NODA

Governance

Rules you can build on

Trust needs structure. NODA's governance is simple, public, and deliberately strict about what is — and is not — active today.

Principles

Five principles

01

Sovereignty of Nodes

Nodes own their business. They set their prices, terms, and commitments — NODA provides infrastructure, never competition.

02

Transparency of Money

Project economics run on fixed, public percentages. Nothing moves in the dark.

03

Identity as Foundation

Every participant beyond the open layer is a verified, real person. Anonymity has no place in an economy built on trust.

04

Earn Before You Govern

Influence follows contribution. Governance rights are earned through real participation, not bought or claimed.

05

Social Impact by Design

Community projects contribute to social impact as an architectural rule of the platform, not as marketing.

Community Rules

Clear lines, kept simple

Allowed

  • Open participation in the public community layer (Level 1)
  • Verified members list and purchase services
  • Nodes set their own prices and terms
  • Single-layer referral, registered by the buyer
  • Progression between levels through documented contribution and review

Not allowed

  • Anonymous participation beyond the open layer
  • Multi-layer referral schemes
  • Misrepresentation of identity or services
  • Undermining Nodes with competing platform services
  • Activating wallet, token, or RWA functions without explicit governance approval

Decision Making

Governance grows with the community

Phase 1

Current

NODA decides

Decisions made by NODA, published transparently with reasoning. Speed matters while the foundation is laid.

Phase 2

Node Council

An advisory council of established Nodes reviews and shapes platform decisions.

Phase 3

On-chain governance

Smart-contract governance with earned voting rights — the community steers itself.

Wallet & Token Boundary

What Version 1 deliberately does not do

Higher levels may later include wallet-linked interaction, bilateral contribution credits, tokenized records, and approved RWA functions. Until each module passes legal, security, identity, and governance review, these boundaries hold:

No custody or money-transfer functions are deployed

Internal credits are never represented as securities, currency, deposits, guaranteed value, or ownership

No token transfers without legal architecture, identity controls, privacy design, smart-contract audit, threat modelling, and governance approval

Wallet, credit, and RWA functions appear only as future controlled modules

Nothing related to wallet, tokens, bilateral credits, identity, RWA, legal terms, pricing, ownership, or regulated access is published as active functionality without explicit written approval from governance.

Dispute Resolution

When something goes wrong

  1. Level 15 business days

    Platform mediation

    NODA mediates directly between the parties and proposes a resolution.

  2. Level 210 business days

    Node Council review

    Unresolved disputes go to a review panel of independent Nodes.

  3. Level 3Final

    Independent arbitration

    Remaining disputes go to independent arbitration under the laws of British Columbia, Canada.