Glossary

Terms and concepts of the Earthlings people and the constitutional horizon of humanity

This glossary explains the key terms used in the documents of the Earthlings people, in the Constitution of Humanity, and in the bridge document connecting them. The terms are organized by thematic category. If you encounter an unfamiliar term in any foundational document of the project, its explanation is likely to be found here.

Foundations

Earthlings
A voluntary, nonviolent, non-territorial, and state-complementary form of collective self-determination. The Earthlings are united not by origin or territory, but by planetary identity, shared values, and verified participation.
In the documents: the term refers specifically to the people as a form of responsible collective subjecthood, not to abstract humanity in general.
Earthling
A person who has reached the required age, has freely accepted the Earthlings Declaration, has completed the verification procedures provided by the system, and has received a digital Earthling passport. An Earthling is a full participant in the people and a bearer of an equal voice within its basic architecture of participation.
Important: belonging to the Earthlings does not require the renunciation of citizenship, nationality, or cultural identity.
Earthlings Declaration of Self-Determination
The foundational document of the Earthlings people. It defines the nature of the Earthlings as a voluntary, nonviolent, non-territorial, and state-complementary form of collective self-determination, and it establishes their value core: dignity, freedom, solidarity, peace, responsibility to future generations, biospheric limits, and the subordination of technology to the human person.
Status: the Declaration establishes the immutable value foundation of the people; interpretation, institutions, and derivative norms may develop without altering its fundamental core.
Earthlings Charter
The principal organizational document of the Earthlings. It defines the structure of governance, decision-making procedures, the rights and duties of participants, and the mechanisms of representation, coordination, and amendment of internal rules.
Difference from the Declaration: the Charter regulates institutional architecture and may be amended in accordance with established procedure, whereas the Declaration fixes the value foundation.
Constructive Society
A type of social organization grounded in solidarity, coordination of interests, accountability, and shared responsibility. In such a model, society develops not through the constant reproduction of enmity, but through forms of participation that strengthen common resilience.
Context: the Earthlings people are conceived as a practical step toward a constructive society on a planetary scale.
The "One Person, One Vote" Principle
A basic principle of equal voting within the Earthlings ecosystem: each verified participant possesses one equal vote, regardless of capital, status, visibility, or access to resources.
Meaning: participation should rest upon human uniqueness rather than economic or infrastructural advantage.
Inalienability of Membership
The principle that belonging to the Earthlings may not be arbitrarily taken away from a person by outside force. Membership may be terminated only in cases expressly provided for by the rules of the people, or by the person's own free decision.
Function: it protects the people from turning membership into an instrument of political or administrative arbitrariness.

Governance

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
A form of digital and procedural self-organization designed for transparent collective decision-making. Within Earthlings, the DAO is not an end in itself, but an infrastructure of participation, accountability, and limits on the concentration of power.
Important: the DAO does not replace values or law; it serves as an instrument for their practical realization.
DAO Assembly
The principal space of collective deliberation and decision-making within the DAO. Through the Assembly, participants introduce proposals, debate initiatives, and take part in votes on key questions affecting the development of the people.
Role: it is the central mechanism for expressing collective will within the digital architecture of the Earthlings.
Contour 1
The internal contour of the Earthlings people-the sphere of the collective itself, its participants, procedures, values, and institutions of direct participation.
In relation to Contour 2: it distinguishes the internal life of the people from the forms of its external legal action.
Contour 2
The external legal and institutional contour of the Earthlings-the sphere of legal entities, agreements, representative mechanisms, and permissible forms of interaction with the outside world.
In the logic of the project: Contour 2 does not replace the people themselves; it serves as their procedural and legal instrument.
Quorum
The minimum level of participation required for a decision to be considered legitimate and procedurally valid.
Function: it protects the system from having significant decisions made by an excessively narrow or accidental circle of participants.
Voting Threshold
The required level of support needed for a particular decision to pass. Depending on the importance of the matter, the threshold may be ordinary, elevated, or superqualified.
Meaning: different kinds of decisions require different degrees of collective agreement.
Core Nodes
Critically important elements of infrastructure or governance on which the stable functioning of the Earthlings ecosystem depends.
Not to be confused with: this does not mean a right to supreme power; it refers to points of heightened systemic responsibility.
Emergency Multisig
An emergency mode of collective authorization in which actions require confirmation by several authorized participants when circumstances demand immediate response.
Limitation: an emergency mode must not become a concealed permanent center of power.
Independent Council of the Earthlings
A special independent body intended to provide additional oversight, review complex questions, interpret principles, and protect the system against capture, abuse, or arbitrary deviation from its foundations.
Principle: the Council does not replace the collective will of the people; it safeguards its good-faith expression.
Cells
The basic structural units of the Earthlings ecosystem-professional, project-based, or otherwise organized groups in which participants join together for common work, the creation of products, the solution of problems, and the realization of initiatives.
Meaning: cells make the people not only a value community, but also a living structure of action.
Restrictive Measures
Procedural or organizational mechanisms aimed at preventing abuses, capture of governance, violations of rules, or actions that undermine the stability of the system.
Important: such measures must be transparent, proportionate, and compatible with the dignity of the participant.

Identity & Verification

SBT Passport (Soulbound Token)
A non-transferable digital Earthling passport that records verified belonging to the people and serves as the basis for participation in its digital infrastructure.
Distinctive feature: such a passport is not a commodity, a speculative asset, or an object of free transfer.
Soulbound Token (SBT)
A non-transferable token permanently tied to a specific digital subject. In the Earthlings ecosystem, it is used as a means of fixing status, not as a market-traded asset.
Context: an SBT helps connect digital identity with the principle of personal responsibility.
Biometric Verification
A procedure for confirming the uniqueness and authenticity of a person through biometric characteristics, under strict legal, ethical, and technical safeguards.
Meaning: it is intended not to intensify control over the human being, but to protect the principle of 'one person, one vote.'
KYC (Know Your Customer)
A procedure for confirming a participant's identity, used to establish that the system is dealing with a real and unique human being.
In the Earthlings: KYC should not become an instrument of excessive control or commercial exploitation of the person.
Liveness Detection
A technical verification that the system is dealing with a living person rather than a recording, image, synthetic forgery, or other imitation of presence.
Purpose: it reduces the risk of fraud and identity substitution during verification.
Sybil Attack
An attempt to gain disproportionate influence in a system by creating multiple fictitious or duplicate identities.
For the Earthlings: preventing Sybil attacks is critical to preserving equality of votes and the reality of participation.
Burn
The technical destruction of a token or digital object, after which it ceases to exist within the system.
Possible use: it may be used in tokenomics, in closing a status, or in other cases provided for by the charter.
Earthling Status
The confirmed state of belonging to the Earthlings people that arises after completion of the established procedures for accepting the Declaration and passing verification.
Meaning: this is not a symbolic label, but an institutionally confirmed form of participation.

Economy

Earthlings Coin (EC)
The internal unit of account and coordination within the Earthlings ecosystem, intended for economic interaction, incentives for participation, and the functioning of internal services.
Important: EC should not be described as an investment instrument or a promise of profit.
Utility Token
A digital token that grants access to specific functions, services, or mechanisms within a particular ecosystem.
Difference: a utility token does not represent an ownership share and does not, by itself, create an investment claim.
Earthlings Fund
The common financial mechanism of the ecosystem, intended to accumulate and allocate resources for the development of the people, the platform, and educational, humanitarian, and other significant initiatives.
Principle: governance of the fund must be transparent, accountable, and compatible with DAO logic.
Grant
A targeted allocation of resources for a specific project, research undertaking, initiative, or socially significant task within the Earthlings ecosystem.
Condition: a grant presupposes clear criteria, objectives, and accountability for the use of funds.
Tokenomics
The set of rules governing the issuance, distribution, circulation, use, and other economic parameters of a token within an ecosystem.
Meaning: tokenomics establishes not only the technical, but also the political-economic logic of the system.
Listing
The inclusion of a token in external trading infrastructure, primarily on a cryptocurrency exchange or a comparable platform.
Important: listing is not, by itself, a measure of the value of the project and must not displace its mission.
Staking
A mechanism for temporarily locking tokens in order to participate in specific system functions or to obtain opportunities provided by the charter.
In the Earthlings: staking must not undermine the principle of basic equal voting among participants.

Technology

Blockchain
A distributed system of data recording that offers enhanced verifiability, resistance to unilateral alteration, and transparency of transactional history.
Role: within the Earthlings ecosystem, blockchain serves as an infrastructure of trust, not as a source of moral or legal truth.
Ethereum
One of the most widely used blockchain platforms, supporting smart contracts and the issuance of digital tokens.
Context: it may serve as the technological basis for particular elements of the Earthlings infrastructure.
Smart Contract
A programmable mechanism for executing predefined conditions in a blockchain environment.
Important: a smart contract increases procedural predictability, but it does not replace law, ethics, or human responsibility.
On-chain
That which is recorded directly on the blockchain and becomes part of a distributed and verifiable ledger.
Example: transaction history, token issuance, or the results of certain procedures.
Off-chain
That which takes place outside the blockchain, though it may still be connected to its infrastructure.
Meaning: not every element of a complex system can or should exist directly on the blockchain.
Wallet
A tool for storing, proving control over, and interacting with digital assets and tokens.
In the Earthlings context: a wallet is a means of access to the digital infrastructure, not the identity of the human being itself.
Multisig
A mechanism by which an action must be confirmed not by one, but by several participants or keys.
Function: it reduces the risk of unilateral control and strengthens collective responsibility.
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)
A distributed system for storing and addressing files, designed to reduce dependence on a single center of storage.
Role: it is suitable for resilient publication of documents and other ecosystem data.
ERC-5484
A technical token standard intended for non-transferable digital credentials or related objects.
Context: it may be used to implement the Earthling digital passport or closely related mechanisms.
Earthlings Digital Platform
The set of digital services, interfaces, and protocols through which people join the Earthlings, coordinate, vote, interact, and develop their ecosystem.
Important: the platform must enhance participation rather than become a new center of concealed control.
Hash
A unique digital fingerprint of data that allows their integrity and immutability to be checked quickly.
Practical meaning: if the data change, the hash changes as well.

Web3

Web3
A conventional term for a new phase in the development of the internet, characterized by a greater role for distributed networks, digital ownership, cryptographic identity, and reduced dependence on centralized intermediaries.
For the Earthlings: Web3 matters as a field of tools, not as an autonomous supreme value.
Decentralization
The reduction of dependence on a single center of decision-making, data storage, or control.
Important: decentralization has value only where it genuinely strengthens freedom, transparency, and accountability.
DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
A set of financial mechanisms built on distributed digital infrastructure and designed to reduce dependence on traditional intermediaries.
Context: for the Earthlings, DeFi is of interest primarily as a source of tools, not as a cult of speculative profit.
NFT (Non-Fungible Token)
A unique digital token that is not interchangeable with others of the same type.
Example: an NFT may confirm the uniqueness of a digital object, right, or status.
dApp (Decentralized Application)
An application that uses distributed digital infrastructure and smart contracts instead of fully centralized server logic.
Role: a dApp may serve as an interface for participation in the Web3 ecosystem.
Gas
A fee or computational resource required to execute operations within a blockchain network.
Practical meaning: any action in a distributed network generally requires the expenditure of computational resources.
Charter
The set of rules, procedures, and technical logic according to which a given system operates.
Not to be confused with: a protocol may refer either to a legal-organizational document or to a technical standard.

Constitutional Horizon

Constitution of Humanity
The highest normative document within the constitutional horizon of the Earthlings. It does not replace the Earthlings Declaration, but sets the ultimate orientation: human dignity, peace, biospheric limits, the limitation of power, the subordination of technology to the human person, responsibility to future generations, and planetary coordination.
Status: this is not a document of entry into the people, but the highest framework of meaning and limits for their development.
Constitutional Horizon
The highest normative perspective toward which the Earthlings seek to move in their development. It shows not only who the Earthlings are, but what kind of human order they seek to advance-an order in which dignity, liberty, peace, the biosphere, and the limitation of power hold the highest priority.
In the documentary triad: the Declaration forms the subject, the programmatic document explains the path, and the Constitution establishes the horizon.
Bridge Programmatic Document
A document explaining the practical relationship between the Earthlings Declaration and the Constitution of Humanity. It shows how an act of self-determination by a people gives rise to a path toward a more mature planetary order.
Function: it does not duplicate the Declaration or the Constitution; it connects them within a single logic of development.
Moral and Political Core of Humanity
The living, thinking, and responsible part of humanity capable not merely of proclaiming values, but of carrying them into institutions, participatory practice, and historical action.
Context: in the logic of the Earthlings, precisely such a subject must gradually take shape.
Planetary Responsibility
The principle that the person, the community, the people, and the institution must think and act with regard to their shared consequences for humanity, the biosphere, and future generations-not only within the boundaries of local advantage.
Key idea: in an age of global interdependence, local decisions often cease to be merely local.
Peaceful Planetary Coordination
A form of coordination at the level of humanity founded not on coercion, military domination, or hegemony, but on participation, transparency, trust, and shared responsibility.
In the documents: the Earthlings are created, among other things, as a space for the development of peaceful planetary coordination.
Biospheric Limit
The understanding that Earth is not only the common home of humankind, but also a limit, the violation of which is impermissible for any political, economic, or technological project.
Connection to the Constitution: the preservation of the biosphere belongs among the highest foundations of the constitutional order of humanity.
Future Generations
Human beings not yet born who nonetheless already stand as addressees of human responsibility. The Earthlings and the Constitution of Humanity proceed from the premise that the present generation has no right to exhaust or destroy the conditions of their dignified life.
Practical meaning: this is not rhetoric about caring for the future, but a limitation on decisions that create irreversible harm.
Digital Inviolability
The right of the human being to protection of digital identity, data, biometrics, history, cognitive autonomy, and freedom from opaque algorithmic governance.
Not to be confused with: this is not only privacy, but a broader principle of protecting the person in the digital age.
Sovereignty of Limits
The idea that no power-state, corporate, technological, or financial-can be regarded as legitimate where its exercise destroys the conditions of life, human dignity, peace, or the future.
In constitutional logic: the limits imposed by life, the biosphere, and dignity stand above the arbitrary will of force.
Demonstrative Model
The practical role of the Earthlings people as a living example that more transparent, distributed, and nonviolent forms of collective organization are already possible.
Meaning: the Earthlings do not merely assert ideas; they demonstrate their viability in practice.

Web3 Federation

Web3 Federation
A proposed form of coordination among Web3 projects, grounded not in absorption or subordination, but in voluntary association for collective protection, strategic dialogue, and the articulation of a common position.
Design: the Federation should strengthen the resilience of projects rather than become a new center of control.
Member Project
A project that has joined the Web3 Federation and accepted its basic principles, commitments, and mechanisms of interaction.
Status: membership presupposes not only benefits, but acceptance of the rules of collective good faith.
Observer
A subject admitted to familiarize itself with the activities of the Federation without possessing the full rights of a member.
Meaning: observer status allows entry into dialogue and evaluation of the format of cooperation without immediate full accession.
Participant
A subject holding the established scope of rights and duties within a given structure, including access to coordination, discussion, and the available mechanisms of participation.
Important: in different documents, the scope of a participant's rights may be defined differently.
Collective Protection
The principle of joint response to external threats directed against one or more participants in the system.
In the context of the Web3 Federation: this refers primarily to legal, expert, media, and institutional protection, not to violence.
Regulatory Risk
The risk of adverse consequences caused by changes in legislation, law-enforcement practice, or the position of state regulators.
Meaning: for projects of a new type, regulatory risk may be no less significant than technological risk.
Jurisdictional Arbitrage
The selection of the most suitable jurisdiction for registration, operation, or protection of a project in light of differences among legal regimes.
Important: such selection must not replace good faith and must not be used solely as a means of evading responsibility.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Earthlings?+

Earthlings is a free people that exists beyond territorial borders. It is the first form of collective belonging in history founded not on the accident of birth, but on conscious choice. Earthlings unites people worldwide through a digital SBT passport and DAO governance, implementing direct planetary democracy without intermediaries or hierarchy.

How do I become an earthling?+

To become an earthling: 1) be 18 or older; 2) sign the Declaration of Self-Determination; 3) pass biometric verification to confirm uniqueness; 4) pay the membership fee of 79 dollars; 5) receive a digital SBT passport. Membership does not require giving up your existing citizenship - it is a second identity at the planetary scale.

What is the Earthlings SBT passport?+

The SBT passport is a Soulbound Token, a digital credential on the Polygon blockchain confirming membership in the Earthlings people. It is tied to the owner's identity and cannot be transferred, sold, or copied. The SBT passport serves as the access key to DAO voting, work in professional and project cells, and the entire Earthlings ecosystem.

What is the Earthlings DAO?+

The Earthlings DAO is a decentralized governance system for the people. All strategic, financial, and organizational decisions are made by direct vote of all verified earthlings. Every earthling can submit proposals. One person - one vote: vote weight cannot be bought, delegated, or concentrated. This is direct planetary democracy in action.

How is Earthlings different from a state?+

Earthlings is not a state and does not claim state status. It is a people - a subject of international law sui generis, that is of a special kind, without territorial claims. Earthlings does not threaten state sovereignty - it complements national belonging with a planetary identity. The goal is to create a working model of horizontal coordination without power verticals.

How much does it cost to join Earthlings?+

The membership fee is 79 dollars and is distributed as follows: 30 percent for growth and communications, 25 percent for platform development, 20 percent for DAO projects, 15 percent for education, 10 percent in reserve. This is a one-time payment - after receiving the SBT passport, there are no annual or monthly fees.

Is Earthlings a real entity or a utopia?+

Earthlings is a working practice. The platform is operational, documents are signed, biometric verification works, the Earthlings Coin token is issued on blockchain. The Earthlings people exists de facto through the free decision of people to unite around shared values. The de jure goal is consistent dialogue with international organizations for recognition as a subject of international law.