How Ayni, this Web3 platform that supports all the AHA administration, works

Anonymous, owner-less fellowship — on Solana.

Ancestral Humanity Anonymous (AHA) is a worldwide fellowship modelled on the 12-step traditions. Ayni is its Solana implementation: a Circle admits members, holds a treasury, decides by group conscience, and recovers from lost keys — with no owner and no admin key, and every member anonymous by default through zero-knowledge proofs.

The Circle & its 7-seat Council

A Circle is governed by a Council of 7 seats — the authority is the Council acting 4-of-7, never a single owner. Three named servants and four elders of the directions.

Tap a seat's symbol below. Seats are filled at creation and changed only by a 4-of-7 vote.

Treasurer Stewards the treasury & the soulbound membership mint.

Scribe-Secretary Keeps the rolls; admits members in a validated Circle.

Rhythm Keeper Holds the cadence; bootstraps the member tree.

Four Elders — North · East · South · West The medicine-wheel directions; the deliberative quorum.

Membership

Soulbound · yearly · anonymous

A membership is a ZK commitment (a hash of a secret), not a wallet — so on-chain reads never reveal who a member is. It is non-transferable and renews each term. A wallet may optionally be bound for selective disclosure and key recovery.

Two ways to join

Each Circle chooses its policy — and can switch anytime from the admin console.

Decisions by group conscience

Council votes (4-of-7)

High-stakes, time-locked, and contestable — any one seat can cancel during the window.

Rotate a seat — replace a seat holder.
Migrate a wallet — recover a lost/compromised key across every artifact.
Withdraw treasury — spend, Tradition 7.
Change treasury wallet — designate the steward wallet.

Group-conscience votes

One member, one anonymous ballot (zero-knowledge), with a per-proposal nullifier preventing double-votes; passes on a ⅓ quorum + majority.

The Council opens the question and records the outcome; members cast ZK ballots from their own client.

Treasury, contact & the Board

7th Tradition treasury

Each Circle is self-supporting. Anyone may donate SOL (or any SPL/Token-2022) into the Circle's treasury PDA; funds move only by a 4-of-7 vote.

A multisig holds the money

The money is held in common, never by one person, so a Circle's treasury steward wallet must be a multisig (m-of-n, at least 2 signers). The program enforces this on-chain. Make one with spl-token create-multisig 2 … or the in-app helper — see docs/multisig.md.

A mandatory Circle address

Every Circle is automatically assigned an @aha-domain email at creation. Each new registration notifies that address.

The Board

Any member may post a notice (text and/or image) valid for a date range. Any of the 7 seats may remove any post at any time.

Forkable Circles

Anyone can open a new Circle, nested under the World Service (foundation) Circle, with identical governance.

The web app

Find a Circle — a map + distance-ranked list of every published Circle.
Daily Reflections / Documents — shared material, pinned on IPFS.
Board — the Circle's notices.
Create a Circle — seat the 7-member Council and open a Circle.
My Circle — your memberships, joining, and the 7th-Tradition donation.
Administration — shown only to seat holders: votes, members, and policy.

Two themes (☀︎ / ☾) and many languages — switch them from the top bar of the app.