for fractal cooperation, including Psibase, Eden OS, and Respect OS. You can explore links below for each of these and we will curate more information about these soon.

Many Eden Fractal tools featured on this page are built on Antelope, an open framework for user-friendly Web3 apps. In addition to being built on EOS, the software has also been ported to WAX, as you can see in the Alien Worlds Fractal web app and account.

Tadas is building Firmament, a revolutionary system for empowering communities with fractal cooperation and unprecedented independence!

Firmament combines elements of git, blockchains, and IPFS to enable communities to reach consensus on all types of information relevant for communities. Upon release, communities will be able to use Firmament with EVM compatible blockchains to determine community respect, websites, and files with minimal dependencies on external infrastructure providers.

You can watch a detailed presentation and discussion about Firmament during the fortieth Eden Fractal meeting here. You can learn more about the Albedo research initiative related to Firmament in this article and grant. You can learn more about Firmament in this story and interview.

We will share more details about Eden OS soon. For now, you can learn more at the following links:

Eden on EOS elections app

EdenElections.com

Edenia Repository

We will share more details about Respect OS soon. For now, you can learn more at the following link:

EOS Respect app

Eden Fractal tools and consensus games provide the perfect environment for community building, networking, promotion, storytelling, and creative collaboration!

For example, you can watch videos and read show notes from each Eden Fractal meeting at EdenFractal.com/videos. You can also explore why consensus games are such a powerful tool for collaborative media creation in our article about DAMS, or decentralized autonomous media studios. More details coming soon!

We use Notion and Super to create show notes for each Eden Fractal meeting. Notion is a productivity app that allows users to create notes, databases, to-do lists, wikis, and more. It is a versatile tool that it is widely used by many individuals and successful teams. Super enables quick, collaborative, and beautiful website creation with Notion. You can watch an insightful discussion about Notion during our 39th meeting here. During our 43rd meeting, we discussed Notion workflows with templates created by popular YouTube creator Thomas Frank.

An introduction to some of our favorite games and a philosophical exploration of how games can create profound benefits for all!

Ready, set, go! How the emerging innovations of GameFi and Gamification can help everyone play together to enjoy more wonderful experiences with greater independence!

Soon we will update this article to include all the new resources and provide a better experience for people learning about Eden Fractal tools…