🧱 Solum — Territory Substrate
Solum is the physical substrate of Zipvilization.
It exists on-chain as a fixed-supply token.
In Zipvilization, it exists as land.
🌱 From Token to Territory
The translation rule is simple and immutable:
1 Solum = 1 square meter (1 m²)
This rule never changes.
- Total Solum supply defines the maximum possible world size
- Wallet balances define owned territory
- Burned Solum defines permanent geography
Nothing is symbolic.
Nothing is adjustable.
🗺️ World Size & Permanence
🌍 Genesis World
At deployment, Solum defines a fixed maximum world:
- Genesis Supply → Total possible land (m²)
- This value is constant and known from day one
This is the planetary boundary of Zipvilization.
🔥 Burned Territory (Permanent Geography)
When Solum is burned on-chain:
- Total supply decreases
- That land does not disappear
- It becomes permanent geography
In Zipvilization, burned Solum is interpreted as:
- forests
- rivers
- lakes
- mountains
- non-colonizable land
Burn is not loss.
Burn is world formation.
🧑🌾 Colonists & Ownership
Every wallet holding Solum is a colonist.
For any wallet:
- Solum balance → owned territory (m²)
- Time held → age of territory
- Movement → migration or redistribution
There is no registration.
There is no identity layer.
Ownership is purely on-chain.
📐 Limits & Natural Constraints
Solum enforces limits at the contract level:
- maximum transaction size
- maximum wallet size (dynamic over time)
In Zipvilization, these appear as:
- natural expansion limits
- early scarcity
- gradual opening of space over time
Limits are not rules imposed by Zipvilization.
They are physical laws of the world.
⏳ Time as a First-Class Dimension
Solum does not reset.
Every action accumulates:
- territory changes
- permanent geography
- historical state
Zipvilization reads Solum as a timeline, not a snapshot.
What exists now is the result of everything that happened before.
🚫 What Solum Does NOT Mean
Solum is not:
- points
- score
- power
- rank
- governance weight
Solum is space.
What you do with space is interpreted one layer above.
🔗 Relationship to Other Layers
- Solumtools reads Solum and extracts signals
- SolumWorld organizes Solum into maps and states
- SolumView renders Solum as something you can see and explore
Solum itself never changes meaning.
🧠 Core Principle
If land is real, it must be finite.
Solum defines that finiteness.
Zipvilization makes it visible.