Trails, Bounties & Code Breakers
The three ways to earn Marks on the Liana Banyan Platform.
The platform is not a passive audience. It is a cooperative — and cooperatives run on participation. Trails, Bounties, and Code Breakers are how Members participate and how the platform honors that participation with Marks.
The Three Classes
🟢 Trails — Walkthrough Class
A Trail is a guided path through a platform function. Follow the waypoints, complete the steps, reach the summit. No prior experience required.
Trails are how you learn the platform by doing the platform. They are short (15–45 minutes), structured, and always worth Marks.
Examples:
- The First Mile — Platform basics for new Members (Easy · 15 min · 25 Marks)
- Pnyx Primer — Your first governance participation (Moderate · 20 min · 50 Marks)
- The Neighborhood Trail — Discover and join a Bruck’lyn node (Moderate · 25 min · 75 Marks)
🔵 Bounties — Task Class
A Bounty is a defined cooperative task with a Marks reward. Bounties are posted by the platform, Members, and Bruck’lyn nodes — real work that needs doing, honestly compensated in cooperative currency.
Bounties range from helping a new Member (50 Marks, easy) to launching a neighborhood node (2,000 Marks, strenuous).
How Bounties work:
- Browse open Bounties
- Accept the one that matches your skills and time
- Complete the task
- Peer witnesses confirm (or the substrate confirms automatically)
- Marks arrive in your cooperative account
⬛ Code Breakers — Challenge Class
A Code Breaker is an open-ended challenge. No predefined solution. Real stakes. Cooperative adjudication.
Code Breakers are the platform’s innovation engine. When the cooperative faces a problem it hasn’t solved yet, it posts a Code Breaker. Any Member may submit. The best submission wins — and becomes a canonical cooperative pattern.
Tiers:
- Block (1,000–5,000 Marks) — Neighborhood-level challenges
- Borough (5,000–25,000 Marks) — Initiative-level challenges
- Platform (25,000–100,000 Marks) — Platform-wide challenges
Difficulty Ratings
All challenges carry a National Park difficulty rating:
| Rating | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🟢 Easy | Any Member, no prerequisites |
| 🔵 Moderate | Basic platform familiarity |
| ⬛ Difficult | Active Member + prior Trail |
| 🟡 Strenuous | Experienced cooperative operator |
| 🔴 Technical | Expert level · Thresh-Prov-20 gate |
Your Marks
Marks are cooperative currency. They are earned through participation and spent within the cooperative network. They are not points for a leaderboard — they are the economic recognition of cooperative contribution.
Every Marks-earning event is logged to the substrate with a canonical receipt. Your contributions are permanent record.
Free to use. Better to join. On the Trails, better to join means something you can take to the bank.