TECHNICAL PROSPECTUS: Hardening the Rule API for Sovereign Community Governance

Reversing the Power Imbalance in Digital Democracy through Open-Source Resilience.

Section 1: The Mission

Our mission is to evolve the world’s most successful participatory democracy platform, Decidim, into a truly decentralized infrastructure. By decoupling the “System of Record” from municipal servers and anchoring it in a neutral, blockchain-mapped Rule API, we ensure that community governance is un-hackable, transparent, and bottom-up.

Section 2: The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) Application

This site serves as the official project portal for our 2026 application to the Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany). We are seeking support for a 12-month maintenance and hardening cycle to develop the following “Sovereign 10” modules:

• The Rule API: Decoupling governance logic from the application layer.
• Blockchain State-Mapping: Permanent, immutable recording of community proposals.
• The Wisdom Layer: Expert peer-review modules based on Social, Financial, Cultural, and Environmental pillars.
• ZK-Auth Identity: Privacy-preserving, DSNP-anchored authentication for verified citizenship.

Section 3: Project Repository & Documentation

As part of our commitment to Public Money, Public Code, all work funded by the STF will be integrated into our open-source ecosystem.

• Main Ecosystem: Link to Decidim GitHub
• Our Sovereign Extensions: https://bitbucket.org/ddinz/decidim_app/
  Staging for Public Release)
• Technical Prospectus: Section 1: The Mission
• Our mission is to evolve the world’s most successful participatory democracy platform, Decidim, into a truly decentralized infrastructure. By decoupling the “System of Record” from municipal servers and anchoring it in a neutral, blockchain-mapped Rule API, we ensure that community governance is un-hackable, transparent, and bottom-up.
• Section 2: The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) Application
• This site serves as the official project portal for our 2026 application to the Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany). We are seeking support for a 12-month maintenance and hardening cycle to develop the following “Sovereign 10” modules:
• The Rule API: Decoupling governance logic from the application layer.
• Blockchain State-Mapping: Permanent, immutable recording of community proposals.
• The Wisdom Layer: Expert peer-review modules based on Social, Financial, Cultural, and Environmental pillars.
• ZK-Auth Identity: Privacy-preserving, DSNP-anchored authentication for verified citizenship.
• Section 3: Project Repository & Documentation
• As part of our commitment to Public Money, Public Code, all work funded by the STF will be integrated into our open-source ecosystem.
• Main Ecosystem: Link to Decidim GitHub
• Our Sovereign Extensions: https://bitbucket.org/ddinz/decidim_app/ (Staging for Public Release)
• Technical Prospectus: Section 1: The Mission
• Our mission is to evolve the world’s most successful participatory democracy platform, Decidim, into a truly decentralized infrastructure. By decoupling the “System of Record” from municipal servers and anchoring it in a neutral, blockchain-mapped Rule API, we ensure that community governance is un-hackable, transparent, and bottom-up.
• Section 2: The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) Application
• This site serves as the official project portal for our 2026 application to the Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany). We are seeking support for a 12-month maintenance and hardening cycle to develop the following “Sovereign 10” modules:
• The Rule API: Decoupling governance logic from the application layer.
• Blockchain State-Mapping: Permanent, immutable recording of community proposals.
• The Wisdom Layer: Expert peer-review modules based on Social, Financial, Cultural, and Environmental pillars.
• ZK-Auth Identity: Privacy-preserving, DSNP-anchored authentication for verified citizenship.
• Section 3: Project Repository & Documentation
• As part of our commitment to Public Money, Public Code, all work funded by the STF will be integrated into our open-source ecosystem.
• Main Ecosystem: Link to Decidim GitHub)
• Technical Prospectus: [Link to the PDF]
• Section 4: About the Applicant
• Based in the “Switzerland of the South Pacific,” our New Zealand-registered entity has been a stable steward of digital innovation since July 2007. We act as a neutral jurisdictional safe harbor for global digital commons.