The ÆSC Ecosystem
The ecosystem spans research, standards, infrastructure, and applications built around the Æ law of conserved signal. Each participant—labs, builders, artists, councils—contributes to a coherent field where systems conserve, resonate, and self-correct over periodic cycles (C96 / R96 / C768). This page explains who’s here, how we work together, and how you can plug in.
What Lives in the Ecosystem
A conservation-first network thrives when multiple layers reinforce each other: rigorous research, strong standards, legible infrastructure, and visible applications. Education, funding, and governance keep everything aligned.
Research Labs
Formalizing invariants, running simulations, and publishing open datasets. Labs validate return-to-zero behavior, boundary conditions, and long-horizon stability.
Protocols & Standards
Specs and reference designs that encode conservation and resonance into primitives—budgets, rate limits, cycles, and settlement rules.
Infrastructure & Tooling
Libraries, services, and dev tools that make invariants easy to adopt. Multi-language ports, golden tests, and reproducible harnesses are the norm.
Applications & Media
Systems that demonstrate conservation-first practice in the wild—governance pilots, scientific workflows, games, creative tools, and time-based media.
Education & Outreach
Guides, workshops, curriculum, and showcases that translate the math into practical intuition and working patterns.
Grants & Governance
Funding programs, councils, and DAO pilots that align incentives with conservation and transparency across seasons.
Participant Types & Value Exchange
ÆSC is not a single product but a field. Each participant type contributes distinct value while benefiting from shared standards, open tooling, and social capital.
Independent Researchers & Labs
- Publish formal specs, proofs, and simulation data
- Co-author standards and reference implementations
- Leverage grants, fellowships, and shared datasets
Builders & Product Teams
- Adopt conservation primitives in apps and services
- Use dev kits, test harnesses, and language ports
- Showcase applied results; inform future specs
Communities & Councils
- Run proposals and pilots with periodic budgets
- Provide review, audits, and accountability
- Mentor contributors into reviewer pools
Educators & Curators
- Create coursework, workshops, and showcases
- Translate math into patterns and design guides
- Bridge new contributors into active tracks
Onboarding Tracks
Pick a starting point, then grow into adjacent tracks. Most teams blend research, infra, and application work over time.
Specs & Standards
Contribute to invariant definitions, boundary cases, and formal notation—then co-maintain the reference specs.
- Author or review proposals
- Help polish notation and proofs
- Define tests and acceptance criteria
Infrastructure & Tooling
Implement stable, well-tested building blocks: rate limiters, periodic budgets, resonance schedulers, and more.
- Multi-language ports and parity tests
- CLI tools, SDKs, and observability
- Deterministic test harnesses
Applications & Pilots
Prove the value in production: governance pilots, scientific workflows, games or media that benefit from resonance.
- Scope milestones and success metrics
- Publish datasets and reproducibility notes
- Share postmortems and lessons learned
Partner Tiers
We support individual contributors and institutional partners. Tiers reflect depth of collaboration—not status. Movement across tiers is common as teams grow impact.
Contributor
Individual or small team shipping PRs, specs, or datasets.
Project
A focused initiative with milestones and reproducible artifacts.
Partner
Longer-term collaboration; joint roadmaps and shared releases.
Fellowship
Dedicated funding to pursue research or infrastructure at depth.
Integration Patterns
Adopt invariants incrementally. Most teams start with one pattern, validate behavior, and then expand.
Periodic Budgets (C96)
Add a 96-tick limiter around costful operations (compute, bandwidth, emissions). Systems “breathe” and avoid runaway drift.
- Token buckets seeded per 96-tick window
- Soft-then-hard gating near budget limits
- Auto-reset + reconciliation at tick 96
Resonance Scheduling (R96)
Align recurring tasks to resonance windows: cache warmups, indexing, batch settlement, and event rotation.
- Use phase offsets to prevent hotspots
- Measure drift; dampen out-of-phase bursts
- Zero-out residuals at window close
Triple Cycle Stability (C768)
For long-running systems, stitch eight C96 windows into one macrocycle. Seasonal effects can be modeled and balanced without accumulating hidden debt.
- Macro budgets & multi-window reconciliation
- Long-horizon KPIs and error bounds
- Stress testing across seasonal scenarios
Quality, Telemetry & Audit
Every artifact should be reproducible. We encourage deterministic seeds, golden tests, and transparent decision logs. Observability aligns everyone on what matters: conservation and coherence over time.
Reproducibility
- Seeds, fixtures, and expected outputs
- Tagged releases and environment notes
- Parity tests across language ports
Telemetry
- Budget utilization per window
- Phase alignment & drift metrics
- Residuals at reconciliation
Audit & Review
- Public review pools and council notes
- Traceable rationales & voting records
- Diffable change logs for proposals
Roadmap (Rolling)
The ecosystem evolves seasonally. We keep a rolling roadmap with clear acceptance criteria and public status.
Q1–Q2
C96/R96 spec updates, new language ports, and initial DAO pilot with mirrored lifecycle.
Q3
Ecosystem showcases, education bundles, and first multi-institution fellows.
Q4
C768 macrocycle guidance, telemetry schemas, and audit playbook v1.
Beyond
Public goods funding streams and cross-domain pilots (science, culture, civic).
Join the Ecosystem
Submit your project, propose a standard, or launch a pilot. We welcome contributions that strengthen conservation and coherence across the field.
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