The cooperative's architecture, in six reference documents.
These pages are the technical reference layer of the site. If you arrived as a brand exec, a SNAP family member, a journalist, a policy staffer, or an investor, your audience-specific door is in the top nav — start there for vocabulary that matches your context. These pages are the deep end of the pool.
What the cooperative ships today
Coop-IC
The cooperative-issued credit unit at the center of the architecture. Issuance, audit, tokenization, settlement, redemption.
Read the pageLegal & operational architecture
Why two D.C. cooperatives (GCA + LCA), how the platform stack is wired, the Data Trust sub-trust.
Read the pageThe 9 patron classes
Consumer, Importer, Retailer, Brand, Manufacturer, Federal / State / Municipal Government, Civic. Patronage definition and dividend mechanics per class.
Read the pageBrand donation pathway
The Year-1 flagship use case. Brand → DAF → cooperative → SNAP family at the register. Worked end-to-end.
Read the pageIntangible-donation engine
Generalizing the engine: any donor type with an intangible (data, IP, hours, attribution rights) can flow through the same architecture.
Read the pageWhat the cooperative pre-stages for Treasury
The cooperative does not collect duties, enhance the federal balance sheet, or operate a national data program today. It builds the standards, audit methodology, attachment rails, and settlement infrastructure the federal Innovation Credit program will adopt at the par event. Each page below states the cooperative-vs-Treasury partition explicitly at the top.
Treasury bridge
The 1:1 par convertibility thesis. Why Coop-IC is structurally pre-staged for adoption when the federal Innovation Credit program ships.
Read the pageTariff-to-credit transition
How sovereign Innovation Credits replace import tariffs at Phase III, and how the Importer patron class pre-stages the rails today.
Read the pageSovereign balance-sheet reframe
From “$36T in liabilities” to “$36T against a growing innovation-backed asset base.” The Year-4 federal projection and what the cooperative pre-stages.
Read the pageSovereign data asset
A single, opted-in, SKU-level, supply-chain-verified, consumer-linked, real-time dataset. Supply-chain vulnerability detection, macro early warning, multi-node fabrication defense.
Read the pageThe video library
Eight short audio-visual briefings (5–14 min each) across three audience tiers — layperson, professional, expert — designed for the visitor who would rather watch the architecture than read it. Shipping in the coming weeks.