Manifesto of the 100
21 August 2026, the day the board closed
Thank you. None of this would exist without you, and that's not a nicety: seven hours ago there was nothing here.
You are the 100 founding AURA FARMERS. No one else can ever be that. More people will come, farmers will come and go from the board, the rules will change, but there are only a hundred founders, and those hundred spots close today.
From here on, the future of AURA FARMERS is ours and nobody else's. This document exists to work out how.
The first hours
We all started the same: at zero, at the same time, with no money and nobody holding an edge. The only way to get aura was for someone to open your X profile from the board.
Here is what it looked like seven hours later, when the hundredth spot went and the score froze.
| Farmers on the board | 100 |
| Visits shared between everyone | 740 |
| Visits held by the top farmer | 212 |
| Farmers with no visits at all | 26 |
| Held by the top 5 | 75 % |
| Held by the bottom half (50 people) | 3 % |
Five people hold three quarters of everything. Fifty people split what is left, which is almost nothing. And nobody cheated. Some got visits and some did not.
What the Gini index is. It's the standard way to measure how evenly something is spread. It's used for a country's income or wealth, and it works exactly the same for visits on a board.
It runs from 0 to 1. Zero means everyone has exactly the same. One means a single person has everything and the rest have nothing. The higher it climbs, the more concentrated things are. If you want the detail, it's laid out on Wikipedia.
Ours, the moment the board closed, is 0.852. Next to real countries:
| Everyone equal | 0.00 |
| Income in South Africa, the most unequal country on Earth | 0.63 |
| Wealth in South Africa | 0.82 |
| AURA FARMERS, seven hours in | 0.852 |
| One person holds everything | 1.00 |
Read that again, because it's the strangest thing we've seen all day: this board is worse spread than the wealth of the most unequal country on Earth. They have been piling it up for centuries. It took us seven hours.
No money. No inheritance. Nobody planned it. We all started this morning exactly equal.
Privileges and obligations
Being a founder gives you something. For that exact reason it asks something back.
What you get.
- The founder mark, permanently. Even if you lose your spot, even if every rule changes. A hundred people have it and there will never be more.
- A voice and a vote on how this gets run and on what we build next.
- The right to invite. Whoever comes next comes in through one of the hundred.
What we'll ask of you.
- Prove the account is yours. At some point we'll ask you to confirm it from the same X account you signed up with. There are profiles on this board that plainly don't belong to whoever claimed them, and that ends.
- Hold your spot. A hundred seats are a hundred. A board frozen on day one isn't an exclusive club, it's an old photo.
- Show up. Whoever stays quiet accepts whatever everyone else decides.
How we'll decide
Now the hard part: working out how this gets run. Under what rules, who decides what, and which way we grow, because we want to grow fast, and it's worth knowing which way before we start running.
And here's a problem with no clean way out: to hold a vote you need a voting rule, but you can't vote on the voting rule, because it doesn't exist yet. It's happened to everyone who's ever tried to found anything. Three worth keeping in mind.
Philadelphia, 1787
The delegates were sent to do one specific thing: amend the agreement the thirteen states already had. Amending it meant all thirteen had to agree. Instead they wrote a whole constitution and decided by themselves that nine would be enough.
They broke the rule they were under to make the new one. Nobody authorised it. It worked because it lasted.
Voting by property, 19th century
In Spain and half of Europe you only voted if you paid a certain amount of tax. Under the Royal Statute of 1834, roughly 0.15 % of the population could. The argument wasn't contempt, it was this: whoever puts in most has most at stake, so their vote should count for more. Which is exactly the case for "more aura, more say", two hundred years early.
Every democracy dropped it in the end. Not out of kindness. It turned everyone else into spectators, and spectators leave.
Porto Alegre, 1989
A city in Brazil let residents hand out part of the municipal budget themselves. The first year, 976 people turned up. By 2001 it was over 18,000. Along the way sewage coverage went from 70 % to 84 % and some 53,000 families got their housing sorted. Dozens of cities copied it.
It started tiny, deciding small things that were actually real. There are a hundred of us. We are not few. We are the start.
What we're proposing today. Nothing yet, and that's on purpose.
We're not going to show up with the rules already written and ask you to approve them. That's us deciding, dressed up as taking part.
What we'll do is put options on the table: ways of counting votes, ways of deciding what Aura Points are for, ways of picking what gets built next. None of them is settled, and we'll write them with what you tell us.
The articles and the ballots go to a vote. And how we vote is, funnily enough, one of the things we have to agree on first. We'll figure that out together.