A place to start
Each participant maps to one primary role and, where useful, supporting roles.
PARTICIPANT SYSTEM
Every participant can find a defined place in WCN.
Six primary roles keep the network understandable. Twenty-four participant types explain who you are, what you bring, where you enter, what AI may prepare, and which decisions remain human-gated.
ONE PARTICIPATION MAP
Six entrances. Twenty-four participant types. One governed boundary.
A participant type is a routing label, not admission, endorsement, certification, or authority.
A visible review boundary
High-impact activities stay behind enhanced review and explicit human decisions.
An evidence vocabulary
Proof tags describe the kind of evidence a future reviewed outcome may require. They are not public Proof.
PRIMARY ROLE · 01
Project
Projects, protocols, assets, infrastructure, and enterprise demand entering a scoped collaboration path.
Standard review01
Project founders
The accountable origin point for a project entering WCN: its problem, team, operating context, requested collaboration, and evidence boundary.
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Protocol teams
Protocol teams enter through the Project path while technical claims, governance design, and ecosystem dependencies remain separately reviewable.
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Asset issuers and RWA sponsors
Asset sponsors may describe an opportunity, but title, issuance, securities treatment, custody, and investor communications stay behind enhanced review.
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Infrastructure providers
Infrastructure providers support project execution while service levels, dependencies, incident ownership, and continuity controls remain visible.
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Enterprise buyers and procurement teams
Enterprise demand enters as a scoped need with procurement, security, compliance, and contract authority separated from exploratory interest.
View participant profilePRIMARY ROLE · 02
Capital
Capital, grants, and governance resources that require diligence, clear authority, and human approval.
Standard review10
Venture capital and investment partners
Capital partners enter a diligence and collaboration path where interest, recommendation, approval, terms, and funds remain separate decisions.
View participant profileEnhanced review11
Grant programs and ecosystem treasuries
Grant and treasury participants can structure funding programs while allocation authority, governance approval, and use-of-funds controls remain explicit.
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DAO and governance participants
Governance participants can contribute governance context and evidence, while proposals, votes, signatures, and treasury authority remain outside automatic WCN control.
View participant profilePRIMARY ROLE · 03
Service
Specialist execution capacity spanning engineering, security, legal, custody, data, and AI automation.
Standard review04
Developers and engineering contributors
Developers contribute scoped technical work whose requirements, review criteria, delivery evidence, and acceptance decision remain explicit.
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Validators and node operators
Chain validators and infrastructure operators may participate as service specialists, while their chain duties stay distinct from a WCN participant Node.
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Security and audit providers
Security specialists help define and review risk without collapsing a scoped assessment into a blanket safety guarantee.
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Legal, compliance, and tax providers
Professional advisers may support scoped matters, but their advice, licensing, jurisdiction, conflicts, and client relationship must remain explicit.
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Wallet, custody, and payment providers
Wallet and payment specialists may support a scoped need, while funds, keys, customer checks, and regulated activity remain behind restricted controls.
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Data, analytics, and intelligence providers
Data providers turn source material into analysis while provenance, privacy, methodology, freshness, and interpretation remain reviewable.
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AI agent and automation builders
AI builders contribute bounded automation whose tools, data, permissions, logs, and escalation paths remain under human-governed controls.
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Region
Local operating context, policy observation, and accountable market coordination.
Standard review17
Country, city, and regional operators
Regional operators bring accountable local context and execution, without converting relationships or proximity into policy authority or WCN representation.
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Policy, regulatory, and public-sector observers
Public-sector and policy participants are treated as an observation and compliance interface, not as ordinary Nodes or implied institutional sponsors.
View participant profilePRIMARY ROLE · 05
Track
Vertical research, standards, and conflict-aware project judgment.
PRIMARY ROLE · 06
Media & Growth
Distribution, community, events, market access, and user demand with explicit disclosure controls.
Enhanced review12
Exchanges and launchpads
Market-entry platforms require enhanced review because listing, launch, issuance, disclosure, and user protection can create formal external effects.
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Market makers and liquidity providers
Liquidity specialists can describe services and evidence, but trading authority, market conduct, capital, and price-sensitive activity require enhanced controls.
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Media, KOLs, and content partners
Media and creators translate reviewed information into distribution while sponsorship, conflicts, claims, and publication approval remain visible.
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Community and growth operators
Community and growth teams support accountable participation and distribution, with user data, claims, incentives, and measurement kept inside declared boundaries.
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Event and conference organizers
Event organizers connect people and opportunities while guest commitments, sponsorship, attendee data, and follow-up attribution stay controlled.
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End users and consumers
End users are recognized as the source of needs, feedback, and protection requirements, not as ordinary WCN Nodes in Phase 1.
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