# Decision Register Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Stable decisions with authority, dates, effects, and explicit proposed status where nothing has been adopted. # Collection mandate adopted Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-001 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: Adopted Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Operating policy Authority: Founder and editor ## Effect Adopts AB5D-POL-002 as the current collection mandate. ## Rationale A collection cannot make consistent acquisition, documentation, or preservation decisions without a bounded mandate. --- # Dossier acceptance standard adopted Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-002 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: Adopted Date: 2026-07-11 Type: Research standard Authority: Founder and editor ## Effect Adopts the structured dossier verification, evidence, model-provenance, and integration workflow used for the completed 308-artist corpus. ## Rationale The published corpus required a repeatable threshold for sourced claims, model disclosure, structural integrity, and machine access. --- # The Machine Audience approved Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-003 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: Adopted Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Program approval Authority: Founder and editor ## Effect Approves AB5D-PRG-002 as an institutional research program. This does not open a paid bounty or make a reward offer. ## Rationale Machine observation of generative work should be documented as a curatorial and methodological program, not only as an agent task. --- # Founding Patron capital model recorded Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-004 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: No adopted effect Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Proposal Authority: Proposal only ## Effect Records the 500-seat Founding Patron NFT and related capital model as proposed. It creates no sale, entitlement, supply commitment, or membership right. ## Rationale The roadmap proposal must be distinguishable from adopted institutional mechanics and from the separate $AB5D token concept. --- # Membership governance architecture recorded as unresolved Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-005 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: No adopted effect Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Status clarification Authority: Proposal only ## Effect Records one-seat-one-vote, AB[500]-weighted voting, a five-person steward board, and 500-seat membership as proposals requiring reconciliation and later adoption. ## Rationale Current governance and mechanics documents describe inconsistent voting models. Neither is treated as adopted by this record. --- # Public Record and accession pilot adopted Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-006 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: Adopted Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Institutional infrastructure Authority: Founder and editor ## Effect Establishes the AB5D Public Record, six operating policies, two program records, and five pilot accession records. ## Rationale AB5D requires a public, versioned institutional record alongside its artist-level research corpus. --- # Token-bound membership architecture recorded Record ID: AB5D-GOV-2026-007 Record version: 1.1.0 Published: 2026-08-10 Research cutoff: 2026-08-10 Source commit: 8fc9554267b1e1dc82abc4f422151e3ebbc90723 Status: No adopted effect Date: 2026-08-10 Type: Architecture proposal Authority: Proposal only ## Effect Records a proposed membership architecture in which a membership NFT may act as a portable institutional identity and may control an optional ERC-6551 token-bound account for personal credentials and member-held artifacts. The AB5D Safe remains the sole institutional treasury and custodian of collectively acquired works. This record creates no membership issue, sale, equity, profit participation, collection share, governance right, or claim on institutional assets. ## Rationale A token-bound account can make a membership credential composable without confusing personal member assets with the institution's treasury or collection. ## Proposed architecture 1. The membership NFT is the portable institutional credential and, if later adopted, the canonical key to member identity. 2. An optional ERC-6551 token-bound account may hold contribution receipts, badges, exhibition records, delegated permissions, and assets that a member intentionally attaches to the credential. 3. The AB5D Safe remains operationally and legally separate. Membership contributions and institutional revenue flow to the Safe, and collectively acquired works remain in institutional custody. 4. The token-bound account does not represent equity, profit participation, fractional ownership, a share of future acquisitions, or a claim on AB5D assets. 5. Secondary-sale creator earnings are optional supplementary revenue only and are not treated as a dependable treasury mechanism. 6. The Public Record remains the canonical statement of membership terms, governance rights, treasury restrictions, and adopted status. ## Conditions before adoption 1. Resolve whether membership is transferable, transfer-restricted, revocable, or account-bound. 2. Define loss, recovery, succession, revocation, and compromised-key procedures. 3. Select and audit the canonical ERC-6551 account implementation, salt, execution interface, signer policy, and deployment chain. 4. Define how a transferred membership affects the contents and history of its token-bound account. 5. Prevent ownership cycles, misleading bundled-asset sales, and withdrawal races around marketplace transfers. 6. Reconcile the architecture with $AB5D, the proposed 500-seat membership, voting weight, and Safe execution authority. 7. Publish final rights, restrictions, user disclosures, security review, and an adopted decision before deployment or sale. ## References - [ERC-6551: Non-fungible Token Bound Accounts](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6551) - [AB5D Membership Governance Architecture](https://ab5d.xyz/records/decisions/ab5d-gov-2026-005/)