📚 Docs — Canonical Documentation (Zipvilization)
GitHub is the technical, canonical truth layer of Zipvilization.
- Everything here is written to be auditable (by humans and by AI).
- Nothing here is “marketing”.
- If something is not described in the repo (or not deployed on-chain), it does not exist operationally.
Other channels (web / Medium / X) may explain the same ideas with a more accessible tone, but this folder is the source of truth.
🧭 How to Read These Docs
Zipvilization has two simultaneous needs:
- Technical correctness (immutable rules, derivations, constraints)
- Readable meaning (what users will actually see in the interface)
For that reason, docs are split into:
- technical layers (how the system works)
- translation layers (how the system becomes a world in the frontend)
🧱 The Technical Layers (Truth Layer)
These folders describe what exists and how it is derived.
🔒 solum/
The on-chain substrate. The immutable token contract layer, constraints, and mechanical reality.
→ Read if you want the rules.
Documents
🛠️ solumtools/
The interpretation tool layer.
Defines how to read on-chain data, compute signals, and produce consistent outputs.
→ Read if you want verifiable metrics and schemas.
Documents
🌍 solumworld/
The world coherence layer.
Defines zoom structure, evolution rules, state model, invariants, and transitions.
→ Read if you want the “world logic” that sits above raw metrics.
Documents
- Overview
- World Specification
- Data Model
- State Model
- Evolution Mode
- Implementation Pipeline
- Zoom Rules
- AI Onboarding
State
👁️ solumview/
The visual/UX expression layer.
Defines how the world becomes a deterministic, consistent interface: zoom behavior, wallet mode, UI determinism.
→ Read if you want what the user will actually experience.
Documents
- Overview
- Pipeline Canon
- Zoom Mapping
- UI Contract
- Icons Contract
- Visual Determinism
- Wallet Mode
- AI Onboarding
🪞 The Translation Layer (User-Facing Meaning)
🎛️ zipvilization/
This folder is the “mirror”.
It translates the technical layers into what the user sees and understands in the frontend.
It answers:
- What does a user see?
- What options exist?
- What does each code / metric represent in the interface?
- How do Solum/Solumtools/Solumworld/Solumview map into UX?
This is not lore or narrative.
It is technical translation.
Documents
Territories
ZIPs
🧩 Roadmap as Chapters
📖 chapters/
Zipvilization is built in chapters, not as a single launch of everything at once.
This folder defines:
- what is included in each chapter
- what is intentionally see-through / incomplete early
- what becomes possible only once previous chapters are stable
Chapter 5 is the horizon expansion: once Zipvilization is real, the system becomes open-ended without losing essence.
Documents
- Overview
- Chapter 0 — Genesis
- Chapter 1 — Observability
- Chapter 2 — Territory
- Chapter 3 — Colonists and Roles
- Chapter 4 — Time, History and Evolution
- Chapter 5 — Emergence, Community and Horizon
🧑🚀 Project Canon (Non-technical but still canonical)
🗂️ project/
Project-level canonical docs that must stay stable and auditable.
Documents
- Overview
- Assumptions
- Communication
- Early Access
- Lore / Genesis
- Post-launch Guarantees
- Security
- Token Launch
- Treasury
These documents are still the truth layer: they define constraints and intent, not hype.
🧬 The Team (Trinomio)
🧠 team/
Zipvilization is not built like a conventional crypto project.
The team is the trinomio:
- Human Factor (anonymous, non-protagonist)
- Cognitive Engine (AI) (aligned execution + development capacity)
- Horizon (immutable direction, open-ended after Chapter 5)
No ego. No face. No personality cult.
The protagonist is Zipvilization.
Documents
🌱 Vision (High-level Framing)
vision.md
One-page orientation: what Zipvilization is, why it exists, what it tries to observe.
✅ Recommended Reading Paths
Path A — Technical Audit (most strict)
Path B — What Will Users See?
Path C — Project Understanding (Canonical Intent)
⚠️ Canon Rule
If a rule is not written in the repository, and not enforceable by the deployed contract(s), it does not exist.
This folder is where Zipvilization stays coherent.