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Key Mechanisms of Luminist Governance

Luminism comes to life through practical tools that blend market signals with communal safeguards. Each mechanism can stand alone or be combined to fit a community's needs:

  • Quadratic voting and funding: Let people signal intensity without enabling plutocracy; direct resources to public goods by amplifying broad support.
  • Fork-and-merge governance: Encourage experimentation, credible exit, and recombination of what works to keep systems adaptive and accountable.
  • DAOs as coordination labs: On-chain organizations where incentives and shared purpose are tested and iterated quickly.
  • Antifragile decentralization: Design for learning under stress (post-mortems, slashing where appropriate, privacy/anti-collusion tools like MACI or secret ballots) so governance strengthens after shocks.

Use these as modules. Combine them to suit your community, and expect this section to grow as new primitives mature.