{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
  "title": "The Buy Button public promotion and evidence charter",
  "effectiveDate": "2026-07-26",
  "purpose": "Make cultural participation legible without manufacturing financial pressure, social proof, historical testimony, or institutional authority.",
  "commitments": [
    {
      "id": "no-fake-market-activity",
      "rule": "The project will not fabricate trading volume, transactions, liquidity, holders, or market demand."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-hidden-engagement",
      "rule": "The project will not buy, farm, or automate likes, replies, followers, testimonials, or community participation and present them as organic."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-raids-or-spam",
      "rule": "The project will not coordinate harassment, unsolicited mass posting, reply flooding, ban evasion, or disguised promotion."
    },
    {
      "id": "disclose-paid-work",
      "rule": "Paid creative work, honoraria, referral relationships, gifts, and other material incentives must be disclosed beside the resulting public work when relevant."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-return-promises",
      "rule": "Project communications will not promise returns, guaranteed listings, price targets, scarcity pressure, or risk-free participation."
    },
    {
      "id": "no-false-affiliation",
      "rule": "The project will not imply endorsement by Robinhood, GameStop, Reddit, a regulator, an exchange, a publisher, an archive, or any cited organization."
    },
    {
      "id": "separate-record-types",
      "rule": "First-person recollection, project-authored interpretation, externally verified fact, live metric, and satire must remain distinguishable."
    },
    {
      "id": "source-live-metrics",
      "rule": "Material live figures must identify their source, coverage, timestamp, and known limitations wherever practical."
    },
    {
      "id": "publish-corrections",
      "rule": "Material factual errors will be corrected, and durable publications will retain a visible correction or revision record."
    },
    {
      "id": "measure-with-denominators",
      "rule": "Growth experiments will be judged with defined denominators and guardrails, not vanity totals alone."
    }
  ],
  "witnessRule": "A witness memory is not an endorsement. Publication requires permission for the exact excerpt and credit, and any honorarium must be disclosed.",
  "operatorConflict": "The publisher operates the cultural and token project it documents and may benefit reputationally or financially from attention.",
  "nonAffiliation": "The Buy Button is independent of and not endorsed by Robinhood, GameStop, Reddit, Lighter, the SEC, Congress, or any cited organization.",
  "correctionsContact": "mailto:security@hoodbuybutton.com?subject=CORRECTION%20OR%20INTEGRITY%20QUESTION",
  "relatedRecords": {
    "proof": "https://www.hoodbuybutton.com/proof/",
    "canon": "https://www.hoodbuybutton.com/canon/",
    "witnessPolicy": "https://www.hoodbuybutton.com/witness/policy.json",
    "pressKit": "https://www.hoodbuybutton.com/press/press-kit.json"
  }
}