1 Make
- What it takes
- A project with a real link
- What it proves
- You built something
- Status after
- Open
List a project on Semble.CC with a link to something real: code, a site, or a demo. Open projects are public and can host free Semble Seshes.
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Earn My Trust
Shaped By August James Live
Make, Stake, Semble, Wave
The whole loop
make something real, stake 3 Dash behind it, gather people who pay to be there, keep a promise every month, earn your wave, and plant the next seed.
- 1make something real
- 2stake 3 Dash behind it
- 3gather people who pay to be there
- 4keep a promise every month
- 5earn your wave
- 6plant the next seed
This spec adds Dash stakes, Semble Seats paid in Dash, and funding to what's already live on Semble.CC and DashSupport.TEAM, and ties both to Waves.Fund and Dash Waves.
Everything marked ◆ was added in V2 by Davara and Claude. The whole spec, as written.
Why this exists
People come first. Every rule here exists to protect the people who build, gather, and back each other.
Why this exists
Trust is the foundation. It grows in small steps, the TrustBase records every one, and only what really happened, in the room and on the chain, can prove it.
Bitcoin proved that money doesn't need a bank. Dash can prove something more: a network that pays its own builders. Its treasury pays out every month, which Bitcoin was never built to do. This model makes sure that money reaches the people who show up, keep their word, and back each other.
Crypto funding is known for easy money and big promises. Here, money follows proof: people who show up, pay, and keep coming back. The bar is high, and it's set by results, not by price.
| The problem | How this answers it |
|---|---|
| The treasury pays every month, but what each grant did rarely flows back. | Grants follow results anyone can check, on the chain and on each project's TrustBase. |
| A small builder can't easily win a proposal alone. Each one burns a 1 DASH fee and needs net yes votes from 10% of masternodes. | One proposal carries up to 20 projects, with one fee and one clear vote. |
| Builders work alone, and funding goes to the best pitch. | Builders gather people first, and everyone climbs the same four steps. |
| Dash needs real-world use. | Every stake, Semble Seat, sale, and grant is a Dash payment tied to real people. |
The four steps
2 Stake
- What it takes
- 3 Dash held at the project's own address
- What it proves
- People believe in it
- Status after
- Live
The builder adds the project's own Dash address and proves it's theirs by signing a message with it, the same check Dash Alive uses. Anyone can send Dash to it: the builder, friends, or stewards. When the address holds 3 Dash, the project goes Live. The 3 Dash stays there until the wave, like a masternode's collateral, and after the wave it's free to use.
Why: belief anyone can see on the chain, with no platform holding anyone's money.
3 Semble
- What it takes
- 10 Semble Seats checked in, then Verified on Dash Alive
- What it proves
- People show up and pay
- Status after
- Dash Alive
A Live project can host paid Sembles and sell Semble Seats at Trust.Semble.CC, priced in Dash at or above the minimum Semble Seat price. The bar is 10 Semble Seats bought by 10 different people and checked in at Trust.Semble.CC, confirmed by the host and counted across all of a project's Sembles.
Why: anyone can pay from ten wallets, but ten people confirmed in the same room is much harder to fake.
4 Wave
- What it takes
- 3 straight months of milestones and 25 Dash in revenue
- What it proves
- It lasts, and it earns
- Status after
- Wave
Then its builder presents it in person on The Stage, and stewards vote to confirm it. The project becomes a Wave, gets its profile on Waves.Fund, and moves to the Dash Waves proposal. The builder chooses to become a Semble Steward or a Wave Guide, and their SWAY helps confirm the next waves.
Why: three months shows it lasts, and revenue from outside the builder's circle shows people want it.
Every Wave starts another.
From there, the Wave plants the next seed. Every wave grant carries one extra stake, 3 Dash today, which the pool sends straight to an Open project the builder believes in, never their own. It's the next builder's start, and the record of who backed whom stays on the TrustBase for good. Every Wave starts another.
How it grows
Nothing here is won with a pitch. Every project proves itself by moving, and every move feeds the next.
How it grows
- 1A Semble brings people into a room.
- 2People pass it on, and the next rooms fill.
- 3Some attendees start projects of their own and post their first moves at Share.Waves.Fund.
- 4Those projects keep their promises, earn Dash, and become Waves.
- 5Each Wave plants the next seed, and every month's numbers go public, so the treasury backs what works.
People are the engine.
They're the one resource here that grows the more it's used. Every step lands on a builder's TrustBase and goes wherever they go: promises kept, rooms filled, builders brought up. Money stays the measure. A Semble Seat shows demand, revenue shows value, and every report shows what each treasury Dash did. The numbers are public and live, and they only move when real people do.
◆ Since March 2017
What the chain shows
117Paydays
682,596DASH paid
475Payout addresses
182 (38%)Paid on one payday only
374 (79%)Paid on three paydays or fewer
10, which received 66% of all DASH paidPaid on 24 paydays or more
135New payout addresses in 2018
20New payout addresses in 2026, to October
- The treasury can pay 6,828 DASH a payday. On October 21 it paid 5,393 to 6 proposals. Every other payday this year paid 14 or 15.
- On the November 20 ballot (block 2,575,480), 5 proposals are on track, asking 5,193 together. About 1,635 DASH would go unclaimed, and budget nobody asks for is never created. Three of those five lines end with that payday.
- No DashSupport.TEAM or Semble.CC proposal is on chain yet.
What this means for the spec: the money is there every month. What has thinned is the flow of new builders reaching the ballot, and the share who come back with results. Make, Stake, Semble, Wave is built for both.
◆ Davara
The system, mapped
R1Rooms fill rooms People in a room pass it on, and the next rooms fill. Mover rewards set its gain.
R2Attendee to builder Check-ins become projects, projects host rooms, rooms make check-ins.
R3The seed sent on A Wave seeds an Open project, which climbs and seeds the next.
R4The earned ask Results raise the multiple, the multiple raises the ask, and the grant funds results.
R5Masternode trust Grants make public results per treasury Dash, and results win the next votes.
R6Builders become stewards Waves make the stewards who confirm Waves.
B1The treasury ceiling Proposals are paid in order of net yes until 6,828 DASH runs out.
B2The streak reset A missed month empties the streak, shrinks the ask, and sits the project out.
B3Half on the next milestone Money waits for proof, and unreleased Dash comes back.
B4The price step Price doubles, amounts halve.
B5The stake floor Below 3 Dash, back to Open.
B6Attention Every monthly ask draws on masternode and steward attention. "Only one Surge runs at once" is V1's own answer to it.
- What fills
- Open and Live projects. Dash held at stake addresses. Checked-in Semble Seats per project, counted as distinct people. People who have checked in anywhere. Each project's kept-promise streak, in straight cycles. Outside revenue, in Dash and in distinct payers. Verified projects, Waves and stewards. SWAY. The two pools. TrustBase entries, each marked by how it's known. And masternode trust, counted in net yes votes (the line on November 20 is 332).
- What flows
- Sponsor Dash moves a project from Open to Live, and spending below 3 moves it back. Seat payments go to the sales address, and check-ins enter the seat count once the host settles the fee. Treasury Dash, up to 6,828 a payday, enters the pools and leaves to projects in two halves; whatever isn't released comes back as a smaller ask. Kept milestones build the streak, and one miss empties it. Waves become stewards, and each wave grant sends 3 Dash to someone else's Open project. Checked-in people become new builders.
- What binds today
- Rooms that move. Every stock after the room fills only through a checked-in person, so all of them are empty, while the treasury has slack: about 1,635 DASH unclaimed on November 20.
- Where to push first
- R1, rooms fill rooms. Every other loop starts from a checked-in person, and R2 to R6 sit behind delays of 3 cycles or more with nothing yet to carry. The handle is already live: Semble.CC credits who brought whom.
◆ One number per step
| Step | The one number to watch |
|---|---|
| Make | Projects listed each cycle by someone who first checked in at a Semble |
| Stake | Projects whose 3 Dash held through a whole cycle |
| Semble | Rooms that moved per week (Semble.CC's own number), with checked-in seats per room |
| Wave | Projects with two straight cycles of kept promises, which tells you about the third a cycle early |
At best, a first check-in reaches a new builder's first wave grant in 5 cycles, about 152 days. Cycle 0: check in, list, stake, fill a paid Semble to 10 seats (Semble Certified), then Dash Alive and Verified. Cycles 1 to 3: three months of milestones in Semble Source Waves, then The Stage and the vote. Cycle 4: the Dash Waves payout.
Semble Secure
No single person or group can move funds, and no one can buy their way into a vote.
Semble Strong, Secure, Safe, and Sound
Semble Strong.
The bar is results, checked in person. Semble Seats need people in the room, revenue needs outside wallets, and a wave needs three straight months of kept promises. Before stewards confirm a wave, its builder presents it in person on The Stage.
Semble Secure.
No single person or group can move funds, and no one can buy their way into a vote. Payouts need three of five Trust Protectors, with keys kept offline. Payment addresses are watch-only, and every payout is announced before it moves.
Semble Safe.
No platform holds private keys or anyone's Dash, and support is a statement of conviction, never an investment. Names appear only with consent, and contact details stay private.
Semble Sound.
Every number can be rebuilt from public data: the chain and the check-in log. Every amount comes from one dated policy, every report comes before the next ask, and the rules change in the open when the numbers say they should.
◆ Real or policy
A control is real when an attacker would need a key or a cost they can't hold or pay. It's policy when it works only if people behave. Both have a place, and the spec should say which is which.
| Promise | What enforces it | Real or policy |
|---|---|---|
| People in the room | The host confirms each check-in | Policy Policy today, because the host is the builder |
| Revenue from outside wallets | A wallet count and a funding flag | Policy Policy: one hop through an exchange hides the source |
| Three of five Trust Protectors | A multisignature address on chain | Real Real |
| No platform holds keys | Watch-only addresses | Real Real |
| Payouts announced first | A post on the Pulse | Policy Policy |
| Names only with consent | A display rule | Policy Policy, and a name beside a transaction opens that wallet's history |
| Numbers rebuilt from public data | The chain and the check-in log | Both Real for the chain; the log becomes real once it's sealed |
◆
The monthly rhythm
| When | What happens | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 7 days before | Numbers freeze. The frozen numbers, their seal, and last cycle's grant report (which opens the Semble Synapse) go up on the Pulse. | DashSupport.TEAM |
| The 7 days | Anyone checks the numbers against the chain and each TrustBase. Stewards raise flags. | everyone |
| Day 0 | The superblock pays the proposals that passed into their pools. The first half of each grant is announced on the Pulse, then signed out. Right after the payday, the next Semble Source Waves and Dash Waves proposals go on chain, carrying the seal. | the chain, Trust Protectors, DashSupport.TEAM |
| Days 1 to 27 | Masternodes vote. Milestones land, and each grant's second half goes out as its milestone lands. | masternodes, builders, Trust Protectors |
| About day 27 | Votes close, 1,662 blocks before the next superblock. | the chain |
| About day 30 | The next superblock pays, and the cycle turns. | the chain |
The seal. The file's SHA-256 hash is its seal. It goes in the proposal's URL. A Dash proposal can't be edited once it's on chain, so the chain keeps the seal. Anyone can hash the published file and compare. Change one number and the hash no longer matches.
◆ proposed
Governance: two houses and the seasons
Who votes. Semble Citizens only: two Semble Sessions, then $20 a month. A person can hold many wallets and is still one Citizen.
Semble house (proposed word)
LeadsResults: confirming waves, clearing flags, The Stage
Checks the otherCan send a money decision back for one cycle
Waves house (proposed word)
LeadsMoney: pool policy, fees, dated amounts, seeds, Sponsor Dash
Checks the otherCan send a results decision back for one cycle
A season is three budget cycles, about 91 days. Like Bitcoin's difficulty retarget, each house's mix moves toward what the system needs, in small, bounded steps.
A house moves at most 10 points a season and always counts between 20% and 80% of each weight. Over six seasons the houses can trade places, if the evidence keeps pointing that way.
SWAY
- Equal start. Every steward starts with the same SWAY.
- Earned, never bought. How SWAY grows is decided in the open. Our starting idea: it grows with the TrustBase, from kept promises and builders brought up, and Dash held or paid never adds to it.
- Capped. SWAY has a ceiling, set in the open, so no one can outweigh the room.
What never moves without both houses and a Citizens supermajority. Only Citizens vote. Recusal: built, backed, seeded, or paid by. The caps. Every house counts both weights. Masternodes vote on every treasury proposal.
Roles
Roles are jobs, not ranks, and no group moves money alone.
| Role | Who | What they do |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsor | Anyone | Sends Dash to a project's stake |
| Mover | Anyone with a pass | Passes a Semble or project on, and earns a disclosed portion of what arrives through their pass |
| Steward | Builders with an active wave | Confirm waves with their SWAY, flag problems, and back new builders |
| Wave Guide | Anyone a builder invites, often a steward | Helps shape a Wave and move it forward, paid in the open or volunteering, credited on the Pulse |
| Trust Protector | Five people, no more than two from any one group, including a masternode owner; first named by the founding stewards, then elected by stewards | Sign payouts, three of five, never for their own project, for set terms |
Semble Sesh
Nobody needs money to start.
A builder with nothing can host Seshes, keep promises in public, and be seeded by a Wave that believes in them. And every project can end well: one that stops and writes an honest final report keeps its record, and that honesty counts in its builder's favor.
Example: Kamora
- 1Make. Kamora, a Chicago builder, makes Avanti Black, a Dash-powered music platform. It sells concert tickets in Dash and lets bands and venues sign Dash Wave Contracts: performance agreements paid in Dash, with every term on the record before the first note. She built it to bring transparency and trust to live music. She lists it on Semble.CC with a link to a working demo, and it shows as Open.
- 2Stake. She adds her project's address. Two musicians who use Avanti Black and a steward send Dash, and at 3 Dash the project goes Live. She leaves the stake in place.
- 3Semble. She hosts a free Sesh for local musicians on getting paid in Dash, then two paid Sembles, one for bands and one for venue owners. Her first attendees pass the second Semble on, and it fills. Fourteen people buy Semble Seats and check in at Trust.Semble.CC. A drummer from her Sesh starts a project of his own, a merch shop that takes Dash. She settles Semble.CC's fee, lists on Dash Alive for 2 DASH, gets Verified, and joins the next Semble Source Waves proposal.
- 4Wave. Over three months she promises and delivers, and people at her Sembles confirm each step in person: 5 shows ticketed in Dash, then 12 Dash Wave Contracts, then 30 shows. Venues and bands pay Avanti Black's fees through her sales link, passing 25 Dash from 31 wallets. She shares her contract templates and code at Share.Waves.Fund, presents on The Stage, and stewards confirm her wave. She sets her own ask in the next Dash Waves proposal, with her numbers beside it, plus 3 Dash to seed the next builder she believes in: the drummer from her Sesh. Three months later her people and revenue have both tripled, so her next ask triples too, and every masternode can see why.
What the Dash community will ask
- Who made you gatekeepers of treasury money?
- Stewards vote in public with reasons, founding stewards vote only until 10 waves are active, and masternodes still vote on every proposal.
- Can Dash buy a vote here?
- No. Only Semble Citizens vote, and citizenship is earned by showing up. Dash held still adds weight in the open, capped, and it can't confirm a wave on its own. SWAY is earned by delivering, never bought. The treasury itself stays with the masternode vote.
- Doesn't bundling projects hide the weak ones?
- Every project is listed with its own numbers and a fixed amount, and missing a milestone means sitting out the next proposal.
- Isn't this just Chicago?
- Anyone, anywhere can host. Chicago is the first city.
- What stops faked numbers?
- Semble Seats need people in the room, revenue needs outside wallets, and every number is public before the vote. Faking is costly and visible.
- How does your team get paid?
- Openly, through a stated budget line in each proposal that masternodes vote on. The Pool doesn't pay the team.
- What if a funded project disappears?
- Half of every grant waits for the next milestone, and unreleased Dash rolls into the next proposal.
- Is backing an investment?
- No. Support is a statement of conviction and trust. It's final, and it carries no promise of return. Wave Shares, if the Dash DAO builds them, will be a separate layer.
- What's in it for masternode owners?
- A treasury that shows what it buys. Every Semble Synapse leads with people reached, new builders started, and outside revenue per treasury Dash, every Semble Seat is a real person paying in Dash, and a masternode owner holds one of the five keys.
◆
The build order for Semble.CC
Seed it by hand first. Run one paid Semble in Chicago with a Dash QR code at the door and a paper check-in list, and post its TrustBase by hand. It's also Semble.CC's own next move as a founding Dash Wave. Then build only what that first night proves you need.
- Step 0: a room moves.Done when one room has moved in public and its record shows who was there.
- Step 1: the first paid Semble, by hand.Done when one paid Semble's TrustBase is public, with every payment tied to its transaction.
- Step 2: the project record.Done when a builder can list a project, add both addresses, sign for both, and see Open.
- Step 3: the stake, read from the chain.Done when, on a preview, 3 Dash sent to a test address turns it Live and moving it out turns it Open.
- Step 4: Trust.Semble.CC, the door.Done when, on a preview, ten test seats are paid, locked and checked in once each, and a second use of any code is refused.
- Step 5: the TrustBase page.Done when every number on the page can be rebuilt from the chain and the check-in log by a script anyone can run.
- Step 6: carry it to Dash Alive.The button that lists the project on Dash Alive with its record.
What holds the whole way
- No private key, seed or extended private key ever touches Semble.CC. Every address is watch-only.
- A person's name never appears beside a wallet address or a transaction unless that person chose it, and the choice says plainly that it links their name to that wallet on a public chain.
- No visitor counting. Every count on a TrustBase is something a person did on purpose: paid, checked in, confirmed.
Show up. Keep your word. Carry It On.