Citizenship is a non-transferable NFT in collection zero. Holding it is what makes an account
a welatî, and every office, every vote, and every trust score is downstream of it.
Admission has three steps and no administrator:
- Apply. The applicant reserves a one-HEZ deposit and registers an identity hash. The
hash is globally unique and is claimed at application time, so two applications cannot
describe the same person.
- Vouch. An existing citizen approves the referral. A citizen begins with five vouching
places and earns one more for every three that settle, to a ceiling of fifty. Vouching is
not free of consequence: a voucher whose referrals are revoked three or more times, and
whose revoked share passes twenty percent, is suspended.
- Confirm. The applicant confirms, the NFT is minted, and the roll increases by one.
If nobody vouches within ninety days, the founding account may admit the applicant and
becomes their referrer of record. The fallback exists so that having no connections is not
a permanent bar, and it is recorded rather than hidden.
