I The Substance

The threads
we call Hyphae.

$MYCEL is the Fungai Art token. Members call them Hyphae — the connecting threads that carry nutrients through the network. They are earned through contribution (sporing) and spent on goods and ceremonies (drawing). Voice and voting power live in a separate, soulbound reputation called mycoTrust — so holding Hyphae never becomes about accumulation.

Polygon · chain 137 Soulbound mycoTrust Mycorrhizal governance
Enter the chamber
II Your relationship

The wallet is the witness.

Connect to see your Hyphae and mycoTrust. The wallet doesn’t gate access to the apothecary — it simply reflects your active relationship with the network. Disconnect anytime; the threads you’ve already woven remain.

Wallet
Not connected
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Hyphae · $MYCEL
Indicative basket value at €1.42 / MYCEL
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mycoTrust
Soulbound voice — grows and fades
III Three doors into the network

How Hyphae reach you.

No purchase necessary, no public market. Hyphae come into your wallet through one of three relationships with Fungai Art. Each door is its own lineage of belonging.

IV A shared language

The vocabulary.

The Mycelium has its own words. They come from the way fungi actually behave — and they help the community speak the same thing.

$MYCEL
The token symbol on Polygon. The technical name.
"$MYCEL contract: 0x…"
Hyphae
What we actually call them. The connecting threads. Singular: a Hypha.
"You have 47 Hyphae"
Sporing
The act of earning Hyphae through contribution. Always a verb.
"She sporeed at Königshyttan last weekend"
Drawing
Spending Hyphae for a product, ceremony, or experience.
"He drew a Solstice Amanita this month"
mycoTrust
Soulbound reputation. Cannot be bought or transferred. Grows with depth, fades with silence.
"She holds 240 mycoTrust"
The Mycelium
The treasury address. Drawn Hyphae flow here, are recycled or composted.
"This batch was drawn back to The Mycelium"
Composting
Burning Hyphae back to soil. Returns scarcity. Anyone can compost their own.
"Annual composting: 18% of treasury"
Gifting
Transferring Hyphae member-to-member with a note. Logged on chain.
"Robin gifted 20 Hyphae to Anna"
V Spore in, draw out

The circulation.

Hyphae move in a circle. They’re sporeed through contribution and drawn through use — the loop is the network. Indicative rates below; final amounts set quarterly by the council and logged on-chain at /sporing.

Sporing · earning ladder
Founding member
One-time grant for the founding 144 cohort
144Hyphae
Foraging session
Participating in a guided foraging circle
10–15Hyphae
Event support
Helping organise or run a Dinner Experience, ceremony, or gathering
50–75Hyphae
Full alchemy day
An entire day in the lab — extraction, formulation, batch work
100Hyphae
Teaching
Leading an Academy session, workshop, or open study circle
50–120Hyphae
Creative contribution
Photography, writing, illustration, music for the project
variesHyphae
Drawing · what Hyphae unlock
Full-spectrum extract (30ml)
Any single-botanical full-spectrum extract from the public shop
40–55Hyphae
Special extract (member-only)
Wild-foraged amanita, ceremonial blends, lab-grown mycelium mother
80–150Hyphae
Academy session
One live Alchemy Academy class or recording library access
25Hyphae
Ceremony / Dinner Experience
One seat at a member ceremony or private dinner
200Hyphae
Retreat early access
First booking window for residencies and retreats (Astral Plans etc.)
500Hyphae
VI How decisions are made

Mycorrhizal governance.

Holding Hyphae does not give you voting power. mycoTrust does — and it cannot be bought, only earned through ongoing relational depth. It decays without participation, just as mycelial connections wither without flow.

i
Voice grows through depth, not accumulation
mycoTrust is soulbound (non-transferable). It accrues from owner-awarded contributions, peer endorsements from other trusted members, and active participation.
ii
Connections fade without flow
mycoTrust decays at 1% per month of inactivity. A member who hasn’t sporeed, drawn, gifted, or endorsed in 100 months returns to zero — the network breathes.
iii
Peers feed each other
Each member with active trust receives a monthly endorsement budget to recognise contributions from others. This makes governance horizontal, not top-down.
iv
Decisions fruit, they don’t win
Proposals go through composting (open discussion), sporulation (consent voting — 75% approve, zero strong objections), then fruiting (implementation). Inspired by sociocracy and Ostrom’s commons principles.
v
Voice influences, never gates
mycoTrust matters for governance — but never to access products, ceremonies, or events. Hyphae open those doors. The two systems are intentionally distinct.
VII By invitation

Become a thread.

Founding cohort is invitation-based. If Robin has shared the network passcode with you, enter it below to unlock the signup. Your magic link arrives by email — no password, no installation.

Passcode accepted · we email you a code

Type the code here — it signs in this browser, wherever you opened the email. (The link in the email works too, if you open it on this device.)

VIII Or via the $MYCEL wallet path

Five steps onto the chain.

If you’d rather hold your Hyphae in an actual wallet on Polygon, here’s how. Total time: ~10 minutes, ~€0 in gas. You’ll still need an invitation — the wallet is the receptacle, not the door.

i
Install MetaMask (or any EIP-1193 wallet — Rainbow, Coinbase, Trust). Free browser extension. ~5 minutes. metamask.io
ii
Add Polygon network — chain ID 137. Gas fees are fractions of a cent. The wallet does this automatically the first time you connect to fungai.art.
iii
Reach out — email robin@fungai.art with your wallet address and a few sentences about why you’d like to join the network. Founding cohort is invitation-based.
iv
Receive your first sporing — Robin sporeed you 144 Hyphae as a founding member. You’re now part of the network. Connect on Act II above to see your balance.
v
Contribute, draw, return — the network is alive only when threads carry flow. Show up to a foraging circle. Help at an event. Spend your Hyphae on a extract. Gift some to a fellow member. The pattern is the practice.
IX Door III · in full

Patrons of the mycelium.

A patron supplies resources to The Mycelium — material, financial or relational — in exchange for extracts, ceremonies, and a long-term place in the network. Patronage is not investment. There is no expectation of profit. Patrons receive real goods of real value over a real timeline.

⚖ Plain language · what patronage is and is not

What it is

A pre-paid subscription to Fungai Art extracts and experiences over 24 months. You receive Hyphae ($MYCEL utility tokens) which you draw down for goods. After 24 months you may request a refund of any unused balance, denominated in EUR at the rate at the time of refund.

What it is not

An investment. There is no expected return beyond the goods and experiences delivered. Hyphae are not securities. The Mycelium does not promise capital appreciation, dividends, or any financial return. Refunds restore unused balance only — not interest, not appreciation.

Will my contribution grow in value?No.
Will I earn interest or dividends?No.
Can I withdraw my contribution at any time?Refund of unused balance after 24 months.
Are Hyphae sold on public exchanges?No — never listed.
Do I receive real goods of real value?Yes — extracts, ceremonies, retreats, academy.
Is this a security?No — a utility token for in-network goods.

How patronage works.

1
Initial conversation. Email robin@fungai.art with your name, what you would like to support, and a short note on why you’d like to be part of the network. We talk first — fit matters more than money.
2
Pre-paid subscription agreement. A short consumer-style contract: amount, term, what you receive, refund terms. Standard EU consumer protection applies. The contract is between you and Robin Floræsta, trading as Fungai Art.
3
Payment. Bank transfer — account details are on your invoice. Stripe also available. Crypto (USDC, EURC on Polygon) accepted. We invoice properly.
4
Hyphae issued. Your allocation appears in your wallet when the $MYCEL token goes live.
5
24 months of flow. Draw extracts, attend ceremonies, learn at the academy, come on retreats. Unspent Hyphae roll over — they do not expire mid-contract.
6
End of term — three doors. At month 24: renew and keep your accumulated mycoTrust; continue at-will, drawing remaining Hyphae as goods; or request a refund of unused balance in EUR at the basket reference rate on the refund date.

Why patronage, not investment. Fungai Art is an art and herbal practice, not a startup. We don’t want venture capital, equity dilution, or pressure to scale to where it kills the quality. Patronage is the ancient way artists and apothecaries were funded — a circle of supporters who trust the work and want it to continue. You receive real goods, real teaching, real time. The contribution is fair on both sides.

X The public ledger

The Sporing.

Every Hypha sporeed, drawn and gifted is recorded on Polygon — transparent, immutable, public. The chain itself is the receipt; this is a human-readable view of the same data anyone can read on Polygonscan.

✦ Pre-launch view · illustrative entries until the $MYCEL contract is live on Polygon. Once deployed, this reads directly from chain events.
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Hyphae circulating
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Total sporeed
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Total drawn
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Active threads

Figures appear once the contract is deployed. Until then the ledger is intentionally empty rather than illustrative — a number here would be a claim we cannot yet evidence.

✦
The network breathes when you breathe with it.
Nothing here was ever taken — it was passed along. Spore in. Draw out. Compost what no longer feeds. The pattern is the practice.