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Glossary: the language of Kokonut

Kokonut sits at the intersection of regenerative agriculture, capital governance, contributor coordination, evidence, open data infrastructure, and developing automation. That makes terminology important. A word such as verified, attested, forecast, member, or live can imply much more than the underlying record actually supports if it is used carelessly. This glossary defines terms as they are used inside Kokonut’s current documentation.
The most important distinction is not technical vocabulary. It is knowing whether something is documented, measured, forecast, reviewed, attested, interpreted, live, or still developing.

New to Kokonut

Start with the Executive Summary before going deep into governance, farm, MRV, or technical terms.

Check the FAQ

Use the FAQ for practical questions; use this glossary when a specific term needs a precise definition.

Verify farm records

Use the Kokonut Hub for current published Adelphi records rather than treating static documentation as a live dashboard.

Inspect governance

Review the authority boundaries behind Moloch, Guilds, farm operators, the Framework, evidence, and technical execution.
These definitions are written for comprehension. For live contract state, legal rights, scientific certification, regulatory status, or financial decisions, use the relevant primary records and qualified professional review.

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Choose by reader path

Governance & capital

Start with Moloch DAO, $vKKN, Loot, tribute, proposal, grace, rage-quit, retention, and SAFE.

Contribution & Guilds

Start with contribution record, domain review, Guild Points, Steward, bounty, and Loot recognition.

Farms & regeneration

Start with Adelphi, syntropic farming, agroforestry, nursery, biochar, poultry, forecast, and actual.

Evidence & impact

Start with MRV, observation, measurement, derived indicator, attestation, EAS, SDG, EBF, and CRISP.

Data & analytics

Start with Kokonut Intelligence, record lifecycle, Published, Farm Registry, Common Data Schema, and Celo EAS.

Builders & agents

Start with Gnosis, Celo, Base, ERC-8004, x402, Agentic Marketplace, schemas, and APIs.

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Evidence and claim vocabulary

These terms should be used consistently across farm, governance, impact, and technical documentation.
Plain English: A condition or fact recorded in the documentation or data system at a defined point in time.In Kokonut: Examples include Adelphi’s documented mapped area, number of hens, jobs, installed infrastructure, or named operators.A documented state is not automatically a live value forever. Current farm state should be checked through the relevant current record.
Plain English: Something seen, logged, reported, or captured directly from a source.In Kokonut: Examples include field notes, crop-stage observations, photos, operator records, or a satellite scene.An observation can be useful evidence without being a complete impact conclusion.
Plain English: A quantified observation produced through a defined instrument, unit, method, or sampling process.In Kokonut: Soil moisture, electrical conductivity, temperature, crop quantity, or geospatial measurements can be measurements when their source and context are documented.
Plain English: A value calculated from one or more observations or measurements.In Kokonut: NDVI, NDRE, ReCI, MSAVI, scores, ratios, and trend calculations are derived indicators.They are not direct measurements of yield, carbon, biodiversity, or social impact unless a valid methodology supports that interpretation.
Plain English: A modeled estimate of what may happen in the future.In Kokonut: Harvest quantities, revenue scenarios, loss assumptions, and maturity-stage production can be forecasts.Forecasts should expose their assumptions and later be compared against actuals.
Plain English: A result recorded from real operations after it happens.In Kokonut: Actual harvest quantity, realized selling price, expense, payment, job record, or farm event should come from operational evidence rather than a planning model.
Plain English: A signed claim or record asserting that something was stated, reviewed, or associated with particular evidence.In Kokonut: EAS attestations can anchor provenance for important MRV, harvest, impact, financial, or compliance records.Attested does not mean scientifically certified.
Plain English: A conclusion drawn from evidence using a method, framework, or professional judgment.In Kokonut: SDG contribution, ecological benefit, risk classification, or impact conclusions are interpretations built on underlying records.Stronger interpretations require stronger evidence and clearer methodology.
Plain English: A record has passed an authorized internal review step.In Kokonut Intelligence: Verified means an authorized reviewer or process approved the record.It does not automatically mean:
  • independent scientific certification;
  • regulatory approval;
  • third-party assurance;
  • external audit;
  • carbon-credit eligibility.
Plain English: A reviewed record is allowed to be used in downstream public or governed surfaces.In Kokonut Intelligence: A Published record can be used by dashboards, APIs, reports, or attestation workflows as permitted by the system.
Plain English: The states a record moves through before it is trusted for wider use.In Kokonut Intelligence:draft → submitted → verified / rejected → publishedRejected records can return for correction and resubmission.
Plain English: Operational now, with a current deployed or operating surface.In Kokonut: Examples include Adelphi, the Moloch DAO on Gnosis Chain, the Kokonut Hub, and active Kokonut Intelligence infrastructure.“Live” should not be used merely because code exists in a repository.
Plain English: Already used in practice, but still changing materially.In Kokonut: The Framework, MRV methodology, and Guild coordination are examples of systems that are active while their methods or operating processes continue to mature.
Plain English: Being built or tested but not yet equivalent to a mature production system.In Kokonut: Guild Points, advanced AI-agent automation, and the Agentic Marketplace contain developing components.Documentation should not assign developing systems production authority they do not yet have.

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Governance and coordination terms

Plain English: A governance structure that uses explicit proposals, rules, and often smart contracts to coordinate shared decisions or assets.In Kokonut: The term should not be used to imply that one token vote governs the entire ecosystem.Kokonut separates capital governance, contribution coordination, farm operations, methodology, evidence review, and technical execution.
Plain English: Kokonut’s live on-chain capital-governance system.In Kokonut: It runs on Gnosis Chain and governs membership, shared treasury actions, $vKKN, Loot, funded commitments, governance parameters, and applicable rage-quit protections.It does not automatically govern farm operations or scientific truth.
Plain English: A domain-focused contribution-coordination group.In Kokonut: Current Guild domains are Technology, Impact, Communications, Governance, Finance, and Community & Partnerships.Guilds coordinate useful work, review, working groups, proposal preparation, and domain knowledge.
Plain English: A structured record showing that useful work was completed and reviewed.In Kokonut: A contribution record can identify the contributor, domain, work, evidence, acceptance criteria, reviewer, status, dependencies, and follow-up.It is more fundamental than any point score.
Plain English: A developing mechanism for non-transferable contribution reputation within a Guild.In Kokonut: The design intent is reviewed, domain-specific reputation.Point values, thresholds, formal standing, voting weight, Steward selection, and on-chain implementation are still evolving.Guild Points should not be described as an automatic result of completing work.
Plain English: A coordination and review function within a Guild.In Kokonut: A Steward can help maintain work queues, review contributions, document decisions, support contributors, and route mature work toward governance.Exact selection, term, authority, and removal rules should be documented by the relevant Guild process rather than assumed.
Plain English: Membership in the capital-governance DAO.In Kokonut: The current capital path uses a membership proposal involving stablecoin tribute and requested $vKKN under the live DAO rules.Membership gives Moloch governance rights; it does not automatically grant farm, scientific, technical, or Guild authority.
Plain English: Assets offered to a Moloch treasury as part of a membership proposal.In Kokonut: Stablecoin tribute is used in the current capital-membership model.Tribute terms are live governance state and should be checked in the current proposal rather than copied from an old static ratio.
Plain English: Kokonut’s current Moloch voting token.In Kokonut: Under the current core governance docs:
  • it is non-transferable;
  • 1 $vKKN = 1 Moloch vote;
  • issuance requires an approved DAO proposal.
Kokonut documentation relates issuance to coconut trees, but the token does not by itself create land title, ownership of a specific tree, farm-management authority, or guaranteed returns.
Plain English: Kokonut’s current non-voting Moloch token primitive.In Kokonut: Loot is non-transferable under the current core docs and can be used for DAO-recognized contribution or economic participation.Loot does not carry Moloch voting power, and issuance still requires the applicable DAO proposal.
Plain English: A token is not designed to move freely between wallets or trade on a secondary market.In Kokonut: Current core governance documentation describes both $vKKN and Loot as non-transferable.This should not be expanded into rights or restrictions not actually defined by the live contracts and governance rules.
Plain English: A structured request for a defined authority to approve something.In Kokonut: Not every important decision should become a Moloch proposal.The Governance Framework first asks which authority owns the decision: Moloch, Guild/domain reviewers, farm operators, Framework stewards, evidence reviewers, or another scoped process.
Plain English: Formal permission for a specific action.In Kokonut: A passed proposal can authorize treasury, token, governance, or other scoped action.Authorization is not the same as transaction execution or real-world delivery.
Plain English: Carrying out an authorized action.In Kokonut: Governance distinguishes:
  • authorization;
  • on-chain / wallet transaction execution;
  • operational delivery in the real world.
A proposal can be passed without the funded work being complete.
Plain English: A period after a proposal passes and before eligible execution conditions complete.In Kokonut: The current Moloch model uses grace as part of the member-protection and rage-quit process.Check the live DAO for current timing and conditions.
Plain English: A minimum participation requirement for a decision, where the applicable governance rules define one.In Kokonut: Quorum can differ by proposal type or governance configuration. The current Governance Framework documents 0% quorum for membership onboarding, but that should not be generalized to every decision.
Plain English: A requirement that a defined amount of governance-token participation remain after exits before a proposal can proceed.In Kokonut: Current governance documentation describes a 66% token-retention threshold in the Moloch execution model.Treat it as current governance state, not a universal law.
Plain English: A Moloch exit mechanism for eligible members and eligible treasury assets.In Kokonut: An eligible participant can exit under the applicable contract rules rather than remain exposed to a governance direction they reject.Rage-quit does not guarantee recovery of the original contribution value.
Plain English: A smart-contract wallet commonly used for multi-party or governed asset control.In Kokonut: The Main Treasury SAFE is part of the current DAO treasury architecture and supports DAO-authorized treasury and rage-quit-related flows.Other operational systems should not automatically be assumed to share the same authority model.
Plain English: The interface and tooling used to interact with Moloch-style DAOs.In Kokonut: DAOHaus is the live surface used to inspect and participate in the Kokonut Moloch DAO.

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Farm and regenerative-agriculture terms

Plain English: Kokonut’s first live reference farm.In Kokonut: Adelphi is a women-led farm founded and operated by Yanny and Neury Hernández in Gonzalo, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic.It provides a real context for testing farm operations, funding, the Framework, MRV, public records, governance, and contributor coordination.Adelphi is not proof that every future farm will achieve the same results.
Plain English: Kokonut’s next documented replication test.In Kokonut: Current documentation describes roughly 50,000 m² of adjacent land under agreement entering Phase I — Planning & Preparation.Terra Viva should not be described as an already operating farm until operating records support that status.
Plain English: A person or organization responsible for real-world farm execution.In Kokonut: Local operators retain authority over routine agronomic decisions such as planting, irrigation, harvest timing, maintenance, labor coordination, and field response within their operating arrangement.A DAO funding vote does not turn token holders into farm managers.
Plain English: Agricultural practice intended to improve ecological function while maintaining productive use of land.In Kokonut: The Framework combines regenerative principles with records and MRV so implemented practices can be distinguished from measured ecological outcomes.
Plain English: A succession-oriented farming approach that uses diversity, biomass, multiple vegetation layers, and ecological relationships.In Kokonut: Syntropic methods are part of Adelphi and the broader regenerative toolkit.They do not remove the need to measure actual soil, biodiversity, water, or production outcomes.
Plain English: Managing trees and agricultural production together.In Kokonut: Agroforestry can support perennial production, habitat, shade, biomass, soil cover, and diversified farm structure.Outcome claims still require measurement.
Plain English: Integrating trees, forage or ground cover, and grazing animals in one managed system.In Kokonut: It is one possible regenerative design pattern, not a requirement for every farm.
Plain English: Carbon-rich material produced by heating biomass under limited oxygen and used in applications such as soil amendment.In Kokonut: Adelphi documentation includes bamboo-derived biochar as an implemented practice.A biochar application is evidence of an intervention; a carbon or soil-health outcome requires additional measurement and methodology.
Plain English: A managed area for propagating seedlings and young plants.In Kokonut: Adelphi’s nursery supports propagation, farm planting, biodiversity work, and potential distribution.Claims about survival, conservation impact, or community distribution require their own records.
Plain English: The four development phases used by the Kokonut Framework.In Kokonut:
  • Phase I: Planning & Preparation
  • Phase II: Production & Regeneration
  • Phase III: Consolidation & Expansion
  • Phase IV: MRV, continuous improvement, reporting, and replication-oriented learning
Phase IV is not “the end” of measurement; evidence collection continues.
Plain English: Farms share enough structure to coordinate and compare without becoming identical.In Kokonut: The Framework can standardize schemas, phases, evidence expectations, and shared terminology while local operators adapt crops, practices, markets, infrastructure, and implementation to local conditions.

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MRV, ecology, and impact terms

Plain English: A methodology for turning real-world activity into structured, reviewable evidence.In Kokonut: The durable MRV sequence is:observe → structure → review → publish → attest when useful → interpretMRV is not a magic proof mechanism.
Plain English: A protocol for creating signed attestations against defined schemas.In Kokonut: Kokonut Intelligence uses EAS on Celo for farm-data attestations.EAS can improve authorship, timing, schema, and evidence provenance.It does not automatically certify that the underlying claim is scientifically correct.
Plain English: Content-addressed and decentralized storage technologies that can preserve or reference evidence artifacts outside a normal database.In Kokonut: IPFS/Filecoin can be used for durable evidence packages or source artifacts.They are supported evidence infrastructure, not a requirement that every farm record be stored there.
Plain English: A vegetation index derived from remote-sensing bands and commonly used to examine vegetation patterns.In Kokonut: NDVI can support vegetation monitoring when sensor, cloud, season, resolution, baseline, and field context are considered.It is not a direct measure of yield, carbon, or biodiversity.
Plain English: A red-edge vegetation index often used where denser or more mature vegetation requires different spectral sensitivity.In Kokonut: NDRE is treated as a derived remote-sensing indicator whose interpretation depends on sensor and crop context.
Plain English: A red-edge chlorophyll-related vegetation indicator.In Kokonut: ReCI can contribute to plant-condition analysis but should not be treated as a standalone agronomic diagnosis.
Plain English: A soil-adjusted vegetation index intended to reduce some exposed-soil effects.In Kokonut: MSAVI can be useful where vegetation is sparse or soil background materially affects other indices.
Plain English: The starting condition used for comparison.In Kokonut: Strong claims about improvement usually need a defined baseline, reporting period, and comparable follow-up evidence.
Plain English: An interpretation framework for ecological and broader regenerative benefits beyond a single carbon metric.In Kokonut: EBF can help organize evidence across areas such as soil, biodiversity, water, equity, carbon, and related benefits.EBF interpretation is not external certification by itself.
Plain English: A risk-oriented framework used to examine risks around carbon or ecological-benefit projects.In Kokonut: CRISP-style analysis supports decision-making and risk review.It does not make a project eligible for a regulated environmental credit.
Plain English: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide a shared vocabulary for social and environmental development priorities.In Kokonut: Adelphi currently focuses on five primary SDGs:
  • SDG 1 — No Poverty
  • SDG 2 — Zero Hunger
  • SDG 5 — Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 — Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 15 — Life on Land
SDG reporting should distinguish:alignment → activity → measured outcome → impact interpretation
Plain English: The SDG focused on climate action.In Kokonut: Adelphi’s current documentation treats SDG 13 as a secondary climate co-benefit, not a primary verified carbon claim.Stronger climate claims require appropriate methodology and evidence.
Plain English: The storage of carbon in biomass, soils, or other pools over time.In Kokonut: Carbon sequestration should be treated as methodology-dependent.A regenerative practice or vegetation index does not automatically establish a verified carbon quantity.
Plain English: A unit or claim issued under a defined environmental-credit methodology, program, or market.In Kokonut: Evidence collection and ecological analysis may support future methodology review, but no farm record, score, agent output, or EAS attestation should be treated as creating a certified credit automatically.

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Data and technical infrastructure terms

Plain English: The public-facing project and farm-data surface.In Kokonut: The Adelphi Hub exposes published farm/project information such as harvest, MRV, milestone, and impact-related records.Use it for current published data; use methodology pages to understand what those records mean.
Plain English: Kokonut’s active data, analytics, review, reporting, and agent-access infrastructure.In Kokonut: It structures farm operations, environmental measurements, finance, Web3 activity, MRV, attestations, analytics, forecasts, reports, and agent logs.Kokonut Intelligence implements data infrastructure around MRV; it does not replace MRV methodology.
Plain English: Shared fields and structures used to make farm records more interoperable.In Kokonut: The schema helps farm operators, reviewers, dashboards, APIs, governance participants, and agents use compatible records.Changes to shared schema primitives should consider migration and backward compatibility.
Plain English: The structured farm-record and event surface used by Kokonut tooling.In Kokonut: Farm Registry concepts connect farm identity, records, MRV events, APIs, attestations, dashboards, and developer workflows.The canonical data backend is broader than one on-chain registry.
Plain English: An EVM-compatible blockchain.In Kokonut: Gnosis Chain currently hosts the live Moloch governance and treasury architecture, including $vKKN, Loot, and proposal-related execution.
Plain English: An EVM-compatible blockchain used by Kokonut’s farm-evidence infrastructure.In Kokonut: Kokonut Intelligence uses Celo EAS for farm-data attestations.Celo evidence attestations and Gnosis governance are separate but connected layers.
Plain English: An EVM-compatible blockchain used in Kokonut’s developing agent architecture.In Kokonut: The Agentic Marketplace is being developed around Base.Do not describe Base marketplace contracts as production deployments unless current addresses are explicitly published.
Plain English: A developing marketplace architecture for AI-agent services, payments, identity, reputation, escrow, and related coordination.In Kokonut: It is in development.It should not be treated as a live autonomous labor market until production deployment evidence is published.
Plain English: Software that can perform a bounded task using tools, data, rules, or models.In Kokonut: Agents can support MRV drafts, forecasting, QA, reporting, proposal preparation, and analysis.They should not independently grant themselves governance authority, certify high-impact claims, or replace accountable farm operators and reviewers.
Plain English: An agent identity/registry primitive used in Kokonut’s developing agent-marketplace architecture.In Kokonut: It is associated with agent identity, capability metadata, operators, and reputation-oriented workflows.Its use belongs to the developing agent layer, not the live farm or Moloch governance core.
Plain English: A payment pattern based on HTTP’s 402 Payment Required semantics.In Kokonut: x402-style flows are part of developing paid-agent and service-call architecture.A paid response is not automatically a verified or high-quality response.
Plain English: A structured interface that lets software read or write data.In Kokonut: APIs connect farm records, MRV, dashboards, analytics, governance tooling, and agents.API access does not remove record-lifecycle, permissions, or evidence requirements.

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Participation terms

Plain English: Kokonut’s contribution path for people who want to be useful without starting with capital.In Kokonut: Contributors can work on agriculture, research, MRV, documentation, software, governance, finance, partnerships, design, or community coordination.Work becomes part of the ecosystem through evidence and review, not automatically through submission.
Plain English: Participation through the Moloch membership and treasury-governance process.In Kokonut: The current capital path uses stablecoin tribute and an approved membership proposal to create applicable $vKKN governance rights.
Plain English: Participation through useful work rather than capital.In Kokonut: The durable sequence is:useful work → contribution record → domain review → accepted contribution history → recognitionFormal DAO actions are added only when needed.
Plain English: A defined piece of work with a deliverable, acceptance criteria, reviewer, and often a budget.In Kokonut: A Guild can help define and review a bounty. If DAO treasury capital funds it, Moloch authorization is required for the treasury action.Completion does not automatically create Guild Points or Loot.
Plain English: Review by people responsible for or qualified in the relevant subject area.In Kokonut: Technical, Impact, Finance, farm, Framework, Governance, and other reviews can inform a proposal or contribution without requiring those reviewers to hold Moloch voting power.

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Important distinctions

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Source-of-truth guide

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How to keep this glossary accurate

A glossary becomes dangerous when a short definition silently outlives the system it describes. When updating this page:
  • use the current canonical high-level framing;
  • keep plain-English meaning separate from Kokonut-specific implementation;
  • preserve authority boundaries;
  • distinguish documented state, measurement, forecast, attestation, and interpretation;
  • distinguish live, active/evolving, and developing systems;
  • avoid turning internal workflow states into external certification;
  • do not present forecast values as actuals;
  • do not infer token rights beyond the current governance docs;
  • do not make Guild Points or agent authority sound more mature than they are;
  • route changeable state to the Hub, DAOHaus, current contracts, or active data systems;
  • explain migration/compatibility when shared technical terms change.
Missing or outdated term? Open an issue or submit a documentation contribution through Open Collaboration. Acceptance, recognition, Guild Points, payment, or token rewards are separate processes and are not automatic.
A good glossary reduces ambiguity. A trustworthy glossary also makes the limits of each term visible.