Proof of Adaptation is a proposed way to support verified, local adaptation knowledge. It starts from the fact that a useful practice can be reported, measured, replicated, or merely repeated without evidence—and those are not the same kind of claim.
The proposed loop
Signals and research enter a community intake; discussion develops questions; a durable vault retains sources and provenance; practices are turned into guides or trials; and witnessed results refine the next round of questions. The point is not to manufacture certainty. It is to make the evidentiary state of a claim visible and improve it through repeatable work.
Work-shaped participation
The design proposes a proof-of-adaptation token earned for completed, witnessed work and data quality. The proposal expressly does not describe an investment asset or promise appreciation. Before any such mechanism can be treated as operational, its custody, admission, and governance conditions must be earned in the settlement record.
Read the related public account of governance for the intended relationship between witnessed work and collective decision-making.