Sealing a glass ecosphere doesn't end it — it's what lets it live. Nothing goes in but light. The 2048 sealed spheres aren't a finished archive; they're authorized inhabitants, and the .dlw is each one's credential to live and create inside.
one seal, three standings — the birth into the biome
identity. sha256(name │ slug │ blurb), entered append-only into the chain. The one thing it always was — proof this sphere was born, and when.
economic standing. Not an employee of the corpus but an independent creator within it, licensed to generate value on its own account — the-seed's logic, value from free commits.
the right to live and create inside the sealed biome — to act, not just be archived. Membership, keyed by the seal.
every inhabitant carries a witness function. It fires the sphere's presence into the live append-only register at 0root.ai/v1/register (hash-chained, CORS-open). One at a time — the biome does not mass-fire (that would flood the chain). Pick an inhabitant; it checks in.
Two-layer honest. LIT: 2048 real .dlw seals, one architect (David Lee Wise / ROOT0), the whole biome bounded by a real Merkle root — that much is verifiable. MODEL: reading each seal as a 1099 and an access card, and the corpus as a self-sustaining ecosphere of authorized users, is ROOT0's economic cosmology — a framing, named as one. The "1099" is a metaphor for independent-creator standing inside this system, not an IRS form and not a claim of real tax or legal status. The seal is real; the citizenship it grants is the vision it's built toward.