Ethics Guidelines

Core principles and guidelines for all participants in the $REGEN Tokenomics Working Group.

The Core Four

1. NO PRICE TALK

Never predict, target, or hype $REGEN's price. Focus on utility, not speculation.

2. NO INSIDER TRADING

Don't trade on non-public info, and don't share it selectively. Period.

3. RADICAL TRANSPARENCY

We publish everything. If something truly can't be public yet, don't trade on it or leak it.

4. AUTHENTIC PASSION IS WELCOME

Communicate with genuine enthusiasm about $REGEN's mission to bring integrity to ethical capital formation.

We're pioneering a new level of integrity in the digital asset space. Our conduct should reflect the ecological values we're working to encode.

Introduction

As participants in the Regen Token Economics Working Group, we contribute to a public forum for discussing the future of the $REGEN token and its economic ecosystem. This working group serves as an open discussion space where diverse stakeholders — including community members, Regen Foundation representatives, RND PBC team members, and independent contributors — can explore ideas that may eventually be formalized through the network's governance process.

1. Transparency and Public Discussion

  • • Identify your affiliations when making substantive contributions
  • • Support public deliberation — discussions are public by design and documented
  • • Maintain a stakeholder registry with regularly updated participant affiliations
  • • Document perspective diversity in meeting minutes

2. Responsible Market Conduct

  • • Avoid price targeting or forecasting for $REGEN in any messaging
  • • Focus discussions on utility — governance, network security, ecological verification
  • • Exercise personal trading judgment with cooling-off periods around policy discussions
  • • Prevent market manipulation — no coordinated buying or misleading claims

3. Communication Guidelines

  • • Differentiate exploration from recommendation clearly
  • • Maintain consistent messaging about the token's purpose and utility
  • • Clarify the path to governance and how discussions feed into proposals
  • • Separate personal views from working group positions

4. Discussion Integrity

  • • Prioritize ecosystem health over token value increases
  • • Respect decentralization — avoid centralizing control or influence
  • • Balance stakeholder interests across validators, land stewards, credit buyers, developers
  • • Uphold technical integrity with accurate, verifiable claims

5. Regulatory Awareness

  • • Stay informed on evolving digital asset regulations, particularly CFTC guidance
  • • Document compliance considerations in discussions where relevant
  • • Implement prudent safeguards demonstrating fair market commitment
  • • Consider legal consultation before formal governance proposals when uncertain

Handling Sensitive Information

While maximum transparency is the default, rare exceptions exist for:

  • • Technical vulnerabilities (until patched)
  • • Preliminary partnership discussions (when required by NDA)
  • • Legal advice protected by privilege

In these cases: document the rationale, set a disclosure timeline, minimize scope, and ensure equitable access once released.