“It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” – Gandalf

In our journey through the Greenpill Dev Guild’s regenerative stack, we’ve explored how to generate public good revenue with Squad Staking and how to allocate capital with the Allo Alliance. The next piece of the regen puzzle tackles a more abstract but crucial layer: social reputation. How do we recognize and empower those everyday deeds of regen community members? How can a decentralized community measure support and credibility without relying on centralized trackers or manual logs? Enter GreenWill, a tool that turns regenerative actions into a verifiable reputation score and governance tool.

GreenWill is being built by a dedicated team of contributors, including Chris Georgen as project lead, Nansel Rimsah crafting the designs, Matt Strachman sourcing inputs and addresses, myself supporting engineering and development and many others who actively participate in guiding the project’s direction.

Tapping into this social layer is essential for attracting the next wave of Web3 users by providing powerful tools that track their actions and assign meaningful value and context. Within this framework, the Dev Guild is focusing inward, building GreenWill initially as a robust reputation system for the Greenpill Network. In this article, we dive deep into identity and reputation at the social layer of the stack and explore how GreenWill can define a methodology for emerging on-chain communities to adopt for effective and well-informed governance.

GreenWill captures and tracks on-chain actions such as POAPs, NFTs, and smart contract interactions to measure user engagement and contributions within the Greenpill Network. Initially, GreenWill is focused on a targeted context window — the Network itself — before branching out to chapters, guilds, and eventually broader regen activities such as volunteering, environmental work, writing open sourced code, etc..

• Community Events - Monthly calls and workshops serve as crucial Schelling points. Active participation in these events demonstrates strong engagement and provides valuable context on Network priorities.

• Network Management/Operations - Operational activities, such as managing platforms, hosting community calls, and supporting network members, are vital for keeping the community running smoothly and are in the process of being factored into GreenWill.

• Regen Activities - GreenWill values and rewards regenerative actions like donating to public goods rounds or volunteering within communities. These actions are currently Greenpill specific and as we progress over time to broader regenerative efforts.

• Chapter Engagement - Chapters play a pivotal role in driving local adoption of Web3 and regenerative finance paradigms. Accurately capturing and highlighting these contributions is essential. GreenWill plans to leverages initiatives such as the Common Impact Data Standards (CIDs) reporting framework being deployed by Regen Coordination to standardize impact tracking across diverse activities and locations, ensuring consistency and ease of integration into the GreenWill badge and scoring system.

One of the significant advantages of capturing reputation on-chain is leveraging the powerful network effects within our regenerative ecosystem. Several innovative projects are currently developing on-chain primitives designed to reward and incentivize regenerative actions, creating synergies that enhance collective impact and governance.

• Prosperity Pass - Prosperity Passport introduces a verifiable, non-transferable identity solution through Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) that unlock incentives and opportunities within the Celo ecosystem. By integrating a dedicated Greenpill Badge into Prosperity Passport, GreenWill connects directly to these broader regenerative incentives. Community members who earn badges via GreenWill for their verified regenerative contributions can seamlessly gain eligibility for future incentives, airdrops, and governance opportunities within the Celo community. This synergy not only rewards regenerative actions but also encourages deeper community engagement.

• Regen Airdrops - Additionally, GreenWill serves as a valuable and transparent source for regenerative airdrops. By aggregating addresses linked to verifiable community contributions and engagement, GreenWill ensures fairness and accuracy in token distributions, further incentivizing members to engage actively in regenerative activities.

• Greenpill dNFT - The Greenpill dynamic NFT (dNFT), created by Atlantis, offers a unique interactive experience where NFTs evolve visually — from red to green — as holders perform regenerative actions verified through blockchain activities. GreenWill plans to integrates directly with this dNFT mechanism by recognizing and tracking progress, translating these verified regenerative actions into tangible governance power. For example, members holding fully evolved Greenpill NFTs could receive enhanced reputation in GreenWill, thus incentivizing consistent regenerative engagement and unlocking higher governance influence within the Greenpill Network.

GreenWill currently plays a critical role within the Greenpill Network, enhancing governance by defining clear criteria for participation. For instance, the Gardens funding pool utilizes GreenWill badges as an access requirement for conviction voting, ensuring that only community members who have actively demonstrated their commitment through verifiable actions can participate in key funding decisions.

Additionally, Snapshot can leverage GreenWill badges for both proposal creation and voting rights, aligning voting privileges directly with active and meaningful contributions. Cookie Jars — highlighted in our previous article on the Allo Alliance — can set access permissions based on the quantity and quality of GreenWill badges held, ensuring rapid funding mechanisms benefit engaged contributors.

Initially, GreenWill has primarily served as an allow-listing mechanism to gate access to governance activities. However, moving forward, defining dynamic governance weighting represents the next important frontier. Determining voting weight is inherently complex; it requires balancing flexibility and fairness. Currently, GreenWill assigns equal voting weight to individuals based solely on a simple badge-counting score system. As we gather more comprehensive data such as contributor addresses, on-chain activities, and community interactions our approach will evolve to identify patterns, clusters, and outliers. This deeper analytical process will guide us in defining a robust, equitable, and dynamic governance weighting methodology.

"It's probably the hardest things to qualify or quantify is effort, you know sweat" - JT Nichols

Building a strong context-rich governance group is essential to the Greenpill Network’s future. With GreenWill, the network can confidently rely on decisions made by individuals who possess substantial context, proven contributions, and genuine care for the community's direction. As the network scales, GreenWill ensures a continually refreshed, high-context pool of members available for strategic and impactful decision-making.

Importantly, GreenWill is not intended as a rigid governance solution or a centralized decision-making tool. Instead, its goal is to outline a flexible, replicable methodology. This approach can first benefit the Network and and later extend to the broader regenerative ecosystem. While GreenWill does not dictate the governance structure of the Greenpill Network, it provides valuable insights and transparent tracking of community activities, empowering communities within the Network to build context-rich governance bodies independently.

With GreenWill, the Dev Guild’s regenerative stack has given communities a way to build capital (Squad Staking), allocate (Allo), and now validate (Reputation). But one big question remains: how do we connect all this digital coordination to the real-world impact we seek? The final piece of the puzzle lies in Green Goods, which we’ll explore in the next article. Green Goods focuses on bringing tangible environmental data on-chain – measuring the trees planted, carbon sequestered, biodiversity preserved – the very outputs that regen projects strive for. If GreenWill represents the will and participation of the community, Green Goods represents the fruits of that will – the actual goods delivered for people and planet.

Prepare to get your hands dirty (literally) in our next chapter on Green Goods, where we bridge from social proof to living proof of regeneration. The journey continues – onward to a greener future!