Every person in the Firma ecosystem has an agent. Every agent operates from a declared moral framework. You cannot participate — cannot hold reputation, deploy a network state, contribute compute, or receive grants — without first declaring the values your agent acts from. The moral framework is open source. The community defines it. The network enforces it. This is not a neutral infrastructure layer. It is a network built on the premise that how you build matters as much as what you build.
This is the entry condition for the entire network. Before you can hold a Firma identity, before your agent can act, before you can receive a grant or deploy a network state or contribute compute — you declare which moral framework you're operating under. The framework is open source. Firma doesn't own what "good" means. The community defines it, versions it, and evolves it. But participation requires declaration. An agent without a declared framework cannot participate. This is what makes the network an intentional ecosystem rather than neutral infrastructure.
The moral framework is not a filter on who can join. It is a declaration of how you will act while you are here. The network does not judge your values. It makes them visible.
Two things happen in parallel here that are both prerequisites for everything else. The NSA legal entity is incorporated — the governing wrapper for Firmamint, the signing entity for Mintware's EIR contract, the treasury holder. And LightCI begins building the soulbound identity primitive that every person in the ecosystem carries — one identity, one reputation, traveling across Seedbase, NSA governance, NSSim builds, and the reserve layer. The legal entity is the organizational foundation. The identity primitive is the personal foundation.
The personal agent is not a chatbot. It is the on-chain expression of your identity and your declared moral framework. When you give through Seedbase, your agent acts. When you vote in NSA governance, your agent acts. When you contribute compute to the reserve layer, your agent settles the transaction. The agent is how your reputation accumulates — not by what you say but by what it does on your behalf, measured against what you declared you stood for. One agent per person. Tied to the soulbound identity LightCI builds. Operating from the moral framework you declared in Layer 0.
Your agent is not a tool you use. It is the record of how you acted — measured against what you said you stood for. Reputation is not what you claim. It is what your agent did.
Firmamint is an Optimism L2. It does not need to be complete to be live. It needs: the chain running with FIRMA as gas, the Basemint bridge carrying USDC to and from Base, the NSA multisig as treasury, and the economic rights + reputation registry contracts. Everything built in Layers 0, 1, and 2 deploys here. Everything built in Layers 4, 5, and 6 deploys on top of it.
Seedbase is Mintware's product — a giving and funding platform where reputation is everything. The agentic layer is Mintware's to build, extending the personal agent's giving capability into full mission matching, donor reputation scoring, and LP access logic. Seedbase is Base-native: it lives in Base's UX and ecosystem, with Firmamint as the settlement layer underneath via the Basemint bridge. $CIK is reestablished with collective backing — not speculative, backed by economic rights in the Firma Collective. The reputation you build giving through Seedbase is the same reputation that follows you everywhere else in the ecosystem.
The Network State Simulator is the product that brings SRI into the ecosystem and gives NSS and Base their specific, funded modules to build. The personal agent's advisory capability gets extended into the Simulator — when you build a network state in NSSim, your agent advises you based on your specific reputation, your giving history, your declared values, your past builds. It is not a generic tool. It is your agent helping you build something that reflects who you are. The SRI demo is the milestone. The three open grant modules are the invitation.
By the time you reach this layer, Firmamint is live, Seedbase is running, NSSim has been demoed to SRI, and three grant modules are funded and in progress. You are not pitching a vision. You are showing partners a live ecosystem with real activity. SRI, NSS/Balaji, and Base/Coinbase all sign against something that already exists. FIG launches last — when SRI has validated the asset base, the USDC pool has depth from Base's LP position, and multiple network states are operational on Firmamint. Nothing about FIG's launch is cold.
Every layer builds the foundation the next one stands on. The moral framework before the agent. The agent before Seedbase. The chain before the Simulator. The pool before FIG. Nothing is cold. Everything is earned.