The Token
“A share in a real farm, made instrument.”
Begin with the deed. Not a coin, not a contract — a folded paper title, lodged on the New South Wales cadastre, naming a paddock you can stand on. The fund owns the deed. The token is the receipt of your share. The Fresh Earth Value Token is, at its smallest, a brass surveyor’s tag bearing your fraction of the fund: a deterministic on-chain mapping, a per-unit audit trail, and a proportional share in verified project revenue. The brass tag is the metaphor; the fund-deed-chain trio is the instrument.
One unit. One named farm. One fund that holds the title.
There is no basket. There is no abstraction. The instrument is the land, held through the fund, signed by the audit, recorded on the chain.
Settlement is on Hedera. The minimum ticket is A$500. The audience is retail. The architecture is institutional.
The same farm, every time. The fund holds the title; your unit names your share.
A folded paper title on the table; a registered allocation on the cadastre; the fund as named title-holder; an auditor’s signature at the foot of the page — all four name the same farm, and they keep naming it. As the audit reads the soil, the units read the audit.
The dispatch is the page. The unit is your fraction of the page.
The brass tag is the metaphor; the chain is the instrument.
Distributed farm ownership, finally with a deed-backed instrument attached.
For most of agricultural history, ownership of land has been a wholesale activity. The fund-and-unit instrument changes the floor.
A unit is the smallest priceable share of healing land. The dispatch goes on from there.
Vignelli editorial — a 5×5 grid of titled land shares with one highlighted gold, beside a small Comfortaa-set legend “FEVT · 1 share · A$500 · Hedera”; single hairline rule.
A share in a real farm, made instrument.