Membership

The Problem: Traditional Crowdfunding Is Broken Kickstarter’s Missing Piece You back a project: $50, $100, maybe $500 You get: A product (if it ships) You don’t get: Any ongoing relationship with what you helped create The creator: Keeps all the upside Result: You funded someone else’s dream, but you don’t share in the success The Choice Nobody Should Have To Make Traditional crowdfunding forces you to choose: product without participation, or participation without product. ...

{{< pudding-progress >}} The Revolution That Isn’t {{< pudding-sticky-quote attribution=“Denken, Founder” >}} “I propose an economic revolution, simply by doing what we already do, with a slightly different structure. Namely, YOU being in charge of YOU.” {{< /pudding-sticky-quote >}} You Already Do This {{< pudding-reveal direction=“left” >}} You work. You buy groceries. You eat dinner. You help your neighbors move a couch. You tip a waitress. You hire someone to fix a leaky faucet. ...

Liana Banyan membership costs $5 per year. But if you are an active participant, you may never pay that $5 again. Marks Payback automatically renews your membership using Credits you have already earned — at zero out-of-pocket cost. How It Works If you have earned 100 or more Marks during your membership year AND you have at least 5 Credits in your account, the platform automatically renews your membership for you. ...

The Pudding You’ve been on the platform for eleven months. You’ve run a Storefront. You’ve contributed to two campaigns. You’ve logged service hours through your Guild. And across all of that, you’ve accumulated Marks — the effort-differential currency that tracks what you gave beyond what you were required to give. Now the calendar turns. One year since your first Mark was issued. And something unlocks. This is the Birthright. The one-year redemption window for accumulated Marks. Not a payday. Not a cashout. A transformation — the moment when accumulated effort becomes tangible platform benefit. ...