TBook Governance: Build Together.

Most protocols talk about governance aspirationally, as a future ideal rather than an operating system. TBook is approaching it differently. Instead of defining governance after the ecosystem matures, we are publishing the framework early, before outcomes are obvious and before specific participants are guaranteed to benefit from it.

TBook governance is a public record of how TBook makes decisions, including governance principles, active proposals, and on-chain execution mechanisms designed to make outcomes transparent and verifiable.

What Governance Means at TBook

Governance is ultimately about how decisions are made and enforced.

In traditional organizations, decisions are often made privately by a small group and communicated afterward. TBook is designed around a different model: proposals are published publicly, voting and execution are recorded on-chain, and governance actions are implemented through smart contracts rather than discretionary intervention.

The distinction matters because governance should be auditable, not dependent on trust alone. A proposal that is published, timestamped, and executed on-chain creates accountability that cannot be quietly revised after the fact.

Core Principles

TBook governance is currently structured around four principles that guide protocol decisions and ecosystem development.

Community First

TBook is built with the expectation that contributors, builders, and long-term participants should have meaningful involvement in the protocol’s evolution.

As the ecosystem grows, governance mechanisms are intended to ensure that participation is not symbolic. Community members should be able to influence priorities, provide feedback on protocol changes, and take part in decisions that affect the broader network.

Proposals That Matter

Governance proposals should correspond to decisions that have operational impact, including protocol upgrades, distribution mechanisms, ecosystem incentives, and infrastructure access.

The goal is to make governance a functional coordination system rather than a passive signaling process.

Transparency

All governance proposals, voting outcomes, and on-chain executions are publicly accessible and independently verifiable.

Transparency is treated as a structural property of the protocol rather than a communication strategy. Governance actions should be traceable through public records and enforceable through code wherever possible.

Aligned Incentives

TBook’s governance model is designed to align long-term ecosystem growth with participant incentives.

Contributors who support the protocol over time — whether through governance participation, ecosystem activity, or infrastructure usage — should benefit proportionally from the value created within the network.

The objective is to encourage long-term participation and sustainable ecosystem growth rather than short-term extraction.

Active Proposals

Both of the following proposals are designed to execute through smart contracts, reducing reliance on manual administration or discretionary overrides.

Proposal 1: SBT Claim Fees Incentive Plan →

A proposal to allocate 30% of SBT claim fees to qualifying Bookies NFT holders, with distribution weighted proportionally based on holdings and eligibility requirements.

The proposal is intended to recognize early ecosystem participants and create a direct relationship between protocol activity and community incentives.

Proposal 2: Open Sui SBT Issuance to Bookie Holders →

A proposal to provide qualifying Bookie holders with permissionless access to parts of TBook’s SBT infrastructure stack.

Eligible participants would be able to issue SBTs, deploy credential types, create claim experiences, and participate more directly in ecosystem growth and distribution models.

The purpose of the proposal is to expand protocol participation from passive ownership toward ecosystem-level contribution and infrastructure usage.

What’s Next

These proposals represent an initial governance framework, not a finished system.

Future proposals may include additional discussions around yield distribution, Karma mechanisms, ecosystem grants, contributor incentives, and broader protocol coordination.

The operating approach remains consistent:

• Publish governance rules publicly;

• Record decisions transparently;

• Execute outcomes on-chain where possible;

• Allow the community to independently verify the process.