TED is a global platform where people and businesses can buy, sell, build communities, and create new income opportunities—all through one membership.

You might join TED to save money on products you already buy.

Later, you might recommend businesses you trust, earn additional Bitcoin income, launch your own business, build a purchasing community, or create services for millions of members.

TED grows with you.

Behind the scenes, TED uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to make sure important rules are transparent, automatically enforced, and the same for everyone. You don't need to understand the technology to benefit from it—you simply use the tools it makes possible.

TED was built around four simple promises:

Spend Less through wise and organized consumerism.

Get More Customers by promoting your products and services to a global community.

Earn More Income by building businesses and participating in the TED ecosystem.

Own What You Build because your membership, reputation, organization, and achievements belong to you.

TED isn't just another shopping platform, another affiliate program, or another business network.

It's a toolbox that gives customers, businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities new ways to work together.

What can I actually do in TED?

Think of TED as a collection of connected tools rather than a single application.

You don't have to use everything. Start with what helps you today, then discover new opportunities as you grow.

As a customer, you can discover businesses, join Purchasing Tribes, enjoy group pricing, subscribe to services, use Escrow protection, earn Teddys, participate in TED Lotto, and become part of a global community working together for better value.

As a business or supplier, you can sell products and services, create subscription businesses, launch Purchasing Tribes, choose your pricing model, define billing rules, select the supported payment token for your business, reward affiliates, automate recurring payments, and reach customers around the world.

As an entrepreneur, you can build Service Plugins that expand the TED ecosystem with new products, services, and ideas, while benefiting from TED's existing infrastructure instead of building everything from scratch.

Everything works together.

Your membership connects your identity, reputation, businesses, organizations, achievements, rewards, Lucky Sets, governance rights, and much more into a single ecosystem that grows with you over time.

The more you participate, the more opportunities become available.

That's the idea behind TED.

One TED Identity

Your membership connects your organization, reputation, businesses, Teddys, achievements, Lucky Sets, governance participation, and other TED activity into one continuing identity.

One TED Identity. Everything you build around it.

Your TED Membership is much more than a subscription.

It's your identity, your business account, your reputation, and your place in the TED ecosystem—all combined into a single digital asset that belongs to you.

You can simply use it to enjoy better prices and member benefits, or you can grow it into a business, build an organization, earn rewards, and create long-term value over time.

Like TED itself, your membership grows with you.

Membership Types

TED offers two membership types.

Paid Membership

A Paid Membership gives you access to the TED ecosystem and its member benefits, including the TED Reward Plan, TED Lotto, governance participation, Teddys, and everything you need to participate as a TED member.

Business Membership

A Business Membership includes everything in a Paid Membership and unlocks powerful business tools.

You can sell products and services, create Escrows, offer subscriptions, launch Purchasing Tribes, install Business Plugins, reward affiliates, and build your business on a global platform.

Whether you're an individual, a small business, or a large organization, TED gives you the same powerful foundation.

Keeping Your Membership Active

Your monthly membership payment does more than keep your account active.

It helps operate and grow the TED ecosystem while automatically participating in the TED Reward Plan according to its published rules.

TED keeps membership simple through three statuses.

Active members enjoy the full TED experience.

If you miss a payment, your membership enters a Grace Period, giving you time to renew without immediately losing your Reward Plan qualification.

If the Grace Period expires, your membership becomes Inactive until it is reactivated.

Build a Business Without Building the Infrastructure

Starting a business usually means combining many different systems.

Payments.

Subscriptions.

Customer management.

Marketing.

Affiliates.

Escrow.

Automation.

TED brings these tools together in one ecosystem.

You decide what to sell, how much to charge, how customers pay, whether to offer affiliate rewards, and how your business should grow.

TED provides the infrastructure that helps everything work together.

Your Membership Becomes an Asset

Every TED Membership is represented by a unique Membership NFT.

That NFT represents ownership of your membership and everything permanently connected to it.

As your participation grows, so can the value of what your membership represents.

Your organization.

Your reputation.

Your achievements.

Your badges.

Your businesses.

Your settings.

Your custodial account.

Your balances.

Your history.

Your rights within the TED ecosystem.

Instead of starting over, your TED journey stays connected to one membership that grows with you.

You Own What You Build

One of TED's most important principles is simple.

If you build it, you own it.

Your TED Membership belongs to you.

As its owner, you decide what happens next.

Keep it.

Sell it.

Gift it to someone else.

Leave it as an inheritance.

When ownership is officially transferred, the Membership NFT—and everything attached to it—moves to the new owner as one complete digital asset.

Transparency You Can Verify

Every important activity inside TED is backed by blockchain records.

Balances, ownership, and transactions can be independently verified instead of relying only on trust.

The blockchain protects the record.

TED makes it easy to use.

Your Custodial Account

Every membership includes a TED Custodial Account designed for everyday activity inside the platform.

It simplifies payments, subscriptions, rewards, and other TED services while remaining connected to your Membership.

For additional security, many members may choose to keep only the funds they expect to use inside TED and store larger balances in wallets they personally control.

That's your choice.

Your membership.

Your business.

Your future.

More Than a Community. A New Way to Buy and Sell.

TED Tribes are designed around a simple idea: when people work together, everyone can benefit.

As a customer, you gain access to better prices, transparent offers, and a simpler way to purchase products and services.

As a business, supplier, or entrepreneur, you gain powerful tools to reach more customers, automate your business, and grow through the strength of your community.

Whether you're buying, selling, or both, TED gives you a new way to participate in the global economy.

Better Prices Through Collective Purchasing

Buying together creates opportunities that simply don't exist when people buy alone.

Businesses can create offers where prices decrease as more members join. Instead of rewarding only a few customers with special discounts, entire communities can benefit from increased purchasing power.

Every offer clearly explains how pricing works before you join. You know the pricing model, the conditions, and how additional participants may affect the final price.

The result is a marketplace where better prices are earned through collaboration rather than negotiation.

Powerful Selling Tools for Every Business

TED gives businesses tools that are normally available only to large organizations.

You can create flexible pricing strategies, offer group purchasing campaigns, design subscription services, choose your preferred payment token, and define billing models that fit your business.

Whether you sell products, digital services, memberships, or professional expertise, TED gives you the flexibility to build offers that work for both you and your customers.

As your community grows, your business can grow with it.

Rules Everyone Can See

Trust begins with transparency.

Before customers join an offer, they can review the important terms that define how it works. Pricing models, billing schedules, payment methods, subscription conditions, and other key business rules are published in advance.

Everyone starts with the same information.

Customers know exactly what they're joining.

Businesses know that every customer accepts the same published terms.

This creates confidence before the first payment is ever made.

Business That Runs Itself

TED doesn't just help businesses find customers—it helps them spend less time managing them.

Recurring subscriptions, scheduled billing, payment distribution, and many routine business processes follow the rules you defined when creating your offer.

Instead of repeatedly performing the same administrative tasks, you can focus on improving your products, serving your customers, and growing your community.

Direct Payments. Global Reach.

TED is built for a world without borders.

Businesses can reach customers almost anywhere while choosing the supported payment token that best fits their business model.

When subscription payments are made, funds are distributed directly according to the published rules. Suppliers receive their payments, commissions are distributed automatically where applicable, and every participant receives the share they were meant to receive.

This creates a faster, more direct payment experience for everyone involved.

Built to Grow With You

You might join TED to save money on products you already buy.

Later, you may decide to recommend businesses you trust.

You may launch your own subscription service.

You may create a purchasing community.

You may build a business around a Service Plugin.

TED grows with you.

The same platform supports customers looking for better prices, businesses looking for more customers, entrepreneurs building new services, and communities working together toward shared success.

What You Can Do

With TED Tribes, you can:

Join group purchasing offers that reward growing communities with better prices.

Discover businesses that compete through transparency instead of hidden discounts.

Create pricing strategies that automatically encourage community growth.

Offer subscriptions with flexible billing models that fit your business.

Choose the supported payment token for your products and services.

Receive subscription payments directly according to the published rules.

Reach customers across borders through a single global platform.

Build long-term customer communities instead of one-time transactions.

Automate routine business processes and spend more time growing your business.

Create new opportunities through TED's expanding ecosystem of Tribes and Service Plugins.

TED isn't just another marketplace.

It's a platform designed to help customers spend less, businesses grow more, and communities succeed together.

Two Kinds of Tribes

External Tribes — Organize Demand

Any TED member can create or join an External Tribe around something members want to buy. TED organizes the demand, the strength of buying intent, the target size, and the progress of negotiations. The purchase itself remains outside the Tribe.

One buyer has limited negotiating power. A large group with measurable intent can give suppliers a reason to compete for the business.

Internal Tribes — Build the Offer Around the Group

Business Members can create Internal Tribes for products and services inside TED. One-time offers can use fixed prices, group-price tiers, quantities, down payments, and an ASAP price. Recurring offers can use fixed or tiered pricing, trials, price locks, and flexible billing.

The central idea is simple: the more of us who buy, the better the economics can become.

Most businesses spend money before they know whether enough customers will buy. TED can reverse that order.

The Cost Hidden Inside a Normal Retail Price

A normal selling price has to cover much more than the product itself: inventory financing, warehousing, advertising, sales staff, marketplace fees, customer acquisition, overhead, profit margin, and the expected cost of products that never sell.

Unsold inventory matters. If a seller expects part of the inventory to remain unsold, the units that do sell must help pay for the units that do not. That risk is built into the consumer price.

Start With Demand Instead

TED can let a member organize or measure demand first, then source or negotiate around a quantity that is already visible.

Instead of: Buy inventory → advertise → find customers → hope enough people buy.

TED can enable: Find demand → know the quantity → negotiate or source → sell.

For example, “1,600 TED members are interested if this product can be supplied below $40” is not only a shopping opportunity. It can be a business opportunity.

Why This Can Change the Price

When demand is known earlier, a business can reduce some of the costs and risks that normally have to be built into the selling price: speculative inventory, unsold stock, broad advertising, and customer-acquisition spending before a sale exists.

That does not guarantee the lowest price in every market. It creates a different economic starting point — one where the business can be designed around known demand rather than hoping demand appears later.

Build the Cheaper Alternative

If an existing market is too expensive, a TED Business Member can use organized demand to create a new lower-cost supplier or service instead of only asking the existing suppliers for a discount.

TED turns fragmented demand into organized purchasing power — and organized purchasing power can become the foundation of a new business.

Before searching outside TED, see whether a TED member can do it.

Find Businesses & Professionals Inside Your Community

TED members can find other members who provide the products, skills, and professional services they need — accountants, designers, developers, tutors, consultants, tradespeople, photographers, cleaners, marketers, and more.

Your Community Can Become Your Customer Base

For a professional or business owner, Members For Members creates a direct audience inside the community. For the customer, it creates a reason to support people who are part of the same economic network.

Member needs a service → another member gets the work → income stays inside the community → that member buys from others → more members benefit.

TED can become a community with an economic reason to support one another: your success can help me, and my success can help you.

Bring what you sell. TED helps you reach, convert, and keep customers.

Reach TED Members

Business Members can offer products, services, group purchases, subscriptions, and recurring services directly inside the TED ecosystem.

Build an Offer That Is Easier to Say Yes To

TED offers can use group pricing, quantity tiers, down payments, ASAP purchases, free or paid trials, recurring subscriptions, price locks, flexible billing, and subscriber-based price reductions.

Spend Less Finding Customers. Reward Results Instead.

TED commerce can include affiliate rewards connected to the existing member network. Instead of relying only on advertising paid before a customer exists, a business can reward the network when real commercial activity happens.

Let Growth Improve the Offer

A TED business can create a positive loop: better offer → more members join → more customers → better economics → potentially better price or value → more members want the offer.

Big-Business Infrastructure Without Being a Big Business

A small business can use TED infrastructure for Escrow, recurring payments, group pricing, affiliate economics, reputation, disputes, and other systems instead of building every component alone.

Already have a business? Bring it. Have an idea? Build it around TED.

Escrow solves a simple problem: the customer does not want to pay before receiving what was promised, and the seller does not want to deliver without knowing the money is there.

You Don't Have to Trust the Other Person With the Money

The rules hold the money.

Customer pays → TED Escrow holds the funds → seller completes the agreed transaction → the funds are released according to the rules.

If there is a dispute, the funds can remain locked while TED’s dispute process determines what happens next.

For the Customer

The payment is not simply handed to the seller in advance. The important terms are known before the transaction, and a defined dispute process exists if something goes wrong.

For the Seller

The customer has committed real funds. The seller is not working only on a promise to pay later, and the agreed terms protect the seller too.

The customer knows the money is protected. The seller knows the money is there.

Why It Matters for New Businesses

A new seller does not need to ask a stranger to trust reputation alone. The seller can offer a transaction structure that protects both sides from the beginning.

TED Core provides the foundation.

Service Plugins provide the innovation.

Instead of one company trying to build every feature, TED allows independent developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to create new tools and services that become part of the TED ecosystem.

The result is a platform that can continue evolving without changing its core.

What Can You Build?

A Service Plugin can solve a problem, improve the user experience, or create an entirely new business.

Examples include:

Marketing platforms.

Search engines.

Analytics tools.

Page and plugin builders.

Profile enhancements.

Communication tools.

Social features.

And ideas that haven't been imagined yet.

TED provides the foundation.

You decide what to build.

Turn an Idea Into a Business

TED is designed to create opportunities beyond its original creators.

If you build a Service Plugin that members find valuable, it can become a business of its own.

You might create a better search engine.

A powerful marketing platform.

An AI assistant.

A page builder.

An analytics service.

Or a completely new type of tool that helps members and businesses achieve more.

As TED grows, the audience for your plugin can grow with it.

Built on TED. Not Around TED.

Service Plugins don't replace TED Core.

They build on top of it.

They integrate with TED's core systems, work within TED's rules, and use the platform's infrastructure instead of recreating it from scratch.

This allows developers to focus on creating better products instead of rebuilding the foundations every time.

Compete by Building Better Services

TED doesn't aim to have only one search engine...

...only one marketing platform...

...or only one way of solving every problem.

Different developers can create different solutions.

Members decide which ones they prefer.

Competition encourages innovation, and innovation benefits the entire community.

One Strong Foundation. Unlimited Possibilities.

TED Core is intentionally kept focused.

It provides the security, the execution, and the rules.

Service Plugins provide the ideas.

Together they create an ecosystem that can continue growing in directions that nobody can fully predict today.

The next great TED innovation may come from you.

Choose Your Own Business Model

A useful Service Plugin can itself become a TED business. Its creator may charge for access, sell subscriptions or services, use advertising or sponsored placement, offer premium features, or use another business model that fits the service and TED rules.

TED provides the foundation. You decide what to build — and how to turn that value into a business.

Your Gateway to TED

The TED applications are how you interact with the TED platform.

They allow you to register, manage your membership, use TED's services, and access everything the platform has to offer.

The applications make TED easy to use, while the blockchain securely records and enforces the rules behind every action.

Desktop and Mobile

TED is available as both a Desktop application and a Mobile application.

Both applications provide almost the same experience and access to the same TED platform.

The main difference is that the Desktop application includes TED Pulse, allowing members to help operate the platform and earn SOL rewards.

TED Pulse is not available in the Mobile application.

Nothing Is Stored in the App

The TED application is not where your membership, balances, ownership, or activity are stored.

Think of it as a window into TED.

The application displays information and sends your requests to TED's smart contracts on the blockchain.

The blockchain performs the work, records the results, and permanently stores the information.

This means your TED data belongs to your membership—not to a particular phone or computer.

Available in Every Language

The TED applications can be translated into virtually any language.

Changing the language affects only the words displayed on your device.

It does not change the blockchain, TED's smart contracts, your membership, your balances, your ownership, or any platform records.

Everyone uses the same TED platform.

Each member simply sees it in the language they prefer.

One Platform Everywhere

Whether you access TED from your desktop computer or your mobile device, you're connecting to the same platform.

The same membership.

The same smart contracts.

The same blockchain.

The applications are simply different ways to access the same TED ecosystem.

Built for People

Blockchains speak the language of code.

People don't.

The TED applications bridge that gap by turning blockchain transactions into an experience that's simple, familiar, and easy to use.

They let you focus on building your business, growing your community, and using TED—while the blockchain quietly takes care of the rules behind the scenes.

TED's Special Accounts may receive several supported currencies. When a Special Account needs a different currency for a payout or an automated operation, the conversion is not decided by one application, one operator, or one price source.

Only conversion providers approved by TED may supply executable quotations. Each approved provider has registered quotation sources and approved on-chain conversion programs.

Independent TED Pulse participants collect and compare the quotations. TED Consensus removes abnormal results and selects one approved provider, one conversion route, one on-chain program, and an acceptable output range.

The smart contract then permits the conversion only through the provider, route, and program selected by consensus, before the quotation expires and without accepting less than the approved minimum output.

During TED's trial period, the administrator may approve or temporarily suspend providers. After the administrator is permanently disabled, Community Governance controls provider approvals and may permanently retire a provider. Provider history and completed conversion records remain publicly verifiable on-chain.

TED Speaks Your Language

TED was designed for people everywhere.

It doesn't matter where you live or what language you speak. If someone can translate a simple file, TED can speak that language.

There is no waiting for the next official release and no fixed list of supported languages.

If your language doesn't exist yet, you can create it.

Creating a New Language Takes Minutes

Adding a new language is surprisingly simple.

Download the English translation file.

Upload it to your favorite AI and ask it to translate it into your language.

Upload the translated file back into TED.

That's it.

In just a few minutes, TED can be available in a completely new language.

No programming.

No software development.

No special tools.

Powered by AI

Modern AI translation tools can translate an entire TED language file in minutes while preserving the structure required by the application.

In most cases, creating a new language is as simple as telling the AI:

"Translate this file into Spanish."

or

"Translate this file into Japanese."

The AI does the translation.

TED does the rest.

One Platform for the Whole World

The language you see is only the interface.

Behind it, every member uses the same TED platform, the same smart contracts, and the same transparent rules.

Whether two members speak English and Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese, or any other combination of languages, they can still use the same businesses, the same Tribes, the same services, and the same opportunities.

Different languages.

One global TED.

TED has several different ways to earn. You can build a network, build a business, help other businesses, create services for the ecosystem, help operate TED, and build an asset that may later be transferred or sold.

MLM — Build Residual Income

Personal recruiting can create direct income. The wider matrix can create residual income across eligible paid levels. Commercial activity can also create affiliate income, while leadership achievements can add Prize Pool rewards.

Active Income

Work → get paid. Stop the work, income stops.

Residual Income

Build → activity continues → income continues.

Like an author who keeps receiving royalties after the book was written.

Passive Residual Income

Build → teach others to build → income continues to grow even when you stop building.

You start it. It doesn't stop with you.

Build a Business

Sell products or services, create Internal Tribes, build subscriptions and recurring services, or create a new business around demand that already exists in TED.

Other Ways to Earn or Receive Value

Project Manager income can reward members who help create or manage other TED offers. Service Plugins can become businesses of their own. Pulse can reward members in SOL for helping operate TED. Lucky Sets create opportunities in the Progressive Lottery. A membership, organization, and business built over time may also become an asset that can be transferred or sold through TED.

Direct, Immediate Compensation

When an eligible membership payment is processed, the smart contract distributes it according to TED’s compensation rules. The payer’s transaction performs the distribution; there is no company deciding later whether to calculate or release the commission.

100% of the membership payment is routed through TED’s marketer, community, accumulation, and reward economics. It is not retained as corporate profit for owners or shareholders.

The detailed percentages, eligibility rules, and matrix levels are explained in The TED Reward Plan.

TED uses a network-marketing system to support its global growth. The Reward Plan is executed by a smart contract and cannot be changed.

Distribution of the Monthly Membership Payment

Each monthly membership payment is distributed immediately:

17% to the member who personally recruited the paying member.

63% to eligible members across nine matrix levels—7% per level.

20% to the TED Accumulation Account.

The TED Accumulation Account

Is used to fill out the The SOL Account for Solana commissions. And the remaining balance is transferred to the TED Lotto Prize Vault, where it becomes the prize in the TED Lotto.

Commission Qualification

Commission eligibility is determined by the number of active, personally recruited paying members a member has at the time each payment is processed:

0 active personal recruits: Not eligible for commissions.

1–3 active personal recruits: Eligible for commissions through Matrix Level 5.

4 or more active personal recruits: Eligible through Matrix Level 9.

A member in Grace is treated as Active during the Grace period. An Inactive member is not eligible to receive commissions.

Any commission that cannot be paid because a member is inactive, unqualified, or otherwise ineligible is transferred to the TED Accumulation Account for Commissions.

Direct Recruitment and Matrix Placement

The recruiting member is the person whose referral brought the new member to TED. That relationship remains fixed.

Matrix placement is separate from direct recruitment. Each new paying member is placed in the first available position inside the recruiting member’s matrix organization.

The system searches:

Level by level.

From left to right.

Only within the recruiting member’s own organization.

Each matrix position can have no more than three members directly beneath it.

The placement search can continue to unlimited depth until an available position is found. However, commissions are paid only across the first nine levels above each payment.

Any spillover created by the forced placement system remains inside the organization of the member who recruited the new member.

Recruiting Badges

TED uses dynamic Recruiting Badges to show a member’s current commission qualification:

Recruiting Badge 1: 1–3 active personally recruited paying members.

Recruiting Badge 2: 4 or more active personally recruited paying members.

Because qualification depends on the current status of personal recruits, the badge may update when those members become Active, enter Grace, become Inactive, or reactivate.

Example

When a member makes a monthly payment:

Their recruiting member receive 17%.

Eligible matrix members each receive 7% across up to nine levels.

The Accumulation Account receives 20%.

Any unpaid commission caused by inactivity or insufficient qualification also goes to the Accumulation Account.

Commissions are based on actual membership payments and current qualification. They are not guaranteed income.

This follows the Business Plan’s distinction between unlimited-depth placement and payment across only nine matrix levels.

Affiliate Income

In addition to the TED Reward Plan, Business Members may choose to reward the buyers who introduce customers to their products and services.

Affiliate commissions apply only when the Business Member enables an affiliate program for a specific Escrow or Recurring activity.

When an affiliate commission is offered:

2/3 of the commission is paid to the buyer's direct recruiter.

1/3 of the commission is paid to that recruiter's direct recruiter (the Super Affiliate).

If no eligible Super Affiliate exists, the unpaid portion follows the platform's commission rules.

Each Business Member decides whether to offer affiliate commissions and determines the commission percentage for that specific business activity.

Build a business that belongs to you — not to the company behind it.

The Problem Professional Networkers Already Know

In a traditional MLM company, a marketer can spend years building an organization while the company still controls the platform, distributor agreement, compensation plan, qualification rules, and access to the account.

Companies can change management, change rules, be sold, merge, close, or terminate distributor relationships. Your business remains dependent on somebody else’s company.

There Is No Company Between You and the Rules

TED uses smart contracts to execute the rules. The core compensation logic is not ordinary management policy, and there is no corporate owner who profits more by deciding that a successful marketer has become too expensive.

TED does not promise to pay the compensation plan. The compensation plan performs the payment.

The Code Is the Law

Smart contracts make TED’s important rules transparent and automatically enforceable. Some matters are intentionally governed by the community; other core rules are designed to sit outside ordinary management discretion.

During TED’s short initial safety period, limited upgrade authority remains only to correct genuine technical issues; it is permanently removed as the system is finalized.

TED Has Members. It Does Not Have Owners.

TED is designed as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. The community governs the matters that are intentionally governable, while smart contracts enforce the rules that should not depend on a boardroom decision.

Your Membership Can Become an Asset

Your organization, reputation, businesses, achievements, and TED history are connected to your membership. TED’s official membership-sale process can allow that membership and what is attached to it to be transferred as one complete asset.

Join → build → grow → earn → own → transfer or sell.

Build From Anywhere. Take It Anywhere.

Your TED organization is not tied to a store, office, or country. Your membership and the business you build around it can move with you.

Build Beyond MLM

Business Members can create products, services, Internal Tribes, subscriptions, and Service Plugins. TED provides the foundation. You decide what to build.

TED’s Progressive Lottery is designed differently from a conventional lottery: the goal is to distribute the prize pool to members, not to build an operator profit from players losing.

Members do not buy ordinary lottery tickets. They earn permanent Lucky Sets through TED participation and achievements, and those sets participate while the membership is eligible.

A Lottery Designed to Give Back

Most lotteries are designed to make money for the organization running them.

TED Lotto was designed for the opposite reason.

After TED covers its predefined network costs and other required allocations, the remaining value is transferred to the Lottery Vault. Instead of keeping those funds, TED distributes them to the winners.

The goal is simple:

Empty the Lottery Vault.

As TED grows, more value can flow into the prize pool, creating better winning opportunities for eligible members.

You Don't Buy Tickets

TED Lotto is part of the TED ecosystem.

Members don't buy lottery tickets.

Instead, they earn the right to create Lucky Sets through their TED Membership and participation in the community.

Lucky Sets can be earned through:

Your TED Membership.

Every 18 Teddys you earn.

EarlyBird status.

Approved leadership achievements.

The more you contribute to TED, the more opportunities you have to participate.

A Lucky Set is one valid combination of four different numbers between 1 and 36.

Every Lucky Set is permanent, and will participate in every draw, as long as the member is active.

The Lottery Draws

4 winning numbers will be generated out of 36 numbers.

To win, all 4 numbers in the set must match the numbers drawn.

Fair by Design

When a draw takes place, TED generates the winning numbers from a future blockchain record that doesn't yet exist when the draw is locked.

That means nobody—not TED, not a Pulse Worker, and not any member—can choose or know the winning numbers in advance. The same published rules are applied to every participant, and every result can be independently verified on the blockchain.

A Progressive Lottery

TED Lotto grows together with the community.

It begins as a monthly lottery.

As the eligible balance in TED's Accumulation Vault grows, the lottery automatically progresses to weekly, and later to daily draws.

Once TED Lotto advances to a faster schedule, it never moves backward.

When there is more than one winner

When several members have the winning Lucky Set, the available prize is divided equally among them.

Each winner receives the same amount.

If no Lucky Set matches the winning numbers, the entire prize is carried forward to the next draw.

Built on Transparency

Every Lucky Set, every draw, every winning number, every prize, and every payment is recorded on the blockchain.

The rules are public.

The results are verifiable.

The same lottery applies to every eligible member.

That's what makes TED Lotto different.

It's not just another lottery.

It's another way TED shares the value created by a growing community.

TED is more than a marketplace. It includes systems for trust, contribution, decision-making, dispute resolution, and shared operation.

Reputation

Real TED activity builds a reputation that helps members decide who they want to do business with.

Teddy & Gamification

TED recognizes contribution, achievements, and warning signs. Teddys record meaningful participation and also carry governance weight.

Governance

Members decide the matters TED intentionally leaves to community governance.

Consensus

Important conversion information is not trusted to one source. Independent quotations can be compared and abnormal results rejected before a result is accepted.

Pulse / Worker

Members can help distribute TED’s operational work through the Desktop application, reducing dependence on a single central operator.

Community Jury

When protected transactions cannot be resolved by the parties, qualified members can help determine the outcome through TED’s jury process.

TED Is Governed by Its Members

TED is a decentralized platform.

After the administration period ends, decisions assigned to Community Governance are made by TED members through proposals and blockchain votes.

Governance does not exist to decide every new idea or service. New products and new directions can be developed through Service Plugins.

Community Governance is used for the specific decisions built into TED’s governance system.

What Can the Community Decide?

TED’s current governance system allows members to vote on:

Membership Fee Adjustments

The community can reduce TED’s monthly membership fees.

The rules are designed to keep TED affordable:

Fees may only decrease.

A single reduction cannot exceed 33%.

Fees can be changed no more than once a year.

The relationship remains fixed: a Business Membership costs three times a Regular Membership.

TED’s Default Subscription Currency

After the administration period ends, the community can select TED’s default and recommended subscription currency.

The vote can choose only from currencies that have already passed TED’s approval requirements.

Governance cannot use this vote to add a new token.

Free Registration

If free registration is available, the community can vote to permanently disable it.

Harmful Service Plugins

The community can vote to freeze a dishonest or harmful non-system Service Plugin.

A plugin cannot be submitted for freezing simply because someone dislikes it. It must first reach TED’s required 25% dispute-warning threshold.

Adding a New Token

Adding a supported token does not require a community vote.

A TED Business Member can submit an existing SPL token for validation and pay 3 SOL to fund the review process and discourage abuse.

Before the token can be accepted, it must pass TED’s strict requirements, including:

Revoked mint authority.

Revoked freeze authority.

At least two executable conversion routes.

Repeated liquidity observations.

Acceptable price impact.

Supporting evidence from TED Consensus.

Until the token is approved, it cannot be used for TED payments, custody, or Service Plugins.

Trusted Conversion Platforms

Community Governance allows members to decide which external platforms TED is permitted to use when converting the currencies held in TED's Vaults.

The Community can Select new trusted platforms that TED may use when converting the currencies held in TED's Vaults. And add them to the TED approved list.

How Voting Works

Every TED member can open a permitted governance proposal and vote on active proposals.

Each proposal remains open for 14 days.

Each member can vote only once.

The system records two separate counts:

The number of members voting for and against.

The number of Teddys held by the members voting for and against.

For a proposal to be approved, it must receive:

At least four times as many Teddys in favor as against.

At least twice as many members in favor as against.

At least 50 participating voters.

This means that a decision needs both broad community support and strong support from members who have earned Teddys through their participation in TED.

Transparent From Beginning to End

Proposals and votes are recorded on the blockchain.

While a vote is open, everyone can see:

The proposal.

The voting deadline.

The number of members voting on each side.

The number of Teddys voting on each side.

Current proposals and previous governance decisions remain publicly visible.

No private committee counts the votes, and no administrator can quietly replace the result.

Your reputation is earned through real activity.

TED reputation is connected to actual member and business activity rather than being only a public profile claim.

Reputation Follows Participation

Customers and suppliers can build feedback histories around completed transactions, and businesses or plugins can develop reputations of their own.

Why It Matters

Reputation helps members decide who they want to buy from, sell to, hire, or work with. It also complements Escrow: Escrow reduces the need for blind trust in a transaction, while reputation helps members choose who they want to transact with in the first place.

Your reputation becomes part of the TED identity you continue to build over time.

Teddys are TED's governance tokens.

Teddys are not a currency.

A Teddy:

cannot be bought;

cannot be sold;

has no market price;

cannot be transferred by itself.

Teddys are a record of your contribution to the community.

The more meaningful a member's long-term participation, the stronger their influence in community governance.

Teddys are connected to your TED Membership.

If you transfer your Membership NFT through TED's official transfer process, your Teddys move with it because they are part of your membership's history and value.

Win the TED lottery

The more Teddys you have, the Better Your chances to win the lottery.

For every 18 Teddy's TED’s members earn the right to create another Lucky Set.

A Lucky Set is a fixed lottery ticket that participates in all draws.

Earned, Not Purchased

Every Teddy is earned.

TED issues new Teddys automatically whenever a member completes activities that the platform rewards.

As you participate, contribute, and help the community, your collection continues to grow.

How Do You Earn Teddys?

TED rewards members for helping the community grow and for contributing to the platform.

Examples include:

Maintaining an active paid membership.

Personally introducing new paying members.

Operating TED Pulse.

Successfully completing purchases and ratings through Escrow.

Voting with the majority as a Community Juror.

Additional rewards may also be granted for specific achievements defined by the TED ecosystem.

TED notices contribution, achievement, and warning signs.

Contribution Gets Recognized

TED can recognize meaningful activity such as maintaining membership, recruiting, purchases, jury participation, Tribe achievements, leadership performance, and other defined contributions.

Recognition Is Not Only Decoration

Achievements can become visible parts of a member’s TED history. Warning indicators can also help the community see patterns of problematic activity.

Gamification gives members a simple way to see progress and gives the community signals that would otherwise be scattered across many different activities.

Build. Compete. Be recognized.

TED Rewards the Members Who Create Growth for Everyone

The Leaderboard is not only a ranking of who recruited the most. TED rewards the members whose growth helps create more customers, stronger Tribes, more purchasing power, and more opportunities across the ecosystem.

These are the people who help make customer acquisition through TED more affordable, accessible, and scalable for everyone.

Leaderboard

The Leaderboard recognizes the strongest longer-term builders and tracks the members leading TED’s growth.

Podium

The highest performers can receive additional Podium recognition and Prize Pool rewards. Ties share the relevant position pool according to TED’s rules.

Rising Stars

Rising Stars focuses on current growth since the previous Prize Pool distribution. A newer member does not need to overcome years of history to be recognized for exceptional momentum now.

TED rewards both achievement and momentum.

Most transactions on TED are completed successfully. If a problem arises, the buyer and seller first have the opportunity to communicate, exchange information, and resolve it themselves.

If they cannot reach an agreement, either party may ask for a Community Jury.

TED members can choose whether they want to serve as jurors. When a jury is needed, TED invites volunteers. The first five qualified members who accept become the jury.

To qualify, a juror must have an Active Membership, own at least one Teddy, and have no close matrix relationship with either party.

Each juror reviews the evidence independently and submits a decision. Jurors do not discuss the case with one another.

If a juror does not submit a decision on time, they are disqualified and another qualified volunteer takes their place.

Once five valid decisions have been received, TED automatically determines the result according to its predefined jury rules. The decision is final and is automatically carried out by the smart contract.

Jurors who vote with the majority help protect the community and are rewarded with 5 Teddys and recognition for their contribution.

Help Keep TED Running. Earn SOL.

TED Pulse is the shared work system that helps TED keep running every day. When you activate Pulse in the TED Desktop application, your computer can quietly help TED complete small tasks whenever work is available. You do not need to understand computers, Solana, or blockchain, and you do not need to do the work yourself—the application handles it automatically.

When Pulse completes an eligible paid task, your wallet first pays the very small Solana network fee, normally starting at about 0.000005 SOL. After TED accepts the work, you receive that fee back and an immediate reward equal to the fee. This means the small SOL balance in your wallet is there to help Pulse begin working; successful paid work is designed to return what was spent and add more SOL, helping the wallet build the balance needed for future work and to cover your own fees.

Keep Pulse active on at least 24 different days during the month and you can also qualify for an equal share of the distributable SOL left in PulseVault at the monthly distribution. The amount depends on the available balance and the number of qualified participants, but every qualified participant receives an equal share.

The more members who keep Pulse active, the stronger, fairer, and more dependable TED becomes, because the work is shared instead of being controlled by one company or one powerful computer. Pulse does not mine cryptocurrency or keep your computer busy all day; most of the time it simply waits quietly for work.

To participate, open TED Desktop, turn on Pulse and Keep Awake. Then let TED work for you while you help keep TED working for everyone.

Help Run the System You Depend On

Pulse is also part of TED’s decentralization. The more members who participate through the Desktop application, the less TED depends on one central operator to carry out its ongoing work.

The SOL earned through eligible Pulse participation can also help build the balance needed for your own ongoing TED network fees instead of bringing every small fee into TED from outside.