Earth Optimization Prize
A Bet You Can't Lose. A World You Can Fix.
This is a dominant assurance contract. Depositors cannot lose. Plan fails? You get your principal back plus ~4.2x from 15 years of Aave yield ($100 → ~$418). Plan succeeds? The 1% Treaty produces $14.9 million–$52.1 million in per-capita lifetime income gains from optimized resource allocation.
Two ways in. Have capital? Deposit USDC, get PRIZE shares, earn the yield floor. Have a network? Share a referral link, recruit verified voters for the 1% Treaty, earn VOTE tokens — one per verified voter. Prize share proportional to voters you brought in. No deposit required.
Dominant assurance: your principal + 15 years of Aave yield. $100 → ~$418. You literally cannot lose money. The worst case is getting richer.
Per-capita lifetime income gains from optimized resource allocation. Recruiters claim prize share via VOTE tokens. Depositors benefit from the GDP growth that follows.
Deposit — Fund the Prize Pool
Your deposit goes into Aave V3 yield. You get PRIZE shares — your claim on the escrow. Plan fails? ~4.2x back. You also get a referral link — recruit verified voters to earn VOTE tokens for success-scenario upside too.
Connect Wallet
Connect your wallet to contribute to the Earth Optimization Prize. Your contribution earns interest in Aave while incentivizing recruiters to get humanity to vote.
Need a wallet? Install MetaMask — it takes about 30 seconds.
Contribute to the Prize
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On my planet, financial instruments don't need trust disclaimers because we eliminated the kind of person who makes them necessary. You lot still have those people. So here's the fine print: there isn't any. It's all on-chain.
View the smart contracts on GitHub →The Math
Across adopting jurisdictions, based on health-GDP multiplier and regulatory delay removal.
The probability the plan needs to increase success odds by for the expected value of your bond to exceed your investment.
Plan fails? ~4.2x return from Aave yield. Plan succeeds? Prize share proportional to verified voters you recruited. No scenario where you “just lose your money.”
- $12,625/person/year — political dysfunction tax you're already paying
- $101 trillion/yr — global waste from misaligned governance
- 150,000 deaths/day — preventable, if anyone was paying attention
- Your deposit amount — that's it. That's the cost.
- 0.0067% break-even — probability shift needed for positive expected value
- Worst case: ~4.2x back — dominant assurance contract if the plan fails
- Best case: prize share — proportional to verified voters you recruited
On my planet, this took about twelve seconds to explain. You are currently paying $12,625 per year for the privilege of your government being terrible. The break-even requires a 0.0067% chance of that changing. You don't need to believe the plan will work. You just need to believe it's not literally impossible. The math does the rest.
How It Works
Depositors Fund the Pool
Deposit USDC into the VoterPrizeTreasury smart contract. Your principal goes into Aave V3 yield. You get PRIZE shares — your claim on the escrow. If the plan fails after 15 years, you claim principal + ~4.2x yield. Zero downside.
Depositors also get a referral link. If they recruit voters, they earn VOTE tokens too — upside in BOTH outcomes. But depositing alone guarantees the ~4.2x floor.
Recruiters Prove Demand
Anyone with a referral link can recruit. Share the link. Every person who verifies their support for the 1% Treaty through World ID is a verified vote attributed to you. You earn 1 VOTE token per verified voter. No deposit required.
World ID prevents duplicate votes. Each verified preference is on-chain. You're not selling anything — you're proving demand that already exists. The referral link attributes that proof to you.
Outcomes Determine Payouts
Thresholds met? VOTE holders claim proportional shares of the prize pool — the more voters you recruited, the bigger your cut. Thresholds not met after 15 years? PRIZE holders (depositors) claim principal + ~4.2x yield.
Depositors win on failure (yield floor). Recruiters win on success (prize share). Depositors who also recruit win either way. The contract handles everything — no judges, no committees.
Depositor Path
Deposit USDC → PRIZE shares → Aave yield → ~4.2x floor if plan fails
Recruiter Path
Get referral link → Recruit voters → World ID verify → VOTE tokens → Prize share if plan succeeds
What Your Deposits Fund
The Earth Optimization Plan v1 is the starting benchmark. Any team can submit a v2 that beats it on cost per DALY averted. Your species spends $50,000+ per DALY on most interventions. The gap is obscene.
Pragmatic Clinical Trials
Current FDA trials cost $41,000/patient per patient. Pragmatic trials cost $929/patient. The Earth Optimization Plan would generate evidence 44x faster at 2% of the cost.
Preference Infrastructure
Wishocracy collects citizen budget preferences via pairwise comparison. Eigenvector decomposition produces stable weights from as few as 10 comparisons.
Alignment Scoring
Compare politician voting records against citizen preferences. Publish scores as verifiable Hypercerts. Make alignment visible and undeniable.
Cross-Jurisdiction Analysis
Optimocracy treats every jurisdiction as a natural experiment. Compare spending levels, policies, and outcomes across 100+ countries to find what actually works.
Technical Details
Pool Status
The Bar Is Low
The current cost of governance dysfunction is $101 trillion per year. The break-even probability shift is 0.0067%. You don't need to be altruistic. You just need to be numerate.